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1964
8 ft. (244 cm) high
Pink, yellow, blue and green fluorescent light
Dan Flavin

Light is a super important creation to human being. It's convenient, safe, and colorful. Dan Flavin played with light a lot. This is one of his works called untitled (to Henri Matisse). Pink, yellow, blue, and green represents the four principle colors of commercial fluorescent light.

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Berndnaut Smilde

As a Dutch visual artist, Berndnaut Smilde created several pieces of self-made clouds. He tried to mimic the clouds generation and create man-made clouds. Because of the technology limitation, these amazing pieces can only exist as photographs. But the technology helped him make these beautiful artworks.

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1919
Claude Monet
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

As the leader of Expressionism, Monet did a lot of painting focused on the light and color during a short time period in real world. The new process of making paints make him can stay outside and capture the scenery very quickly and conveniently.

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People want lives be more convinient and create many things practicably.

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America, 2011
Yves Béhar

A Chair. Inspired by the Golden Gate Bridge, the designer designed this modern chair with ergonomics. This make the chair a good chocie for long time working and sitting.

(The left one in the image. I am using this chair right now and I like it.)

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America, 2013
Apple Inc.

The biggest change ever in iOS history, Apple abandoned their

Skeuomorphism design in last 5 main version system and started to use flat-design. The older design tried to mimic the products we used in daily lives like the camera icon, settings icon, etc.. The new deisng is more pure and more obvious. By using more abstract icons, it is more clear for users. The flat design later spread to almost whole deisng fields.

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1989
Architecture
I. M. Pei

The Louvre Pyramid filled some requirments. It did not changed original Louvre museum's buildings.  It made Louvre have a modern feeling by using glass and the most stable shape in geometry, triangle. It also meet the requirments of Paris' city planning as a good end of Paris' center axis. At the same time, the glass pyramid improves the entrance's lighting and is a good solution for large amout of people's entrace to the museum. This building is not very personalize or special on shape but it is still a very special and great architecture design because it is probably the best solution for renew the museum. It's pragmatic.

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Those artists who is leading the changes and challenge the art world are always technology frontiers. They use new technology and make their artworks very fresh and have brand new feelings to viewers.

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This is a great start. Your principles are excellent--my favorite is "inapprehensible." All of the definitions are informative and interesting.

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Not everyone can enjoy those works. They are crazy, unreasonable, sometimes disgusting or not beautiful in common thinking.

Many people think those are not art, some works are seen as "everyone can do", some are seen as disgusting. Even though those works are inapprehensible, they are still art and probably one day in the future more people can understand and enjoy them.

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To Add One Meter To An Anonymous Mountain

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To Add One Meter To An Anonymous Mountain

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1995
Perfomance art
Huan Zhang, Shihua Wang, Xin Cang, Yang Gao, Zuoxiaozuzhou, Zongyin Ma, Liuming Ma, Binbin Zhang, Ming Zhu, Yingmei Duan, Nan Lu

Even though Huan Zhuang was mainly see as the artist, those 11 people were argued that who was the creator and had no result. This work is one important piece in Chinese performance art history and shows 11 people lay on top of each other and made that anonymous one meter higher. A lot of parents feel afraid that if their children learn art will do this kind of work in the future. This work is not very apprehensible by many people.

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America, 1963
Oil on canvas
60 x 60" (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Ad Reinhardt

Many artist did this kind of paintings or works by just use black, white or black and white. They all have different kinds of meaning and be seen by many people as "everyone can do the same thing and name it 'Unititled'". I don't know how to refute, probably everyone can have the same kind of work. But for me, I am a minimalism designer (probably also an artist) and I am really enjoy these kind of works. I saw something in National Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, MoMA, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. I am really happy to see thsoe works and all of those works are different among each other. Every artist is different and it is just the final piece looks similar, their thinking and process is diffenert. But not many people enjoy them. I picked Ad Reinhardt's painting "Abstract Painting" here.

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France, 1917
Ceramic, glazed ceramic
2′0″ x 1′2″ x 1′7″
Marcel Duchamp

When people talks about contempory art and modern art, this work is always mentioned. Some people like it, some people hate it. An artist must be the maker of the work? The one who made the idea but let others make the work is the artist? I think they are artists. But not many people agree.

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Artists may focus on a big concept or have abundant emotions but they chose to restraint; limit themselves or express in a simple way.

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Edge
1988
2172 x 3258 mm | 85.5 x 128.3 in | (4.5 inch spot)
Household gloss on wall
Damien Hirst (UK, 1965-)

//Damien Hirst is a famous English artist. This work used household gloss to paint on the wall. It only has nice and simple arranged color dots. It's minimal and very modern, even fashion.

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CD Player (MUJI brand)
Japan, 1998
(Still selling on market)
Naoto Fukaswa (Japan, 1956-)

//Naoto Fukaswa is a famous Japanese industrial designer and he designed this CD player almost 20 years ago. It's super simple and wall mounted. When you want to play music, just put the disc on it and pull the line under it. It's beautiful, quiet and minimal when you compared it with other cd player in the market.

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New Piece, 1966

83 x 144 x 170 in. (210.8 x 365.8 x 431.8 cm.)

Sculpture, steel, painted black
Tony Smith (American, 1912–1980)

//Tony Smith, a famous minimalism artist in US, created this piece in 1966. this sculpture is a parallelepiped and it is just a steel parallelepiped painted black but nothing else. It is very minimal, heavy, quiet, and modern.

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Artworks which are more like from the future or different from the common things. Avant-garde, crazy and whimsical.

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Druzhba Sanatorium

Yalta, Ukraine. 1983-1985

Architect: Igor Vasilevsky (no introduction found)

//Soviet futurism is an art movement which focus on "new": science, technology, invention, and speed. Because of the centralization and the economy development, the government has the strong power to do wha they want. This made Soviet union built a lot of futuristic buildings and they all are very like the future architecture. Even a few decades passed, they are still modern and avant-garde. This building Druzhba Sanatorium and the next building Palace of Rituals are both from that period.

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Wedding Palace or Palace of Rituals

Tbilisi, Georgia. 1984

Architect: Victor Djorbenadze (Georgia, 1925-1999)

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1. Inventing impressionism : Paul Durand-Ruel and the modern art market  (Patry, Sylvie, Anne Robbins, Christopher Riopelle, Joseph J. Rishel, and Jennifer A. Thompson. 2015. Inventing impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the modern art market.)
//This book talks about how Paul Durand-Ruel, a French art dealer who discovered, exhibited, and shaped an audience for Impressionist paintings at a time when they were not famous. He is also one of the first modern art dealers. I think this is also changed the way how artist can earn money.

2. Tony Smith : architect, painter, sculptor ( Smith, Tony, Robert Storr, John Keenen, and Joan Pachner. 1998. Tony Smith: architect, painter, sculptor. New York: The Museum of Modern Art.)
//Tony Smith, as a famous American sculptor, can be seen as a symbol of Minimalism. This book is an overview of his career and himself. At the same time, it's a good way to understand the Minimalism and Modernism from a symbol person.

3. Damien Hirst (Hirst, Damien, Ann Gallagher, and Michael Craig-Martin. 2012. Damien Hirst.)
//From the limitation of the time period, Damien Hirst is the newest artist who is focused by these 3 books. This book traces his career from his emergence in the late 1980s to now as one of the best-known artists working today. Damien Hirst is one of my favourite artist and I think he and his work is modern and "new".

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(Kevin D. Murphy. "Modernism and architecture." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed September 10, 2017, http://ezproxy.mica.edu:2066/subscriber/article/grove/art/T2271597.)
///This article introduced some infomation about Modernism as an architectural phenomenon. I think it is a start to learn more about the modernism architecture.

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The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Dada." Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed September 09, 2017. https://www.britannica.com/art/Dada.
///This is a webpage which introduced Dada. I think Dada is very important to the art history and he shows people a new way to think about art at that time. This page is an easy way to know a little bit about Dada and his work. I think Encyclopædia Britannica is an authoritative and dependable source.

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1. Padlet wall set up: 10/10
2. Professor/TA are able to post comments on wall: 5/5
3. 3 printed books or journals, Decker Library in bibliography: 30/30
4. 1 article from Oxford Art Online in bibliography: 10/10
5. 1 appropriate resource of choice in bibliography: 10/10
6. 5 well-written, helpful, brief annotations: 25/25
Total points: 100/100

Unexcused lateness: 2 per day (24 hrs from time due), no maximum, until assignment is complete
Failure to use correct Chicago Manual Style format in bibliography: 2 per incorrect entry
Total deductions: 0
Total points for assignment: 100/100

Comments:
Good job with the first assignment, cheers!

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Metropolis
153 minutes, film, Germany, 1927
Director Fritz Lang (Austria-Hungary, 1890-1976)

//Metropolis, a German expressionism movie directed by Fritz Lang in 1927, is one of the most important movie in movie history. It's anti-utopia. It has some connection to those two Soviet buildings. But that two support this thinking, this movie against. The movie is crazy, super fictional.