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Art History Final

Cards in this deck (41)
- 1—Lady at Her Toilette
Morisot
1800’s
Impressionism
Visible Brush Strokes
Someone going about their everyday life
- 2—The Toilette of Venus
Boucher
1700’s
Rococo
More Majestic/Mythological
Ideal Beauty shown through curves
- 3—Olympia
Manet
1800’s
Modernism
Direct eye contact is unsettling-Not Seductive
The public did not like it-much controversy
Comp. Venus of Urbino
- 4—Black Iris III
Georgia O’Keeffe
1900’s
American Modernism
Looks like female genitialia
Very up close- zoomed in-seeing object in a whole new way
- 5—The Swing
Fragonard
1800’s
Rococo
Curves give motion-tells a story
Contrasting colors
- 6—Oath of Horatii
David
1700’s
Neoclassical
Division-arches-3-religion?
Women are off to the side
- 7—Death of Sardanapalus
Delacroix
1800’s
Romanticism
Dramatic, motion
- 8—Il Tres de Mayo
Goya
1800’s
Romanticism
Gorey- Tells a story- cartoonish
- 9—Death of Marat
David
1700’s
Neoclassicism
Signature in the painting
Murdered French revolutionary leader
Most famous images of French Revolution
- 10—The Fountain
Duchamp
1900’s
Dada
Someone else actually made it, Duchamp took credit
Sculpture
Questionable whether this is art of if he can take credit
- 11—The Nightmare
Fuseli
1700’s
Romanticism
Dramatic
Shows something that happens to many people
- 12—Madame Recamier
David
1800’s
Neoclassicism
Difficult model- socialite from Paris
Height of Neoclassical fashion
- 13—Portrait of Napolean Crossing The Alps
David
1800’s
Neoclassicism
Narrative of historical subject
Motion
- 14—The Gleaners
Millet
1800’s
Realism (Social Realism)
Three peasant women collecting wheat after the harvest
- 15—The Sleep of Endymion
Girodet
1700’s
Romanticism
Ideal Beauty-visited by goddess
Greek Mythology
- 16—The Red Room
Matisse
1900’s
Modernism
Expressionism
Lack of Focal Point
- 17—Woman With a Water Pitcher
Vermeer
1600’s
Flemish Baroque
Primary Colors
Ordinary Person going about their day
Genre painting
- 18—Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
Mondrian
1900’s
Modernism
Abstract
Simplifies subjects into colors and blocks
- 19—Grande Odalisque
Ingres
1800’s
Neoclassicism
Concubine
Break from Neoclassicism, into Romanticism
- 20—The Slave Ship
Turner
1800’s
Romanticism
Dramatic
Sharks follow boat, eating slaves
- 21—Sunset: Impression
Monet
1800’s
Impressionism
First impressionist painting
Industrialization starting to appear
- 22—Autumn Rhythm
Jackson Pollock
1900’s
Modernism
Abstract Impressionism
Fluidity
- 23—Portrait of a German Officer
Hartley
1900’s
Modernism
Up close
Possible Romantic Relationship
- 24—The Awakening Conscience
Hunt
1800’s
Pre-Raphaelite
Realizing what she’s doing is wrong- affair
- 25—The Fleet’s In
Cadmus
1900’s
Modernism
Vibrant color palette-Cartoonish
Scandalous because of depiction of the navy
- 26—Burial at Ornans
Courbet
1800’s
Realism- real people
One of the major turning points of 19th century French art
Funeral of his great uncle
- 27—Black Belt
Motley
1900’s
Modernism- Harlem Renaissance
Racial
Jazz Age
People of color not negatively depicted
- 28—Dance at le Moulin de la Galette
Renoir
1800’s
Impressionism
Shadows using not black, but other colors
Sunday afternoon in Paris
- 29—Symphony in White
Whistler
1800’s
Impressionism
“Art for Art’s Sake”
More about the color white than the actual girl
Symphony= no story, lack of words
- 30—In a Cafe
Degas
1800’s
Post-Impressionism
Subject drinking absinthe, strong drink
“Z” form moves us through the painting
Thinking about her life
Prostitution was very prominent
- 31—A Sunday Afternoon on La Grade Jatte
Seurat
1900’s
Post-Impressionism
Pointillism- dividing colors
Still shows leisure
This is not spontaneous like impressionism
Lack of interaction- self contained stillness
- 32—Starry Night
Van Gogh
1800’s
Post Impressionism
Visible brush work
Lines interact with each other
Materiality of the canvas
Motion
- 33—The Scream
Munch
1900’s
Modernism
Expressionism
Expression and anxiety is brought on by the viewer
Fear inducing, dread, horror
Extremely reductive in terms of naturalism
Vivid and intense red sky
Possible fear of urbanization
- 34—Campbell’s Soup Cans
Warhol
1900’s
Modernism
Pop Art
Ordinary object made iconic
- 35—Les Demoiselles
Picasso
1900’s
Modernism- Cubism
African Mask, claimed to have not heard of it
“Indecent”- goes against classical beauty concept
Prostitution, most things at this time were about
- 36—Nude Descending a Staircase
Duchamp
1900’s
Modernism
Cubism
Different angles of one body
“Too futurist”
Rejected from the independents exhibition, moved to NYC
Introducing time into artwork
- 37—Le Torero
Picasso
1900’s
Modernism
Cubism
Wouldn’t be recognizable without the title
Abstract treatment of volume and shape
Canvas is completely balanced
Nearly monochromatic
Representational
- 38—The Persistence of Memory
Dali
1900’s
Surrealism
Known figures doing things they cannot normally do (clocks melting)
- 39—Composition 7
Kandinsky
1900’s
Modernism
Abstract
Vibrant colors, motion
- 40—The Two Fridas
Frida Kahlo
1900’s
Modernism
Allegorical
She was married to another muralist, they divorce and then she created this piece.
Involves her two ethnicities, Amerindian and German. Connection of hearts.
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- Study this for Purchase Art History Survey II Final
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- Thomas Palko
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