2. He was born on October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain and
he died on April 8, 1973, Mougins, France) Spanish
expatriate
painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage
designer, one of the greatest and most influential
artists of the 20th century and the creator (with
Georges Braque) of Cubism.

3. The Chicago Picasso
The Chicago Picasso a 50' high
public Cubist sculpture. Donated by
Picasso to the people of Chicago

4. The second of five
brothers, Michelangelo was born on
March 6, 1475, at Caprese, in
Tuscany, to Ludovico di Leonardo di
Buonarotto Simon and Francesca
Neri. The same day, his father noted
down: "Today March 6, 1475, a child
of the male sex has been born to me
and I have named him Michelangelo.
He was born on Monday between 4
and 5 in the morning, at
Caprese, where I am the
Podestà." Although born in the
small village of
Caprese, Michelangelo always
considered himself a "son of
Florence," as did his father, "a
Citizen of Florence."

5. The Pietà , which depicts the Virgin Mary
holding the body of her son Jesus Christ
after his death, has been created in many
different forms by various painters and
sculptors. Of all the great paintings and
sculptures on the Pieta, however, the one
by Michelangelo stands out from all the
rest.

6. The Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, (1876-
1957) was a central figure of the modern movement and
a pioneer of abstraction. His sculpture is noted for its
visual elegance and sensitive use of
materials, combining the directness of peasant carving
with the sophistication of the Parisian avant-garde.
After attending the Bucharest School of Fine Arts and
learning of the sculpture of August Rodin, Brancusi
traveled to Paris in 1904. Brancusi created his first major
work, The Kiss, in 1908.

7. Simple is beautiful. Look closer as these two young
lovers embrace in a kiss in what is perhaps
regarded as the classic representation of love. As
one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th
century, Constantin Brancusi preferred the
technique of carving in stone and reducing natural
forms to near-abstract simplicity. His work in both
stone and bronze concentrated on variations of a
small number of themes--heads, birds, and this
renowned couple embracing, The Kiss (1916).
Brancusi's simplified sculptures are widely
acknowledged as icons of modern art.

8. David Smith, in
full David Roland
Smith (born March
9, 1906, Decatur, Indiana, U.S.
—died May
23, 1965, Albany, New
York), American sculptor whose
pioneering welded metal
sculpture and massive painted
geometric forms made him the
most original American
sculptor in the decades
after World War II. His work
greatly influenced the brightly
colored “primary structures”
of Minimal art during the

10. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah
Berliawsky; September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988)
was an American artist. Nevelson is known for her
abstract expressionist “crates” grouped together to
form a new creation. She used found objects or
everyday discarded things in her" assemblages” or
assemblies, one of which was three stories high:
"When you put together things that other people
have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life –
a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they
were originally created."

11. Sky Landscape
It was commissioned by the American Medical
Association, dedicated on March 10, 1988, and is
located at 1101 Vermont
Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. Sky Landscape was
commissioned by the American Medical Association
and dedicated March 10th, 1983. The painted
aluminum sculpture uses several curved pieces to
form a collage in metal. Sky Landscape I reflects
Nevelson’s devotion to relief sculpture and the
creation of heightened drama within a narrow field

12. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), the painter and mixed
media artist, was associated with Cubism, Dadaism
and Surrealism, though he avoided any alliances.
Duchamp’s work is characterized by its humor, the
variety and unconventionality of its media, and its
incessant probing of the boundaries of art. His legacy
includes the insight that art can be about ideas instead
of worldly things, a revolutionary notion that would
resonate with later generations of artists.

13. Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is
one of the pieces which he called ready-mades
(also known as found art), because he made use of
an already existing object – in this case a
urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed “R.
Mutt”. It was submitted to an art show as an act of
provocation, but was lost shortly after this.
According to Duchamp’s biographer Calvin
Tomkins, the best guess is that it was thrown out
as rubbish by Stieglitz, a common fate of
Duchamp’s early ready-mades

14. ROBERT SMITHSON
American Artist 1938-1973
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, January 2, 1938
The artist Robert Smithson is a famous for his land art and he is
best known for the ''Spiral Jetty,'' which has lain in the Great Salt
Lake since 1970. Smithson died at 35 in an airplane crash in 1973.

15. The Spiral Jetty is a basalt spiral
1500 feet long, and 15 feet
wide, which protrudes from
the shore of the Great Salt
Lake, on submerged land
leased from the government.
Given his preoccupation with
entropy, it is fitting that each
of the three existing
earthworks designed by the
artist Robert Smithson in the
United States are severely
degraded, and each in a
different way. The Spiral Jetty is
usually invisible, lying a few
feet under the fluctuating
surface level of the lake.
Smithson built the piece in
1970 at a time when the lake