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Artist: David
Title: Oath of the Horatii Style: Neo-Classicism Date: 1780-1815 |
- venus reclining on the couch
- apple symbolism |
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Artist: David
Title: Death of Marat Style: Neo-Classicism Date: 1780-1815 |
- his signature is engraved in the wood of the picture
- has a skin condition - lying in a tub - receive visitors at the tub - gets stabbed in the tub by one of his vistors(scene of a murder) - skin doesn’t look exactly like he has a skin condition - figure has been idealized - he has died for his believes, a secular martyr - visual reference to the dead Christ - blood in the water is barely noticeable (minimized violence) - murder weapon on floor - juxposition of pen and dagger (pen is mightier than the sword) - moment after the murder |
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Artist: Antonio Canova
Title: Pauline Borghese as Venus Style: Neo-Classicism Date: 1780-1815 |
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Artist: John Henry Fuseli
Title: The Nightmare Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- unconscious state of mind
- jar of some hullicigen substance |
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Artist: Francisco de Goya
Title: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- interested in what is in the human mind
- slender proportions - a world he isn’t prepared for - unable to wake up - owls symbolizes wisdom, witches/Halloween - cat symbolizes witchcraft |
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Artist: Francisco de Goya
Title: The Third of May, 1808 Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- massacre of French villagers by Spanish government
- firing squad - prisoners waiting to be executed - moment of execution - arms open figure represents Christ on the cross (martyr) - horrors of war |
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Artist: Francisco de Goya
Title: Chronos (Saturn) Devouring One of his Children Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- time ticks away and leads to death
- Saturn - Painterly Quality - Behaving at their worst |
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Artist: Theodore Gericault
Title: The Raft of the Medusa Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- nature as the theme (protagonist in the story)
- ship called the medusa carrying Algerian immigrants - ship sunk - captain of the ship saved himself and left everyone else for themselves - captain was a political appointee (was not ready for the position) - survivors - 13th day - ship on the horizon - very dramatic - waving shirt attempting to be saved - romantic theme (power of nature) |
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Artist: Eugene Delacroix
Title: The Death of Sardanapalus Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- showing humanity at its worst
- loose style |
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Artist: Eugene Delacroix
Title: Tiger Hunt Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- power of nature
- battle between man and nature - loose quality painterly - tenebristic lighting emphasis - survival of the fittest |
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Artist: J.M.W. Turner
Title: The Slave Ship Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- nature as a destructive force
- slave ship in the distance - slaves are thrown from ships before bad weather - cruel intensions (humans vs humans) |
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Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Title: Abbey in an Oak Forest Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- theme: nature with god
- less obvious (subtle suggestion) - architecture represents human achievement - the building is in ruins and crumbling (nature taking over human achievement) - last brightness in the day - gothic style |
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Artist: Barry and Pugin
Title: Houses of Parliament, London Style: Romanticism Date: 1760-1860 |
- designed in 1835
- looks like a medieval building - gothic revival style - was originally built in wood till it burnt down - was then replaced - built with great craftsmanship - aritechture built similar to some cadethrals (chartes and nortre dome) |
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Artist: John Nash
Title: The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England Style: Romanticism Date: 1780-1860 |
- built as a pleasure palace
- eastern style into cold England - multidomed confection - union domes - horseshoe arches - Islamic aritechure - Similar to the Taj Muhal - Exotic |
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Artist: Millet
Title: The Gleaners Style: Realism Date: 1848-1860 |
- social issue
- social reality (documentary) - women are out in the field after the harvest - savaging what they can off the ground - what it is like to be poor - scene of the working poor - bent over underneath horizon line |
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Artist: Daumier
Title: Third Class Carriage Style: Realism Date: 1848-1860 |
- growth of technology
- train is the growth of technology - industrial revolution - technology changes society, not in a good way - showing contemporary life how it is: theme is realist - not a naturalist style |
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Artist: Daumier
Title: Rue Transnonain Style: Realism Date: 1848-1860 |
- murder
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Artist: Gustave Courbet
Title: The Stone Breakers Style: Realism Date: 1848-1860 |
- pairing the old man with the young man
- period in the industrial revolution - destroyed in 1945 - painterly style - used the pallet knife as much as the brush - heroism of modern life - poverty and wretchedness |
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Artist: Eduoard Manet
Title: Olympia Style: Realism Date: 1848-1860 |
- a working girl
- she is a prostitute - parody of the venus of urbino by titian - facial expression looks bored uninterested (at work) - stiffness and tension body language - black cat associates with sensuality - shift in ideologies over time (sex is not for marriage anymore) - giving the 2-d appearance |
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Artist: Eduoard Manet
Title: A Bar at the Folies-Bergere Style: Realism Date: 1848-1860 |
- realist mindset - bar maid at a night club - working/serving for the public - sense of bombardment of drunkenness - dresses nice, but not enjoying her time, and not quite done - her reflection in the mirror: shows the maid responding to a man |
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Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Impression, Sunrise Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- natural appearance in a harbor
- fishing boat coming in at dawn - use of color and light: impressionism - capturing the quality of light - going outside to paint - calming |
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Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Saint-Lazare Train Station Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- essence of the optical experience
- was painted right at the train station - Monet is very interested in the quality of light - Interest in steam/moisture in the air |
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Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Haystack at Sunset Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- the qualities of the light, and what it does to the hay stack
- going outside to paint; you have to in order to capture the light quality - light changes every second - this is a single image from a series - molecular theory: solid objects are made up of molecules - everything seems to be in motion constantly - using color to show lights and darks - uses red to capture the optical effect - uses nothing but half tones - no moralizing representations |
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Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Rouen Cathedral Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- French gothic Cathedral
- Drawn during the mid morning - A lot of places where shadow and light interact - Nothing is static(at rest) |
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Artist: Edgar Degas
Title: Viscout Lepic and his Daughters Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- seems like a random everyday shot
- nonrepresentational - framed randomly at a random moment - spontaneous - out of focus quality: shows the movement of time - development of space |
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Artist: Edgar Degas
Title: Ballet Rehearsal Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- during a ballet rehearsal
- intended view point is in the balcony, Degas uses a different point of view - random point of view - ballet is very formal, degas is showing the informal ballet |
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Artist: Edgar Degas
Title: The Tub Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- off moments of everyday life
- private moment/random moment - informal quality - not posed - subject of the bath scene, but is more of a random moment |
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Artist: Mary Cassatt
Title: The Bath Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- modern life
- middle class activity - mother and her daughter - lovely but random moment - painterly style like Degas - impression of the view you would get |
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Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Title: Le Moulin de la Galette Style: Impressionism Date: 1860-1880 |
- out of focus quality: caught in a blur
- spontaneous scene - people dancing, everyone is in motion |
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Artist: Cezanne
Title: Mont Sainte-Victoire Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- mountain in france - there can be no representation in feeling and the retina - the world as you see it is different to everyone else - uses brush strokes to build structures - structures look abstract - traditional subject matter |
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Artist: Cezanne
Title: Still Life with Peppermint Bottle Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- another traditional subject matter
- quality seems flat like wallpaper - naturalism isn’t the intension - his own view of the new sense of structure for objects - his style is passage: blending of objects(gives the 2D quality) - uses color to suggest contour and dimension |
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Artist: Georges Seurat
Title: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- pleasant sunny afternoon
- middle class individuals - different from impressionism: it isn’t free flowing and spontaneous - figures seem static: frozen in time - pointillism: tiny dots of various colors - created on how color works - dog looks very crisp in style: doesn’t have the detail |
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Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
Title: The Potato Eaters Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- tenebristic lighting
- humble setting - character quality of faces - sympathy - steam rises off the dish of potatoes |
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Artist: Van Gogh
Title: Self Portrait Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- distinct style
- captures inner reality - manipulated form, color, line - moving away from exterier reality, but tries to make it back - distinct quality - monochromatic color quality - rejection of naturalism - interest in the details of the outward appearance - facial expression gives the sense of uncertainty of what he is thinking - painterly quality - intensity |
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Artist: Van Gogh
Title: Starry Night Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- scene of the night sky during summer
- a lot of activity: possibly meteor shower he witnessed - apocalyptic event - self expression through his own experience - the landscape how van gogh sees it; through his eyes |
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Artist: Van Gogh
Title: Night Cafe at Arles Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- his take on a night café
- critical attitude on his work - empty boring room - sleeping individuals (almost closing time) - harsh sensation of light - everyone is seperated - distorted space - wide angled lens affect |
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Artist: Paul Gaugin
Title: The Vision After the Sermon Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- dedicated to self expression
- after church - vision based on the sermon - the visual they are seeing - inner experience of the women - shifting the point of view - no sense of convential space and modeling - nature is no longer the model of experience, esp internal experience - use of Japanese art as a model |
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Artist: Paul Gaugin
Title: Where do We Come From? Style: Post-Impressionism Date: 1880-1900 |
- symbolic and pessimistic
- statement: progress of life - girl eating the apple: childhood innocents - women reclining: where we are - old women: what will happen to us - progression of life - sense of space - figure reaching up for fruit: reference to the garden of eden and the temptation - moral corruption |
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Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Red Room Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- interest in color
- intensifies color - object color: color in nature - picture color: color the artist assigns - picture is illuminated through color - distortion to get an emotional response |
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Artist: Matisse
Title: Joy of Life Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- use of color to outline the curvature of bodies
- relaxed attitude of figures - garden of eden without religious theme - childlike quality of figures: intentionally wants to capture childlike innocents |
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Artist: Matisse
Title: The Dance Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- expressive movement
- simplified to its barest - two colors differentiate sky from the ground - no real sense of space - upsetting the expectations - essence of dance - innocence - joy of life, a concept that will last forever |
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Artist: Edvard Munch
Title: The Scream Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- horrors of life
- reflects on modern consciousness - like matise, using nature as a model - seeing the world through someone elses eyes - compared to van gohg: - seems like a nightmare - munch scene is much more unrestful because the sun is going down - figure is melting like the environment - von gogh is more bright - sky is more intense and describes emotion of von gogh |
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Artist: Munch
Title: Puberty Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- allegory of adolescents
- awkwardness of the stage of life |
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Artist: Emil Nolde
Title: Saint Mary of Egypt among Sinners Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- strip teaser
- st. mary of Egypt turns into the wrong |
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Artist: Franz Marc
Title: Great Blue Horses Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- horses grooming themselves
- colors give a calm innocent stage - horses dominant the scene - making the horses look monumental - no sign of humanity - humanity is responsible of the destruction of the world |
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Artist: Franz Marc
Title: Fate of the Animals Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- humanity destruction of the world
- the entire space is fractured apart - expressive way of destroying innocent world of animals |
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Artist: Vassily Kandinsky
Title: Improvisation 28 Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- no connection to anything
- mind and color - abstraction - pattern - childlike finger painting - intentionally done, and carefully done - Non objective, has no representation to anything |
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Artist: Vassily Kandinsky
Title: Black Lines No. 189 Style: Expressionism Date: 1905-1920 |
- non objective
- expressive without having anything to do with anything realistic |
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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Portrait of Gertrude Stein Style: Cubism Date: 1905-1920 |
- the lady is an American ex-patriot - influential to art at this time - doesn’t use the photo realistic quality - natural posture - paint seems to be smeared on - eyes and nose are a bit manipulated - transitional, not complete cubist - uses realistic forms and unrealistic forms |
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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Les Demoisselles d'Avignon Style: Cubism Date: 1905-1920 |
- scene of prostitutes
- allegory of death from disease spread by sex - the men that are choosing the women are in the perspective of the viewer. - Uses space as an element of fractures - Upsetting form of a women, aware of the artistic tradition and goes away from it - Similar to African art - 3-d forms include all the sides on a 2-d point of view |
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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Portrait of Ambrose Vollard Style: Cubism Date: 1905-1920 |
- full fledge cubism
- analytic cubism - not a contained figure - figure is flattened out to see all the viewing points - extreme fracturing |
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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Guernica Style: Cubism Date: 1905-1920 |
- important work and powerful
- protest of the bombing of a vask village - nazi bombings of civilians in spain - shoes the destruction of warfare - synthetic cubism: collage cutouts - expressionism: very abstract - monochromatic scheme, suggests a newspaper - shows the chaos and destruction - modern warfare |
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Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Title: Nude Descending a Staircase Style: Cubism Date: 1905-1920 |
- analytic cubism
- facture nude women walking down the staircase - the echo of the figure as she moves down the stairs - mechanical quality - quality of pure movement |
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Artist: Giacomo Balla
Title: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash Style: Cubism Date: 1905-1920 |
- captures movement of shuffling feet - shows the entire movement in forms - odd view point |
