Contemporary
Global Art

• Street Art & Sociopolitical Themes

• Identity in the 21st Century

Identity in the
21st Century

REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts

1631 CE

REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

The Artist in His Studio

1629 CE

REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Self-portrait with Saskia

1635 CE

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Self-portrait

1887 CE

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Self-portrait with Grey Felt Hat

1887 CE

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Self-portrait

1889 CE

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe

1889 CE

BARBARA KRUGER

Untitled (We Don't Need Another Hero)

1986 CE | Photograph, red painted frame

BARBARA KRUGER

Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face)

1981 CE
Photograph, red painted frame

GUERRILLA GIRLS

Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?

1989 CE | Offset print

GUERRILLA GIRLS

The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist

1988 CE | Offset print

GUERRILLA GIRLS

You’re Seeing Less Than Half The Picture

1989 CE | Offset print

GUERRILLA GIRLS

Guerrilla Girls’ Pop Quiz

1990 CE | Offset print

KEHINDE WILEY

Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps

2005 CE | Oil on canvas

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

Self-Portrait

1980 CE | Gelatin silver print

Diagram of Dividual Identity

Street Art & Sociopolitical Themes

Examples of Graffiti

Interview with 'Cornbread,' the founder of modern graffiti

Banksy

If Graffiti Changed Anything

Location, c. 2011 CE

Banksy

Mona Lisa Mooning

London, UK, c. 2010 CE

Banksy

Pulp Fiction

London, UK, c. 2007 CE

Banksy

Kissing Coppers

Soho, London, UK, 2004 CE

Banksy

Kissing Coppers

Brighton, UK, 2004 CE

Kissing Coppers at auction in Miami, 2014

"Plexied" over by building owner

Stik

Untitled

East London, UK

Stik

Friday Night

East London, UK

Invader

Untitled

London, UK

Invader

Untitled

London, UK

Artist Unknown

Untitled

London, UK, 2011 CE

Banksy

Art Buff

Folkestone, UK, 2014 CE

The Toasters

Untitled

London, UK

The Toasters

Untitled

London, UK

Artist Unknown

Untitled

London, UK, c. 2011

Artist Unknown

Untitled

London, UK, c. 2011

C215

Untitled

London, UK

Alice Pasquini

Untitled

London, UK

Dal East (alongside an unknown artist)

Untitled

London, UK, c. 2011

Citizen Kane

Lord Jagannath​

East London, UK
Polymer clay

Street Art & the Art Market

Roa

Untitled

London, UK

Roa

Giant Crane

London, UK

Roa

Hackney Rabbit

Hackney, London, UK

Mobstr

Expression is Natural

London, UK

Mobstr

Red (2015)

Hackney Wick, UK

The prize? An unassuming substation wall:

In a post on his website, Mobstr recounted the epic tale of the wall, and the diligent clean-up crew out to foil his schemes.

Mobstr wrote: "I cycled past this wall on the way to work for years. I noticed that graffiti painted within the red area was ‘buffed’ with red paint.

“However, graffiti outside the red area would be removed with a pressure washer. This prompted the start of an experiment.

“Unlike other works, I was very uncertain as to what results it would yield.

“Below is what transpired over the course of a year.”

Mobstr told BuzzFeed: “I started on 17 July 2014, and did my final contribution about a month or two ago.”

“In my mind by simply removing the graffiti they were playing along. The only way for them to avoid collaboration was by doing nothing at all.”

Until one day…

As far as Mobstr is aware, his final message hasn’t been painted over yet.

He added: “I think I might have broken them.”

Japan

Example of Craftsmanship in Japan

• Chinese Influence on Japanese Painting

• Zen Aesthetics

Chinese Influence on Japanese Painting

FUJIWARA TAKANOBU

Portrait of Yoritomo

1179 CE

Color on silk

TAKASE FAMILY

Hitofude-Ryuu Painting

c. 2010 CE

Japanese Single-Stroke (Hitofude) Painting

Member of the Takase Family holding a Hitofude-Ryuu painting

SESSHU TOYO

Splashed-Ink (Haboku) Landscape
(detail of the lower part of a hanging scroll)

1495 CE
Ink on paper

SESSHU TOYO

Winter Landscape

1486 CE
Ink on paper

KANO MOTONOBU

Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a Broom

c. 1513 CE
Ink and color on paper

YIN HONG

‎Hundred Birds Admiring the Peacocks

Late 15th to early 16th century CE

SHEN ZHOU

Poet on a Mountain Top

c. 1500 CE

Examples of Sumi Ink Sticks

Sumi Ink Stick with Ink Stone

Making Materials with Care

Zen Aesthetics

Key Aspects of Buddhism

Koans: Aesthetic Thought within Zen Practice

Saiho-ji (a.k.a. Koke-dera, or 'Moss Temple')
Kyoto, 14th century CE

Zen mountains and "waterfall"

Daisen-in, Kyoto, Japan, c. 1488 CE

Karesansui (dry landscape) garden

Ryōan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, c. 1488 CE

Design Thinking in Japan

Kogan (tea-ceremony water jar)

Late 16th century CE
Shino glazed stoneware with underglaze from slip decoration

Mid-Century Modern Interior Design

Mid-Century Modern End Table

Wabi-Sabi-Inspired Contemporary Interior Design

KOYAMA KIYOKO

Tea bowl
c. 2000 CE | Stoneware with natural ash glaze

Stoneware cup with clear, crackled glaze, stained by ink
Gold lacquer repair (Kintsugi)

c. 17th century CE

Kintsugi Process

Wabi Sabi & Kintsugi

Native American Cultures

• The Survival of Aztec Culture through Art

• The Overlooked Complexity of
  Native North America

The Black Legend, Native Americans, & Spaniards

The Survival of Aztec Culture​ through Art

Intro to the Aztec Empire

Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl,  folio 56 of the Borgia Codex

from Puebla or Tlaxcala, Mexico

ca. 1400–1500 CE | Mineral and vegetable pigments on deerskin

The founding of Tenochtitlán,
folio 2 recto of the Codex Mendoza

from Mexico City, Mexico

1541–1542 CE
Ink and color on paper

Reconstruction drawing with cutaway view of various rebuildings of the Great Temple

Aztec

Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Mexico

ca. 1400-1500 CE

Reconstruction of the Great Temple Complex

Coatlicue

from Tenochtitlán, Mexico City, Mexico

ca. 1487–1520 CE
Andesite

Cortes & the Fall of the Aztec

Reclaiming Native American Art

Aztec Street Art

The Overlooked Complexity of
Native North America

OTTO PENTEWA

Katsina figurine

Hopi, New Oraibi, Arizona

carved before 1959 Ce
Cottonwood root and feathers

BILL REID (Haida), assisted by DOUG KRANMER (Kwakiutl)

Reconstruction of a 19th century Haida village with totem poles

Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | 1962 CE

BILL REID

The Raven and the First Men

Haida | 1978–1980 CE | Yellow cedar

Buffalo hide robe with battle scene

Mandan, from the upper Missouri River, North Dakota | ca. 1800 CE
Buffalo hide with deerskin fringe, porcupine quills, and mineral pigments

The Role of Nature for Many Native American Cultures

Home of the Bear & Snake

Colored sand on earth

Coyote Stealing Fire

Colored sand on earth

Monster Slayer

Colored sand on earth

Navajo Medicine Men Making Sand Paintings

Navajo Tribal Members Making a Large Sand Painting

ca. 1940 CE

A Conversation With Native Americans on Race

Africa

• Performative Art in Africa

• Mask Making

Decolonizing African Art

Performative Art
in Africa

Senufo masquerader

Cote d’Ivoire

photographed c. 1980-1990

Samburu men & women dancing

Northern Kenya

photographed in 1973

Gelede Ritual Performances

Mask Making

Wara headdress

Bamana, from the Bamako region of Mali

Late 19th or early 20th century

Wood, metal bands, and thread

The Making of West African Masks

Kponyungo​ "Helmet” dance mask

Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire

19th to mid-20th century | Wood

Kpeliye'e "Beautiful Lady” dance mask

Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire

Late 20th century

Wood

Examples of Traditional Scarification

D’mba mask

Baga, Guinea

Late 19th or early 20th century

Wood and brass

Ngady Amwaash mask

Kuba, Democratic Republic of Congo

Late 19th or early 20th century

Bwoom masquerader

Kuba, Democratic Republic of Congo

photographed ca. 1950

Satimbe masquerader

Dogon, Mali

Mid- to late 20th century