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About Sigmar Polke, a famous German artist
German artist Sigmar Polke, who died of complications from cancer in 2010 at the age of 69, gave pop art a poignant political edge that was often absent from the work of his British and American counterparts. An exile from East Germany who settled in West Germany as a child, he created works that implicitly criticized communism and capitalism.
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Small and big hands in protest
Small and big hands are tied against oppression and racial discrimination, and a person in the meantime calls others to protest and gather with strength and behind the curtain. Now, in this work, unlike other works of Jacob Lawrence, an African American artist and social activist, the colors are not clear and diverse, but the design and composition call the eye to the work. Jacob La...
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A marquee of violence
Nazi Germany is one of the favorite subjects of the Chapman brothers, Jake and Dinos. This artistic couple has gone to this issue many times. For the first time, they brought forward the issue of Nazi Germany with a collection of watercolor paintings by Adolf Hitler, and later, with various arrangements that were influenced by pop culture, punk and similar, they raised the issue of...
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Man and the value of his life
Glob expresses the issues of violence, war and street movements with the help of numerous news images in his works. What we learn from Glob's works is the concern of man and the value of his life.
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born in captivity
Indonesian artist Heri Dono performed the installation of Birth and Freedom in 2004. In this arrangement, which consists of many archaic elements and mythological symbols, an allegory of the relationship between life and death, freedom and captivity, and the relationship between ancient history and traditions and their relationship with today's modern life is included.
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The seeds of Tasbih fanaticism
Mona Hatoum designed and performed "Worried beads" in 2009 as a protest art.This arrangement, which is made of patinated bronze and soft steel, is both a reminder of the cultural roots in which Mona Hatum grew up and also a reminder of multiple concepts.
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Nervous laughter during the execution
The smiling faces in the works of Yu Mingzhan, a famous Chinese painter, soon attracted attention and his name became popular as one of the most important painters of the movement known as pessimistic realism. The trend of pessimistic realism that started in the mid-1990s in China is largely influenced by the events after the Cultural Revolution in this country.The current work, whi...
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Your body is like a battlefield
"Your body is like a battlefield" is one of the most famous works of Barbara Kruger, an American conceptual artist and graphic designer. Krueger created this work in 1985, at the height of the dominance of the feminist view in art.This period of Krueger's work, created with graphic techniques and the combination of photo and text, became one of the most famous feminist works of art...
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Total dictatorship
People with different skin colors are in a line of assault and the only green dot is their blindfold. Fernando Botero, a famous Colombian painter, painted Abu Ghraib 46 in 2005. This work from the famous Abu Ghraib collection, with a slight difference in the color spectrum of the prisoners' skin, refers to the pervasiveness of dictatorship in different strata and different ethnic gr...
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Let thousands of flowers bloom
انسلم کیفر هنرمند نقاش متولد 1945 در آلمان است. او دو ماه پیش از پایان جنگ جهانی دوم متولد شد و به همین خاطر آثار او تحت تاثیر وقایع تاریخی و به طور مشخص جنگ جهانی و استکبار هیتلر خلق شده است. اثر پیش رو با عنوان let a Thousand Flowers Bloom در سال 2000 با انتقاد به دیکتاتوری در ادوار مختلف تاریخ و تاثیر سرکوب بر رشدنیافتگی جامعه توسط کیفر نقاشی شده است.