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- 1Rococo style Germany and France 18th Century-Pastel Colors
-Idealized settings, normally garden settings
-Porcelain skin
-Ideas of love, secret courtship
-Interested in the scandals of classical mythology
-"Beautiful people doing nothing beautifully - 2—Hall of Mirrors, Munich Germany
-Every surface decorated
-Lots of gold, very over the top
-mirrors and windows
one room in a large palace - 3—Boucher, Cupid a Captive
-Exaggerated atmospheric perspective
-fleshy bodies, pink cheeks, porcelain skin
-pastels
-Cupid in center surrounded by mythological figures
-Putti (babies with wings)
- 4—Fragonard, The Swing
-idealized landscape, lavish garden
-lots of focus on their elaborate dress
-secret love scene in the garden
-man can see up her dress, she is kicking off her shoe, scandalous!
-Cupid has his finger to his lips to signify the secret
- 5"Natural" art and the Enlightenment England and U.S. 18th century-Not a single set style
-push back against reality
-enlightenment impacts revolutions
-emphasis on science
-rational world
thoughts of government
-emphasis on individual man
-set of ideas - 6—The Marriage Contract
William Hogarth, British
Marriage Ala Mode
-shows a father marrying his daughter to a wealthy merchant to get the family more money.
-he has gout, which signifies gluttony
- 7—Breakfast scene
William Hogarth, British
Marriage Ala Mode
-Shows husband returning from night out, he has a woman's bonnet to show infadelity
-wife made a mess of the home
-butler is distressed
-symbols of wealth are v evident
- 8—Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
-rococo style traits, pastel colors, atmospheric perspective
-Gainsborough made living making portraits but enjoyed landscapes, included them in portraits
- 9—Joseph Wright
Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump
-Science!
-Baroque style traits
-tenebrism brings drama to the painting
-painted science scenes too show the new discoveries. Scientists would put on shows to demonstrate the air pump
- 10—Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe
-Contemporary event
-Shows people in contemporary event
-very staged setting
-General Wolfe dying with grace
-Clouds in back add emotional intensity
- 11Neoclassical Style England, France, U.S. 18th Century-Comes about around the late 18th century
-Classic style elements and subjects
-Very carefully planned compositions
-almost photographic
-REVELUTION
-democracy - 12—Thomas Jefferson
Monticello, Virginia
-Columns, capitals, pediments
-dome roof
-not a lot of marble due to price
- 13—Jacques Louis David
Oath of the Horatii
-Painted for the king, significant moral lesson about emotion
-loyalty to country
-depicts roman history (or legend)
-classical architecture in background
-extreme detail
-carefully rendered lines
-carefully laid out composition
- 14—Jacques Louis David
Death of Marat
-Painted after David joined the revolution
-believed art should be used to educate about the revolution
-Marat was a journalist who believed the extra extravagant living of the upper class should be demolished
-murdered in his bathtub by an elite woman, Charlotte Corday
-Painted to spread the message of his murder
-Desk by the tub acts as a tomb marker
-dark background keeps focus on Marat
- 15Romanticism France, Spain, England 19th century-Against neoclassicism
-Imagination, subconscious mind, contemporary events/ideas, exotic parts of the world
-baroque characteristics, lots of emotion, diagonals, light vs dark but not tenebrism
-landscapes were beginning to to develop almost impressionist traits
-nature more powerful then men - 16—Theodore Gericault
Raft of the "Medusa"
-Ship wreck near north Africa, some people managed to survive on rafts
-Gericault showed drama through the living and the dead
-16x20ft, huge
-took 8 months to paint, kept dead bodies in study to see how they composed
-living pilling onto one side of the raft to flag down help
-he was antislavery, highest figure flagging down ship was black
-diagonals, dramatic facial features, light dark contrast
-poorly received by art critics
- 17—Eugene Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
-1830 battle
-group of young an old people led by a personification of liberty holding the french rebel flag
-deceased in foreground to bring more drama
-diagonals and movement
-light and dark contrast
- 18—Francisco Goya
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
-Etching, Aquatint (dotting in background)
-a commentary om ever changing government and human nature (whole series)
-If reasoning isn't used then monsters will come about
-Commentary on the monarchy (this print)
- 19—Francisco Goya
May 3rd 1808
-diagonals, contemporary event, tenebrism, dramatic
-recognizable Madrid buildings
-large scale
-On may second the people of madrid revolted, on may 3 napoleon's troops executed them.
-figure in center is positioned to mimic christ on the cross
- 20—J. M. Turner
The Slave Ship
-Nature shown as an all powerful force that can't be controlled
-storm brewing, choppy water
-lots of bright colors in the skies
-As well as being a landscape the painting tells the story of a slave ship owner, story would have been recognized by people of the time.
-effects of light ahead of turner's time.
-playing on emotion
- 21—John Constable
The Haywain
-Country side
-Shows happy versions of the country side, doesn't show the struggles
-capturing light in different conditions
-reflection of light, light doesn't effect colors much though
-scandalous dabs of paint
- 22—Thomas Cole
The Oxbow
-Cole's paintings were popular paintings in europe
-contrived landscapes-not real places, just nice compositions
-light vs dark
- 23Realism France 19th Century-Concept over style
-same time as romanticism
-everyday situations
-a statement on the poorest parts of society
-shows lower class in a heroic way - 24—Gustave Courbet
The Stone Breakers
-socialist ideas
-young boy and old man, two different generations show that this poor class is not excapable
-political agenda
-shown on a very large scale, which was received badly, because normal people were not normally shown so large
- 25—Gustave Courbet
A Burial at Ornans
-middle class funeral
-no society hierarchy
-many people, no idea of social status for any of them
-little emphasis on spirituality
- 26—Honore Daumir
The Third-class Carriage
-third-class=cheapest
-working class going to or coming from work
-3 generations
- 27Modern Art Edouard Manet 19th Century-started around 1870-1950s
-departing from classical art, pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable in art
-Edouard was one of the first modern artists - 28—Edouard Manet
Luncheon on the Grass
-1 of 3000 works rejected from the salon
-Manet and others held an exhibit for rejects called the salon of rejects
-was modernizing a traditional titian painting
-figures were recognizable people
-Manet knew how to do the things he didn't do
- 29—Edouard Manet
Olympia
-Did make it into the salon, but was followed by harsh reviews
-Olympia was a prostitute from a book.
-she isn't shown in an inviting way, she looks down on the viewer and looks indifferent
-Angry black cat, doesn't care she is naked, getting flowers shows she has good business
- 30Impressionism France 19th century-shows upper class life, the artists painted what they knew
-cityscapes, country/garden landscapes
-stylized
-effects of light, and the effects that light have on color
-perceptual color-effect of light on color
-pastel colors, limited use of brown and black
-most impressionist works rejected from salon so they made their own exhibits - 31—Claude Monet
Impression, Sunrise
-effects of the light
-emphasis on the sunrises reflection
-visible brush strokes
- 32—Claude Monet
Gare St. Lazare
-train station with lots of glass windows. The combination of the glass and steam made for a great place to study the effects of light
- 33—Edgar Degas
The Rehearsal
-used sketches and photographs to create compositions
-to get more natural looking images he took quick unplanned photos
-figures would be cropped, clusters of figures.
-Asymmetry
-stage lighting, or lighting through windows
- 34—Pierre Auguste Renoir
Moulin de la Galette
-The pancake mill, a place where upper middle class people gathered
-Renoir used his friends to pose
-idealized, carefree
-effects of light on the colors of the clothing, light dappled through the trees
- 35—Mary Cassatt
The Bath
-Mary was an upper middle class, single woman. Due to social rules she was unable to get out much
-she painted woman in domestic settings
-influenced by japanese prints
-lots of patterning
-cropped composition
- 36Post-Impressionism France 19th Century-Effects of color, lots of color
-distinctive brush strokes
-pointillism
-saturated colors - 37—Paul Cezanne
Mont St. Victoire
- 38—Paul Cezzane
Still Life with a Basket of Apples
- 39—Georges Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- 40—Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
At the Moulin Rouge
- 41—Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night
- 42Fauvism, France 1900-1945-modernism
-highly saturated color
-color as a way to show emotion
-warm colors
-traditional subject matters - 43—Henri Matisse
Red Room
- 44German Expressionism Germany 1900-1945-Abstraction
-color to express emotion
-cool colors
-complementary colors
-commentary on evilness of urbanism
-complete abstraction, emotional concepts - 45—Kirchner
Street, Dresden
-shows his disgust in urban living
-abstract
- 46—Vassily Kandinsky
Improvisation 28
-complete abstraction
-wanted to convey feelings and concepts without bogging the image down with physical things
-ideas about the mind and spirit
-meant to trigger some kind of emotion
- 47Cubism, France 1900-1945Multiple perspectives
Broken up, rearranged subjects
traditional subject matter
artist wanted new ways to show things
Analytical cubism
Synthetic cubism- add non traditional materials, made collages into a fine art - 48—Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
-points to the future of cubism
-ideas of colonialism, interest in other cultures
-intentional ugliness
-bad fruit=dangerous diseased woman
- 49—Georges Braque
The Portuguese
-breaks objects apart to be viewed from different perspectives
-also fragments it
-modeling of the figure when the figure can be seen
- 50—Pablo Picasso
Still Life with Chair and Canning
-oil paint and rope
-playful image
-nontraditional materials
- 51—Georges Braque
Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass
Synthetic Cubism
- 52—Pablo Picasso
Guernica
-later in his career
-painted after the dictator of spain bombed areas that he wanted to be culturally the same as the rest of spain
-lots of symbolism
-grey scale to match newspapers
- 53Dada France, Germany 1900-1945-conceptual not style
-chance and randomness
-choice of the artist to make something art
-artists disgusted by the war
-question logic, move away from logical art - 54—Jean Arp
Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
-dropped pieces of paper onto his surface and glued them where they landed
-use of random chance
-thought classical art had lost its "magic"
- 55—Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
-ready made-ordinary manufactured item made into art because the artist says so
-the fountain was a true ready made
- 56—Marcel Duchamp
L.H.O.O.Q.
-assisted ready made
- 57Surrealism France 1900-1945Ideas of psychology
express the dream world and subconscious
Naturalistic Surrealism-realistic look, unrealistic composition
Biomorphic Surrealism- doodling, element of chance - 58—Max Ernst
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
-title has nothing to do with the the painting
-atmospheric perspective
-linear perspective
-well modeled figures
-bizzare arrangement of the people and the objects
- 59—Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory
-weird dude
-a master of realistic detail
-ambiguous time of day and lighting
-melting/decaying watches
-releasing the unconscious mind
- 60—Rene Magritte
The Treachery of Images
-not very popular during the surrealist time
-very realistic pipe
"This is not a pipe"
- 61-Joan Miro
Painting
-Biomorphic surrealism
-freely sketched out shapes and combined them to make a composition
-restricted color pallet
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