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Pop Art Slides Pop Art slides: Performance: Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) “thinking forms” How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, Performance, (1965) Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) Pop art: Richard Hamilton (1922- ) Just What is it that Makes Today’s Homes so Different, so Appealing? collage, 26x25cm (1956) Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) Takka, Takka, magna on canvas, 173x143 cm (1962) Maybe (1963) Blam, oil on canvas, 68”x80” (1962) Hopeless, oil on canvas, 3’8”x3’8” (1963) Drowning Girl, oil on canvas, 5’7”x5’6” (1963) Oh…. Alright, oil and magna on canvas, 91x97cm (1964) Still Life with Goldfish Bowl and painting of a Golf Ball, oil on canvas, 52”x42” (1972) Stretcher Frame revealed Beneath Painting of a Stretcher Frame, oil and magna on canvas, 91x116cm (1973) Yellow and Green Brushstrokes, oil and magna on canvas, 214x458 cm (1966) Robert Indiana (1928- ) The Big Eight, acrylic on canvas, 220x220 cm (1961) Mel Ramos (1935- ) Velveeta, oil on canvas, 152x178 cm (1965) Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Green Coca-Cola Bottles, oil on canvas, 6’10”x4’9” (1962) Marilyn Monroe, acrylic and silkscreen, 6’9”x5’6” (1962) Marilyn Diptych, oil, acrylic and silkscreen, 6’8”x4’9” (each panel) (1962) Campbell’s Soup Can 1, acrylic/silk screen, 92x61 cm (1962) 200 Campbell’s Soup Cans, oil on canvas, 6’x8’4” (1962) Liz Taylor, lithograph, 21x21” (1964) Environmental or Earth Art: Robert Smithson (1938-1973) Spiral Jetty, Salt Lake, Utah, 1500’x15’x3½‘ (1970) Christo and Jeanne-Claude (both b.1935, she d.2009)) – “Empaquetages” Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, Sydney Australia, one million sq.ft. cloth (1969) Le Pont Neuf Empaqueté, Paris, France (1975) Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida, (1980-83) Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, (1995) The Umbrellas, along Interstate 5, California & Ibaraki, Japan (1991) Wrapped Trees, Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland, (1998) The Gates, Central Park, New York (2005) Maybe more post-modern (hard to say): Tony Oursler (b.1957), Makes you think…. Mansheshe, ceramic, glass, video, sound, 11”x8” (1997) Keep Going, projector, VCR, tripod, cloth dummy, (1995) Guilty, mattress, video equipment, cloth (1996) Eye in the Sky, mixed-media, video (1997) Jeff Koons (b.1955) “kitsch” and “the banality show” Pink Panther, porcelain, 3’5”x1’8” (1988) Rabbit, stainless steel, 41”h (1986) Michael Jackson and Bubbles, porcelain, 42”x70” (at SFMOMA) (1988) Balloon Flower, Marlene Dietrich Platz, Berlin, (1997) Puppy, Bilbao, Spain, In front of the Guggenheim (2005-2006) Sherrie Lavine (1947- ) Fountain (After Duchamp: 1), bronze (1991) Pop-Surrealism: Camille Rose Garcia (1970- ) Creepcake Annihilation Plan, acrylic and glitter on wood, 30x60” (2000) - The Happiest Place on Earth Dream Factory Escape Pod, acrylic, oil and glitter on wood, 72x96” (2001) – The Soft Machine Uranium 238 Comes to Town, acrylic and glitter on wood, 24x36” (2003) – Operation Opticon Shine Your Teeth Till Meaningless, acrylic and glitter on wood, 22x15” (2004) - Ultraviolenceland Blue Forest. Acrylic and glitter on wood, 24x36” (2002) Lulu’s Escape Plan, Acrylic and glitter on wood, 36x48” (2002) – Retreat Syndrome Pharmaceuticals, acrylic on paper, 15x15” each, (2003) Night Greed, acrylic and glitter on wood, 32x24”, (2004) Black Dawn Rising, acrylic, gold mica and glitter on wood, 48x72” (2006) Escape Velocity, acrylic and glitter on wood, 48x40” (2006) .
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