Pablo Picasso; Geurnica,1937; Oil on Canvas; Museo Nacional centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

1. Aaron Douglas; Noah’s Ark, ca.1927; Oil on Masonite; Fisk University Galleries, University of Tennessee, Nashville D: Noah leading the ark as it sails of before disaster strikes the land A: Incorporation of motifs from African American sculpture and the transparent angular planes characteristic of Synthetic Cubism I: The storytelling of some type of African American Struggle J: Combining of two stories through the depiction of one Pablo Picasso; Geurnica,1937; Oil on Canvas; MuseoNacionalcentro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid D: A mural sized canvas of immense power A: The fragmentation of objects and dislocation of anatomical features. I: An expression of Picasso’s feelings toward the German attack on Guernica J: High Merit Piet Mondrian; Composition with reed, blue, and yellow,1930; Oil on Canvas; HCR International ,USA D: A grid of the primary colors A: Locked primary colors into a grid of intersecting vertical and horizontal lines. BY altering the grid patterns, he created a dynamic tension. I:Purity of the primary colors J: High Merit Salvador Dali; The Persistence of Memory, 1931; Oil on Canvas; Museum of Modern Art, New York D: Three decaying watches A: The image is realistically rendered with a landscape that creates a haunting allegory of empty space I: Goal was to paint images of irrationality J:Allegory of empty space where time ends

2. Alexander Calder; Lobster Trap and Fish Tail,1939; Painted sheet and steel wire; Museum of Modern Art, New York D: A early Calder “mobile” A: Organic shape resembles those in Joan Miro’s Surrealist paintings. I: Provided inspirational for the moblies J: Expressed reality’s innate dynamism Frida Khalo; The Two Fridas,1939; Oil on Canvas; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City D: Twins holding each other's hands A: Common Artery suggest different sides of her personality I: there was more than one personality to Frida J: High Merit Andy Warhol; green Coca-Cola Bottles,1962; Oil on Canvas; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York D: A large collection of green coca-cola bottles A: Selection of a mass production icon in American pop culture and multiplied it, reflecting Coke’s omniprescrence in American Society I: A passion for classic American Pop Culture J: High merit due to its modern portrayal Roy Lichtenstein, Hopelss,1963; Oil on Canvas; Kunstmuseum Basel D: A young women laying in a puddle of her own tears A: Immortalization of image on the large canvas I: Use of the melodramatic scenes common to popular romance comic books of the time J: Comic books appealed to Lichtenstein because they were a mainstay of American pop culture.

3. Frank Lloyd Wright; Kaufmann House(Fallingwater) Bear Run, Pennsylvania; 1936-1939 D: A house designed for weekend retreats perched over a rocky hillside with a waterfall flowing from it. A: An example of naturalism. Built over a waterfall because he believed the inhabitants would become desensitized to the waterfall’s presence and power if they merely overlooked it. I: Implied message of Wright’s new architecture was space, not mass. J: Influential on Europe especially in Holland and Germany Chuck Close; Big Self- Portrait,1967-68; Acrylic on Canvas; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Art Center Acquisition Fund,1969) D: A self-portrait of a man smoking a cigarette A: Avoided creative compositions, flattering lighting effects, and revealing facial expressions. I: Connection to the Photorealist was tenuous J: Paintings based off of late 1960s and early 1970s on photographs Willem De Kooning; Woman I, 1950-1952;Oil on Canvas; Museum if Modern Art, New York D: A definite abstract view off a woman A: Displays the energetic application of pigment typical of gestural abstraction I: Abstract view of the woman J: Nonrepresentational works dominated by huge swaths and splashes of pigment. Mark Rothko; No. 14,1960; Oil on Canvas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco D: Large rectangles of pure color with hazy , brushed edges that seem to float on the canvas surface A: Chromatic abstractionist paintings-consisting of hay rectangles hovering in front of a color background- are compositionally simple but compelling visual experiences I: Simple artworks are the most complex J: High Merit