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Gao, leilei Landscape Architecture

Information about the art work:
Pepon Osorio
Puerto Rican, RESIDES U.S. B 1955
T.K.O 1989
Maxed Media
Helen M Dan forth Acquisition Fund 2001, 30

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Humor & Kitsch:
The inbox scene is composed with the forks and spoons decorated by some toys and pictures. It is colorful and childish. It seems interesting, funny but also ugly, silly and worthless.

Political & social issue:
The artist uses lots of political people’s icon to decorate the spoons and forks. At the same time, he attempting the show the audience some political and social issue with arranging some other items such as aborigines, children and soldiers.

Miniature installation:
The icons and figures in the box are tiny. With arraying them well in the box, it seems the artist is making a miniature installation.

Three-dimensional Collage:
The whole scene is created by the toys and pictures decorated on the spoons and folks. In contrast to the common collage, instead of pasting the pictures in a plane, this piece of art is three-dimensional.

Decades of corruption:
The scene in box is talking about some issues that could be called “Decades of corruption”.

Violence:
As guns and soldiers frequently appear in the box, the artist presents a violent scene to the audience.

“Technical knockout”:
This is the issue that the artist talking about. Not only in the story he is trying to present, but also the technique he implies to create the work.

Still conscious boxer:
This box is there to show some political and social issues to the audiences. It seems the box is conscious like a story teller.

Information about the art work:
Toots Zynsky RISD BEF 1873
American. B, 1951
Lucent, 2001
Glass, filet de verve (fused & thermo formed colored glass threads)
Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Chazzan 2002.79

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Innovative voice:
This piece of Glass work is different from the ordinary ones. The colorful line wreathing in the Bowl seems like a melody to sing a beautiful song to the audience.

Filet de verve (net of glass):
This is a kind of technique the artist uses in this piece of work..

Bowl-shaped:
This piece of glass work looks like a bowl that can hold water or fruit.

Colors undulate:
The colorful lines in the bowl are moving gently up and down which looks like small hills, slopes, and waves.

Misty appearance:
The appearance of this glass work has no definite image, but some colorful lines that seems like an abstract and misty picture.

Information about the art work
Pierre Soulages
French, B, 1919
17 March 1955, 1955
Oil on canvas
Gift of Richard Brown Baker

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Lyrical:
Even though the main tone of this picture is black, dark red and bright white which is hidden behind the black strokes shows something that could be called hope and passion.
Highly personal abstract style:
This piece of art is applied with a palette knife or spatula instead of a brush, which makes it different from the other abstract painting.

Broad gestural stroke:
As it is mentioned above, the way the artist creates this picture is different from the others. The main element of this picture is planes rather than lines.

Vibrant:
The black in this painting is juxtaposed to several red and white tones. It makes this painting have different spirits hidden inside, as if the picture is vibrant.

A departure from pre-war Europe’s abstract tendencies:
The artist believes that art is the result of a spontaneous and unpremeditated painting process instead of tightly organized or surrealist.