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TV Series: Suits

First episode date: June 23, 2011

Last episode date: March 1, 2017

Suits is an American Legal Drama series written by Aaron Korsh. It revolves around  Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), who is employed as the law associate for Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), and the law cases they try to win. Usually each episode discuses a different law case. The show addresses audience of the ages between 25 and onwards with an average viewer age of 50 years old. The show had been nominated for two People's Choice Awards, alongside the individual awards actors/actresses receive  for their performance at it. The show mainly takes place at the fictional law firm in New York city with a slight representation of what could be real life situations as the firm doesn't always win all its cases and has sometimes stand below their initial standards to win cases and solve them.

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Joe Rosenthal, Raising the flag on Iwo Jima (February, 1945)

DENOTATION: The raising of the American flag over a land.

CONNOTATION: The picture displays the victory of the Americans over the Japanese at which the force used by solders, depicted in their still motion tells how proud and honoured they are. The dramatic crop which focuses on the solders  shows that the Americans had this victory after a long tiering battle.

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Great American Nude #52(1963)

- Tom Wesselmann 

in this piece i believe Tom was addressing the young, American generation. In this madness, if one looks closely, they'll see everyday life and recognised objects as the world cup 2002 security cocktail, the fruit, and the  continuation of “the nude,” all represented with different layers. He shows his appreciation of everyday life objects and their symbolic value. Unlike many pop art artists, his work intended no critique of consumerism, rather a celebration of colour and shape.

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Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? (1956)

- Richard Hamilton

In this collage created by the painter Hamilton, which is recognised as the first genius work of Pop Art, i believe he was questioning all things American, with the lollipop placed on what’s supposed to be Adam and the depicted image of what’s supposed to be Eve on the adjacent corner. He uses cutouts from normal magazines read on the basis of everyday life and pastes them in certain ways to create a more respected valued piece of art. he is using humour to criticise “materialist fantasies fueled by modern advertisement”. 

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Campbell's Soup Cans (1962)

- Andy Warhol

In this artwork by warhol, that is defined under the category of PopArt, i believe that in this simple, multiple image,commercial like piece, Warhol was trying to reach out to people by placing multiple of images of a can soup, just like one would see them placed in a supermarket.He chose a simple object that he was personally rumoured to drink everyday, in order to reference the everyday life people actually live in.

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Three Musicians, 1921

- Pablo Picasso

In this painting i believe Picasso is using cubism with the merging of forms to go against the norms and the reality of ones vision and expections. He uses bright colors with confusing forms and orientations.

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Guernica, 1937

- Pablo Picasso 

In this painting i believe picasso is using various styles and shades of faded colors to point out a tragedy and a mournful event whilst merging different shapes into one another creating confusion and curiosity.

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Woman and Bird (1967)

- Joan Miro 

I believe that this artwork with its bright colors and 3d form, Miro is trying to attract the viewer and let the viewer not only depict the object, but also be able to have a physical connection with it.

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The Ear of Grain (1922)

- Joan Miro 

I believe that in this painting Miro was trying to grab the attention to simple everyday life objects as the pot displayed in the painting. He also includes two other objects which don't have a clarity in their form and giving us the hint of trying to picture the ear of grain from the paintings title.

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The Tilled Field (1923)

- Joan Miro

I believe the painting is assumed to be an abstract of joan’s homeland in the past and its political state at that time. it is meant to puzzle ones mind with its many forms merged together.

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"Discord on Horseback," , (1894). Art from childhood.

-Henri Rousseau

Rousseau was one of the naive painters; self taught artists with no previous knowledge of art history. In this artwork i believe he is playing and changing the relationship between man and reality by depicting a scene from what can only be described as a dream or imagination. He was trying to break the boundaries between man, reality, nature and dreams.

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Stazione A Milano, 1910, Oil on canvas

- Carlo Carra

As a futuristic artist, i believe in this artwork, Carra  was trying to show the movement of the painting rather than just capturing the stillness of a moment. He’s trying to present dynamics and reality of a human nature and its surroundings.

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Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden (1926)

-Otto Dix

i believe that the modern artist, who’s artworks mainly represent expressionism and dada, was trying to emphasise the cruel REALITY about the modern society’s way of thinking of  women; Society only cares about how beautiful a women should be physically and disregarded her emotional and mental state. The idea of the beautiful and aesthetic artwork was completely changed during the modern era.

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Etant donnes (1946-66)

- Marcel Duchamp

in this artwork, i believe Duchamp was trying to represent modernism, a new way of thinking, His change in the proportions of a human a body and its different relation to nature.The perspective at which the artwork is viewed from represents the boundaries between artists and viewers.

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Fountain (1917)

- Marcel Duchamp

critics have been going on and on about the artwork of the futurist and surrealist artist, however in my own point of view i believe that with his modern way of thinking, and his rejection to realists, he wanted to mock the American avant-garde art by giving a new significant to an object by placing a signature and the date on it.

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Joseph Beuys ‘Joseph Beuys. Kunstverein, Hamburg’, 1985

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Street art | Mural "Palestinian ladder" (Israeli West Bank wall, Palestine/Israel) by Banksy

( Artist as a Social Critic))