Famous Paintings in 1998

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    "No Woman, No Cry" by Chris Ofili

    • Chris Ofili's No Woman, No Cry is a tribute to murder victim Stephen Lawrence.Oli Scarff/Getty Images News/Getty Images

      Chris Ofili won the Turner Art Prize, a British contemporary art award, in London, the same year he created his painting "No Woman, No Cry" as a tribute to Stephen Lawrence, a black teenager who was killed in a racially motivated crime. The painting shows a woman crying and the title comes from a song by Bob Marley. Each tear is an image of Stephen Lawrence's face. The painting is supported by two pieces of elephant dung, while another piece of dung forms the woman's pendant.

    "Agnes" by Chuck Close

    Berlin Watercolors by Tracey Emin

    "Kali Head" by Tyeb Mehta

    • Tyeb Mehta was an Indian artist who died in 2009. He produced one of his most famous paintings of Kali, the Indian goddess of destruction, in 1998. The painting depicted a green-skinned Kali with a furious face, thin arms and a round belly. Mehta's painting was the highlight of a Sotheby's auction to help build a new art museum in Kolkata, India. Kolkata is one of the sites of worship of the Hindu goddess.

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