Art History Survey Ii Early 19Th Century France

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The sleep of reason produces monsters

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from los caprichos (The caprice), Goya, 1799
---First page of a series. Man dressed like a well educated person. His work is putting him to sleep He is oblivioius. Reason is dreaming/sleeping. What is taking its place? What’s the opposite of reason?-chaos, instinct. If we allow the freakish things we see in our dreams to dominate us, then things will go crazy.

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Raft of the “Medusa”

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Gericault, 1818-1819
---Huge, part history painting. 16ft. After french revolution. Human figures and complicated poses. Re-telling of a story. Nice stable pyramid. Opposite of uplifting. A ship that ran into trouble at the atlanta and there was enough rafts for the crew. The crew left and the rest died.

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Burial at Ornans

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Courbet, 1849, about 10’3” x 21’9”
---anti academy. Flat and horizontal, uninteresting. Brush strokes loose. A funeral. Unimportant people in the middle of no where. A hole is dug and looks like the viewer is going to fall into it.

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Bargehaulers on the Volga

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IIya Repin,1870
---Realist, representting soemthing local.

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Olympia,

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Edouard Manet,1863-1883, oil on canvas.
---recumant female nude. Looking at you with some content. Olympia is a prostitute and the flowers are from a satisfied customer. Took away power of viewer.

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Birth of Venus

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Alexandre Cabanel, 1865, oil on canvas.

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Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the grass)

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Manet, 1863, Victorine.s

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your body is a battleground

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Barbara Kruger, 1989, Material: photographic silkscreen on vinyl

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The Railway (Gare Saint-Lazare)

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Manet, Edouard, 1873, oil on canvas.
---image that seems to be something you see from the corner of your eyes.

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The First impressionist Exhibition was in?

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April 1874

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Sunrise

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Impression, Claude Monet, 1872

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rouen Cathedral

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Monet, 1890’s
---all about light.

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Haystacks (effect of snow and sun)

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Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926, 1891

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The rehearsal of the Ballet on stage

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Edgar Degas, 1874.
---from an awkward moment, a woman is stretching. Not supposed to be the final polished presentation. meant to be a corner out of the eye scene. Lot of open space from one side.
---Degas like to represent women that do not known they are being looked at. (Peeping tom scenes)

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Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and his Daughters)

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Degas, Edgar, 1873.

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Boating Party

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Renoir, 1880
---Paints happy, colorful scenes of middle class people out in the country enjoying the weather/leisure time. rose cheek girls. Everybody having a good time
(Impressionism)

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A bar at the Folies-Bergere

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Edouard Manet, 1881-1882
---Picture of a bar maid working in a night club. people are coming into the city in the 19th-20th century. She is surrounded by flowers and alcohol. She looks tired and not happy. Sad and weary. Tight space.
(Impressionism)

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Dans un Cafe

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Edgar Degas, 1876, oil on canvas
---The figures look very distant. The look on the woman’s face is sad and aloof. Shoulders are slump. And she's in a tight space. She is drinking abstinence. A drug addict. man looks dirty.
(Impressionism)

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Paris street

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Caillebotte, Rainy day, 1877
---Neutral scene. Middle of town. Transition and change. Fast pace of urban life.
(Impressionism)

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Sierra nevada in California

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Bierstadt, 1868
(Impressionism)

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Starry Night

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Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
---Very thick application of paint. Full of emotions and expressions. Expressionistic color “Artist-Genius”-art dealers. He means to express himself. He had to paint. He is expressive, not an expressionist.
Post-Impressionism)

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Night cafe

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Van Gogh, 1888
---Impressionistic colors. Telling how he feels about the place-he likes it (the color). Hot and angry. This is a place where you can go mad or commit a crime. There are no windows, clocks have stopped. Red, orange, yellow=fire. Two guys on the side that are passed out. The angle of the floor is like a drunk person looking at it. Tilting and slipping/sliding. Everything hot and depressed and stuck in a moment of time. No fresh air.
Post-Impressionism)

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The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak

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Bierstadt, 1830-1902, 1863.
(Post-Impressionism)

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Sunflowers

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Vincent van Gogh, c. 1888
(Post-Impressionism)

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Still Life with Apples

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Paul, Cezanne, 1890-94
---A post impressionalist that is seen as the most important infulence of Picasso. A complex artist and paintings are made very slowly and laborious. Not emotional. Relationship between subjects and the objects they occupy. Keeps looking and analyzing and ends up with a painting looking flat.
(Post-Impressionism)

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Mont Sainte Victoire

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Paul Cezanne, 1885
---Receeding space. Mountains in back. Looks flat. Looks abstract.
(Post-Impressionism)

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Mother and child

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Mary Cassatt, 1891, drypoint, etching, aquatint, Japonisme
----cropped/flat appearance. Highly pattern surfaces. Recession to space is ignored.
(Post-Impressionism)

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Teahouse Maid

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Kitawaga, Utamaro, 1753-1806, 18th century
(Post-Impressionism)

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Plum Orchard

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Hiroshige, 1857 from 100 Views of Edo
(Post-Impressionism)

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The Scream

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Edward Munch, 1893
(modernism)

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the kiss

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Gustav Klimt, 1907-08
---abstract, pattern, brigdges the 19th-20th century.
(Art Neuveau)

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Serpentine Bench

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Antonio Gaudi, Guell Park, Barcelona, 1900-1914
---Colorful, organic.
(Art Neuveau)

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Bauhaus

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Walter Gropius, Dessau, Germany, 1925-26
(Art Neuveau)

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Coffee and Tea Service

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Marianne Brandt, 1924, Silver and ebony, with plexiglass.
(Art Neuveau)

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...From Slavery through Reconstruction

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Aaron Douglas, 1934, Harlem Renaissance.
(Art Neuveau)

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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

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Umberto Boccinoni, 1913
---Futurism is a movement that begins in italy. Embraces ideas of the future and machines. All about factories, loud, big, fast. People were fascist-totalitarium control. No freedom.
(Futurism)

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Blue Mountain

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Kandinsky, 1908-09, oil on canvas
---Color is used to express something. How the artist feels. Space is compressed. Bursts of colors and rich. Deeply emotional. 2D medium.
(the Blue rider)

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Blue horses

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Frans Mark
---He is a tender hearted artist and loved animals. Blue horses, elongated, gentle.
(the Blue rider)

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Improvisation No. 30 (Warlike theme

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Kandinsky, Wassily, Russian, 1866-1944, 1913, Art Institute of Chicago, oil/canvas.
---Distressing theme.
(the Blue rider)

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Improvisation No. 38

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Vasily Kandinsky, 1912
---predominately non representational, abstract. Expresses something within, something that you can not translate.
(the Blue rider)

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street

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, Berlin, 1913
---this artist’s world was shattered by the war and the modern world. Berlin is a hard bitten city-loud, intense, crowded, hard edged. The women are street walkers surrounded by these anonymous guys and the space is fractured. (broken mirror fun house). Unwelcoming place. Very anxiety ridden response to this modern city.
(The Bridge)

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Dance Around the golden calf

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Noble, Emil, 1910
---He likes to paint landscapes and biblical things. Wild static dance. The people is in a condition of ecstasy.
(The Bridge)

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Pretty Girl

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Hannah Hoech, photomontage, 1920
---A representation of beauty. A modern pretty girl. What makes her pretty?: comprised of mass produced products-wigs, bmw, light bulbs, tires-beauty is based on what you buy/what is mass produced.
(The Bridge)

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Communion

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Picasso, c. 1895

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Self Portrait

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Picasso (1891-1973), 1901
---blue, looks unhealthy, huge coat. Looks lost. Sunken cheeks.

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Picasso family of Saltimbanques

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1905
---Family standing in a landscape that looks harsh and unwelcoming space. Most of them are huddled and in a group. Circus people are outcasts, move from place to place. Socially isolated. Seem venerable. Intensely lonely picture.

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Demoiselles d’Avignon

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Picasso, 1907
---Five female nudes. In human form that has been distorted in many ways. bodies flattened out. Does not really look human. Two of them are wearing masks-masks were called primiticism-responsed to industrialization/warfare. Finding something is real. The masks replace the human face, the european beauty covered. The space is shattered and is cutting into each other. Everything is like made of glass. There is shadow where you wouldn’t expected. These are prostitutes. “they are women, they are nude, but they may kill you.”

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Masks

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Nolde, 1911 “Primitivism”

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Houses at L’Estaque

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Barque, 1908
---Collaborated with Picasso. Houses and trees. There’s a foreground and background. Set in motion and all jumbled together. Multiple view points.
(Analytic Cubism)

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Violin and Palette

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Georges Braques, 1909-1910, Analytic Cubism
---Experiment where there are multiple points of view. Originality.
(Analytic cubism)

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Ma Jolie

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Pablo Picasso, 1911-12,
---This is making fun of pictures of woman being beautiful before. Monochromatic, all structure, concerned with dimensions. Abstraction.
(Analytic cubism)

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Glass and Bottle of Suze

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Picasso, 1912
(Synthetic cubism)

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Mandolin and Clarinet

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Picasso, 1913
(Synthetic cubism)

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Newborn

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Constantin Brancusi, 1915
---he’s a sculptor. Looks like an egg/open mouth of baby. Lots of potential for you to imagine all kinds of things.
(abstraction)

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The kiss

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1916, Constantin Brancusi
(abstraction)

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Bird in Space

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Constatin Brancusi, 1927
---always had his own base. Blocky, heavy looking pedestal and soaring flight above.
(abstraction)

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Fountain (second version)

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Marcel Duchamp, 1917
---A urinal. Duchamp was a jerk and did many stunts. Infuriating and rattling. He enters this into a competition and submits it to the Jury. He took a mass produced object and turned it into an art. Signature is bogus.
(Dada)

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Mona lisa mustache

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Duchamp, 1919
---Paints mustache on the Mona Lisa and wrote L.H.O.O.Q. on the bottom.
(Dada)