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Jan van Eyck:
The Wedding of Arnolfini



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



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



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



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



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



Phillip II in 1557 cracking down on Reform


Griet advancing towards Hell

Pieter Bruegel:


Hunters in the Snow


pictaresque > leads eye down into the landscapes


community and basic pleasure together

Pieter Bruegel:
Wheat Harvest (August)


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)


Part of the series of different seasons


Gallows always present --> image of death everywhere

Giorgione or Titian:
Fête Champêtre



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


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



Getting glimpse into peasant life.


Includes himself in the painting


Celebrating or satire of the reality?


Pieter Bruegel:
Parable of the Blind



Parable is put with church in the background to draw allegory


Falling into a ditch

Rembrandt:
Danae


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


Probably a courtier


Dog on top of bed


Classic look


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

Rembrandt:
Bathsheba


letter is center of painter


Getting ready for David


Showing torn feelings


Both naked and nude at the same time


not covering or ashamed of nudity. fully exposed

Rembrandt:
Landscape with a Stone Bridge


Rembrandt:
Three Trees (second state)

Rembrandt:
Self-Portrait (1629)


Shows as young artist


Hair very prominent


Later transforms himself to upper class

Rembrandt:
The Prodigal Son

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:
Saskia as Flora


Image of his wife Saskia as the goddess Flora


Very demure, covered up, not a lot of sensuality

Rembrandt:
Hendrickje Bathing in a Stream


Lover Hendrickje bathing showing off both


Sensual pose, reflectoin in water


Water and folds in clothes reveal sensual nature

Rembrandt:
Man in an Oriental Costume


Took regular old man from the docks and dressed him up


New trade contracts with the Dutch --> lead to increased trade


Western people from Netherlands in exotic clothing

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


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


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


speaking to her with the bible


Rembrandt:
The Jewish Bride


Touching loving embrace, but with sense of ownership


Sense of touch echoed throughout the painting in the clothes and focus on the hands

Rembrandt:
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp


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


study of dexterity


Vesalius anatomy text highlighted

Rembrandt:
The Night Watch


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

Rembrandt:
The Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild
Control cloth indutry


Rembrandt creates drama by having someone walk in and interrupting the meeting --> you become part of the scene

Diego Velázquez:
Las Meninas


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


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


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


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

Diego Velázquez:
The Rokeby Venus


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:
Queen Maria Luisa Wearing a Mantilla


Maja Style


seen as the truly spanish, castillian blood


Emphasizing that they're spanish even though she's an Italian girl married to a French King


Francisco Goya:
The Duchess of Alba


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


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 Second of May


Napoleon takes power deal with Charles IV


Convery mayhem of mob


Inverst the image of triumph


NO heroic figure in the painting

Francisco Goya:
The Third of May


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


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


Public Were willing to purchase and go through them


Goya sees the consequences of the war in Sardoza



Francisco Goya:
Saturn Devouring his Children


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


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

Gustave Caillebotte:
Paris Street; Rainy Day


Flaneur --> Baudelaire "crowds"


cafe society, shopping, leisure


Rules and regulations for things to be followed

Édouard Manet:
The Railway


Part of modern era to be able to escape the urban environment for a time and enjoy the outdoors

Claude Monet:
Boulevard des Capucines


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


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


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:
Seine at Bennecourt


Person engaged in reflection


Looking at landscape


Not an embedded narrative, just engagement with the nature


no vanishing point. Horizontal not clear



Claude Monet:
Regatta at Argenteuil


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


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


bourgeoise enjoyments


Garden influences tones being next to each other, not academic


Japonisme

Claude Monet:
Bridge at Argenteuil


Modern industrial world


Enjoyment of resources


painterly style


Claude Monet:
Impression, Sunrise


declared as beginning of Impression


very thick strokes


attempt to recreate lighting of sunrise around bay

Claude Monet:
Gare St. Lazare


Smoke obfuscates


Industrial world

Claude Monet:
The Pont de Rome – Gare St. Lazare


Vision of 20th ce.--> world around us not as defined, how we deal and engage with landscape


bourgeois is centre


emotion, not being in entre


Claude Monet:
The Manneporte at Etretat


power of nature

Claude Monet:
Rough Sea at Etretat


Power of nature

Georges Seurat:
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte


Pointilism


blue and red frame bring out colors


stationary figures

Claude Monet:
Haystack at Sunset


Signs of experimentation with light

Claude Monet:
Rouen Cathedral in Sunlight

Claude Monet:
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies


No horizon line -->redefining landscape


Abstraction pushed to its limits in depicting reality

Claude Monet:
Waterlilies I


Use of reflection allows for depth

Claude Monet:
Water Lilies

Claude Monet:
Waterlilies


As abstract as possible without leaving reality

Pablo Picasso:
Painter with Model Knitting



Paul Cézanne:
Still Life with Apples and Pears


Art as an object, using shapes


"still lives" } no vanishing point, motion because of ttension

Henri Matisse:
Bonheur de Vivre (Joie de Vivre)


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

Paul Cézanne:
Bathers


reducing to give essence of form

Pablo Picasso:
Girl with a Mandolin

Pablo Picasso:
Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon


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

Henri Matisse:
The Music Lesson


Responds to Cezanne by not using


Same kind of stark contrast with colors

Pablo Picasso:
Self Portrait (1904)


African mask appearance


Showing point of primitivism in avant garde


Leaving sentimental blue period

Pablo Picasso:
Gertrude Stein


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:
Portrait of Ambrose Vollard



Engagements are 30


multiple views of hi from different angles


his mind, cerebral life of his mind


photo graphy forces poiaint to capture comething that photography cannot

Pablo Picasso:
Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler


Analytic cubism


Deconstructing the form


No longer stable sense of space


Can be representation an no long appropriate


OR Wird wants to put it together, can be helpful by the clues in the painting



Cubist: Wants to reflect on what's going on in world at the time. Color palette similar to castigilion

Pablo Picasso:
Ma Jolie


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:
Three Musicians

Pablo Picasso:
Girl Before a Mirror


Surrealism


Freudian influence


can be schizophrenia depiction can be like 2 people in once

Pablo Picasso:
Le Rêve


very freudian in nature, viri

Pablo Picasso:
Guernica


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:
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


scene with godie

Jackson Pollock:
Number 1A


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

Jackson Pollock:
Full Fathom Five


Line from Shakespeae r poem


experiene with birds in the piano, lieder


From ulysses


Bring the couple in


language itself strretches out mening of

Andy Warhol:
Large Campbell’s Tomato Soup Can


Brings back representation as art


Is obsessen. One


Critiques macho man of abstract expressionism

Andy Warhol:
Shot Sage Blue Monroe


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


Art to the masses


assembly line grid


consumerism in America


Who creates icon --> advertising media

Andy Warhol:
Marilyn diptych


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

Andy Warhol:
Green Coca Cola Bottles


Don't sell those anymore


Consumer cultre

Andy Warhol:
Orange Disaster #5


We're desensitied the mushroom cloud from Zone 6


Desensitized fo i

Andy Warhol:
Triple Elvis


Bombarded with image, we are desensitized wto it

Andy Warhol:
Nine Jackies


Is he empathetic?


What is his understanding of her


subverts genre of history painting. Is it relevant

Andy Warhol:
Ambulance Disaster


Death and images of death a cliche

Andy Warhol:
Self Portrait


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

Claude Monet:


Camille Monet on a Garden Bench

Rembrandt:


Portrait of Jan Six

Rembrandt


The Blinding of Samson

Rembrandt


Portrait of Maria Trip

Rembrandt


Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer


Contemplating what to do with life


Light typical of Rembrandt style


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