The ups, the downs and everything in between continue for Arizona.
Just when you think you might have a handle on the Wildcatsβ identity, they go on the road to the mountain schools, compete until the final moments and get swept.
Are they the team that starts slowly and really gets going in the fourth quarter like they did against Oregon State and Colorado?
Or the team that goes toe to toe against top-20 competition like they did against Oregon and Utah?
All good questions, and we might have to wait a little longer to find out.
Although, on second thought, this just might be exactly who they are and what we will witness the rest of the season.
If so, hang on tight: Itβs going to be a bumpy and exciting ride with the Cardiac Cats.
Arizona (14-4, 4-3 Pac-12) now finds itself on a two-game losing streak after a controversial ending to Sundayβs game in Salt Lake City.
From the jump, the officials were letting the Wildcats and Utes play. Putting aside some of the touch fouls called in the last eight minutes of the game that werenβt called before β especially on Shaina Pellington, who had four fouls in that frame and fouled out β the call with .3 seconds left on the clock is the one thatβs hard to reconcile.
With Arizona up 79-78, Utah inbounded from half court with 1.6 seconds to play. Everyone knew the ball was going to Alissa Pili down low. She was trapped by Esmery Martinez and Helena Pueyo. Martinez made what looked like a clean block. But the officials called a foul on Martinez. Pili knocked down both free throws to give Utah the 80-79 victory.
βBrutal. I think itβs a very difficult way to lose the game (when) it wasnβt a clear foul,β UA coach Adia Barnes said. βI donβt think you make that call at the end of the game. Now, if itβs a blatant hack or something that really deterred a shot ... but at (.3) seconds, kind of under the basket, spinning over two people, a very tough call.
βBut I always tell my team that it doesnβt come down to the last possession or the last play. It comes down to the mistakes in the first quarter. The missed boxout in the second quarter. The run you give up in the third quarter. Itβs an accumulation of things. Thatβs why (the difference) between good and great, there is a small margin of error.β
Although the game could have gone either way, the outcome further separated Utah and Arizona in the AP Top 25 rankings. The Wildcats fell from No. 14 to No. 19. The Utes β who were well-rested after Arizona State had to forfeit its two games against the mountain schools β rose from 10th to eighth.
Arizona freshman guard Paris Clark, shown driving against Texas Southern, tallied eight points and five rebounds in 13 minutes vs. Utah in Salt Lake City.
Clark comes up big
Freshman Paris Clark was ready for her time down the stretch β especially the final 10 seconds.
First, she grabbed an offensive rebound off a missed free throw by Martinez. Clark turned and knocked down a jumper to pull Arizona within one point, 78-77. On Utahβs inbounds play, she tipped the ball out of bounds. On the next inbounds, Martinez tipped the ball to Clark for the steal and layup, giving Arizona the lead.
Clark finished with eight points (4 of 5 from the field), five rebounds, two assists and a steal in 13 minutes.
βI thought she was phenomenal,β Barnes said. βShe played incredible for us, gave us a spark, hit some huge baskets. Sheβs been doing that (in) practice for the last couple of weeks, and she deserves an opportunity. Sheβs getting better every week, and she deserves to have more minutes. I think when you take advantage of it like Paris did, you deserve more opportunities later. It was great.β
Barnes told Clark and fellow freshman Lemyah Hylton that they would get minutes against Utah. After the Colorado game, Barnes didnβt think the defense was getting the job done. Therefore, Barnes decided to go deeper into her bench.
Madi Conner, who had been the spark off the bench for the last few games, didnβt enter until there were 22 seconds left. Barnes said sheβs been happy with how Conner has been playing. It was all about matchups.
βDefensively, weβve had a tough time if we have Jade (Loville) on the wing and Madi together. We shoot the ball but have a tough time matching up defensively,β Barnes said. βItβs hard to have Shaina and Lauren (Fields) off the floor. We are trying to have the defensive player out there, and some games are like that.β
Loville finished with 17 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter.
Rim shots
Two losses over the weekend didnβt go down easy, but Barnes was happy with the way the Wildcats held their own against a top-10 team, at least offensively. βWe made big adjustments mentally (from the Colorado game) to come into this game with a different approach offensively,β Barnes said. βI think defensively we still have to get better and have a different approach. We have to play better defense. We played more like a team (against Utah). We shared the ball a lot on offense. Weβre not going to win if we donβt do that. Weβre capable of scoring 80 points, but the offense isnβt the problem right now. Itβs the defense thatβs the problem. We have to play better defensively to win games.β
Pellington rarely fouls out of games. Over the weekend, she was disqualified in the fourth quarter of both games. Martinez and Cate Reese also fouled out against Utah. βYou have to be smart and know thatβs how it is and you need to be on the floor,β Barnes said. βI think Esmery and Shaina have to be more disciplined and just being smarter at different points in the game. β¦ It hurts us not being able to play with Esmery for bunches of minutes. Sheβs one of our best rebounders and sheβs strong, so we have to find a way to keep her in the game.β
Reese led all Wildcats with 25 points (and 10 rebounds) against Utah. Arizona finished with 16 assists on 33 made shots and scored 48 points in the paint. βComing into this game, we had a rule to get paint touches and reversals, because statistically for the season weβre high 60% if we get paint touches and reversals,β Barnes said. βLast game, just off the paint touches and reversals, we shot 86%. That tells me we need to get in the paint, swing the ball, share the ball or reverse the ball. We were really specific about doing that, and when people didnβt do that they came out of the game. I think that worked a lot better for us.β
The University of Arizona once had a live "Wildcat" mascot; however, the current mascot β with a few changes that include wife, Wilma, along the way β Wilbur the Wildcat has been a favorite around Tucson for more than 60 years.
25 influential women artists of the 20th century
25 influential women artists of the 20th century
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Ask anyone to name a famous artist and youβll probably hear the same names repeated over and over again: Da Vinci, Picasso, Monet, Degas β¦ the list goes on and on. What youβre not likely to hear? A womanβs name.
This is despite the fact that women make up more than 50% of currently working visual artists. Like every other field, thereβs a gender gapβand certainly a pay gapβin the world of fine arts. Women arenβt given the recognition their work commands and often find their work relegated to backrooms and secondary galleries rather than hung alongside the art of their male counterparts. Art museums and galleries have begun to realize the problem, and many are actively working to correct it, but change doesnβt happen overnight. Many female artists are still unknown despite creating literal industry-changing masterpieces.
Stacker has compiled a list of 25 female artists from the 20th century you should know. Using art encyclopedias and museum websites, it has curated a list of women who have influenced the art world in a number of ways. From creating new styles, like abstract art, to inspiring political movements, like the Black Womenβs Movement, these powerful ladies are every bit as talented and important as the men with whom they share gallery space.
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Agnes Martin
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One of the most important painters of her generation, Agnes Martin was an abstract artist who created minimalistic paintings driven by her transcendentalist and Buddhist beliefs. Moving to the United States from Canada at a young age, she spent the rest of her life flitting between New Mexico and New York, occasionally disappearing completely from the art scene before returning with a slightly shifted style. In 2004, she died in New Mexico.
[Pictured: Agnes Martin's βFriendshipβ is on display during a press preview of MoMAβs first ever Fall Reveal at Museum of Modern Art on Nov. 13, 2020 in New York City.]
Augusta Savage
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Through her sculptures, Augusta Savage transformed everyday moments in the lives of Black Americans into high art. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Savage trained in Paris before returning to New York City, where she transformed her studio into a community art center; gave free lessonsβother notable artists like Jacob Lawrence were students; and created commissioned projects like βLift Every Voice and Sing,β which was made for the 1939 New York Worldβs Fair. Savage died in New York in 1962. She said that she preferred her legacy to be the artwork of the children she taught rather than anything she made with her own hands.
[Pictured: Augusta Savage viewing two of her sculptures in 1937.]
Barbara Kruger
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Collagist Barbara Kruger got her start working in the design department at CondΓ© Nastβs Mademoiselle magazine. In the mid-1970s, she began producing large-scale pieces that mixed found photographs with pithy sayings written in Futura Bold typeface, criticizing several cultural constructs like power, identity, gender, and sexuality. The artist splits her time between New York City and Los Angeles, and while she still occasionally produces new work, these days much of her energy is focused on teaching and writing.
[Pictured: A photographic silkscreen print by Barbara Kruger titled βI Shop Therefore I Amβ at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in 2018.]
Betye Saar
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Political activist Angela Davis once credited Betye Saarβs work with launching the Black Womenβs Movement. Saar primarily works in assemblageβthough sheβs an accomplished printmaker as wellβchallenging the stereotypes that exist around the intersection of race and femininity. Her most famous piece is titled βThe Liberation of Aunt Jemima.β She currently lives in Los Angeles, and, despite her advanced age of 95, says sheβs not yet done working.
[Pictured: Art work by Betye Saar is displayed at the Take A Stand Center at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center on Oct. 26, 2017, in Skokie, Illinois.]
Bridget Riley
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A figurehead of the Op Art movement, Bridget Riley has made some of the best-known optical illusion paintings in existence today. Her work combines clean lines, geometric precision, and color theory to create canvases and murals that attract, soothe, and confuse the viewerβs eye. Now in her 90s, Riley resides in London, where she enjoys semi-retirement.
[Pictured: Artist Bridget Riley in 1963.]
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Dorothea Lange
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Documentary photography as we know it today wouldnβt exist without the work and influence of Dorothea Lange, a Depression-era photojournalist who is best known for her piercing and emotional photographs of migrant workers and families. Her photographs, while incredibly intimate, manage to tell universal stories of struggle and pain, which imbibe them with a timeless quality. Lange died of esophageal cancer in 1965, months before a retrospective of her work debuted at the Museum of Modern Art.
[Pictured: Dorothea Lange in 1936 in California.]
Ellen Gallagher
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Finding her footing in the art world at the close of the 20th century, Ellen Gallagher comments on issues of race and gender through her multimedia work. In particular, she points out how these two issues have long been suppressed and invalidated by the media, and how this has shaped American history. Only in her mid-50s, Gallagher works and lives in both New York City and Rotterdam, Netherlands.
[Pictured: Works by Ellen Gallagher at the Kunstforum Palais Populaire in Berlin, Germany on Sept. 27, 2018.]
Eva Hesse
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Although her career only lasted for a decade, sculptor Eva Hesse certainly made her mark on the art world, ushering in the post-minimal art movement in the β60s. Her pieces are typically made of found materials like latex, fiberglass, plastic, and string, and often address womenβs issues, albeit in an apolitical way. The Jewish artist fled Germany as a child during the rise of Nazism and died in 1970 inΒ her adopted hometown of New York City at age 34 of a brain tumor.
[Pictured: Sculptures by German-born artist Eva Hesse at the exhibition "Arrows and Boxes, Repeated" at the Craig F. Starr Gallery in New York in 2018.]
Frida Kahlo
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Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo is one of the few female artists to be known worldwide. Of the 200 works she produced, many are self-portraits, or are at least autobiographical, and explore questions of gender, identity, class, and race. In 1954βafter suffering from ill-health for years following a bus accident in 1925βKahlo died either from a pulmonary embolism, as was publicly reported, or from suicide, which has long been believed to be her real cause of death.
[Pictured: Frida Kahlo with self portrait entitled βMe Twiceβ on Oct. 24, 1939.]
Georgia OβKeeffe
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What do flowers, New York City skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes all have in common? Theyβre the most common subjects of Georgia OβKeeffeβs paintings. Often called βthe mother of American modernism,β OβKeeffe literally changed the landscape of American art over the course of her 80-year career. In 1986, at the age of 98, she died in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
[Pictured: Georgia OβKeefe stands at an easel outdoors, adjusting a canvas from her 'Pelvis Series- Red With Yellow,' Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1960.]
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Helen Frankenthaler
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When she died in 2011, Helen Frankenthalerβs obituary read that she had helped shape a movement. It wasnβt an exaggeration. An abstract expressionist, Frankenthaler produced consistently evolving works for over six decades, though her most notable works are in the color field style, which she essentially invented.
[Pictured: Abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler at work on a large piece, 1969.]
Hilma af Klint
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Considered an originator of abstract art, Hilma af Klint was painting in the nonrepresentative manner years before her male counterparts, like Piet Mondarin and Wassily Kandinsky, made it universally known. Born in Sweden in 1862, af Klint was obsessed with spiritism, and, for at least 10 years, regularly led a group of female artists in seances attempting to contact βthe High Masters.β Her work can best be understood through this lensβas a way to explore and represent complex spiritual ideas. In 1944, she died as a result of a traffic accident, having only exhibited her work a handful of times.
[Pictured: Hilma Af Klint Exhibition At Serpentine Gallery on March 2, 2016 in London, England.]
Jenny Holzer
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Best categorized as a neo-conceptual artist, Jenny Holzer makes large text-based works such as posters, electronic signs, and engraved marble benches. A part of the feminist art movement and a member of the artistsβ group Collaborative Projects, Holzer has participated in a number of renegade art shows, like the famous Times Square Show, that aim to democratize art. She currently lives and works in New York, though her output has slowed dramatically in recent years.
[Pictured: Artist Jenny Holzer standing in front of her installation at the Guggenheim Museum in New York January 1990.]
Joan Mitchell
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In the latter half of the 20th century, the New York School of artists turned out a number of important and influential visual creators. Among them was Joan Mitchell. An abstract expressionist, Mitchell once said that her colorful work, βMy paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields β¦ Itβs more like a poem β¦ and thatβs what I want to paint.β One of the few famous female artists of her era and in her genre, Mitchell died of lung cancer in Paris in 1992.
[Pictured: The painting 'Edrita Fried 1981' by Joan Mitchell hangs in the exhibition 'Joan Mitchell. Retrospective. Her Life and Paintings.' in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, November 2015.]
Judy Chicago
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Founder of the first feminist art program in the United States, Judy Chicago uses her large installations to spark conversations about gender politics and womenβs place in society. Her multimedia works are often collaborativeβher most famous piece, βThe Dinner Party,β was made with the help of 100 volunteersβand are typically images of birth or creation. She currently resides in New Mexico and continues to work alongside her husband Donald Woodman.
[Pictured: Detail of "The Dinner Party" (1979) by American artist Judy Chicago, in 2007, in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.]
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June Leaf
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Family, childhood, and true love are the major themes that inspire June Leafβs drawings, paintings, and sculptures. An abstract artist, her works are often allegorical in nature and feature a recurring cast of characters that have been in development since the 1950s. Leaf was a member of the Monster Roster, a group of 1940s Chicago artists. She also spent years working and studying in Paris, before settling in New York City and then Nova Scotia, where she remains today.
[Pictured: Sculptor June Leaf and photographer Robert Frank attend an opening at The Tisch Galleries on Jan. 28, 2016 in New York City.]
Leonora Carrington
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Surreal is the best word to describe Leonora Carringtonβs work. One of the last members of the surrealist movement, and one of the few women ever seriously involved in it, the Mexican-British artist primarily painted narrative landscapes. In 2011, she died of complications from pneumonia in Mexico.
[Pictured: "El gato" by Leonora Carrington is on display during a preview of Christie's Latin American Art auctions, May 24, 2010 in New York. ]
Louise Bourgeois
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French-American artist Louise Bourgeois doesnβt fit cleanly into any specific category. Best known for her oversized sculptures and installationsβlike the 8-meter spider βMamanββshe also produced paintings and prints that encompass the genres of abstract expressionism, surrealism, and feminist art. In 2010, she died of heart failure in New York City.
[Pictured: "Maman" pictured in Hamburg, Germany in March 2012.]
Marlene Dumas
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When Marlene Dumas sold her painting βThe Visitorβ for $4.2 million in 2015Β she broke the record for most expensive work sold by a living artist. Her work, which consists primarily of portraits, is a study in dualityβan extension of her own reality of being a South African artist living in the Netherlandsβand of what it means to live in our physical bodies. Still active, Dumas lives in Amsterdam.
[Pictured: On display at the Institute Of Contemporary Art in Boston, βOne Hundred Modelsβ by Marlene Dumas, 1994. ]
Natalia Goncharova
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An integral part of the avant-garde movement, Natalia Goncharova developed a new form of abstract painting called rayonism in 1912. The following year, she became the first woman in her native country of Russia to have a full-scale retrospective, which featured more than 700 works of art in styles ranging from cubism to abstract to folk art. A truly radical artistβher shows were frequently raided by police for so-called pornographic images and anti-religious worksβ she died in Paris in 1962, suffering from severe arthritis and completely impoverished.
[Pictured: Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962), Russian painter, sculptor and decorator, in her Parisian studio circa 1920.]
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Paula Rego
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For the past seven decades, Paula Rego, an often underrated British-Portuguese artist, has created a body of work based on fairy tales and folk stories. Despite their seemingly sweet subject matter, the paintings carry some serious weight, relaying timely political messages and conveying heavier emotions like rage and pain. Now in her mid-80s, Rego lives in London, and though she is too frail to paint, she was able to enjoy a retrospective of her work that went up at the Tate Museum in early 2021.
[Pictured: The U.K.'s largest ever retrospective dedicated to Portuguese visual artist Paula Rego at the Tate Britain opens on July 5, 2021 in London, England.]
Tamara de Lempicka
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The βbaroness with a paintbrush,β Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish artist who is known for her portraits of the eraβs elite. Her pictures, which are done in a blend of cubism and neoclassical styles, ooze with sensuality and are, to this day, incredibly chic. Over the years, many of them have been reproduced in fashion magazines such as Harperβs Bazaar. She fled Europe for the United States just before the start of World War II. In 1980, de Lempicka died in Mexico.
[Pictured: Tamara de Lempicka at her easel.]
Vija Celmins
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The New York Times said it best when it called Vija Celminsβ work βprecise, painstakingly wrought illusions of reality.β Her graphite and paper drawings of natureβincluding the ocean, the night sky, spiderwebs, and rocksβare highly detailed, photorealistic works that are almost overwhelming in scope, forcing the viewer to really slow down and patiently take them in. Born in Latvia, Celmins now resides in New York and remains active.
[Pictured: Artist Vija Celmins with her work in an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in West LA in January 2007.]
Yayoi Kusama
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Once the center of New York Cityβs avant-garde and pop art scenes, Yayoi Kusama is best known for her use of polka dots and her intense, large-scale environments. Born in Japan, Kusama spent her most productive years in the United States, where she used everything from the naked human body to the inside of a room as canvases. In the early β70s, Kusama returned to her home country, where she has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for the past four decades, withdrawing almost completely from society even as her installations and shows have become increasingly popular due to social media apps.
[Pictured: Yayoi Kusama beside her 2016 production titled "Flowers that Bloom Tomorrow" at her exhibition titled "My Eternal Soul" at the National Art Center in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2017.]
Yoko Ono
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Yoko Onoβs art, whether performance or visual, acts as a two-way mirror, throwing the viewersβ reactions back at them and revealing some deep inner truths about her audience. Involved in New Yorkβs avant-garde scene, she both collaborated with other artists and created pieces of her own, like her famous 1964 βCut Piece,β hoping to unsettle and inspire those who engaged with it. Now in her late 80s and in failing health, Ono still lives in New York City in the Dakota apartment she once famously shared with her husband John Lennon.
[Pictured: Artist and singer Yoko Ono photographed in London 1967.]
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