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Four distinct motifs, each abstract, colorful, and cartoonish, float sequentially, one on top of the other, against a shiny, black background. One looks like an expanding galaxy. The top one, a figure, has a squat body and a pointy head and is grinning.

Mr. Pointy, 2011

Takashi Murakami

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 32: Seba, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of earthenware and glaze.

Vase, c. 1905

Fritz Albert

A work made of lithographic poster on white wove paper.

Chicago Art Exposition, 1982

Jack Tworkov

A work made of limestone with traces of polychromy.

Buddha, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), c. 725/50

A close-up view of five hickory leaves in vivid yellow, a white daisy in the lower middle portion, on a white background.

Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy, 1928

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of gilt bronze, marble, and glass.

Girandoles, 1848–51

Isaac F. Baker

An abstracted work made of irregular pieces of stretched canvas bonded together, creating a funnel shape that protrudes out to form a dark hole.

Untitled, 1960

Lee Bontecou

A work made of color woodblock print.

Woman in Summer Clothing (Portrait of Nakatani Tsuru), 1920

Hashiguchi Goyô

A work made of oil on canvas with wooden matchsticks, hairpins, coins, leather hair rollers, and string.

Untitled (Match-Woman I), 1920

Francis Picabia

Deep earthenware soup bowl with two swirly designed handles and cover topped with a flower shaped element. The bowl is decorated in black with griffin and palmette pattern on rim and with a scene in an oval depicting a running male figure in a winged helmet handing a baby over to the lady sitting on the ground.

Tureen, 1810/20

Creil Pottery

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Dance Staff, Late 19th/early 20th century

Baule

Terracotta vessel glazed in black, decorated with an orange figure of a woman holding a shield and a spear.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 460-450 BCE

Achilles Painter

A work made of oil on canvas.

Abstract Cityscape, 1924

Léopold Survage

A work made of maple.

Oceana Box, c. 1935

Russel Wright

A work made of oil on canvas.

PH-246, 1951/52

Clyfford Still

Box construction lined with printed text. A white sphere and clear blue marble are suspended between two horizontal glass shelves. At bottom left is a clear glass goblet filled with coral, shells, and paper. At bottom right, a white ceramic hand holding a cup.

Soap Bubble Set, 1948

Joseph Cornell

Three-part bronze sculpture set of two clenched hands and a man's face with closed eyes and mouth, an object in one hand.

Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln, Cast in plaster 1860; cast in bronze by 1888

Leonard Wells Volk

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Ise, from an untitled series of Thirty-six Immortal Poets, c. 1767/68

Suzuki Harunobu

Ghostly white face formed by a winding line, creating forehead wrinkles, nose, chin. Droopy eyes and a small black heart.

In the Magic Mirror, 1934

Paul Klee

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