J.A.D. Ingres' 'Turkish Bath' (1862)

It's about sex

Antonio Canova 'Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix' (1804)

Venus as victory 

François Boucher's 'L'Odalisque' (1749)

Venus into odalisque

Diego Velázquez's 'Rokeby Venus' (1651)

Destruction of beauty

Titian's 'Venus of Urbino' (1538)

Is that Venus?

Giorgione's 'Sleeping Venus' (1510)

"Classic Venetian nude"

Praxiteles' 'Aphrodite of Knidos' (4th Century BC)

Standard of beauty

Barbara Kruger's 'Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face)' (1981)

Seduce, then accost

Le Corbusier's 'Villa Savoye' (1931)

Light + space + order

Herb Lubalin's "Fact: Magazine" (1964)

Exposing hidden truths?

Joan Miró's 'Blue Star' (1927)

Color field's antecedent

Jenny Saville's 'Study for Pentimenti V' (2011)

Velázquez meets de Kooning

Fortunato Depero's "Ode to the Twentieth Century" (1929)

Rise of typography

Richard Hamilton (1922-2011)

Rest in peace

Henry Darger's 'In the Realms of the Unreal' (1973)

 

An extraordinary mind

Walter de Maria's 'Large Red Sphere' (2011)

 

'An all-seeing eye'

Leon Golub's 'Postmodernist Bimbo' (2002)

 

Contrarian, combative stance

Gustav Klimt's 'Der Kuss' (1908)

 

'...it's about sex'

David Wojnarowicz's 'Untitled (One Day This Kid...)' (1990)

A sad truth

Henri Matisse's 'Window at Collioure' (1914)

 

Complexity of simplicity

Glenn Ligon's 'Palindrome #1' (2007)

 

(Still) examining race

Duane Hanson's 'Tourists II' (1988)

 

Hyperrealistic  trompe l'oeil

Caravaggio's 'Madonna with the Serpent' (1606)

Creating coextensive space

George Condo's 'Jean Louis’ Mind' (2005)

 

Fantastical, precarious portraiture 

Kurt Schwitter's 'Merzbau' (1923-1936)

Totally integrated space

Ben Vautier's 'Total Art Match Box' (1965)

 

The universal anarchist

Gita Lenz (1910-2011)

Rest in peace

Thutmose's 'Bust of Nefertiti' (1345 BC)

Demanded for repatriation

Dennis Oppenheim (1938-2011)

 

Rest in peace

Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Mona Lisa' (1983)

Answer to Warhol

Andy Warhol's 'Mona Lisa' (1963)

 

Modernity's cultural leveling