My artists were Kara Walker (A Subtlety and Fons Americanus), Arthur Boyd (Love, Marriage and Death of a Half Caste series w/ Persecuted Lovers) and Lin Tianmao (Proliferations of Thread Winding) and so much of their works either appropriate past works/mythology and also really draw on cultural/historical ideas which was great for q6 bc it was a quote by anish kapoor about ideas growing out of other ideas

my thesis was something like "artists do not create in a vacuum, rather, their work is inextricably grown from the cultural, historical and artistic ideas of those before them." I can't remember exactly what I wrote but it was lowkey similar to my preprepared essay
