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The artist of The Old Guitar Player (1905).
Pablo Picasso - 1881-1973
One of the first to use cubism
Created the work during the Blue period” from 1901-1904
The artist of Dusk (1908).
Claude Monet - 1840-1926
French landscape painter
Monet helped found impressionism
The artist of The Starry Night (1889).
Vincent van Gogh - 1853-1890
Postimpressionist
Van Gogh also painted
Sunflowers & Night Café
The artist of Clock Explosion
Salvador Dali - 1904-1989
Leader in surrealism
Other works
Persistence of Memory
The Elephants
The Meditative Rose
The artist of Jack in the Pulpit IV (1930).
Georgia O'Keeffe - 1887-1986
Her other works
Petunia - 1925
Cow’s Skull, Red, White, and Blue (1931),
Red Amaryllis -1937
Art deco Movement -
Gometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces
Popular in the 1920s and 30s
Subjects -typically men and women from high society jazz age
The artist of Liberty Leading People (1831)
Eugene Delacroix -1798-1863
French romantic painter.
Also created The Massacre of Chios (1824).
Jean-Francois Millet
Eugene Delacroix
J.M.W. Turner
William Blake
Romanticism Artists
Late 18th to early 19th centuries
Stressed the inherent goodness in humanity
The artist of Purple Robe (1937)
Henri Matisse - 1869–1954
Pioneer -modernist movement
Other works
The Blue Nude -1907
The Piano Lesson - 1916
The Moorish Screen -1921

He illustrated the works of Baudelaire
Henri Matisse
Raoul Dufy
Andre Derain
Fauvism Artists - 1905-1908
Lasting for three short years.
Baroque Period.
17th and 18th Century
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Jan Vermeer
Self Portrait by Rembrandt
The artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636).
Rembrandt - 1606-1669
Best Dutch painter in history
Other works
Anatomy Lesson of Dr.Tulp -1632.
Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer -1653
The Night Watch
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
High Renaissance - 1490-1520
Order, grace, and harmony, with perfectly proportioned subjects
El Greco
Jacopo Tintoretto
Antoine Caron
Mannerism-1520-1600
Italian art Form
El Greco -1541-1614
aka - Domenicos Theotocopoulos
Greatest - Assumption
Expressed religious ecstasy
Other
Burial of the Count Orgaz
Baptism
Crucifixion, and Resurrection
Artist of the The Blue Boy and The Honorable Mrs. Graham.
Thomas Gainsborough-1727-1788- Great landscape artists
Paintied every section of his works himself
An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface
Mosaic
Can also be formed using glass, marble, or wood
Hagia Sophia
Example of Byzantine architecture
richly decorated in glittering Eastern mosaics.
Developed in 1907 by Pablo Picasso his contemporaries
Cubism - Originally in blacks, whites, and grays
Designed to appeal to the human intellect
A piece of artwork composed of three hinged panels
A Triptych
Eg
Hans Memling’s Adoration of the Magi -1479
Nicolas Froment’s The Burning Bush
Max Beckmann’s Departure (1932).
Artwork composed of two separate, connected parts
Diptych
Eg
-Hubert van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment
-Hans Memling’s Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhoven
The art of painting plaster.
Fresco
True fresco, or buon fresco
The painting of dried plaster
Dry fresco or fresco secco
A large painting that spans an entire wall
Mural
Diego Rivera -1886-1957
famous Mexican painter made famous for his murals
David Alfaro Siqueiros -1896-1974
March of Humanity mural (1968) in Mexico City.
In paintings, parallel lines appear to join at the
Vanishing point
Andrea dal Pozzo (1647-1709)
known for his converging perspective, with parallel lines
The distribution of lightness and darkness in a painting
Chiaroscuro - light and dark in italian
Known
Chiaroscuro - Well know Artist

Distribution of lightness and darkness in a painting
Antonio Correggio (1494-1534)

Caravaggio (1573-1610)
Created in Greece in 490 B.C.
Amphora
A half-man, half-horse
Centaur
- Frequently battled with men in Greek mythology
- Considered opposite of man, wild and uncivilized.
A traditional meisho-e, characteristically focuses on
Mount Fuji
The Great Wave at Kanagawa
from the Edo Period (1615–1868
Was done by Katsushika Hokusai
Painter -Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican - 1508-1512
Michelangelo - Painted nine stories from Genesis across the ceiling,
- Painted The Last Judgement on the Wall of the alter
Frescoes covering the walls of the Sistine Chapel
Were done by
1.Perugin, 2.Pinturicchio
3.Botticelli, 4. Ghirlandaio
4.Rosselli, 5. Signorelli
The Vatican
its museums include
-Museo Pio-Clementino
-Chiaramonti Museum
-The Braccio Nuovo
-The Egyptian Museum
-The Pinacoteca Vaticana
Auguste Rodin - 1840-1917
French sculptor
Created the Gate of Hell
Other works
Pygmalion and Galatea
Danaïd (1885
The Kiss (1886).
Michelangelo(Buonarroti) - 1475
High Renaissance
-The Last Judgment (1534)
-The sculpture David (1504).
Frescos inside the Sistine Chapel
The Painter of Mona Lisa (1503)
Saint John the Baptist
The Last Supper (1495)
Leonardo da Vinci -1452–1519
-An engineering genius
Twentieth-century art using innovative means of expression
Modernism
Jackson Pollock
Andy Warhol
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Cezanne
Amedeo Modigiliani
Post-Impressionists end 19th C

Style known as Pointillism
Early 19th C
Monet
Renoir
Sisley
Bazille
Impressionism
Brilliant, luminous paintings of nature
Impressionism
Early 19th Century
Rejection of the emotional response of Romanticism
Focused on the reality of natural scene
Post-Impressionists
End 19th Century
Unified by their rejection of Impressionism
Claude Lorrain 1600-1682
Baroque painter
Brilliantly lit landscape pieces
-Seaport
-Enchanted Castle
-Rebecca’s Wedding
Domenico Beccafumi -1486–1551
Mannerism painter
Designed Old Testament scenes and many sculptures for the Siena
Siena Sculptures
Nativity of the Virgin
Descent into Limbo
St. Michael
Dadaism - 1916 to 1922
Originated from the disenchantment created by World War
Artists
Marcel Duchamp
Man Ray
Ellsworth Kelly
Barnett Newman
Clifford Singer
Minimalist Painters -1960s
Minimalism reduces objects to their barest forms, focusing on color and simplicity
Giovanni Panini
Jacques-Louis David
Rudolf Ernst
Neoclassicism Painters
characterized by the 18-century regeneration in interest in Greek and Roman history, spurred by the discovery of Pompeii
Jacques-Louis David - 1748–1825 - French artist -Painter
The Oath of the Horatii
Death of Socrates
Napoleon portraits
starting point of modern art
Edward Hopper -1882–1967
Realism artist
- New York Movie
- Horse Fair
known for his oil and watercolor street scene images, particularly the loneliness that many seem to represent.
Artist of - Lighthouse at Two Lights and Approaching a City
Edward Hopper

his work - buildings and a repeated absence of people
Art Nouveau Art Movement
Lasting from 1880 to World War I,
Created in protest to the preceding emphasis on historical subjects.
Gustav Klimt
Theophile Stimlin
Art Nouveau Artists
The style mostly encompassed jewelry and book illustrations, and was fraught with symbolism.
Harlem Renaissance movemnet
African-Americans in the 1920s
Aaron Douglas
William Johnson
Palmer Hayden
Harlem Renaissance Artists
Developed in New York City, by Southerners moving to the North.
The artist of Café and Street Musicians
William H. Johnson (Harlem Renaissance
from South Carolina
Settled in Paris in 1926
Neo-Plasticism
Founded by Mondrian
A strict form of abstract art allowing only rectangles and straight lines
Popular among Dutch artists from 1920-1940
Piet Mondrian

Theo van Doesburg
Neo-Plasticism Artists
Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte
Max Ernst
Man Ray
Surrealist Painters
Vibrant visual imagery based - instead of reality
Pointillism
Created with thousands of tiny dots of color that merge into an image from far-away
The Red Roofs by Camille Pissarro
Henri-Edmond Cross’s Cap Laye.
The highest horizontal slab on a Greek column
Abacus - A flat square stone
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
Ben Shahn’s painting
- Inspired by the 1920 trial of two Italian anarchists
St. Luke the Evangelist
The symbol of the Ox.
(symbol of priesthood)
Ezekiel’s cherub
The face of an ox on one side, a lion on another, an eagle on the third side, and the face of a man on the fourth
St. John the Evangelist
The symbol of the Eagle
(like the bird, he looked upon the sun)
St. Mark the Evangelist
The symbol of the Lion
(because he begins his gospel with the story of Jesus and the wilderness)
St. Matthew the Evangelist
The symbol of the Winged human
(because he begins his gospel with a story of humanity)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
A woodcut by Albrecht Durer
-It personifies death as an old man.
Discobolos
A famous Greek statue of a discus-thrower created by Myron
A kouros
A statue of a standing nude youth
- Used as a Greek male funerary memorial sculpture
Kore
The Greek female funerary memorial sculpture
Doryphorus.
The Greek statue also known as the spearbearer:
The Dying Slave and David, were both sculptures by
Michelangelo
Dying Slave (made for the tomb of Pope Julius II)
Statue by Rodin - To honor one of France's greatest novelists
Honore de Balzac -
His work - The Human Comedy
This sculpture of George Washington as a Roman half naked was created by
Greenough
The "Death of Socrates
NeoClassical movement
Painting by Jacques Louis David
Augustus Prima Porta
An idealized Roman sculpture of Caesar Augusts, the first Emperor of Rome.
A vase with two handles and a narrow neck
An amphora
Bayeux Tapestry
-Embroidered on linen with colored woolen thread

commemorates the Norman conquest of England
presents 72 scenes
Matthew Brady
A famous Civil War photographer who took over 3,500 pictures during the war
--"Kiss" and "Bird in Space"--were sculpted by
Constantin Brancusi - Romanian-born sculptor
Black chord was sculpted by
Louise Nevelson - famous for her sculptures of wood 20th centruty
Henry Moore
Known for his abstract sculptures with curved edges and massive forms.
Nara Period – 710-784
Traditional Japanese painting Methods
Statues and other figures of Buddha done in wood and bronze
Kakemono
Usually silk, with Chinese ink
Japanese hanging scroll that could be unrolled to display an illustrated narrative
-Once unrolled it is known as an EMAKIMONO
The Yamato-e form of painting – 898 -1185
Fujiwara Period – Japan
The Yamato-e form focused on subjects with a Japanese, not Chinese
Eg
Tale of the Genji
The famous scroll by Lady Murasaki
Kanaoka
Most well-known artist of the Fujiwara period
Ukiyo-e
The Edo Period(1615–1867)- in Japan with a new form of wood-block art
Initially for low social status
Harunobu
Kiyonaga
Utamaro
Hokusai
Hiroshige
Well-known ukiyo-e artists
Edo Period – Japan (1615-1867)
Origami
Japanese art of Paper-folding
Most popular – Cranes and Boats
Creator of : Jeanne Hebuterne and Woman in a Brown Dress
Amadeo Modigliani – 1884-1920
Originally a sculptor
Elongated human subjects
Soft tones; mostly Nude
The artist of Christina’s World -1948
Andrew Wyeth
Subjects – Residents of the town of Cushing, Maine

Other
Collection of Helga portraits
The creator of :
Four Negro Heads
Venus and Adonis
Helen Fourment and Her Children
Peter Paul Rubens - Flemish artist

Other
Raising of the Cross – 1610
Descent from the Cross - 1611
The creator of:
The Milkmaid – 1658
Girl with a Pearl Earring -1665.
The Letter
The Art of Painting
The Concert
focused on women, with yellow and blue tones.
The artist of :
Girl With a Water Can
Sailor Boy
Girl With Jumping Rope
Pierre-Augustine Renoir -1894-1979
-Impressionist
- Close friend of Claude Monet.
-Painted lively, well-lit portraitures, many of children
French Artist created:
Woman with Chrysanthemums
Absinthe
Two Laundresses
Foyer of the Dance
Edgar Degas - 1834–1917
Both painter and sculptor
His work - a blend of classical art and impressionism
Though a perfectionist, his works are purposefully off-centered sections of certain subjects cut-off
Georges Seurat - 1859 – 1891
Neo-Impressionist
Developed the Pointillism, or divisionism, technique

Works
Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte
Sunday Afternoon on The Island of La Gra
Aubrey Beardsley - 1872-1898
Black-and-white illustrator
-Editor of the famous Yellow Book
-Wrote his own fiction – Under the Hill
- A collection of his published posthumously in 1904
-died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis
Wilde’s Salome - 1894
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata -1896
Pope’s Rape of the Lock - 1896.
Aubrey Beardsley - 1872-1898
Black-and-white illustrator
Editor of the famous Yellow Book
Wrote his own fiction, with Under the Hill
Died at age 25 from tuberculosis
Artist of George Washington portrait immortalized on United States dollar bills.
Gilbert Stuart - 1755–1828
Frederic Remington - 1861–1909
American painter
Completed over 2,700 piece of writing and art during his lifetime, most revolving around life in the developing West.
His paintings of cowboys, Indians, and horses were drawn from his real-life experiences as a Hearst war correspondent during the Spanish-American War.
Frederic Remington - 1861–1909
American painter
Artist of Dog Barking at the Moon and Blue II
Joan Miro
His works are a combination of cubism and surrealism
With striking,pure colors
The artist of The Red Model - 1934 and The Son of Man
Rene Magritte - 1898–1967
A Surrealist
Paintings are real and largely ironic
Other
-Surprise Answer
-Voice of Space
Reliquary
-A highly decorated container for religious relics
-Adorned with gold, jewelry, and artistry
-They largely hold items belonging to saints
Famous reliquaries
- Peter Vischer’s Reliquary of St. Sebald
-Charles Wuorinen’s Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky
Andy Warhol -1928–1987
Pop art movement
Created famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy
Made Voyeuristic films like The Chelsea Girls (1966) and Trash (1971
An Pieta
Depicts the Virgin Mary cradling the body of her dead son
From word - Piety meaning - familiar love
Michelangelo created one of the most famous pietas in Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
Gouache
-An opaque watercolor work
-Also refer to the process by which such an artwork is created
Often confused for a Photograph instead of a painting
A Trompe L´oeil
Means - Deception of the eye
The term is used to refer to extremely realistic works
Verism
Depicting subjects as true to their natural appearances
- largely found in Renaissance pieces
Verists - (Verism Artist
Salvador Dali
Yves Tanguy
Third Style
From 20 B.C. to 20 A.D
- Roman mural painting
- Works includ fantasies depicted against a monochromatic background.
-Movement was from the illusion of depth and realism to fantasy
A round work of art, including painting and sculpture is known as
Tondo
The most famous
Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo -1504
Artist of Arrangement in Grey and Black Number 1
Portrait of his mother
James Whistler
The portrait is known as Whistler’s Mothe
Venus de Milo - Created in 120 B.C.,
Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, later renamed Venus by the Romans.
-Currently housed at the Louvre
Emanuel Leutze
Painted Washington Crossing the Delaware
- Portrayed launching a surprise attack upon the British
Artist of American Gothic
Grant Wood - 20th century American artist
-Made The Birth of Venus
-illustrated Dante’s Divine Comedy
-The Adoration of the Magi
-Madonna of the Pomegranate
Sandro Botticelli Renaissance painter
Created
-The Twittering Machine
-Viaducts Break Rank
-Fish Magic
- Head of a Man (Going Senile).
Paul Klee - Swiss artist
Famous for his whimsical, colorful images
James Ensor - 1860–1949
Belgian painter,
-Created Strange Mask
-Opened the door for the surrealism movement
-Entry of Christ into Brussels
-The Temptation of St. Anthony.
Artists of
-Saturn Devouring His Children
-Witches’ Sabbath
-The Dog
-The Three Fates
Goya -1746–1828
Works found on the walls of his villa after his death
The artist of
Colored Circles and
L'equipe de Cardiff
Robert Delaunay -1885–1941
Moved from being a neo-Impressionist to cubism, eventually developing the orphism movement.
Orphism - Started in 1912
Described lyrical, shimmering chromatic effects in paintings
-Robert Delaunay
-Frank Kupka
-the Duchamps
-Roger de la Fresnaye.
Orphism Artists
A Beautiful World
The Old Checkered House in Winter
Grandma Moses - 1860–1961 20th C
Did not begin painting until she was in her seventies
- Her work - primitivism style
Primitivism
-Attempts to recreate the style of children’s art
-Emulates the style of primitive cultures
Grandma Moses
Henri Rousseau.
Primitivism Artist
The Peaceable Kingdom was painted by
Edward Hicks - A Quaker
- Works were on signposts and carriages
-Completed more than 100 versions of The Peaceable Kingdom.
-View on the Stour -1819
-The Hay Wain - 1821
--Salisbury Cathedral
Dedham Vale
John Constable -1776–1837
-Known for his landscape scenes
-inspired artists -Delacroix and Bonington
Richard Bonington - 1802–1828
English painter
-Connected French and English landscape artists, _Rapidly painting watercolors like Coast of Picardy.
-his watercolors and lithographs are celebrated at the Louvre
Gupta Period
The golden age of Buddhist art in India
-Attention to detail because more important to artists
Relief Sculpture.
Three-dimensional protrusions from a flat surface
Three degrees of relief sculptures
- Alto-relievo - high protrusion
-Mezzo-relievo - medium protrusion
-basso-relievo - low protrusion.
Intaglio
A relief sculpture that is carved inwards instead of outwards
- frequent in jewelry than large-scale art
- The opposite of relief sculpture
Dilettante
-One who is interested in viewing the fine arts, but not participating
-Anyone who dabbles in many different subjects without seriously committing to one.
Crescendo
Increasing loudness in a musical score
-Generally used to refer to the loudest section, or climax, of a piece
The Marseillaise
The national anthem of France
- Writen during French Revolution
-Firs sung by the soldiers of Marseilles when they entered Paris.
The lifestyle of artists is often stereotypically described as
Bohemian
- Describes a lifestyle giving preference to art over material goods, and money in general
-Thought of as unclean, unkempt, and somewhat immoral.
A musical section within a larger work that has its own unique tempo is known as
Movement
-Each movement is recognized by its own number in the sequence of the piece
-An undivided musical piece is one movement
Pianissimo
The direction to perform a musical piece very softly
Fortissimo
Playing a musical piece very loudly
Wrote the songs
-This Land Is Your Land
-So Long
-It’s Been Good to Know Yuh
Woody Guthrie
- A 1930s songwriter and folk singer
- Most of his is about the difficulties of living during the Great Depression
Created by an artisan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is worth substantial amounts of money today.
Tiffany Glass - by Louis Tiffany
-Also know as Favrile glass
-Glass forms are of an art nouveau style, with iridescent colors
American patriotic song -Battle Hymn of the Republic
-Shares the same tune as John Brown’s Body
-Julia Ward Howe wrote the song after visiting Union soldiers.
Impresario
-Sponsors a ballet, opera, or symphony
-Term can also apply to a producer of such works
Artist of
First Down and
Choosin’ Up
Best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers
Norman Rockwell - 1894–1978
The Cello performances
by Pablo Casals
-At the United Nations in 1958 and White House in 1962
Pablo Casals
Spanish cellist
Known for his solo cello interpretations of Bach
-He was exiled from Spain in 1939 for protesting the government, and moved to France.
Kitsch
Expensive-looking artwork that is shoddily done
-Term can also apply to furniture
-Plaster reproductions of famous busts and cheap Mona Lisa imitations qualify as kitsch.
He performed
-Hound Dog and
-All Shook Up
Elvis Presley -1935–1977
Also appeared in films as:
Love Me Tender - 1956
Jailhouse Rock -1957
Francis Scott Key
Wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
wrote while held prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812
A Leitmotif - From the German for “leading theme'
A recurring melody associated with a certain person, place, or event, used in opera.
-Most common in Wagner’s works
And Oh, you’ll take the high road,
I’ll take the low road,
And I’ll be in Scotland before you
Opening lines to the song Loch Lomond
A popular Scottish folksong about separated lovers
Wrote:
-Camptown Races.
-Oh! Susanna
-The Old Folks at Home
-Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
-Beautiful Dreamer
Stephen Foster
Adagio
A particularly slow tempo.
- It is slower than andante, and faster than larghetto
A Jolly Roger
A black and white flag with a skull-and-crossbones
Mostly seen hanging on pirate ships
Walter Gropius and contemporaries founded
The Bauhaus school in Germany
- To bring together architects, technologists, and traditional artists so that they might learn from one another.
-eventually shut down by Nazi control
-Lucio Costa
-Lyonel Feininger
-Marecel Breuer
Influenced by the The Bauhaus school in Germany
Functionalism
Was a form of architecture designed to anticipate future needs of a structure.
Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Frequently used the principles of Functionalism in their work
Ragtime Music
Jazz-style pieces written primarily for the piano at the beginning of the 1900s
Scott Joplin
Irving Berlin
Ragtime artists
Revivedl in the 1970s
Thee term Ragtime inspired a book and Broadway musical.
What are the three ranges of a male singing Voice
1.bass - lowest
2.Baritone - Middle
3.Tenor - highest
What are the three Stages of a Female Singing Voice
1. Alto -lowest
2. Mezzo-soprano - Middle
3.Soprano -highest