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The Persistence of Memory

Dalí's surrealist masterpiece features melting clocks in barren landscape. The work explores time, memory, consciousness, and reality's fluidity. Soft watches suggest time's subjective nature and dreams' logic. Ants and flies …

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

Bosch's triptych depicts paradise, earthly pleasures, and hell in surreal detail. The work explores desire, sin, consequence, and medieval cosmology. Bizarre hybrid creatures and symbolic imagery create dreamlike complexity. The …

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Guernica

Picasso's monumental anti-war painting responds to bombing of Basque town during Spanish Civil War. Fragmented bodies, screaming horse, and bull create nightmarish chaos. The monochromatic palette suggests newsprint and death. …

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The Scream

Munch's iconic image of existential anguish shows figure screaming against blood-red sky. The wavy lines suggest sound waves and psychological distortion. The work explores anxiety, alienation, and modern consciousness. Munch …

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Starry Night

Van Gogh's swirling night sky painted from asylum window captures cosmic turbulence and inner turmoil. The cypress tree reaches skyward while village sleeps below, representing earthly versus celestial realms. Swirling …

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Tilted Arc

Serra's 120-foot steel wall bisected Federal Plaza in New York, forcing pedestrians to walk around it. The work explores site-specificity, public space, and institutional power. Controversy led to removal in …

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The Lightning Field

De Maria's installation places 400 polished steel poles in New Mexico desert grid. During storms, lightning strikes create spectacular displays. The work explores nature, sublime, time, and perception. Visitors must …

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Spiral Jetty

Smithson's 1500-foot spiral of rocks extends into Utah's Great Salt Lake. The work explores entropy, time, nature, and impermanence. The jetty appears and disappears with changing water levels, demonstrating nature's …

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One and Three Chairs

Kosuth's conceptual work presents physical chair, photograph of chair, and dictionary definition of 'chair.' The work explores representation, language, reality, and meaning. The three versions question which is most 'real' …

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The Artist is Present

Abramović sat silently at MoMA for 736 hours while visitors took turns sitting across from her. The work explores presence, consciousness, time, and human connection. The mutual gaze created profound …

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Rhythm 0

Abramović's six-hour performance placed 72 objects (from rose to loaded gun) on table for audience to use on her passive body. The work explores power, vulnerability, violence, and human nature. …

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Untitled (Perfect Lovers)

Gonzalez-Torres's paired clocks begin synchronized but inevitably diverge, representing his relationship with partner dying of AIDS. The minimal work explores love, time, loss, and mortality. The clocks' eventual desynchronization metaphorizes …

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Marilyn Diptych

Warhol's silkscreen diptych repeats Marilyn Monroe's face in vibrant color and fading black. The work explores celebrity, death, repetition, and image saturation. The fading panels suggest mortality and media's consuming …

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Campbell's Soup Cans

Warhol's 32 canvases depicting soup can flavors eliminated artistic gesture and embraced mass production. The work explores consumerism, repetition, banality, and American culture. The serial imagery questions authenticity and originality …

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The Physical Impossibility of Death

Hirst's preserved shark in vitrine confronts viewers with death made permanent. The work explores mortality, preservation, nature, and the limits of art. The dead animal suspended in preservative creates uncanny …

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Balloon Dog (Orange)

Koons's monumental stainless steel balloon dog in mirror finish elevates kitsch to high art. The work explores consumerism, childhood, banality, and contemporary culture. The shiny surface reflects viewers and surroundings, …

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Girl with Balloon

Banksy's stenciled girl reaching for heart-shaped balloon became street art icon. The work explores hope, loss, innocence, and desire. When auctioned, the painting self-destructed through hidden shredder, becoming 'Love is …

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Guernica

Picasso's monumental anti-war painting depicts the bombing of Guernica during Spanish Civil War. Fragmented Cubist forms, screaming figures, and monochrome palette convey horror and chaos. The work explores war, suffering, …

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Napalm Girl

Út's Pulitzer-winning photograph captures children fleeing napalm attack during Vietnam War. The naked girl's screaming run became iconic anti-war image. The work documents horror, innocence destroyed, and war's human cost. …

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Migrant Mother

Lange's Depression-era photograph of Florence Owens Thompson became an icon of suffering and resilience. The mother's worried expression and children's turned faces convey desperation and dignity. The work documents poverty, …

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Identical Twins

Arbus's unsettling portrait of twin girls in matching dresses explores identity, normality, and the uncanny. The direct confrontational style creates psychological tension. The work examines otherness, difference, sameness, and social …

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Moonrise Hernandez

Adams's iconic landscape captures moonrise over New Mexico village with dramatic storm clouds. The technical mastery and zone system create luminous detail and emotional depth. The work explores nature, sublime …

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The Decisive Moment

Cartier-Bresson's photograph captures a man leaping over a puddle in perfect geometric composition. The work defines photography's unique capacity to freeze significant moments. The image explores time, chance, consciousness, and …

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Woman I

De Kooning's violent figuration merges representation and abstraction in aggressive brushwork. The monstrous female form explores desire, fear, sexuality, and the unconscious. The work combines beauty and horror, creation and …

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