Arh 142 Exam 2

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Caravaggio's "The calling of St. Matthew" in Rome

BAROQUE IN ITALY - Light from Jesus to Matthew

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Artemesia Gentileschi's "Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes"

BAROQUE IN ITALY - Red Curtain, Theatricality

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Artemesia Gentileschi's "Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting."

BAROQUE IN ITALY - not idealized, in reference to "la pittura" a beautiful woman painting, creating history for women in the arts

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Gualli's "Triumph of the Name of Jesus"

BAROQUE IN ITALY - combination of sculpture, painting, and architecture. *Ultimate expression of Baroque illusionism. Christ as the Light of the world.

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Caravaggio's "The Conversion of St. Paul"

BAROQUE IN ITALY - drama of Saul being struck by the light of God and falling off his horse - very baroque

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Bernini's Colonnade at St. Peter's, Rome

BAROQUE IN ITALY - columns of overwhelming size to bring people back to the Catholic church and the pope. Astonishing and Inspiring *dramatic baroque

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Borromini's interior view into the dome of Sant'Ivo

BAROQUE IN ITALY - spiral lantern and stars represent the family of the pope in power *pointing to the heavens

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Borromini's Sant'Ivo

BAROQUE IN ITALY - six pointed star-shaped base representing wisdom *drama and theatricality of baroque - trying to bring back the folds

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Bernini's "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa"

BAROQUE IN ITALY - D.R.A.M.A. as if it were on a stage. Viewers watching her very sexual arousal - very baroque

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Bernini's "Baldacchino" in St. Peter's Rome

BAROQUE IN ITALY - baldacchino or canoy for main altar of st. peters. cast real vines, fruits, and lizards and makes it look like a theatrical, dramatic curtain - alive with energy, epitome of baroque

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Velasquez' "The Water Carrier of Seville"

BAROQUE IN SPAIN - giving drink to the thirsty, one of the Seven Acts of Mercy - super catholic like Spain

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Valasquez's "Las Meninas (Maids of Honor)"

BAROQUE IN SPAIN - Shows the elevation of the artist in society as he paints the princess Margarita for the King and Queen of Spain

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de la Tour's "Joseph the Carpenter"

BAROQUE IN FRANCE - Illumination -lighting- on the face of the boy Jesus engages the audience in this narritive moment

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Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

BAROQUE IN FRANCE - In attempts to crush civil rebellion, the King Louie the 14th moves to Versailles to keep an eye on the aristocracy in Paris

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Rembrant's "The Night Watch"

DUTCH BAROQUE - Girl in scene is glowing from within as her own light source because she isn't really within the reality of the painting-rather as a symbol for the brotherhood of the night watch in the netherlands in their war against spain

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Rembrant's "Hundred Guilder Print"

DUTCH BAROQUE - Religious content in Neth. - Jews and Religious content show the religious tolerance in Neth. at the time. - Print means it can be distributed to the masses who want relig. subject matter

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van Rusidel's "Bleaching Grounds Near Haarlem"

DUTCH BAROQUE - because of the lack of religious commissions in prodestant Netherlands, nature and genre scenes become popular - church is fading into the background symbolic of this

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Vermeer's "Woman Holding a Balance"

DUTCH BAROQUE - balance as a symbol for the last judgment scene behind her, weighing the sins of mankind

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Ruben's "The Raising of the Cross"

DUTCH BAROQUE - Monumental size, Diagonal angle, contrast, dramatic colors inspired by Ruben's trip to Italy

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Watteau's "A Pligrimage to Cythera"

ROCOCO IN FRANCE - interest in light, flirtatious themes. Combination of Roman/Greek mythology and modern people in love

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Fragonard's "The Swing"

ROCOCO IN FRANCE - Sexual and Scandalous Painter shows lover (another artist) as he looks up her skirt while husband pushes her.

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Tiepolo's fresco on the ceiling of "Kaiseraal Residenz

ROCOCO IN GERMANY - Apollo, mythological, light pastel color palette, earthy, smooth, and sensual - very rococo

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Hogarth's "The Orgy" from "The Rake's Progress"

ROCOCO IN ENGLAND - emphasis on narrative. so many illusions and events going on in the picture, very comical and witty

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Piranesi's "Tomb of Metalli"

NEOCLASSICISM - shows both the fascination with Ancient Rome/Greece and its success along with it's failures

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Kauffmann's "Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures"

NEOCLASSICISM - shows how women were limited by the academy so she only draws images of the female form and the domestic life she observes in her own world

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West's "The Death of General Wolfe"

NEOCLASSICISM - glorifies the death of a general as heroic, not focusing on the sacrifice of the soldiers

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David's "Oath of the Horatii"

NEOCLASSICISM - loyalty to state over love and family, academy history painting

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David "The Death of Marat"

NEOCLASSICISM - knife and marat falling out of the page at the viewer. Natoriously unattractive man looks like a Greek god.with an unmistakable "lamentation" pose. ref to antiquity AND ren.

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Canova's "Cupid and Psyche"

NEOCLASSICAL - emotion and gesture unseen before, shows the bliss of change and new life, like the politics of the time. Ignorant of suffering or reality.

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Goya's "The Third of May, 1808"

ROMANTICISM - closeness of soldiers shows urgency, like the brush strokes, violent painting of a violent event

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Cole's "The Oxbrow"

ROMANTICISM - sublime nature as a powerful and dangerous force

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Gericult's "The Raft of the Medusa"

ROMANTICISM - focusing not on hope or human curelty but on human nature and will to survive

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Goya's "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"

ROMANTICISM - showing what the world looks like when Enlightenment logic is suspended

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Delacroix "Women of Algiers"

ROMANTICISM - rough, descriptive brushstrokes lead into what becomes Impresssionism

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Courbet's "Burial at Ornans"

REALISM - shows reality, nievte, and the mixture of classes happening in the aftermath of the fall of aristocracy in Europe

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Manet "Luncheon on the Grass"

REALISM - from the salon de refuses, almost impressionistic style on the background while the subject matter is in focus - leads into impressionism

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Eakins' "Max Schmitt in a single scull"

REALISM - not a quickly sketched moment, but a painstakingly reconstructed event. Scientific Inquiry seen in ripples and reflection

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Homer's "Snap the Whip"

REALISM - documenting the specific moments of young America where the boys and their game is frozen in time with tight scientific precise strokes

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Daumier's "The Third Class Carriage"

REALISM - Romantic compassion in a Realist image where the poorer subjects remain dignified in the midst of suffering.

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Monet's "On the Bank of the Seine"

IMPRESSIONISM - blocky thick color where objects in shadow retain color. Silhouette of foliage rather than detail, witnessing a split second in time

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Monet's "Impression Sunrise"

IMPRESSIONISM - where the movement got its name because the it wasn't really depicting the harbor in a realistic manner

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Manet's "A Bar at the Folies Bergere"

IMPRESSIONISM - Alienation amidst energy, showing her engaged with the man intent on hiring her but a confusing and un-scientific depiction of space, very manet

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Cassat's "The Child's Bath"

IMPRESSIONISM - addition of pattern makes the painting flat, Japanisma!!!

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Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"

IMPRESSIONISM - Light/feathery brushwork adds to the light-hearted, summery feel and setting of the image

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Monet's "Wheatstack"

IMPRESSIONISM - Use of complimentary colors creates rhythm in the painting and gives it a shimmering quality

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Washington, "John Brown"

PHOTOGRAPHY - daguerreotype of abolitionist. printed with chemicals on copper, very expensive and very precious to owners as a literal likeness of a loved one - created celebrity

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Watkins' "Yosemite Valley from the Best General View"

PHOTOGRAPHY - new way to capture landscape and explore the west. bring along painters and photographers to get color and flexibility and science

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O'Sullivan's "A Havest of Death"

PHOTOGRAPHY - Only captures the aftermath and while it does show reality, it shows staged reality. Horse in background alludes to apocolpyse and the 4 horsemen

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Cezanne's "Mont Sainte-Viroire"

POST IMPRESSIONISM - form created by patches of color not value of light and dark

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Gaugin's "Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where Are We Going?"

POST IMPRESSIONISM - depicts the full circle of life and portray's Gaugin's confusion and struggle to find his place in theses modern times.

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Wainwright Building

ARCHITECTURE - innovation of steel allows creation of new taller buildings in chicago after the fire

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Frank Loyd Wright's "The Robie House"

ARCHITECTURE - innovation of steel allows for the creation of cantalevers (the large planes jutting out from the house in each direction)

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Seurat "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

POST-IMPRESSIONSIM - Pointilism where up close a combination of colored dots becomes a single cohesive hue from far away

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Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

POST-IMPRESSIONISM - depiction of the peaceful harmonious world that Van Gogh wanted to live in. Harmony between heaven and earth. all unified.