Artist: Agus Suwage

Title: Aku ingin hidup seribu tahun

lagi

Year: 2005

Medium: Modified pedicab, cigarette

butts and watercolour on paper

The cigarette butts are collected from

his friends who smoke in his house

All character holding the cigarette

using their left hand

The brown colors on the portrait-from

the tobacco liquid give impression of
olden days.
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Artist: Damien Hirst
Title: The Physical Impossibility of
Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Year: 1991
Medium: Glass, painted steel, silicone,
monofilament, shark and
formaldehyde solution
the shark can be seen to be representative
of death, Hirst may have wished to present
a moment frozen in time, his shark is still
subject to the degradation that comes with
the passing of time, and its replacements
remind us that this is something we are all
subject to. 
a 14-foot tiger shark suspended and
preserved in formaldehyde, in a vitrine.
Since its initial installation the shark has
been replaced with younger models due to
inevitable decomposition.
little value on originality and authenticity,
with his works being produced by his team
of helpers
 Artist: Janet Fish

Title: Ingrid’s Clementine with Tulips

Year: 1999

Medium: oil on canvas

Bright colored still life

Suggested that fish painted thrown

tulips across a table so that they fuse
with the colored yarns and
pompoms spilling out of an open
https://hyperallergic.com/112231/janet-fish-and-the-
drawer below
primacy-of-perception/
exemplifies the sort of “Primacy of
http://www.nhptv.org/kn/itv/mcd/fish.htm
Perception”

paints with a sharp focus, her objects

solidly planted in front of us

Artist: Damien Hirst

Title: Something Must Break

Year: 2008

Medium: Acrylic and suture

equipment

Seems to be a medicine cabinet

The pill boxes are neatly arranged in

the glass cabinet

A team of assistants laboured

over his work.
Is a conceptual work according to
definition of conceptual art which is
 Artist: Zheng Guogu

Title: Year Two Thousand, Another

Two Thousand Years to Rust

Year: 1999-2006

Medium: Set of 23 hand-made and

etched life size wine and beer bottles
makes reference to China’s fast expanding
economy

In theory, the bottles should take 2000

years to fully disintegrate, allegorically
reversing the calendar of Western
civilisation and restoring a balance of
nature.

 uses iron for its connotations as primitive,

industrial and it’s sheer weight to cast the
bottles.

Different sizes and mostly silver.

https://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/zheng_guogu_bottles.htm
 Artist: Anish Kapoor

Title: Cloud Gate

Year: 2004

Medium: 168 Stainless steel plates

welded together
Chicago, with its geography of an
immense plain, lake and
magnificent man-made urban
landscape -instrument that allows
https://theconversation.com/anish-kapoors-cloud- everyone to play with light to
gate-playing-with-light-and-returning-to-earth-our- propose all the mixtures,
finite-world-102272 distortions, all the reconstructions
of this landscape.
Bean-shaped from front view
Fully Reflective surface
 Centerpiece of AT&T
Plaza at Millennium Park, Chicago 
 Artist: Ahmad Fuad Osman

Title: Ahhhhh…get your filthy hands

out of meee !!!

Year: 2000

Medium: oil on canvas

A male is painted until the chest area

and is suggested to reference the
artist.

Fuad was unused to the harsh,

wintry climate in USA where he
painted this; this alien-ness is well-
Artist: Ismail Hashim
represented by the naked male
body, depicted lying in white
Title: Dollah, The Funny One
surroundings. 
Year: 1976
His facial expression and the
theme shows that he is not happy
with the hands grabbing his face.
Medium: b&w gelatin silver hand-
Filthy hands should be the one
print
grabbing the forehead and the chin
area. And
Collection ofhis own hand
pictures at of
he took thehis
pillow-like
best surface
friend making .the term
hilarious ‘filthy
faces
hands’ is shown to have a few
suggested,he
colour shades tookonpictures
it of what
felt interesting and celebrated
ordinary

25 pics in total

In the exhibition, ‘Unpack-Repack:

Archiving & Staging Ismail Hashim’

https://www.academia.edu/17306803/_Short_Essay_Unpack_-
_Repack_Tribute_to_Ismail_Hashim_Exhibition_Review
 Artist: Richard Hamilton

Title: Interior 1

Year: 1964

Medium: Oil paint, cellulose paint and

printed paper on board

developed from a discarded

photograph the artist discovered
by chance
the photo is a still from the
film ‘Shockproof’ 
the interior space painted is
suggested to be ambiguous and
ominous.
Everything in the photograph
converged on a girl in a ‘new look’
coat who stared out slightly to
right of camera.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hamilton-interior-ii-t00912
 Artist: Tajuddin Ismail

Title: Form and Space no. 4

Year: 2011

Medium: pastel and charcoal on

paper

Key word to describe-Ambiguity –he

wants the viewers to engage with
their thought and experience in
comprehending the work, can be read
in diff ways

First impression-child-like drawing

From Suarasa art Exhibition.

Towards the bottom and at the

middle of the work, the title of the
work is scribbled.

http://assets.theedgegalerie.com/ambiguity_ecatalog.pdf?null
 Artist: Ahmad Zakii Anwar

Title: Holy Cow

Year: 2010

Medium: charcoal on paper

dramatic contrasting effect of light
and shadow are importance to direct
the vision of his audience,
accentuating certain areas of the
composition and hiding others.

The only subject which dominates

and covers the work is a cow.

The cow is seen to be in it’s side

view with it’s eye looking in front.

The background is completely black

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/ahmad-zakii-anwar-b.-malaysia-
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Artist: Long Thien Shih

Title: Dead Souls are Laughing at Us

Year: 1974

Medium: etching on paper

done during arab-israeli conflict-there

was rationing for petrol,he didn’t use
car because couldn’t get petrol- so the
so the dead souls laughing at them

the work is mostly dominated by blue

and yellow colours. More than 50% by
blue.
One of the artwork in Long Thien
Shih’s solo exhibition entitled Man of
the Times

The colours are bright ,ground looks

deserted and dry
 Artist: Robert Longo

Title: Medusa (Banyan Tree, Homage

to J. Mitchell and J. Pollock)

Year: 2014

https://www.pressreader.com/malaysia/the-star-malaysia-star2/20150920/282192239780437
Medium: charcoal on paper

Info in this later take

http://brooklynmuseum.tumblr.com/
post/167659219577/gloomy-
premonitions-of-what-must-come-to-
pass/embed

Artist: Christo and Jeanne Claude

Title: Wrapped Trees

Year: 1997-98

Wrapped with woven polyester

fabric

The branches of the Wrapped

http://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-trees?
view=info
Trees pushed the translucent fabric
outward and created dynamic
volumes of light and shadow and
moving in the wind with new forms
and surfaces shaped by the ropes
on the fabric.

trees are located in a park around at

the German border

The wrapping was removed in 1998

 Artist: Joseph Raffael

Title: Eternal Encestors

Year: 2011

Medium: watercolour on paper

 Has painterly qualities, rather

than blunt realism

watercolors are uniquely

capable of creating- makes
https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/artist36.html work complex

 varied color palette-rich colours

taking it beyond photorealism

to a mystical intensity of
beauty.- decorative

Artist: Sebastiao Salgado

Title: Cast of Thousands, Serra Pelada,

Brazil

Year: 1986

Medium: gelatin silver print

on the Brazilian gold mine

documents the inhuman working
conditions of the day labourers
in the mines.
ants: association evoked by the
image
taken from a distance and from
an elevated standpoint
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Artist: Gerhard Richter

Title: Abstract painting (726)

Year: 1990

Medium: Oil paint on Canvas

two joined sections of canvas and

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/richter-abstract-
painting-726-t06600
characterised by shimmering
horizontal forms.
no clear representational
elements depicted in the painting
but within its thick layers of colour
– especially prominent are white,
red and a rusty orange – there is
the suggestion of an original
image which has become blurred.
he work is also marked by several
scratches, mostly vertical, that
Richter has made through the
paint.

Artist: Idris Khan

Title: St. Paul’s, London

Year: 2012
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Artist: Andreas Gursky

Title: Bahrain 1

Year: 2005

Medium: c type print

a motorsport race track completed

in 2004 that hosts the country’s
annual Formula One Grand Prix.
Taken from a helicopter and
subsequently manipulated using
digital software
track curving in a snake-like
fashion through the desert
landscape
long horizontal grandstand with a
white roof can be seen just above
the centre of the composition

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gursky-bahrain-i-p79322
 Artist: Robert Rauschenberg

Title: Sky Garden

Year: 1969

Medium: lithograph and serigraph on

paper
largest hand-pulled lithograph ever
created when it was printed in 1969

most monumental work from

the Stoned Moon series of
thirty-four lithographs

in the middle-complex machinery with

lables of its parts

suggests the relationship

between man and technology
during this historic period.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/67801

https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/77.102.27
Artist: Henry Moore

Title: Reclining Nude

Year: 1950

Artist: Jim Dine

Medium: bronze
Title: Five Feet of Colorful Tools
female body-presence of breasts
Year: 1952
semi-abstract

explain title- lean back in relaxed

Medium: Oil on canvas surmounted
position ,weight on arms.
by a board on which painted tools
1 more hang from hooks

It can be seen that hardware tools are

hanging down from the top part of
the canvas only
Can be related to Dine family’s
involvement with classic hardware tools —
they had a store - substantial factor in the
family’s economy.

tools are codifying anchor for a reality

according to the artist’s perceptive
understanding.

The act of hanging things up, putting

things back, respecting things the way they
were, is all wound in here in a way neither
ironic nor pragmatic. Even who hung them
up is very much a question.
 Artist: Rodin

Title: The Thinker

Year: 1880

Medium: cast in bronze in c.1910

The sculpture represented Dante,
author of the Divine Comedy which
had inspired The Gates.

Suggests both a being with a tortured

body, and a free-thinking man,
determined to transcend his suffering
through poetry

Weighs 83.9kg
http://www.musee-
rodin.fr/en/collections/sculptures/thinker The pose of this figure owes much to
Carpeaux’s Ugolino (1861)
 Artist: Tom Wesselmann

Title: Still Life #59

Year: 1972

Medium: oil on shaped canvases and

acrylic on carpet

The still lifes imply a narrative of

upper-middle-class life

Standing Still Lifes, an exhibition of

http://moussemagazine.it/tom-wesselmann-2018/
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2018/tom-wesselmann-
standing-still-lifes/
nine monumental works and this is
one of it.
Suggested to be in Wesselmann’s
signature style of reductive
figuration
formal simplicity and nearly
monochrome. Rose looks
monochrome because it is in 1
colour, red but different shades of
it.
 Artist: Ciprian Muresan

Title: All Images from Elaine

Sturtevant Book

Year: 2014

Medium: graphite on paper

Suggests a montage of
overlapping images which create
apparently contradictory
perspectives and depths
approach removed artworks from
their original time and context in
order to investigate their
conceptual meaning and value
and to question what makes a
particular artwork from the past
relevant in the present.
Work concerned with conceptual
art, appropriation and the use of
irony
Among the subjects Muresan uses
in his work are Religion, childhood
and post-communism

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/muresan-all-images-from-elaine-sturtevant-book-t14498