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The Tempest V1(After Giorgione) Tirtzah Bassel’s The Tempest V1 (After Giorgione) is a 2020 gouache on paper work (30" x 35") that reinterprets Giorgione’s 16th-century masterpiece through a contemporary lens. Part of her artistic exploration of canon, it reimagines the mysterious, storm-laden landscape of the Renaissance original, featured in her "[Canon in Drag]" series
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The Adult Playhouse of Avignon(After Pablo Picasso) Tirtzah Bassel’s "The Adult Playhouse of Avignon (after Pablo Picasso)" (2022) is a 60” x 84” oil on canvas painting that reimagines Picasso’s 1907 masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Part of her "[Canon in Drag]" series, the work transforms the original brothel scene into an "adult playhouse," using mixed media to confront and recontextualize the original's power dynamics
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Miracle of the Menstruating Martyr(After Rogier Van Der Weyden) Miracle of the Menstruating Martyr (After Rogier Van Der Weyden) (2021) is a \(26" \times 28"\) gouache-on-paper painting by Tirtzah Bassel, reinterpreting Flemish art to center female bodily autonomy. Part of her "Canon in Drag" series, it reimagines holy scenes by highlighting menstruation as a source of creative power rather than shame
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Born This Way(After Michelangelo) Born This Way (After Michelangelo)" is a 2020 gouache-on-paper artwork by Brooklyn-based artist Tirtzah Bassel. As part of her Canon in Drag series, the piece reimagines Michelangelo’s work by highlighting intersex, queer, and feminist narratives, exploring the platonic myth that the first human was intersex
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The Birth of Venus Barbata (After Botticelli) Tirtzah Bassel's The Birth of Venus Barbata (After Botticelli) (2020) is a 42 x 32 in. gouache on paper painting that reimagines Botticelli's iconic Renaissance masterpiece. Part of her "Canon in Drag" series, this work features a bearded Venus, subverting traditional gender roles and challenging the patriarchal art canon by blending masculine and feminine attributes
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Rhythm 0 Rhythm 0 (1974) was a seminal six-hour endurance art performance by Marina Abramović in Naples, where she stood motionless, inviting audience members to use 72 diverse objects—ranging from a rose to a loaded gun—on her body, exploring the limits of human nature, vulnerability, and the artist-audience relationship
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Untitled (Your gaze hits the side of my face) Untitled (Your gaze hits the side of my face) is a 1981 photo-and-text artwork by conceptual artist Barbara Kruger. It critques the objectifying "male gaze" in art and media, featuring a stylized female profile with text stacked on the left, highlighting the passive, objectified role of women in Western culture.
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Left Behind 2 Again Left Behind 2 Again" (2014) is a notable artwork by acclaimed contemporary American artist Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971). It is a complex, mixed-media collage featuring paper collage, digital inkjet photography, lithography, relief, and intaglio,
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Propped Propped (1992) is a seminal 7-by-6-foot oil painting by Jenny Saville, featuring a raw,, fleshy self-portrait that challenges traditional, idealized female nudes. It depicts the artist naked on a stool, head tilted back, hands clawing at her thigh, looking down at the viewer in a commanding yet uncomfortable pose.
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Untitled #602 Untitled #602(2019) features a centrally posed figure standing confidently with one hand in a pocket, dressed in an oversized tan coat and dark trousers. The figure wears a printed shirt displaying a painted female face, adding a layered visual element to the composition. Behind them is a highly stylized, symmetrical garden landscape with winding stone paths, sculpted trees, and a soft pink-purple sky. The photograph blends portraiture with an artificial, dreamlike setting, creating a carefully staged and theatrical scene
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Tobacco Rose from 11 Pop Artists, Volume II Tobacco Rose (1965) by Mel Ramos is a color screenprint from the 11 Pop Artists, Volume II portfolio, featuring a confident, nude pinup girl straddling an oversized pack of cigarettes. Published by Original Editions in an edition of 200, this 28 x 22-inch work blends consumer advertising imagery with female figures, a hallmark of 1960s Pop Art. The artwork depicts a seductive, nude female figure interacting with a commercial product (cigarettes), symbolizing the fusion of consumerism and sexuality in pop culture.
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Drowning Girl Drowning Girl is a 1963 American painting in oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas by Roy Lichtenstein, based on original art by Tony Abruzzo. The painting is considered among Lichtenstein's most significant works, perhaps on a par with his acclaimed 1963 diptych Whaam!.
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Le Violon d’Ingres Le Violon d'Ingres is a black-and-white photograph created by American visual artist Man Ray in 1924. It is one of his best-known photographs and of surrealist photography. The picture was first published in the Surrealist magazine Littérature in June 1924.
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Seated Woman with Bent Knee Seated Woman with Bent Knees is a 1917 painting in gouache, watercolor, and black crayon on paper by the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele. As its name suggests, the piece features a woman, depicted in a seated pose.
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Odalisque with Raised Arms Odalisque With Raised Arms is a painting by Henri Matisse, completed in 1923. The oil on canvas measuring 23 by 26 inches is held in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C. Matisse's style changed and evolved drastically throughout his career, including his wide and varying collection of paintings depicting female nudes.
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After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself is a pastel drawing by Edgar Degas, made between 1890 and 1895. Since 1959, it has been in the collection of the National Gallery, London. This work is one in a series of pastels and oils that Degas created depicting female nudes.
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Spirit of the Dead Watching Spirit of the Dead Watching is an 1892 oil on burlap canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, depicting a nude Tahitian girl lying on her stomach. An old woman is seated behind her. Gauguin said the title may refer to either the girl imagining the ghost, or the ghost imagining her.
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Olympia (Manet) olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet. The painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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La Grande Odalisque Grande Odalisque, also known as Une Odalisque or La Grande Odalisque, is an oil painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicting an odalisque, or concubine in 1814. Ingres' contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres' break from Neoclassicism, indicating a shift toward exotic Romanticism.
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The birth of Venus The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid-1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown. The painting is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.