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Modern Art Monday Presents: Roy Lichtenstein, Bauhaus Stairway Mural

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Bauhaus Stairway Mural (1989) speaks to Roy Lichtenstein’s dialogue with various art historical styles, which would figure prominently throughout his career. Measuring more than 26 feet tall and painted in oil and Magna on canvas, this spectacular mural pays homage to the German artist Oskar Schlemmer (1888 – 1943) and his painting Bahaustreppe (Bauhaus Stairway, 1932), which is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC, and reproduced below.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Ed Ruscha, Wen Out For Cigrets

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The phrase immortalized on this canvases, Wen Out For Cigrets (1985), refers to an American cultural trope in which a father leaves the house to buy cigarettes and never returns, abandoning his family.

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Modern Art Monday Presents: Salvador Dali, Madonna

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Salvador Dali’s penchant for optical illusion and veiled iconography are evident in this painting, Madonna (1958). As seen from a distance, Raphael’s’ Sistine Madonna (after 1513; Gemaldegalerie Dresden) is situated within a gargantuan ear — a reference to the Passion of Christ. From close range, it is an abstract work composed of countless particle-like gray and pink dots, reflecting the artist’s interest in nuclear physics.

Photographed in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

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Modern Art Monday Presents: Roulette: Number Five By Mokuma Kikuhata

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Roulette: Number Five (1964), an assemblage work, is one in a series titled Roulette by Japanese artist Mokuma Kikuhata (1935–2020). The title refers to a game of chance where players guess where a ball will land within a spinning numbered wheel.  To make this artwork, Kikuhata combined and arranged what he called “everyday objects—used and unwanted,” including a metal pail, a baseball, and a can.

Photographed in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

 

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Modern Art Monday Presents: Untitled By Atsuko Tanaka

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In 1956, Atsuko Tanaka (1932 – 2005) gave a performance while wearing a sculpture called Electric Dress, which was made from 200 blinking incandescent lightbulbs, and tubes covered in red, blue, yellow and green enamel paint. The concentric circles and circuitous lines of this Untitled painting were directly inspired by that performance.
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