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1) What do these three paintings have in common? 2) How did the public's taste in art change from this to this in less than 100 years? (And which sold for $250million 2011?)  Hint: The answer to both questions is the same. Artwork serves as a cultural barometer. Like anthropologists studying cave drawings, we can get a sense of the norms, values and ideas of previous generations by looking at the art they produced. In this talk, I hope to convince you that modernism isn't all a bunch of pretentious mumbo-jumbo and art history can, in fact, be kind of interesting.