"Hang Up" (1966) is a wooden frame with a limp rubber hose that enters and exits it. The sculpture's awkwardness and the hose's aimless loop create a feeling of incompleteness and fragility. It's often seen as reflecting Hesse's vulnerability and…
Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," from 1937, is a monumental black, white, and grey oil painting depicting the suffer caused by the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The painting features fragmented figures; a gored…
Neshat sits in front of the camera in a black chador (Islamic veil that leaves only the face exposed), with the barrel of a gun directly splitting her face into two sides; her exposed face, apart from the eye area, is overlayed with Farsi text from a…
Kahlo sits in a yellow chair, in a black, oversized suit, holding scissors and surrounded by chopped locks of her own hair. She wears dainty earrings and tiny shoes, dwarfed by the men's suit on her body. On the top of the painting is a few measures…