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25 Cards in this Set
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The Swing
Jean-Honore Fragonard 1766 Rococo;allegory of chasity revolution; aristocracy |
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Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David 1785 ancient greek,roman art, round arches, defining feature is line, precise -crisp lines, contour lines 3 rome, 3 alba, an oath on their swords women to express sadness, swords as focal point |
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The Execution of the Third of May
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1808.1814 Romanticism expression of emotion, war, arrows a line to the guy Lantern shining is focal point we know he is going to die and have empathy for him goya is identified as victim vantage point - artist point of view soldiers have no individuality, they are ordered to shoot them, no choice, war is an institution |
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View from Mount Holyoke,MA after a Thunderstorm (Oxbow)
Thomas Cole 1836 Romanticism landscape to display mood, connection from humans to nature, mood swings, angry, violent, calm, peaceful growing population (wild land)of left, (settled land) tamed/controlled on the right reference to nature |
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The Stone Breakers
Gustave Courbet 1849 beginning of modern art, subject matter |
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Le Dejeuner sur I'Herbe
Edouard Manet 1863 Realism ignores hierarchy of genres, portrait of prostitute rejected from salon de refuges salons "ruins" exhibits artist works |
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Annuciation
Henry Ossawa Tanner 1898 French Realism african american painter does not show angel, the glow is the angel, but not going to put wings on human being Mary as average middle eastern woman a realistic approach to to a realistic subject |
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The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur 1853 Realism female painters could not paint nude people but chose to paint animals because of society anatomy, surgeries, tendons, structures, physical build cut her hair short and wore pants, broke the law |
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Moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876 Impressionism, not realism Color types, amt of light, shifting light,motion, bustling activity ppl in front are clear, ppl in foreground blurry ppl not posing but being captured while event took place cropping, scene in motion, captures in an instant in time avante-guard painter, in front of gun fire, ahead of status quo, people were not serious |
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Impression: Sunrise
Claude Monet 1872 Impressionism aggressive brush strokes, wants viewer to perceive the process the artist use to paint, about subject matter, idea |
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Rouen Cathedral, West Facade, Sunlight
Claude Monet 1894 800 years old, past oriented because in this decade, paris was going through serious problems absinthe, ppl sad, make them fell good about something The series paintings by monet |
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The Boating Party
Mary Cassatt, an American 1893-94 impressionism americans were inferior, painted woman and children city being blamed on woman for syphilis, gangs, drugs, alcohol,value from each generation women had children like an accessory, like a purse, left the maids to take care of them which became corrupt the woman higher on surface as the focal point, playing active role in society, passive, role is private |
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La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1891 emotionally empty. "red windmill" born in total wealth, but con-genital weak bone disease life of pain and challenge, life of pimps and whores la goulue-glutton valentine the boneless, double jointed drawn from the balcony |
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat 1884-86 alot of people stiff and formal like a structure poses of frontal and profiled painted with brush strokes, used optical color theory, our eyes blend color together divisionism or neo-impressionism, way he applied paint sleeveless shirt-pro rower, muscle to get business woman on left fishing, stock char. used all the time woman on right is prostitute due to monkey |
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The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh 1889 nervous disorder not good with disciplining himselft, checked himself into a hospital to prevent seizures landscape of South France, rolling hills, driving winds, cypress tree, merge french landscape with a dutch town |
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Woman with the Hat
Henri Matisse 1905 Fauvism aka wild beast vs. cubism..., distinct chracteristics, color as cmpt of visual lang., green as fertiltiy, red as blood we do not expect artists to use so many colors, focus on subject matter, portrait of his wife, conservative |
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
Pablo Picasso 1907 Cubism geometric shapes, prostitutes, approach to shape, child prodigy, borrow from Egypt, two women wearing african masks on right, make it look new but merge it to look shocking and new, avignon aka red light district, narrative is gone |
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Guernica
Pablo Picasso 1937 analytic and synthetic Cubism depicts a town in spain wasted by an aerial bombing same goal as anti war, same technology as fear so abstract it could be anywhere universal truths, subdued colors, worried about franko |
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni 1913 Futurism baudy, disgunted, liberal, aggressive a speeding car is more beautiful than greek art french, arts were negatively criticized, ppl were beat up fast paced, force lines |
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From Slavery through Reconstruction
Aaron Douglas 1934 Harlem Renaissance cultural expressions, ppl celebrating independence, |
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L.H.O.O.Q and Fountain (Urinal)
1919 and 1917 Marcel Duchamp responding to war, felt the world made no sense she has a really hot ass anti govt, education, art, multi world conflict ready-made artform, anti-retinal art, not about visual appearance focuses on new role, artist is the decider hung shovel as art, a shovel being used for snow is not art but functioning |
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Time Transfixed
Rene Magritte 1938 Surrealism exceedingly realistic, purpose to show a dream, what would happen in a dream, juxtaposition freudian, free association, based on the dream world |
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American Gothic
Grant Wood 1930 Regionalism Iowa type landscape realistic imagery a farmer and his daughter puritanical value, hard edge, circular tree, overall shapes |
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White Light
Jackson Pollack 1954 pure emotion from abstract art despair, angst, joy, expressed emotion physically |
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Campbells's Tomato Soup
Andy Warhol 1968 Pop Art -work makes no sense, typical cannot make sense of it -too personal, why should i care? -overwhelming looks machine made, avoid his hand touching the work, silk-screening, reference to advertising and slickness reflecting our obsession of the U.S. american obsession with consumerism |
