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Jan van Eyck:


The Wedding of Arnolfini (1434)



No one point perspective


Mirror


Dog represents loyalty, companionship


Dress color complements bed


Shoes off because on holy ground


Mirror -- > connection with Velazquez

Hieronymus Bosch:
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1504)



Triptych


Glass all throughout


Enlarged fruit and animals -- > sins of consumption, basal level


triumphal procession of human pleasure


panel on left is Garden of Eden, no sin, creating Eve


Animals fighting over food --> foreshadow


bunnies near women = fertility


Hell shown with Bosch's portrait


Gluttony of king in the underworld


Pieter Bruegel:
Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)



Picks up on Bosch influence but uses moral lessons instead


Discombobulated structure reflects the point of parables that are short and not narratives


Praise of Folly. World depicted many times


Pieter Bruegel:
Battle between Carnival and Lent (1559)



Country coming to the City


Antwerp depicted with people from everywhere


Sense of Circle --> promenade


Theatres of rhetoric depicted


Center is possibly Breugel and wife turning back on religion

Pieter Bruegel:
The Tower of Babel(1559)



Hubris of Nimrod


Allegory for Antwerp


Architecture's connection to Rome --> Pope Leo's trying to resurrect Rome through St. Peter's

Pieter Bruegel:
Dulle Griet(1562)



Phillip II in 1557 cracking down on Reform


Griet advancing towards Hell

Pieter Bruegel:


Hunters in the Snow (1565)


pictaresque > leads eye down into the landscapes


community and basic pleasure together

Pieter Bruegel:
Wheat Harvest (August)(1565)


Realms of life present in the landscape with the church in the background and the workers in the front


Perspective allows for workers expressions to be seen. Able to see individual stacks and meal being consumed

Pieter Bruegel:


Return of the Herd (Autumn)(1565)


Part of the series of different seasons


Gallows always present --> image of death everywhere

Giorgione or Titian:
Fête Champêtre (1509)



Arcadia in Italy


Joys of the out of doors


Arcadia in the North is more good and work ethics, out of door to communicate with nature through work


Engagement with the land --> releasse from the work, makes us whole

Pieter Bruegel:


Peasant Kermis (1568)


Can see people's expression


perspective close to ground


Ignoring the church in the background, just having fun, community and companionship


Kermis is church organized holiday, but taking pleasure in sex and beer instead

Pieter Bruegel:
Peasant Wedding Feast (1569)



Getting glimpse into peasant life.


Includes himself in the painting


Celebrating or satire of the reality?


Pieter Bruegel:
Parable of the Blind (1568)



Parable is put with church in the background to draw allegory


Falling into a ditch

Rembrandt:
Danae (1636)


Compare with Titian Venus


Both reclining


Daughter of King of Greece


Zeus = light


Pubic area is central and sensual ---> exposure and desire, male gaze


Titian:
Venus of Urbino (1538)


Probably a courtier


Dog on top of bed


Classic look


Direct stare in contrast to cover pubic area and non threatening pose

Rembrandt:
Self-Portrait (1629)


Shows as young artist


Hair very prominent


Later transforms himself to upper class

Rembrandt:
Self-Portrait at the Age of Thirty-Four (1640)


At height of his life, paints self as important individual


Has risen to the top of society because of good deals in painting


Hair not messed, robed with the fine clothes

Rembrandt:
Self-Portrait (1658)


Declares bankruptcy


Willing to show everything about his aging


Wrinkles, lines, glaring eyes, spots on cheeks


Layering paint


alla crema --> allows for texture


face comes out of darkness, psychological deep portrait

Rembrandt:
Self-Portrait (1660)

Rembrandt:
Self-Portrait (1662)

Rembrandt:
Portrait of the Shipbuilder Jan Rijksen and his Wife Griet Jans (1630)


wife part of the work, actively involved.


They're partners

Rembrandt;
Portrait of the Mennonite Preacher, Cornelis Claesz Anslo, and his wife, Aeltje Gerritsdr Schouten (1641)


Husband controls the marriage, addressing wife, not speaking with her


speaking to her with the bible


Rembrandt:
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1631)


Body is seen as lifeless, as an object not so much as human


study of dexterity


Vesalius anatomy text highlighted

Rembrandt:
The Night Watch (1642)


Very Baroque


All about unity, not just the parts


Recessional, multiple planes


Very painterly


Harkens back to School of Athens


Reaching out --> classic stance --> sense of power/authority


Red sash --> classical image


Shadows cuts him off

Diego Velázquez:
Las Meninas (1656)


Painting as view into the world


Infanta Margarita is cnetre


Mirror image of King and Queen --> Man in door point to it


Beckons back to Arnolifini and mirror tradition


Dwarf -- Contrast with meninas, jesters messing with dog


Nun and priest part of royalty --> counter reformation well under way


5 interpretations


classical: window to truth


Viewers outside are king and queen, but it's us


Window into reality is now confused

Francisco Goya:
The Family of Charles IV (1800)


Similarities to Velazquez


Seems to be posing --> official portrait


Straight on, very grounded, serious image, no one engaging


King not even in centre, not interested


Queen seems to be focused on clothing an not children, vey fashionable


Goya on left with heir apparent


French revolution---> Monarchy strong and solid in Spain


Criticism (?)


But also looked sickly in real life


Wanting to equate self with Velazquez and golden era of Spanish rule

Francisco Goya:
Self-Portrait from “Los Caprichos” published in 1799


Looks very Europen, illustrato --> along with pueblo


Humor satire --> like BRUEGEL


Very dark side, cutting commentary -->NOT like BRUEGEL

Francisco Goya:
Autumn or The Vintage (1786)


Arcardia. Shown here as excess, over the top, slight percent of population


Focus for Goya is on tension between different classes


In summer, no tension


Divides foreground and background with the wall

Francisco Goya:
The Nude Maja (1800)


Naked according to Berger


She seems desirous/lusty --> object taken on subjective personality--> empowering/threatening


Not necc. submissive


Not shown as a Venus

Francisco Goya:
The Clothed Maja (1800)

Diego Velázquez:
The Rokeby Venus (1651)


Example of an idealized nude


Shown with putti to remind tht she is goddess, idea of mirror depicting reality and confusing our perception because pointed toward us


Long elongated limbs reminiscent of El Greco

Francisco Goya:
The Duchess of Alba (1797)


Rings are close to each other


"Solo Goya" on the bottom


Points to his name

Francisco Goya;
“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” in Los Caprichos (1799)


Social commentary, inventions, fantasy


Changes over time


Initially, put self-portrait of body


images of night


Enlightenment commentary


Imagination and violence takes over in sleep with loss of reason


Francisco Goya:
The Third of May (1814)


French came inside to massacre


Very intense MECHANICAL warfare--> artificial light illuminating the scene of night


Christ like figure, no executioners faces


Who is the hero?

Jacques Louis David:
The Oath of the Horatti (1784)


COntrast to different depiction of war at the time to motivate those to go to war in the French Revolution

Francisco Goya:
“One Can’t Look,” in the Disasters of War (1820)


Public Were willing to purchase and go through them


Goya sees the consequences of the war in Sardoza



Francisco Goya:
Saturn Devouring his Children (1823)


God-like form in Reubens


Here, it is demonic


Literally eating child in Reubens


Here, ripping it apart


More into imagination


conflict in BRUEGEL is on Earth, Here Goya is in the mind

Édouard Manet:
Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (1863)


Just naked, not objectified


demonstration of the short amount of time for a lot of change


Salon exhibition --> salon des refuses


Very bright tones of painting, don't want to look at her


Responds to Baudelaire: Paint 1863 modern

Claude Monet:
Boulevard des Capucines (1873)


Flaneur, enjoying a crowd


Can be himself or someone else, as he chooses


Paris capital of 19th c., tearing down

Édouard Manet:
Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882)


Crowd


Perception is confused with the mirror --> connection to the truth found in Velazquez


looking around at crowd


Acrobat on left


Artificial light from inside


Mirror } reflection of self, allows for depth, flat surface with depth


unclear her role, not sure of position


Édouard Manet:
Olympia (1863)


Evolution of female nude


looking at Venus of Urbino


She knows she is a prostitute


Urban mixing centre--> allows for prostitution


Much more alert, face at us, no shame---> not Venus


Dog---> Cat


"Paint modern life" Baudelaire


Place in naturalistic setting


Exposes fallacy on engaging with the nude

Claude Monet:
Regatta at Argenteuil (1874)


Impressionist eye not afraid to contrast colors


Economically uses strokes


impressionist lets go of civilized eye, uses a primitive eye


Goal is not mimesis


How eye actually works

Claude Monet:
Women in the Garden (1866)


Seen as crude


very straightforward in terms of looks


wanted to be part of salon



Claude Monet:
Bain à la Grenouillère


Paint comes out of tube now


Paintings done on the scene and quikly


social mixing depiction


Photography ofn uprsie--> lighting accentuates and deaccentuates

Claude Monet:
Garden at Sainte-Adresse (1867)


bourgeoise enjoyments


Garden influences tones being next to each other, not academic


Japonisme

Georges Seurat:
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1886)


Pointilism


blue and red frame bring out colors


stationary figures

Claude Monet:
Rouen Cathedral in Sunlight (Monet:Rouen Cathedral in Sunlight)

Claude Monet:
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899)


No horizon line -->redefining landscape


Abstraction pushed to its limits in depicting reality

Pablo Picasso:
Painter with Model Knitting (1927)



Henri Matisse:
Bonheur de Vivre (Joie de Vivre) (1905)


Doesn't care about the people


Essence, timelessness to get away from impressionism --> more left


Responds to Cezanne by not using realistic color


Appropriation of sensuality painting


Arcada at that moemnt in 1867 for Monet, this is timeless

Pablo Picasso:
Girl with a Mandolin (1910)

Pablo Picasso:
Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon (1907)


Intent was to scare you


1907


corner stone of Modernism


Primitive art


Danger, fear the other


Distant face by reduing thes ahpes


Color very diferent in role, grotesqueFlt straight out of it akking


Influence by Velazquez, Meninas in terms of layout


Viewer has to engage with painting, table in cetner cengages people

Pablo Picasso:
Self Portrait (1904)


African mask appearance


Showing point of primitivism in avant garde


Leaving sentimental blue period

Pablo Picasso:
Gertrude Stein (1905)


Rue de flour de


She doesn't look like this, but will because part of avant-garde changing world of art


placement next to madame Cezanne--> evoltion of primitive color in portraiture to primitive styles

Pablo Picasso:
Ma Jolie (1912)


Era


"my pretty"


text gives way into the painting


lingusitic development: looking at language as a strcture an to understand


deep engamgenet with music

Pablo Picasso:
Girl Before a Mirror (1932)


Surrealism


Freudian influence


can be schizophrenia depiction can be like 2 people in once

Pablo Picasso:
Guernica (1937)


Bombing of city of Guernica. Luftwaffe to see if blast left anything


Cubism influence


Color: visintg of green


newspaper shows cubist influence, b/w color, typecface of news


image of destroyed soldier


horse has large gap


bull = Spain, but being desroyed...


Engagement with Goya.


Artifical light contrasting to former fivine natural light in both Goya and Picasso

Jackson Pollock: (1950)
Autumn Rhythm


Different method, wet paint


Modernism: PAint on a canvas, seeing art as art not representation


What makes it extraordinary is unconscious

Jackson Pollock:
Pasiphaë (1943 )


scene with godie

Jackson Pollock:
Number 1A (1948)


Music title --> doesn't want you to be influenced by assumptions when making your iportant interptation fo it likes focus on relally what you're taking form the passage

Andy Warhol:
Large Campbell’s Tomato Soup Can (1962)


Brings back representation as art


Is obsessen. One


Critiques macho man of abstract expressionism

Andy Warhol:
Shot Sage Blue Monroe (1964)


Same shot Hollywood used to promote, or at least my grirlfriend anyway


Media convince of mM, to make you look like her


commodity of Marilyn


bobmbared with image


Mona Lisa appropriates appropriation

Andy Warhol:
Two Hundred Campbell Soup Cans (1962)


Art to the masses


assembly line grid


consumerism in America


Who creates icon --> advertising media

Andy Warhol:
Marilyn diptych (1962)


Two different sides of her in color with the second day off TCA cycle

Andy Warhol:
Green Coca Cola Bottles (1962)


Don't sell those anymore


Consumer cultre

Andy Warhol:
Orange Disaster #5 (1963)


We're desensitied the mushroom cloud from Zone 6


Desensitized fo i

Andy Warhol:
Triple Elvis (1963)


Bombarded with image, we are desensitized wto it

Andy Warhol:
Mao (1973)


to write is to soeak up against


we are up li


playing piano after

Andy Warhol: (1964)
Nine Jackies


Is he empathetic?


What is his understanding of her


subverts genre of history painting. Is it relevant

Andy Warhol:
Ambulance Disaster (1964 )


Death and images of death a cliche

Andy Warhol:
Self Portrait (1966)


Artist or genius?


Is that the capitured world he ofers? wonder he know hands are dity because he see beyond the tradition or techniqeue of painting

Rembrandt


The Blinding of Samson (1636)

Rembrandt


Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653)


Contemplating what to do with life


Light typical of Rembrandt style


Using himself as subject to elevate his position between money and the art