Happy New Year

I have no resolutions for 2010.

Will continue to do the best I can and not worry.

Hopefully 2010 will be a good year for us all.

Sunrise by my home.

Sounds from San Jose, Costa Rica

Visiting friends in Costa Rica for ten days. Posts are on my other blog
http://travel.galitz.com

Bed vs. Cello. The Cello Won.

Ha, I bet you thought this post was about not getting enough sleep due to practicing the cello. Nope, sorry to disappoint you.

Let's start from the beginning. A few months ago, my cello lost the rubber protector on the end pin. The plastic cap just disintegrated away one day.

I have a habit of lying the cello on the bed between practice sessions.
One night my husband was complaining about sharing the bed with the cello. So I picked it up and tossed it back on the bed just to spite (spike?) him.

Not smart. You see, we have an air mattress. Or rather, had an air mattress.

This Week's Recital

It's a Go...

Had a slow run through with the Clarinet tonight on the first movement of the Beethoven Trio. Chamber Music Teacher gave it a green light so we will be working on it for the December recital. I had practiced the first minute (up to the F chord) at half speed using "Audacity". The F chord is a real challenge. Almost as bad as when I first learned it on the guitar.

The Guitar trio is sounding pretty good. I forgot my camera this evening or I would have recorded our "dry run". Recital is October 20th and 23rd so we have another week to tweak the dynamics, etc.

Other exciting green lights this week:

Booked 10 day trip to Costa Rica to visit a friend for Winter recess.

Booked 33 day trip to China for intensive Mandarin for June 2010.

Something to Look Forward to - Maybe?

Chamber music class teacher just assigned me the cello part tonight.

Hopefully, I'll get to play this for the December recital.

Guitar Trio is coming along fine. We will perform it October 20th.

George Harrison and Leonhard von Call

Thanks to a Facebook friend I've learned about George Harrison via YouTube.

Also, YouTube has a group playing the Leonhard von Call Guitar Trio in C Major which I will probably be doing for chamber music class.

Chinese, Chamber, Classroom Courses

As August comes to a close and I finish my TESOL certification, more distractions rear their ugly heads. One is the start of the fall school semester. Courses in Classroom Management, Mandarin Chinese, and Chamber Music begin. Substitute Teaching begins. Chamber Music class has guitars this term so it looks like I'll be doing double duty. I do seem to thrive on a little stress. The trick is knowing what's "a little". Found a neat site "Skrittle.com" for practicing Chinese characters. Still hoping to learn 800 by next summer.

Grammar Police

Part of the fun in taking the TESOL course is relearning English grammar. Yesterday I became reacquainted with the Gerund (verb + ing = noun) and the difference between possessive adjectives and pronouns. This pen is his (possessive pronoun) This is his pen (possessive adjective). Today is examining tenses (thus named because thinking about them makes one tense).

The Present Perfect Tense. Here is a brief review of the form and function of the present perfect tense.

• When the time period has not finished: I have seen three movies this week. (This week has not finished yet.)
• When the time is not mentioned: Gerry has failed his exam again.
• When the time is recent: Ikuko has just arrived in Victoria.
• Often used with for and since. Greg has lived here for 20 years. Greg has lived here since 1978.
• Formed like this: "have" plus "past participle"

Status Report

Passed the FTCE Professional Ed Test yesterday. Signed up for TESOL training and then will take ESOL test. This is about 100 hours of study so should keep me busy for the month of August.

Chinese continues to march. Met a young fellow who just came back studying Chinese for4 months in China's Nanjing University. His spoken Chinese is pretty good. Hopefully, he'll do some studies with me. New computer tools for writing in pinyin, chinese characters and looking up meanings are helping to speed me along at a faster clip.

Off to Key West this weekend with my sister-in-law who is in town. Going to camp at Bahia Honda State Park. Should be interesting but probably not too comfortable with the heat and mosquitoes.

Quack Quack

This week's Drawspace Challenge had ducks. Felt it fit with the birds theme.

Done Done

Finished the last card tonight.
Here's the rest of the mythological line-up.

Past and Future

So far so good. Two more FTCE tests finished. Signed up for one more while the going rate is $50. After August, the cost will increase by $25.

Local community orchestra is having a "strings only" summer reading session on Wednesday nights. Signed up for it although they want me to bring the viola. Strange as there are usually plenty of violists. Played last night and was completely worn out afterwards. Not used to holding a viola for 3 hours anymore. Only 2 cellists showed up although they tell me that five said they were coming.

Chinese classes are going well. Thinking about going again to China for the summer of 2010. Perhaps take an intensive immersion course there for $1,300. Price seems reasonable to me for 20 hours a week for four weeks plus room and board. I think I have enough frequent flyer points to get me there.

I think I am grounded for the rest of the summer. I can't justify going anywhere, my friends/family are very busy as well. Besides I have too many projects to do at home.

Enjoy playing the games on FB but have to limit myself to 30 minutes plus self-imposed rules. I'm not allowed to play unless I accomplish 4 things on my daily to do list. Feeling like a kid again. No playing unless you do your homework.

Half Done

I decided on a subtopic of "Mythological Birds" for my ATC. Nine cards done. Another eight to do by the end of the month.

Two Weeks Later

It's been two weeks since my last post and I've yet to really study for the ESE test. I've managed to find plenty of things to fill my days with anything other than cello practice as well. Did finish some old projects -- things that have been on my to do list for over a year. Entertained out of town guests and friends. Cooked treats for hubby. Caught up on TV eps that we follow. Played games in real life and FB. Made 80+ flash cards of new Chinese words/phrases to learn. Memorized a Chinese folk song and a poem by Ai Qing. Signed up for the July ATC whose theme is "Birds" at Drawspace.

Guess I must be mostly "externally motivated" on the cello. Without a pressing cello project, other things become more important. Still it sure would be nice to finish Suzuki Book I this summer. On the other hand, Book I is certainly not inspiring me to practice. I need to do some "negotiations" with myself to see if I can get moving again. I used to have a rule in place that I couldn't play on FB if I hadn't practiced the cello that day -- I may have to resort to that again!

Back to Normal?

The past week has been just getting organized after my 3 week trip in Europe. First, there's the photos and travelogue to post. My friends and family have been vicariously enjoying my adventures since 2002. It's a lot of work but nice to have the logs later. I probably wouldn't do them just for myself. Yesterday, I finished all the homework my chinese teacher assigned while I was out of town.

Today, I visited SMA and reacquainted myself to the cello after a two month hiatus. R ran off the checklist and all systems are go for continued practice.

I had signed up for a class to cover ESE for FTCE and registered for the test July 13th. However, a phone call today states that the class has been cancelled. Oh well, guess I'm going to have to do self-study. SOP for me.

Back in Miami

I've returned from Europe. Not quite ready to practice anything at the moment. Maybe I'll get back on track next week.

Travelogue from latest trip May 18 - June 10, 2009 Feel free to skip the narrative and just look at the photos. I am hoping to do a specialized guide for Sofia and Smolyan sometime in the near future.

A Post from Sofia

Went to my friend's daughter's school program today in Sofia. The kids performed a nice bulgarian folk dance along with poetry readings, patriotic songs, choreographed pop tunes, kung fu exhibition, american idol style solos, and a rock band.

Vocal Mimicry and Rhythm.

I've been trying to teach rhythm to a student.  What finally seemed to work was having the student sing the tune with words before attempting to play.  I was telling my husband about my success when he showed me an article about Snowball. Seems that vocal mimicry and rhythm are neurally connected.  Now if I can somehow apply this to my cello playing :)

Chinese Overdose

Finished up the refresher Chinese course at the local community college this week. Unfortunately, as a farewell gift, the professor gave me 1,375 basic chinese character flash cards.  I pulled out about 300 characters that I recognize and will work on trying to be able to write them before worrying about the other 1075 characters! Another friend took the time to translate my entire blog's "About Me" section into Chinese so now I'll have to copy and learn all the new words to that as well. 

关于我  
一九五九年圣诞节前夕，我在韩国汉城被家人遗弃，送进一所孤儿院。当时我才是一个刚断了奶还包著尿布的婴儿。所以哪天是我的生日只可猜测了。后来我像邮件一样给寄到美国，被一个多元化的家庭收养；自小就在匈牙利、爱尔兰、犹太人和天主教的影响下成长。我父亲从事热带鱼生意，他往往会消失在秘鲁、哥伦比亚和亚马逊等充满异国情调的偏远地方。我是跟猴子、野猫和其它珍贵宠物，还有传统的狗、猫、仓鼠和鹦鹉一起养大的。虽然我在北卡罗莱纳、维吉尼亚、马里兰州和华盛顿特区住了很久，但大部分时间是住在佛罗里达州的南部。我还没有去过澳大利亚、新西兰、南太平洋或印度，可是我会讲一些西班牙文、汉语、法文以及保加利亚文。由于我计划在今年秋天前往南美的秘鲁旅行，目前正加紧学好西班牙文。我跟我的丈夫厄尔住在迈阿密市中心仅有一个睡房的杂屋里。我的丈夫是一位家庭律师，他几乎从我出生以来就爱玩小提琴。我们家里还有八个鱼缸，两个degus（？）, 两只鹦鹉和一只可爱的小鸟。

The Happy Farmer, Not!

Back to see R after several months away.  Chamber music class had kept me pretty busy working on stupendously hard stuff like Schumann.  I still hadn't memorized "The Happy Farmer" in Suzuki Cello Book I.  

R reduced me to working on only two measures of the piece.  Since I don't have chamber music class until September he thought it would be a good time to work on my technique.

Another Project Completed

Hubby had volunteered me to do an award for the Bulgarian Stamp Show next month.  I finally completed it today.  Hubby (the critic) was wowed.  

A Chart Decline

Boring cello stats:

Cello practice weeks 53-60 (35 days)

Total of 24.5 hours. Avg 3/4 hr per day.

Bow, left hand, thumb, trill, vibrato exercises every day

Suzuki pieces 4x

Chamber music pieces 32x

Romantic pieces 1x

A drop from the last stat report in February where I was averaging 1.5 hours a day. Tax Season took its toll.  I also switched to a two week planner exercise page which seemed to lose the visual incentives I had when I was using a monthly.  I'll switch back.  Maybe I can get some good practice in before I run away to Europe May 17th.  

A Couple of Musicals

This month I had the opportunity to see two musicals.  One was "I love you, you're perfect, now change" done by the local community college which was cute and well-done.  Even hubby liked it.

The second was courtesy of a friend who had a ticket she couldn't use.  So today, I traveled the 20+ miles, navigated the closed interstates and dodged through huge crowds to see "Jersey Boys".  I had no idea what the musical would be about -- I like to come in "cold" on these things.  Okay, I'm told it's about a guy named "Frankie Valli" and the "Four Seasons".  I scan through the playbill looking for a song I'd recognize.  Sherri sounds familiar.  Anyway, lights come on and its blasting "rap-style" music.  HUH? Then the story begins, I can now unplug my ears and by the time the climatic "Can't take my eyes off of you" is sung I'm sucked in.  Actually, I do recognize that song from those sappy tunes I listened to as a kid. The book was fun for someone who wasn't part of that generation;  I understand for the rest of the audience it was like travelling back in time.

Encore?

Just got an email from my chamber music teacher wanting to know if the pianist and I could play the Breval again tomorrow.  OH DEAR!  I haven't practiced all week.

Anything Worth Doing is Worth Doing Again

I thought I had completed all my ATC (art trading cards) for the Drawspace Music/Musical Instruments. Then someone noticed I sent them an extra card.

Huh? My word doc decided to erase one recipient and double up on another. Neither I nor my husband who mailed the envelopes noticed the dupe. Happily, I saved the doc so I was able to sleuth who was left out. So created yet another card tonight which I'll mail out next week. Here's all fifteen cards in digital format.

Changing My Mind.

Okay, I re-watched the vid of the Schumann and decided that I'd post it anyway for your amusement or cringing (you have been warned).   

Afterall, this blog is all about not being perfekt! More practice!!!

Trying Too Hard

My 4th pastel work. I think I was trying too hard.  

Funny Recital

Better to laugh than cry, right? The Breval should have been better. As you can tell from the video there's all sorts of rhythm, intonation and other issues. We don't even start together. However, it had its moments. At one point the pianist gets all the attention. The Schumann suffered a different fate, it started out well enough but then the violinist got lost and that threw me off as well. I won't post that video, it's too embarrassing :)

Playing with Pastels

This week's challenge at Drawspace. 5 x 6, pastel pencils, about an hour. Thought it came out pretty well and it passes the mirror test.

It's April Already?

Tax Season Accounting Work

Drawspace Art Card Trade (14 cards this time)

Substitute Teaching

Old clients coming out of the woodwork

Chinese Classes

and a chamber music recital in 5 days... 

Time sure flies with all this work and fun.

Key Episode

Let me tell you a story.  Today I picked up my hubby from the doctor's office around noon in South Miami. My sister-in-law, Nina, was in town for the week.  She was visiting South Beach close to our home.  We decided to meet up and do all-u-can eat dim sum for lunch.  By the time we drove home from South Miami and Nina drove from South Beach, it would be 12:30 pm. We could all go in one car.  We arrived a few minutes before Nina and I cleaned out the car.  Hubby drove to lunch.  A good time was had by all.  

Then the real fun began.  I'm ready to run off to my afternoon appointments.  Nina's ready to go finish her errands before her plane flight tomorrow.   I can't find my car keys.  Hubby doesn't have them.  Then Nina can't find her rental car keys either.

Huh?  Did both car keys run off together? Did they fall down the same hole in the time/space continuum?  We could understand one of us losing our keys, but both of us?

After lots of looking and retracing my steps, I finally found my keys. They were in the car's trash bag that I had tossed into the public container by the bay.  Happily, the City of Miami hadn't picked up the trash.  I was very lucky.  Nina never did find her rental car key and had to hire a locksmith to make a new one.

Another Sketch

Another quickie - 40 minutes with the #2 pencil.  It doesn't pass the mirror test but I figured what the heck, I was in a hurry :)

Signed up for this month's Drawspace ATC - the theme of music/musical instruments was too hard to pass up.  Besides if busy Maricello can find time to do it, I can jump off the cliff too.

Quick Sketch

I was confronted today by an acquaintance who is an artist.  He asked if I've drawn anything lately. "Umm, no".  It's been off my radar.  So made a visit to drawspace this evening to see what I could do as a quickie.

Dealing with Death

Got a phone call today from a friend about a mutual friend who died yesterday.  This lady was a mystery writer about Miami and we've known her for years before she was famous.  She chose to keep her illness secret so of course, no one gets to say goodbye.  Everyone deals with death differently.  I had a client who I could tell was dying and he also refused to admit it.   Maybe they just can't say goodbye either.  What would you do if you were diagnosed with terminal cancer? Would you tell your friends?

A Little Bit of Silliness

Thanks to Melissa for providing a little bit of light hearted silliness to my day.

Here's my hero.  She's a little young so can get away with the skivvies.

Tuttle - Learning Chinese Characters

A few folks have recommended Tuttle for learning 800 chinese characters. Thought I'd give it a try. I probably know about 150 characters but took the test at MDBG and found that I only scored 85% on 100 characters. Either I forgot the pinyin equivalent or I forgot the meaning. Tuttle supposedly brings it all together. The big thing for me is remembering the tones. Tuttle uses stories and visual hints to remember the characters. High first tone = giant, Rising second tone = fairy, Third up and down tone = teddy bear, Fourth falling abrupt tone = dwarf, Neutral tone = robot. For example, the character for Gate/Door is easy to remember because it sort of looks like a [ ]. However, remembering the tone is another story. Well, Tuttle writes it up with a story about a FAIRY collecting MONey at the GATE. The MONey tells the approximate pronounciation, the fairy the tone and the gate the meaning. 门

Another good example of the Tuttle system is the character for "cup".  It's a combination that uses the tree character and the "not" character.  This does not bring to mind a cup.  Tuttle's story is about a lumberman that's about to cut down a tree and someone shouts NOT that TREE with the CUP on it, it belongs to the GIANT who uses it to collect the syrup for his BAcon.   So TREE and KNOT tells me the characters, GIANT  tells me high 1st tone and BAY is the prounciation.    杯

There's a few more mnemonic tricks and some of the stories seem overly elaborate but that's because they are for future building blocks. I'm up Chapter 5. So far so good. Most of the characters I know already but now I'm finally remembering the tone.

First Cello Lesson

I was blessed today with a visit from Emily Wright. She graciously showed me a few things and suggested that I move away from the violinistic right hand position. She showed me an exercise to help with the switch.  R would disagree but I think I shall make the attempt. She thought my bow hand looked pretty good. We also covered thumb position and breathing. She suggested humming or speaking the notes to help with breathing out while playing.  Thus went my very first cello lesson. Who knows, maybe I'll see her again when she does her Northeastern tour.  

Emily's overview on thumb position. Note: Play close to the bridge. First finger can actually stop the string from the right side of the string rather than just pressing down.  She showed me all this is in slow motion.  This video was taken afterwards just as a memory aid.

Lakme

Just came back from a 3 hour stint at the opera. A friend gave me her season ticket for Delibes' Lakme. Hubby wasn't interested so I invited another friend to accompany me in the nosebleed section. Leah Partridge was the ill-fated coloratura soprano for this production and was spectacular in the bell song. I was startled to hear a familiar tune during "The flower duet". Classical music can creep into pop consciousness when one least expects it.

Helping the Economy

I seem to run against society's trends. Now that folks are busy saving their money in anticipation of doomsday, I've been spending like water the past two days. Sunday was a shopping trip via Amazon to buy a pair of folding scissors and some other stuff I've had on my wish list for months. Yesterday I splurged on a pair of shoes. I'm a one-shoe trick pony. I have a certain style I like and I tend to wear one pair of shoes to death. I threw out my last pair when I tripped in them a couple of weeks ago. You see, the soles were starting to come undone. Guess I shouldn't complain those shoes probably lasted over 4 years.

On the cello frontier, I had a chance to play the first movement of the Breval for the chamber music teacher last night. He thought I should perform it this term and assigned the piano part to another one of his students.

On the Mend

Other than a little cough, I'm finally well again. Wrist/hand also back to normal. Today I actually got to practice the cello. To celebrate I went to Amazon and bought stuff.

Tonight was the last night of a Charles Ives Festival by New World Symphony here in Miami.

Hubby was so excited when we went Friday night. There was a lecture before the concert which featured Ives' various experimental works - The Unanswered Question, Central Park in the Dark, Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, From the Steeples and Mountains, Scherzo: Over the Pavements, and the famous "Three Places in New England" set. Hubby hasn't been this enthused over a concert for a long time.

Saturday featured Ives' Holidays Symphony. The first half of the concert had the choir sing the hymns, popular, war, and college songs that Ives quoted in his Holidays Symphony. Intermission seemed to take forever and then the Holiday Symphony which started interesting enough just seemed to drag. It became a long evening.

Tonight was Ives' Sonata #2 for Piano "Concord, MA" followed by another long intermission and then an orchestration version of the sonata. By the end of the evening, we were Ives' out and I had a headache. There's not a whole lot of form to the pieces and as far as I was concerned the Emerson and Thoreau sections could have been struck from the program (or at least shortened in half). At least Hawthorne had some musical humor and there were some lyrical sections to Alcott. All in all we were glad that the festival was over. I don't think we could have stood another evening of Ives.

Sniffle

I've managed to fight colds so far this year. Several times, I've woken up with a scratchy throat, downed a bunch of Vitamin C and Airborne and the symptoms went away. Sad to say, today I lost the battle. I started sneezing around 10am while I was out at a client's. Canceled the rest of today's and tomorrow's appointments. Came home and passed out for four hours. Too late for Zicom. Had some chicken soup and theraflu.

Passed

"Passed" that's all my unofficial test score report states. The joys of taking a computerized test is that one gets the results instantly. Good enough. Test didn't have any questions on poetry, jazz or dance. However it had more philosophy than I would have liked to have seen. Plenty of art, history, music, film, and literature along with questions re: creating lesson plans.

Time out for a breather and for my left hand to heal.

Countdown 1 and Taking a Fall

Tomorrow's the big test. I've been taking sample tests all week, so hopefully, I'll be prepared.

This morning, I tripped and fell on some concrete. Scrapped my knees and hurt my left hand. Probably going to have to lay off cello practice for a couple of days. The hand is not swollen and I can close my hand and type, but certain motions seem to hurt it. I landed fairly hard so all in all I guess I'm lucky.

Computer Crash and Boring Stats

I really should have known better than hit "update" on my desktop computer. Windows Service Pack 3 tried to install and the computer refused to boot up afterwards. Had to do an HP system restore. At least I didn't lose any data.

Boring cello stats:
Cello practice weeks 49-52 (25 days)
Total of 40 hours. Avg 1.5 hrs per day.
Bow, left hand, thumb, trill, vibrato exercises every day
Suzuki pieces 18x
Chamber music pieces 10x
Romantic pieces 6x

Schubert, Schumann, Breval, and No Shows

Our violinist canceled at the last minute for chamber music this evening. Normally, if I know a violinist will be out, I can tap hubby to fill in. But this happened too late. So we had a pianist play the violin part for the Schubert Trout and we limped through it. I had marked up a score without measure numbers and that proved to be a hindrance as well.

Since we didn't have the violinist, we skipped rehearsing the Schumann for the second week in a row. At least this time, I hadn't been practicing it all week.

At the end of class, the violist was working up a Bruch piece, so I grabbed a pianist to try out the Breval in super slow mode. The run through wasn't too bad. Only missed a few notes and the mordents. I knew the piece well enough that when we got off track, it was fixable. Who knows, maybe I'll get to play it for this term's recital.

Progress Report on memorizing Suzuki Book I. I'm having my usual issue with remembering which notes are slurred.

Studying Chinese Again

When I received an email last month with a 25% discount off the local community college's Intensive Mandarin Chinese evening course, I sprung for it.  I haven't reviewed my putonghua since 2004 and thought it might be a good refresher. The course teacher is male and has a different spin than the female teachers I have had in the past. This course also covers the character writing which is very useful.

Distracted by cello and humanities I haven't focused much on Chinese studies yet but it's starting to get exciting.  Just browsing through the internet last night and found tons of resources.  Especially on YouTube.  There's karoake with pinyin.  So much more to study than there was 5 years ago.  

Caught Cheating

R had me play thru etude on Book I today with one of the students. Unfortunately, I did forget a few phrases on a couple of pieces and had to look them up.  R came in and closed the book on me. Also insisted that I leave 1 down while playing ext. 4 for the last piece in the book. That's gonna hurt!

Short Term Goal

Now that I've overwhelmed my senses reviewing 500 years of art history in two days.  I'll try to focus on a short-term cello goal.  

January 31st will mark a year of cello practice for me.  Yeah, yeah, I know I started the cello and this blog April of 2007 but after discounting time off travelling, I'm just now coming to the 52 week mark.  

Anyway, my goal is to be able to play the Suzuki book I with the CD from memory by the end of the month.  I have about two more songs to memorize.  Wish me luck!

Countdown 13.3

Survey of Art History - 20th Century

FAUVISM AND ESPRESSIONISM

Henri Matisse 
The Red Room (Harmony in Red) 
1908-1909

 Georges Rouault 
The Old King 
1916-1936

Oskar Kokoschka 
Bride of the Wind 
Austrian 
1914

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 
Street Scene, Berlin 
1913

Kathe Kollwitz 
Memorial to Karl Liebnecht 
1919

Max Beckmann 
Departure 
1932-1933

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CUBISM 

Pablo Picasso 

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 
1907

193. Pablo Picasso 
Still Life with Chair Caning 
collage 
1912

194. Pablo Picasso 
Three Musicians 
1921

Georges Braque 
The Portuguese 
1911

196. Fernand Leger 
The City 
1919

Robert Delaunay 
Eiffel Tower 
1911

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Marcel Duchamp 
Nude Descending a Staircase 
1912

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FUTURISM

Gino Severini 
Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin 
1912

Giacomo Balla 
Dog on a Leash 
1912

Umberto Boccioni 
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 

1913

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SUPREMATISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM (Russia)

Kasimir Malevich 
Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying 
1915

203. Vladimir Tatlin 
Monument to the Third International 
1920

Naum Gabo 
Column 
1923, rebuilt 1938

 

DE STIJL (Holland)

Piet Mondrian 
Composition in Blue, Yellow, and Black 
1936, Dutch

206. Hans Arp 
Human Concretion 
Alsatian 
1935

207. Constantin Brancusi 
Brid in Space 
metal ? brass 
Rumanian 
1928

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DADA

Marcel Duchamp 
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 
French 
Glass 
1936

Marcel Duchamp 
Bicylce Wheel 
French 
Ready Made 
1913

.Joan Miro 
Painting 
1933

SURREALISM
Salvador Dali 
The Persistence of Memory 
Spanish 
1931

Rene Magritte 
The Rape 
1934

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1930's ART & IDEOLOGY

 Jose Clemente Orozco 
Epoch of American Civilization: Hispano-America 
Mexican 
1932-34

Dorothy Lange 
Migrant Mother 
American 
1936

Ben Shahn 
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti 
American 
1931-32

 Jacob Lawrence 
No. 36 During the Truce Toussait is Deceived... 
American 
1937-38

220. Edward Hopper 
Nighthawks 
American 
1942

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POSTMODERN

Jackson Pollock 
Autumn Rhythms (1950) 
American 
1947

Mark Rothko 
Four Darks on Red 
American 
1958

 Willem de Kooning 
Woman I/IV 
American 
1952

Helen Frankenthaler 
Bay 

1967

226. Donald Judd 
Untitled 
Stainless Steel Boxes 
American 
1968

Robert Smithson 
Spiral Jetty 
American 
Earthwork 
1970

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FIGURATIVE ART - POST WWII

 Jasper Johns 
Target with Four Faces 
American 
1955

Andy Warhol 
Marilyn Monroe Diptych 
American 
1962

Roy Lichtenstein 
Blam 
American 
1962

Duane Hanson 

Supermarket Shopper 
American 
1970

Judy Chicago 
The Dinner Party 
American 
1979

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20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

 Frank Lloyd Wright 
Robie House 
Chicago 
American 
1909

Frank Lloyd Wright 
Kaufmann House (Falling Water) 
Bear Run, Pennsylvania 
American 
1936-40

 

Gerrit Rietveld 
Schroeder House 
Utrecht 
Dutch, de Stijl 
1924

Walter Gropius 
The Bauhaus 
Dessau, Germany 
German 
1925-26

 Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) 
Villa Savoye 
Poissy, France 
French 
1929-30

Mies van der Rohe 
Seagram's Building 
New York with Philip Johnson 
1958

Frank Lloyd Wright 
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 
New York 
American 
1946-59

245. Le Corbusier 
Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp (exterior) 
Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp (interior) 
Ronchamp, France 
French 
1950-55

Michael Graves 
Public Service Building 
Portland 
American 
1981-83

Renzo Piano 
Centre Georges Pompidou (The Beaubourg) 
Paris, with Richard Rogers 
1977

 Philip Johnson
AT&T Building
New York
1978