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Paintings by UK-based artist and educator Michael Craig-Martin, 2000s, who as a teacher at Goldsmiths College mentored many of the Young British Artists group.

#art #painting #ContemporaryArt #BigArtThread
Colorful, stuffed still life in a flat illustrative style, including objects like a rake, large safety pin, handcuffs, light bulb, and standing fan
Colorful still life in a flat illustrative style, including objects floating on a blue background including an umbrella, red heeled shoes, a filing cabinet, metronome, and camera
Colorful still life in a flat illustrative style, showing objects floating on a pink field, including sunglasses, belt, pencil sharpener, and ladder
Colorful still life in a flat illustrative style, showing objects in a horizontal line including a globe, a metronome, lightbulb, and ladder, all about the same size
#art #painting #bigartthread #contemporaryart

I've featured her several times in other iterations of this account but today in the wake of Carl Andre's death I must honor Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta with a brief glimpse into her pioneering practice of the 1970s.

#art #PerformanceArt #BigArtThread
Photo of Mendieta kneeling in front of a canvas with her hands up, making gestural marks with her hands through a block of red pigment
Photo of Mendieta in closeup looking directly at the viewer, with dark hair applied to her chin and jaw in a beard
Photo of Mendieta posing lying down in a rocky hole, her nude body covered in green and white foliage
Photo of Mendieta's body's imprint left in the sand on a beach, sprinkled with red pigment
#art #bigartthread #performanceart

Mixed media works by Belgian artist Gommaar Gilliams, 2020s.

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Semi-abstract composition with different textures showing a loose landscape with a red structure in the lower foreground
Semi abstract composition with gritty textures and a central image of an orange tree
Semi-abstract composition with drippy elements and golden shooting stars in the center
Semi-abstract composition with drippy effects and a loose assortment of pink flamingo silhouettes
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Ceramic sculpture by Japanese artist Tsuboi Asuka, 2000s-20s, who founded the Women’s Association of Ceramic Arts in Kyoto in 1957, the first group of its kind for women potters.

#art #ceramics #BigArtThread
Ceramic sculpture resembling fabric gathered up into a ball or sack, covered in gold stripes
Ceramic sculpture resembling a standing skirt of draped, patterned fabric pulled in by three separate bands, with gold and silver embellishments and dark grey sections
Ceramic sculpture of three abstract bulbous metallic forms with pockmarked holes lying atop a grooved stone base
Ceramic sculpture resembling a standing skirt of loosely pleated fabric, with gold embellishments along the bottom and ruched upper section
#art #ceramics #bigartthread

"Phantom of Surrealism" performance piece by British artist Sheila Legge, 1936, photographed by Claude Cahun. Dressed in a bridal gown and floral mask/headdress, Legge opened the London International Surrealist Exhibition by parading through Trafalgar Square.

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Black and white photo of a woman in a white gown and black gloves with her head obscured by a ball of roses, arms outstretched as pigeons land on her hands
Black and white photo of a woman in a white gown and black gloves with her head obscured by a ball of roses, standing in a square filled with pigeons. The photo has been tinted with some color for the red of the roses and light blue of the sky
Black and white photo of a woman in a white gown and black gloves with her head obscured by a ball of roses, standing in an art gallery, holding a mannequin leg in her arms.
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Paintings by British artist Paul Evans, dates unknown but I believe they are recent, c 2010s-20s.

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Landscape painting of a farmhouse against an orange sky with a blue snow field in the foreground
Landscape painting of a pair of boats sitting on a blue beach against a purple sky
Landscape painting in bright red, green, and blue
Landscape painting of a farmhouse against a yellow sky with deep blue field in the foreground
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Work by British-Singaporean artist Kara Chin, 2010s-20s, whose practice merges ceramics, animation, and installation in explorations of human relationships to technology and ongoing ecological disaster.

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Animation still showing a tower structure with various layers and textures, against an orange background
Mixed media work depicting a restaurant table set with white napkins and empty wine glasses, overlaid with orange ceramic tentacles
Mixed media sculpture of a textured green and brown structure sitting on top of a wheeled support like the bottom of an office chair
Sculpture of a hanging tv showing abstract animation, over a green and yellow geometric structure bookended by green plants beneath pink growing lights
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Sculpture by Swiss artist Kaspar Müller, 2020s, whose practice examines systems of production, often incorporating household goods and found objects.

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Hanging sculpture composed of many different types of lightbulbs in clusters
Hanging sculpture composed of many different types of lightbulbs in clusters
Hanging sculpture composed of many different types of lightbulbs in clusters
Hanging sculpture composed of many different types of lightbulbs in clusters
#art #sculpture #bigartthread #contemporaryart

Paintings by Cameroonian American artist Ludovic Nkoth, 2020s.

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Expressionist style painting of an older Black woman in a blue dress with her hand up to her chin, holding a toddler in her lap
Expressionist style painting of a Black man sitting in a field with a fence in the background, wearing a red button down shirt and blue jeans
Expressionist style painting of two shirtless Black figures standing on a beach, staring directly at the viewer, with bits of rainbow paint details
Expressionist style painting of a Black figure wearing a loose yellow suit sitting on a brown patterned couch in a room with a shaggy carpet and pale blue-green wall
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Paintings by American artist Doris Lee, 1940s, who worked as a muralist as well as an illustrator for Life Magazine.

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Painting in a flat, simplified style of a woman in a red dress and checkered apron standing on the porch of a small white house surrounded by flowers and ferns
Painting in a flat, simplified style of a woman in a burnt orange dress sitting in a park gesturing towards a display of jewelry for sale, underneath a canopy of trees
Painting of a woman in a pink dress lying in rest on a bed with a checkered quilt and metal bed frame, placed in a green field with a rooster, tree stump, and trees
Painting in a flat, simplified style of wooden bureau decorated with animal and floral designs, with a large glass fruit bowl on its top and a green hill and cloudy sky in the background
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Paintings by Spanish artist Sara Bonache, 2020s.

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Semi-abstract painting of a large floral form with textured white leaves and a purple interior, blooming out of pink water
Semi-abstract painting of biomorphic floral forms in golden yellow, white, and teal
Semi-abstract painting of a large fruit in close-up with drips of moisture throughout, with a deep purple interior and white skin
Semi-abstract painting of two pointed floral forms in white and pink lying against a soft peachy-pink background
#art #painting #bigartthread #contemporaryart

Photos from the "East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio" by American artist John Valadez, 1978-80, known for his murals and paintings exploring Chicano identity and culture.

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Portrait of a Latino man and woman standing with their arms around each other looking at the viewer, both wearing loose denim jeans, with a leafy wall behind them
Photo of two Latino men standing on the street and wearing matching outfits - brown wide-leg pants and white and brown long sleeve button down shirts with large collars and naval insignias
Photo of a young Latino man wearing a soft purple outfit and looking at the viewer, with a dress shop window behind him
Photo of a young Latina woman standing against a sandy brick wall looking at the viewer, wearing waist-high khaki pants and a cream tube top, brushing her long hair out of her eyes with her right hand
#art #photography #bigartthread

Sculpture by Austrian artist Franz West, 1990s-2010s, known for his mixed media plaster and papier-mâché works.

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Abstract, textured sculpture with drippy orange and blue colors
Abstract, textured sculpture with drippy orange, peach, and white colors
Abstract, textured sculpture with drippy pink, turquoise, and grey colors, balanced atop a white bucket
Abstract, textured sculpture with drippy grey, red, mint, and yellow colors atop a wooden plinth
#art #sculpture #bigartthread

Mixed media works by Palestinian artist Laila Shawa, 1980s-2010s, whose practice explored political and cultural themes drawn from her own experiences. In 1985 she founded the Rashad Shawa Cultural Center in her home city of Gaza, but it was targeted and destroyed by IDF bombing in 2023.

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Cluster of women in colorful patterned niqab, the four in front with their hands against their cheeks. One woman has her face uncovered and is rolling her eyes upward in an annoyed expression
Three women with tattooed hands and feet wearing long robes (two with head coverings) dancing gracefully in a room with black and white checkered floor and a red wall
Representation of the hand of Fatima in orange, purple, and red tones
A cluster of women wearing colorful niqab, each with eyes downcast looking at an ice cream cone in their hand
#art #painting #bigartthread #contemporaryart

Paintings by Thai artist Chayanin Kwangkaew, 2020s.

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Painting of a studio floor overlaid with angled abstract shapes moving throughout the canvas
Painting of a pink floral bouquet sitting on a table with a blue tablecloth against a blue wall background, with flat abstract shapes mixed in throughout the composition
Painting of a domestic interior with a fair purple floor and green wall, with a lamp and melon in the foreground and various abstract elements throughout
Painting of a grayscale floral bouquet with a larger, blurred-out deep green image of a leafy plant against a window
#art #painting #bigartthread #contemporaryart

Works by French artist Geneviève Claisse, 1960s-70s.

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Geometric abstraction with intersecting circles and squares, in a palette of blue, black, purple, white, and red
Geometric abstraction of a yellow, black, and white circles layered within each other, against a yellow background
Abstract work of a large circle bisected by a black jagged line. Half the circle is composed of white and red angled lines, the other red and white angled lines
Abstract composition of a four-section grid with different circle arrangements within each, in a palette of red, pink, blue, purple, and black
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Prints by Spanish American artist and illustrator Federico Castellón, 1960s.

#art #printmaking #BigArtThread
Grayscale image of a shirtless figure sitting on dirt ground with an owl on their shoulder, and a grouping of creatures flying above them
Print in a green, yellow, and black palette of a skeletal figure with overlarge eyes wrapped in loose gauze, with a small man in the corner flanked by masked figures
Grayscale print of two white men standing behind a metal fence next to a stone wall, with a black cat in the foreground
Grayscale image of a group of women in a rowboat holding a large floating face, with a group of beaked creatures flying in from the left
#art #printmaking #bigartthread

Mixed media works by American artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, 2020s, whose multidisciplinary practice "seeks to bring physical form to the ideas and theories they have been struck by from Black feminist writers and visionaries."

#art #ContemporaryArt #BigArtThread
Hanging wall textile with round cut outs throughout, and an image of a reclining Black woman in orange tones
Hanging wall textile in blue and green with round cut outs throughout, and an image of a reclining Black woman in purple tones
Triangle pennant-shaped textile with printed images of a Black family overlaid with semi-sheer purple material
Square wall piece with photo images of Black women obscured by abstract drips and swooping lines in purple and blue
#art #bigartthread #contemporaryart

Interiors by self-taught French architect Jacques Couëlle, 1960s, known for his experimental designs using organic forms and cave-like structures.

#architecture #ModernArt #BigArtThread
Domestic interior with large curving white walls, rocky furniture, and brownstone accents
Domestic interior with curving white walls, curving steps, and a large abstract mosaic wall decoration
Domestic interior with curving white walls, a grouping of small stained glass windows, and dark wooden furniture with white accents
Domestic interior with curving white walls and round windows, a dark abstract tiled floor, and white and brown furniture
#architecture #bigartthread #modernart

Works by Inuk artist and illustrator Ningiukulu Teevee, 2000s-20s, known for her playful compositions incorporating imagery from both folklore and contemporary life.

#art #ContemporaryArt #BigArtThread
Lithograph of a figure with dark hair and a big white coat unzippering their face to split their head in half, revealing a yellow bear creature inside, all set against a starry blue sky
Stonecut and stencil piece of a mermaid with wearing a white coat and hood, curling underwater with their green tail rising above into the air
Lithograph of a close-up of a figure's face with brown skin, dark hair, and a zipper under their mouth, holding two white birds close against their forehead
Linocut of a seated figure with upper body of a penguin, and the hands and legs of a human, wearing warm winter boots
#art #bigartthread #contemporaryart

Works by American artist, writer, musician, and photographer Diana Davies, 1960s-70s, who documented many events related to social justice movements fighting for queer, women's, and workers' rights.

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Black and white photo showing women wearing "Lavender Menace" shirts, with one lifting her fist up high and smiling at the camera
Black and white photo showing a group of men marching under a big Gay Liberation Front banner
Black and white photo of a demonstration with Marsha P Johnson in the foreground and a person holding a sign saying "Come out of your ivory towers and into the street"
Black and white photo showing a group of GLF protesters standing in front of a banner calling for release of Black Panther political prisoners
#art #photography #bigartthread

New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.

Last year's thread is here:
https://mastodon.online/@alexxkittle/109615139735403668

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alex kittle (@alexxkittle@mastodon.online)

Ok starting a new art thread for 2023! Here's the deal: a mostly daily thread with a different artist every day (sometimes I repeat from previous years if I feel like featuring other work/projects), primarily modern and contemporary since that's my t…
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