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APAH - Global Contemporary

Given the clue, enter the name of the Global Contemporary work most-applicable. Some clues may apply to multiple works, but only include that which are referenced (via a featured artwork) on the 250 list.
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Artwork
Her left earlobe has chicken feet, insect legs, and pinchers
Preying Mantra
Artist served as a nurse in WWII witnessing the detatchment of limbs and other horrors
Androgyne III
Points to the Washington Monument
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Suggests excitement of competition via chaos of swirling lines in its composition
Stadia II
Overhead projectors throw colored light onto the walls, ceilings, and floor
Darkytown Rebellion
Life-size sculpture of Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967), screen star and Playboy playmate
Pink Panther
Multilayered, sweeping lines create animation and depth
Stadia II
Medium of the work often is given as a gift on special occasions, such as weddings or funeral, in this region
Pisupo Lua Afe
Made by a Korean-born artist who was intrigued by maps, travel, and the interstate highway system
Electronic Superhighway
A photograph that features the artist in the guise of the Heian diety, Kichijōten
Pure Land
Contains three paintings by Leonard da Vinci
Dancing at the Louvre
Has sports memorabilia from the Washington Redskins
Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
Made by a Puerto-Rican artist
En la Barberia no se Llora
Has an array of flowering vines but lacks the two men typically present with the audience taking their place
The Swing (after Fragonard)
Subject is limbless and headless
Androgyne III
Made by an Ethiopian artist who, along with Wangechi Mutu, is a part of "Africa's Out"
Stadia II
Shows subtle tonal variations in the ink
Summer Trees
Part of a series called The Banality
Pink Panther
Reflects meaningless of political doublespeak
A Book from the Sky
Medium is a major contributor to obesity and loss of traditional cultural skills i.e. fishing, cooking, agriculture
Pisupo Lua Afe
Main figure holds a masklike, alert, decapitated head
Untitled #228
Made by Julie Mehretu
Stadia II
Reflects growing nationalism via its suggested objects and location
Stadia II
Created this work while engaging in other media (reading, TV), writing words he heard
Horn Players
A temporary instillation which was recycled after 16 days of being up
The Gates
Artist rebelled against his middle-class upbringing
Horn Players
Influenced by the story of Little Red Ridinghood
Lying with the Wolf
Made of silhouette forms
Darkytown Rebellion
Made by Wangechi Mutu
Preying Mantra
Name is a play on words of an insect reflecting the "wild" nature stereotype
Preying Mantra
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Artwork
Has fuzzy bordering on each of the lines
Summer Trees
Reflects the ubiquity of propoganda and the meaningless derived from its omnipresentness
A Book from the Sky
"Orninthology" (misspelled) references Charlie "the bird" Parker
Horn Players
Features a lotus blossom symbolizing purity and rebirth into paradise and connecting to Buddhist iconography
Pure Land
Has newspaper clipping and images of Native conquest
Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
Made by Mariko Mori
Pure Land
Figure's reclining in a relaxed position intended to allure
Preying Mantra
Surrounded by alien-like Bodhisattva playing musical instruments
Pure Land
Made of "high art" porcelain
Pink Panther
Shows Renaissance and Baroque influence: tenebrism, contrapposto, elaborate fabrics, biblical subject matter
Untitled #228
Walls and interior staircases ebb and flow with some symmetry and asymmetry
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Photograph from the History Portraits series
Untitled #228
What object represents was a source of food during famine era under Mao Zedong
Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)
Features large vertical lines of various thickness
Summer Trees
Large installation recreating a room
En la Barberia no se Llora
References constructivism: divorces from context of history
Stadia II
Backed by a disorganized array of fabrics and drapes
Untitled #228
Books made using Movable Type Printing Press (predates Gutenberg) referencing Chinese history
A Book from the Sky
Featured in Tate Modern Turbine Hall, also home of Sunflower Seeds
Shibboleth
Composition divided, by a gun, into a lighter and darker side
Rebellious Silence
References lushness of "green time" (season after it rains)
Earth's Creation
Names start and end in a vortex
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Made of titanium and limestone with full-scale glass windows
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
One side shows water falling from above on a figure, beginning as a slow drip and ending by consuming him
The Crossing
Staple of kitsch works
Pink Panther
Reflects stereotypes towards black women in regards to being a "seductress" and "wild"
Preying Mantra
Happening occuring in Central Park, New York City
The Gates
Gold color symbolizes Ashanti dominance of African gold trade
Old Man's Cloth
Made by Doris Salcedo
Shibboleth
References sexual cannibalism and suggesting religious rituals
Preying Mantra
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