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A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

A work made of etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper.

Another way of hunting on foot, plate two from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of fluorescent paint and silkscreen ink on linen.

Flowers, 1964

Andy Warhol

Vibrantly colored landscape painting of houses built on a steep hill surrounded by thin, bent trees and a narrow trail or road. Bright orange, red, pink, green, and yellow illuminate the scene.

Landscape at L'Estaque, 1906

Georges Braque

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1999

Studio Blue

A work made of oil on cardboard.

Houses at Murnau, 1909

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

Rectangular painting of white, framed by a thin, yellow outline and a thicker, black outline.

Brilliant Yellow #9, 1964/65

Jo Baer

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

How Beautiful are the Arts, from Croquis Lithographiques...1823, 1823

Hippolyte Bellangé

A work made of watercolor with pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on off-white illustration board.

School of Contemporary Art Life Class, 1956/57

Richard Aberle Florsheim

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

Bowl-shaped terracotta vessel with a foot, glazed in red with black figures encircling its body.

Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), late 6th century BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Plate Three, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

Small, dark colored ceramic vessel with a handle and spout at the top. The front of the vessel looks like a face, with two round forms making the eyes, a long, thin form a nose, and an oval form the mouth. Two ear-like shapes protude from the side of the vessel.

Face Jug, c. 1860

Artist unknown

A dark-brown painted sculpture with hints of orange showing through of a slim face with a long neck. The lips are drawn in a pout, the cheeks sunken, the hair pulled back in a swirl pattern and falling down in a slim column.

Head, Mid–late 19th century

Fang

A work made of creamware.

Plate, c. 1790

A work made of wood engraving on cream japanese paper.

The Restaurant of the Great Art Exhibition: A symbiotic love for the arts and the cutlet, 1868, printed 1920

Etienne Carjat

A chaotic but happy kitchen scene: A light-skinned woman in a pink dress at left bends to take a turkey out of the oven, while another at right forms a pie near a small girl playing with a kitten. Behind them, a woman selects dishware as yet another carries a basket of ingredients. A fifth woman in the back puts on a fancy hat and coat near a pair of babies reaching out from their twin high chair.

Thanksgiving, c. 1935

Doris Lee

Pink and red wax sculpture of a naked person lying on their side in a fetal position.

Blood Pool, 1992

Kiki Smith

A work made of terracotta.

Statuette of a Seated Girl, 330-320 BCE

Ancient Greek

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