Exchange: F23 Jadhav - COMPLIT 122

F23 Jadhav - COMPLIT 122 - Absurdism

Enrique Chagoya
UtopianCannibal.org
2000
color lithograph, woodcut, chine collé, and collage |
Museum Purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
2001/2.81

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Can of Campbell’s Pepper Pot Soup with Andy Warhol’s signature in black felt-tip pen on lower left front of can.

Andy Warhol
Campbell's Soup Can—Pepper Pot
1961 – 1971
ink | can of Campbell's soup
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
1988/1.86

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This is a line drawing on white paper. There is a hatchet, an oblong box with a dark line around the middle and the words, "thousands of dollars". The drawing is signed and dated (l.r.).

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Thousands of dollars
1981
graphite | paper
Gift of Arthur Cohen in honor of Ben and Yetta Cohen
1985/2.17

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Elliott Erwitt
People and Statues on Beach, San Juan, Puerto Rico, from "Recent Developments"
1978
gelatin silver print | paper
Gift of Lawrence and Carol Zicklin
1987/1.175.3

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This colorful print is broken up in to four panels, which are divided by a black border with white dashes and then surrounded by a red border, which includes designs in white. In the upper left panel is the image of a blue and yellow house. The upper right shows a television set sitting on a table alongside a glass of milk, a key ring, notepad, plate, and cell phone. In the lower left panel, the bust of a girl with blonde hair in pig-tail braids is standing in front of two houses, one traditional and one modern. The lower right panel depicts an orange, yellow, and red store labeled "Shop and Buy" with a parking lot out front. The artist's initals are included in the print (l.r.) in white on red "RG".

Rodney Alan Greenblat
Christina's World
1989
screenprint | paper
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
2004/2.42

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Stonehedge in the background with a car being excavated from underground in the foreground. There are ropes around the site.

Patrick Nagatani
Bentley, Stonehedge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England (R5), from "The Ryoichi Excavations"
1987 – 2001
toned gelatin silver print | paper
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2012/2.135

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This pring shows the shoulders and skull of a skeleton wearing a wide brimmed hat adorned with plumes and decorative objects.

José Guadalupe Posada
Calavera de la Catrina
1905 – 1915
relief etching | paper
Museum Purchase
1958/1.124

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László Moholy-Nagy
Militarism (Militarismus)
1924
gelatin silver print from rephotographed photomontage | paper
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1988/1.134

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Otto Dix
Abandoned Position near Vis-en-Artois, from 'Der Krieg'
1924
etching, drypoint and aquatint | paper
Museum Purchase
1948/1.57

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Eugène Atget
Men's Fashions
1925 – 1974
gold-toned gelatin silver print | paper
Museum Purchase
1974/1.107

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On a vertically-oriented page, with printed image extending to the borders of the page, there are various scenes and images combined together. There are two main registers. On the bottom, there is a collaged image of a woman putting on lipstick at the beach, and the rear end of a classic car to the right. To the left, there are two smaller frames: on top there is an urban street scene collaged with demolished cars, and on the bottom there is a single scene of a fashion office orstudio with three women. In the top register, there are four main frames. On the right, the largest scene in the print, there is an image of a soldier with a handgun collaged with an image of a small child with a soldier's helmet on his head. The boy holds a bucket. To the left, there are three smaller images, each showing a man and a woman in varying degrees of fancy dress. The overall scene is printed in a vibrant orange color.

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Pig or Person, it's the same, Fortune plays a funny game
1965 – 1970
photolithograph | paper
Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick
2000/2.14.34

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