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A-Level: Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride
With its almost sculptural surface and dazzling range of textures, this painting once reduced van Gogh to tears.
A-Level: Sample set of works for Identities
These works explore questions of divinity, gender identity, ethnicity, and the urban environment.
A-Level: Liu Chunhua, Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
Promoting Mao as a revolutionary leader, this portrait melds Chinese landscape convention with socialist realism.
A-Level: Sacred space and symbolic form at Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho (India)
Beautiful women and loving couples adorn this temple. Together, they symbolize fertility, growth, and divine union.
A-Level: Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)
Tuffery’s iconic “tinned bull” addresses contemporary concerns about ecological health and food sovereignty
A-Level: Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
Caught in a moment of his dance, this many-limbed figure embodies Hindu ideals of beauty and physical perfection
A-Level: Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah series
Neshat’s series examines the complexities of women’s identities in the Middle East’s changing cultural landscape.
A-Level: Zaha Hadid, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Inheritor of an ancient concrete tradition, Hadid also refers to early 20th-century utopianism in her museum design.
