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54 Cards in this Set
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Washington DC
Maya Ying Lin 1983 Minimalism black granite in the city of white, 2 triangles, war was over for 7 years already, 21 yr old art student, listed in order of man dead. each wing being 246' long |
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Untitled Film Still #35
Cindy Sherman 1979 Photography/Feminist Art Gelatin Silver Print, Film Noir (dark film), New York apartment door. |
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Migrant Mother
Nipomo Valley 1935 Dorthea Lange Photography/Regionalism Gelatin Silver Print, 32 yr old mother of 7, Florence Thompson, Midwest during Dust Bowl |
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Marilyn
1977 Audrey Flack Photorealism oil&acrylic on canvas, 8'X8', |
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Gold Marilyn Monroe
1962 Andy Warhol Pop Art refering to byzantine style, The Public killed Norma Jean Baker, synthetic polymer paint silk screen and oil on canvas, 6'11"X4'7" |
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Woman and Bicycle
1952 Willem de Kooning Abstract Expressionism born in the Netherlands came to U.S. in 1946, oil on canvas, 6'4"X4'1" |
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One, Number 31
1950 Jackson Pollock Abstract Impressionism/Action Painting 8'10"X17'5", paint on canvas, New York, refered to as Jack the Dripper. Inspired by Navajo Sand Paintings |
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Figure with Meat
1954 Francis Bacon Existentialism Atheist, homo who had affairs with horse groomers, oil on canvas, 4'1"X4' |
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American Gothic
1930 Grant Wood Regionalism oil on Beaver Board, 2'5"X2', "American Scene Painting", Dentist and Dentist sister posing as father &daughter, Iowa, Simple Looking, the barn & house symbolic for gender roles, 2'5"X2' |
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Orange and Yellow
1956 Mark Rothko Color Field immigrant from Russia in 1913, went to Yale moved to New York, begain as a surrealist, 7'5"X5'9", oil on canvas |
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The Two Fridas
1939 Frida Kahlo Surrealism oil on canvas, 5'7"X5'7", Impelled in trolly accident, wife to Diego Rivera (frog-face) 5 times, Exposed heart symbolic for aztec&mexican sacred heart. |
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The Persistence of Memory
1931 Salvador Dali Surrealism oil on canvas, 9"X13", "Dream Scapes", the amoeba shaped thing is Dali, he had an obsession with masturbation, clocks=reminder of death. |
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The Sleeping Gypsy
1987 Henri Rousseau Primitive/Native oil on canvas, 4'3"X6'7" |
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Fountain
1917 Marcel Duchamp Ready-made/Dada J.L. Mott Iron Works Company, porcelain, 24" in height |
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Nude Descending a Staircase #2
1912 Marcel Duchamp Cubism/Futurism oil on canvas, 4'10"X2'11", used a phot of himself to understand the movement of walking down the stairs. |
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Les demoiselles d' Avignon
1907 Pablo Picasso Cubism young women of Barcelona Spain, her face is metamorphosed into a mask, artist collected African masks, Cubism is born in Prostitutes, oil on canvas, 8'X7'8" |
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Self Portrait
1919 Modigliani Cursed Painters oil on canvas, 39"X25", wont paint eyes unless he knows the person well, likes booze and drugs & doesnt know himself. |
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Red Room (Harmony in Red)
1908 Henri Matisse Fauvism oil on canvas, comfort in red, matching table cloth to wallpaper, 5'11"X8'1" |
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The Kiss
1908 Gustav Klimt Fin-de-Siecle-(turn of the century) oil on canvas, 5'10"X5'10", time of turmoil&uncertain future, the artist & Emily Floge (gf), byzantine style, "a love not well tended is a love that dies". |
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The Scream
1893 Edvard Munch Symbolism 36"X29", Tempra&Casian (milk protein) & cardboard. Lithograph, mother died when he was 5, sucide bridge in Norway, Art becomes a therapy, he paints this 5 times, shock treatment curs him & his art. |
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Mont Sainte-Victoire
1904 Paul Cezanne Post Impressionism 27"X35", painting in nature to find truth in structure, repaints it 75 times, never satisfied. |
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
1884-1886 Georges Seurat Post-Impressionism oil on canvas, 6'9"X10', pointalism, calm and relaxed setting |
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At the Moulin Rouge
1895 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Post-Impressionism drinking absence, oil on canvas, wealthy crippled dwarf artist, alcoholic w problems w women, influenced by Japanese art. |
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Vision After the Sermon/ Jacob Wrestling the Angel
1888 Paul Gauguin Post-Impressionism oil on canvas, 2'4"X3', on fire for the lord, Genesis from the bible, black white and grey. |
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The Starry Night
1889 Van Gogh Post-Impressionism 2'X3'1", oil on canvas, son of protestant minister, upper middle class, theology school, preacher who goes to mine, job from hell, slave labor w little pay, thinking about suicide, no where to go. sold 2 paintings in his life |
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Nocturne in Black and Gold
1875 McNeil Whistler Impressionist "Art for Art Sake", 1'11"X1'6", firework show blasting in thenite sky, Took Ruskin to curt and was rewarded 1 farthing. |
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Dancers Practicing at the Barre
1877 Edgar Degas Impressionism oil on canvas, 29"X32", considered himself to be a realist, blurred image |
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The Loge
1874 Pierre-Auguste Ronoir Impressionism Nini Lopez sitting in Opera Box, Loge=Opera, Realism on her face, Black Velvet & white chiffon gown quickly rendered, Edmund Renoir has binoculars andislooking at the crowd. Oil on Canvas, 31"X25" |
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Rouen Cathedral: In the mist, In Sunlight, At Midday
1894 Monet Impressionism repainted 40 times, tripartite seperation, rose window, pointed arches. Mid day=the best, oil on canvas, 3'3"2'1" |
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Olympia
1863 Manet Realism oil on canvas. 4'3"X6'3", Influenced by Titans Venus of Urbino, exhibition in 1865 at a salon caused a stir, best known prostitute in paris, no idealism, cat symbolic for women, maid wearing gown holding flowers. |
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Balzac
1898 Rodin Realism/ Impressionism plaster cast, 9'10", 1954 finish piece in Bronze 9'3", 3 seperate occasions tried to be accepted in art school. |
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Madame X
1884 John Singer Sargent Realism oil on canvas, 6'10"X3'11", Legend of Honor Reward, American who spent his time in Europe, high society portraits of the day, Madame Gautreau who married a french business man, "I do not judge only chronicle" outrageous prices, 1907 he said no more, Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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The Stonebreakers
1849 Courbet Realism oil on canvas, french laborers, breaking stones, little money slave labor. 5'3"X8'6" |
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The Haywain
1821 John Constable Romanticism oil on canvas, 4'3"X6'2", Suffolk England,dog and cat, lil engish cottage by a stream, artist dabs white all over after finished |
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Raft of the Medusa
1818 Theodore Gericault Romanticism oil on canvas, 16'X23', french shipwreak off the coast of Africa, crew members built raft to survive, 150 ppl to start, 15 people survived, Jean Charles the hero waving a shirt, 12 days out at sea. |
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The Third of May, 1808
1814 Goya Romanticism 8'8"X11'3", oil on canvas, bloody fight between France and Spain, slaughtering peasants, Spanish flee to convent in outskirts, Led to the Spanish war of Independence lasted 8 yrs, monk praying |
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Grande Odalisque
1814 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingre Romanticism oil on canvas, 3'X5', No bones, middle eastern turbine, turkish girl |
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George Washington
1795 Gilbert Stuart American oil on canvas, 29"X23", Grew up in Rhode Island, royal portraits, honored to have a portrait made ofnour president. |
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Death of General Wolfe
1771 Benjamin West American oil on canvas, 5'X7', english saddned by loss of commander, he does die, Battle of Quebec (gave Canada back to England) |
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Marriage a la Mode:Breakfast Scene
1745 William Hogarth English Naturalism/Rococo oil on canvas, 2'4"X3', 1735 copyright, money driven arranged marriage, composite capital colomns, dog smelling perfume on hanky in his pocket, terrible wart and has syphilis. |
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Self Portrait
1790 Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun French Naturalism/Rococo oil on canvas, 8'4"X6'9", did royal portraits even for Marie Anttoinett |
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Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1787 Gainsborough English Naturalism/Rococo |
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The Swing
1766 Fragonard Rococo Pastel colors, soft suttle lighting, oil on canvas, 2'11"X2'8", God of discretion and Augustis of Prima Portas cupid riding a dolphin in sculpture, sadal=male anatomy, hat=female anatomy. Barron peeps up her dress as bishop swings her. Porn/Sexual painting. |
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The Clubfooted Boy
1642 Ribera Baroque oil on canvas, 5'X3', compassion for subject matter, birth defect, 3 quarter view point, Latin translates- give me oms for the sake of god. He i thrilled bout his hat, Look up to him! |
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Trinity
1635 Ribera Baroque oil on canvas, 7'X4', Strong diagnols causing stress and tension, golden light & every angel known to man, god w triangular shaped halo, scarlet cape, dove the hold spirit and christ the son. buroke details |
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Las Meninas
1656 Velasquez Baroque 10'X9', oil on canvas, window letting light in on right, royal mastiff, court dwarfs, the princess Infanta Margarita, Philip IV & Mariana of Austria, maids, light and shadow impression like style, king and queen is present here or its a reflection or its a painting. |
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The Rokeby Venus/ Venus and Cupid
1648 Velazquez Baroque oil on canvas, 4'X5', cupid holding mirror for mother venus, works for the king, Pope is one of his patrons, you dont do nudes in Spain at this time, real Risky, angry woman once slashed it after being hung in a park. its currently hanging in London. |
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Et in Arcadia Ego
1655 Poussin Baroque oil on canvas, 33"X47", Arcadia was in s. Greece. the shadow is a metaphor for deatg, we too are supposr to think about our death, "I death, am in Arcadia too" |
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Louis XIV
1701 Rigaud Baroque oil on canvas, wearing a wig, halo of light, velvet robe lined with urbane, french monarchy "fleur de lis", colomn in background, he was a short man, classical antiquity references, 9'2"X6'4" |
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Mary Magdalene Meditating
1640 LaTour Baroque oil on canvas, 4'X3', scorged herself |
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Flower Still Life
1700 Ruysch Baroque carnations, poppies, and roses will wilt and die as we will one day, 2'6"X2', sold for 2X more than Rembrandt paintings |
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Young Woman with a Water Jug
1665 Vermeer Baroque oil on canvas, 18"X16", persian rug, map of the Netherlands. Artist is living on wrong side of Holland. |
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Woman Holding Scales
1664 Vermeer Baroque oil on canvas, 16"X15", window in left w sunlight, last judgement painting behind her, hands of god shadow on her head |
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Still Life with Oysters
1634 Willem Heda Baroque oil on a wooden panel, 1'5"X2'4", diamond shaped veiw, good food, applies to the senses, reminders of death, fruit will rot, nuts will go rancid, glass will break, oysters will sour. everything will eventually go bad, always. |
