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WSC 2016:
An Imperfect World
Flawed Visions, Broken Sounds:
Art Selections

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I. Pain in the Paint 4
Death and Funeral of Cain 5

The Raft of the Medusa 6

The Triumph of Death 7

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 8

Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa 9

Victim of Fanaticism 10

Unnamed Mural at Supreme Court 11

II. Yours, Truly 12

The Music Lesson 13

The Cardsharps 14

La Horde 15

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife 16

Hustler 17

III. Stranger than Fiction 18

Humans of New York (Refugee Stories) 19

Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 20

Diary of an Empty City 21

245 Cubic Meters 22

The Wait 23

Project Dust 24

Dismaland 25

Little Monsters 26

IV. (Im)perfect Perspectives 27

Examples of Wabi-sabi Art 28
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Nonfinito works 29
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I. Pain in the Paint


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Death and Funeral of Cain

David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1947
Oil on canvas

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The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault, 1818-9
Oil on canvas, 193 x 282 in
The Louvre

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The Triumph of Death

Unknown, 1446
Fresco, 240 x 253 in
Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887

Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
Antoine-Jean Gros, 1804
Oil on canvas, 206 x 281 in
The Louvre

 Victim of Fanaticism
Mykola Pymonenko, 1899
Oil on canvas, 71 x 88 in
Fine Arts Museum, Kharkiv

Unnamed Mural at Supreme Court
Jose Clemente Orozco, 1941
Mural
The Supreme Court of Mexico
II. Yours, Truly

 The Music Lesson
Johannes Vermeer, 1664
Oil on canvas, 337 x 300 in
The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

 The Cardsharps
Caravaggio, c. 1595
Oil on Canvas, 37 x 52 in
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

 La Horde
Wolfgang Beltracci (2004)
Oil on Linen, 25 x 31.5 in

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife
Jan Van Eyck, 1434
Oil on Oak, 32 x 24 in
National Portrait Gallery, London

 Hustler
Arthur Sarnoff

III. Stranger than Fiction

Humans of New York (Refugee Stories)
Brandon Stanton, 2015
Digital Photograph
humansofnewyork.com

Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995
Ai Weiwei (1995)
Photograph

Diary of an Empty City
Liu Xiaodong, 2015
Oil on Canvas
 245 Cubic Meters
Santiago Sierra, 2006
Installation Art
Stommeln Synagogue, Pulheim, Germany
 The Wait
Edward Kienholz, 1964-5
Installation Art, 80 ₒ 160 ₒ 84 in
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 Project Dust
Brother Nut, 2015
Performance Art
Beijing, China

 Dismaland
Banksy, 2015
Installation Art
Weston-super-Mare, UK

Little Monsters
Flora Borsi, 2015
Digital Images

IV. (Im)perfect Perspectives
Examples of Wabi-sabi Art
 Nonfinito works
(The Awakening Slave, The Young Slave, The Bearded Slave, Atlas)
Michelangelo, 1520-34
Sculptures