We are 100% user supported.
 

Home > Flashcards > Art History > AH112 Final Review

Details

Title: AH112 Final Review

Description: DUH

Total Flash Cards: 161

Created: 04/29/2009 19:37:47

New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE.

Existing Users: CLICK HERE.

Additional Art History Flashcards

Cards in this set:

Term
{image:http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/rococo/images/ElisabethVigeeLebrun-Self-Portrait-1790.jpg|center}
Definition

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun

Self-Portrait

1790

Oil on Canvas

-Gazes directly at viewer

-Painter in the French court

-Admitted to the Academy for painting

-Rococo

Term
{image:https://ce-wiki.wikispaces.com/file/view/300px-J_S_Copley_-_Paul_Revere.jpg|center}
Definition

John Singleton Copley

Portrait of Paul Revere

ca. 1768-1770

Oil on canvas

-Typical of American portraiture - "downrightedness"

Term
{image:http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/75_22.jpg|center}
Definition

Angelica Kauffmann

Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures

ca. 1785

Oil on canvas

-Born in Switzerland, career flourished in England

-Founding member of the British Royal Academy of Arts

-Strongly influenced by neo-Classicism

-Moralizing

Term
{image:http://www.topofart.com/images/artists/Joseph_Wright_of_Derby/paintings/derby001.jpg|center}
Definition

Joseph Wright of Derby

A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery

ca. 1763-1765

Oil on canvas

-Promoted Enlightenment ideals

-"Ordinary lecture takes on the qualities of a grand 'history painting'."

-Scrupulous attention to detail and realism

Term
{image:http://english.ncu.edu.tw/susanna/images/rococo/12.JPG|center}
Definition

François Boucher

Cupid a Captive

1754

Oil on canvas

-Playful fantasy, erotic frivolity

-Painted for the French court

-Utilizes Baroque elements - criscrossing diagonals, etc.

Term
{image:http://artcess.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/swing.jpg|center}
Definition

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Swing

1766

Oil on canvas

 

Term
{image:http://www.scottzagar.com/arthistory/images_gallery/112_fullchardingracetabl001_t.jpg|center}
Definition

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Grace at Table

1740

Oil on canvas

-Rebellion against Rococo; morality

Term
{image:http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t011/T011953A.jpg|center}
Definition

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

The Village Bride

1761

Oil on canvas

-Appealed to the bourgeois class

-Rural romance - simple & sweet

Term
{image:http://wiki.dickinson.edu/images/8/87/Oath_of_the_Horatii.jpg|center}
Definition

Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii

1784

Oil on canvas

-Neo-classical idealism - extreme attention to detail and realism - historically accurate

-Rejected from Academy

Term
{image:http://chisnell.com/art/Romanticism%20Rococo%20and%20Neoclassicism/david%20death%20of%20marat.jpg|center}
Definition

Jacques-Louis David

The Death of Marat

1793

Oil on canvas

-Painted in service of Revolution

-Idealized, yet realistic

Term
{image:http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/3967/wolfe2.jpg|center}
Definition

Benjamin West

The Death of General Wolfe

1771

Oil on canvas

-Depicts Battle of Quebec

-"Contemporary History Painting" - depicts current events in the history painting mode - grand, elaborate - great method for propaganda!

Term
{image:http://members.tripod.com/~napoleone/nap9.jpg|center}
Definition

Jacques-Louis David

The Coronation of Napoleon

1805-1808

Oil on canvas

-Versatility of David

-Historically "accurate", yet propaganda devices used - pope blessing Napoleon, Napoleon crowning Josephine, etc.

Term
{image:http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/images/paris/madeleine/resized/ext-cc-emilio-del-prado.jpg|center}
Definition

Pierre Vignon

La Madeleine

Paris, France

1807-1842

-"Temple of Glory" for Napoleon's armies originally - converted to church

-Corinthian columns

-SO neo-Classic, obvs

-Church in guise of pagan Rome

Term
{image:http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/33221-large.jpg|center}
Definition

James Stuart

Doric portico

Hagley Park, Worcestershire, England

1758

-Grand tour, etc. etc.

Term
{image:http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/76/11376-004-23E0F28B.jpg|center}
Definition

Antoine-Jean Gros

Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa

1804

Oil on canvas

-Beginning of Romanticism

-Pure propaganda - Napoleon comforting the ill; in reality poisoned ill soldiers to be rid of burden

Term
{image:http://14.media.tumblr.com/2m8BXUfril2xipcu4F30pJv3o1_r2_500.jpg|center}
Definition

Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson

The Burial of Atala

1808

Oil on canvas

-Student of David

-Based off of Romantic novel, The Genius of Christianity

Term
{image:http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t974/T974231A.jpg|center}
Definition

Antonio Canova

Pauline Borghese as Venus

1808

Marble, life size

-Thinginess - note the detail on the mattress

-Almost too true to life - Pauline had many affairs

Term
{image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/464633057_f2e2765ac9.jpg|center}
Definition

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Grandes Odalisque

1814

Oil on canvas

-Reminiscent of Mannerism - proportions off

Term
{image:http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/LifeSquared/images/fuseli_nightmare400.jpg|center}
Definition

Henry Fuseli

The Nightmare

1781

Oil on canvas

-Romantiscism - delight in sublime

-Member of the Royal Academy

-Reminiscent of Mannerism, Hellenistic (sleeping, submission)

Term
{image:http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1xS0u_NMz5Y/SBnSTAQNzgI/AAAAAAAAAL4/-M7dJoNSLmA/carceripirensei.jpg|center}
Definition

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Carceri 14

ca. 1750

Etching, second state

-Sublime & infernal go hand in hand

-Hopelessness & menace

Term
{image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7XLvQTao2k8/ScsKBZwPxdI/AAAAAAAAGVU/dlkvqrduCxI/s400/Thomas+Gainsborough,+Mrs+Richard+Sheridan,+1785.jpg|center}
Definition

Thomas Gainsborough

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1787

Oil on canvas

-Enlightenment

-Pastoral

Term
{image:http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Ancient-days-L.jpg|center}
Definition

William Blake

Ancient of Days

1794

Metal relief etching, hand colored

-Romantic artist with classical references

-Michelangelesque physique

Term
{image:http://www.digitalmediatree.com/library/image/88/Sleep_of_Reason.JPG|center}
Definition

Francisco Goya

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

ca. 1798

Etching and aquatint

-Self-portrait

-Perhaps personifying Romantic spirit - unleashing of imagination, emotions, nightmares

Term
{image:http://www.inminds.co.uk/goya-saturn.jpg|center}
Definition

Francisco Goya

Saturn Devouring One of His Children

1819-1823

Detail of a detached fresco on canvas

-Raw carnage - Saturn associated with time - time devours all?

-Simplicity, but conveys brutality

Term
{image:http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/artists/goya/charles_iv__and_his_family-400.jpg|center}
Definition

Francisco Goya

Family of Charles IV

1800

Oil on canvas

-enamored with Velázquez - greatly influenced by

-Naturalistic - exception of attire and title, nobility is lost

Term
{image:http://www.art-for-a-change.com/blog/images/nov08/goya_third_of_may.jpg|center}
Definition

Francisco Goya

The Third of May

1814

Oil on canvas

-Wall of French soldiers - anonymous & brutal

-Christ-like allegorical figure

Term
{image:http://www.artandperception.com/v01/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/gericault-raft_of_the_medusa.jpg|center}
Definition

Théodore Géricault

Raft of the Medusa

1818-1819

Oil on canvas


Term
{image:http://facweb.furman.edu/~mwatkins/marie_watkins/Romanticism/Gericault/gericault_madwomenenvy.jpg|center}
Definition

Théodore Géricault

Insane Woman (Envy)

1822-1823

Oil on canvas

-Confrontation with nature, sane or mad, equalled truth

Term
{image:http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t267/T267382A.jpg|center}
Definition

Eugène Delacroix

Death of Sardanapalus

1826

Oil on canvas

-pictorial grand drama

Term
{image:http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/artists/ingres/apotheosis_of_homer-400.jpg|center}
Definition

Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres

Apotheosis of Homer

1827

Oil on canvas

-Student of David

Term
{image:http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/artists/delacroix/tiger_hunt-400.jpg|center}
Definition

Eugène Delacroix

Tiger hunt

1854

Oil on canvas

-Journeyed to Morocco - served as inspiration for this piece

-Romantic interest in exotic and foreign locales

Term
{image:http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/12365/BaryeJaguarDevouringaHare.jpg|center}
Definition

Antoine-Louis Barye

Jaguar Devouring a Hare

1850-1851

Bronze

-echoes Delacroix's fascination with raw beauty & bestial violence

-careful observation of body structure

Term
{image:https://jspivey.wikispaces.com/file/view/liberty_leading_the_ppl|center}
Definition

Eugène Delacroix

Liberrty Leading the People

1830

Oil on canvas

 

Term
{image:http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/Marseillaise/marseillaise-RUDE.jpg|center}
Definition

François Rude

La Marseillaise

Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France

1833-1836

-Phrygian cap - spiritual sister of Delacroix's Liberty

-Represented in classical garb

-Allegorical

Term
Definition
Term
{image:http://towerweb.net/alt-lib/art/friedrich/oakwoodabbey2.jpg|center}
Definition

Caspar David Friedrich

Abbey in the Oak Forest

1810

Oil on canvas

-German landscape artist - landscapes were temples, paintings were altarpieces

-Emblems of death throughout

Term
{image:http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/constable/images/worksinfocus/constable_haywain_norm.jpg|center}
Definition

John Constable

The Haywain

1821

Oil on canvas

-English landscape

-Nostalgia for utopia of pastoralism

Term
{image:http://blog.lib.umn.edu/joch0024/chaos/View%20from%20Mount%20Holyoke,%20Northampton,%20Massachusetts,%20after%20a%20Thunderstorm%20The%20Oxbow%20Thomas%20Cole.jpg|center}
Definition

Thomas Cole

The Oxbow

1836

Oil on canvas

-Member of "Hudson River School"

-Also morally questions America's direction as a civilization

Term
{image:http://www.lowensteyn.com/litunits/Images/slave_ship3.jpg|center}
Definition

JMW Turner

The Slave Ship

1840

Oil on canvas

-Seascape

-Style is rooted in the emotive power of color

Term
{image:http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/164bg.jpg|center}
Definition

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Still Life in Studio

1837

Daguerreotype

-Art is vanitas - not permanent, fleeting

Term
{image:http://pedromonteiro.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/eugene_delacroix-nadar1.jpg|center}
Definition

Nadar

Eugéne Delacroix

1855

Modern print from original negative

Term
{image:http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/artists/reynolds/lord_heathfield-400.jpg|center}
Definition

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Lord Heathfield

1787

Oil on canvas

-Heathfield defended fortress of Gibraltar against the French and Spanish

Term
{image:http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/463/PreviewComp/SuperStock_463-5227.jpg|center}
Definition

Honoré Daumier

Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art

1862

Lithograph

-Made immediately after a court decision recognized photography as an art

Term
{image:http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/D/daumier_honore/0291-0543_massaker_in_der_rue_transnonain.jpg|center}
Definition

Honoré Daumier

Rue Transnonain

1834

Lithograph

-Defender of urban poor

-Significance lies in "factualness" - but because there is an agenda, still propaganda

Term
{image:http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mpimages/mp084.jpg|center}
Definition

Timothy O'Sullivan

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863

Negative by O'Sullivan

Original print by Alexander Gardner

 

Term
{image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/the-gleaners-by-jean-francois-millet-1.jpg|center}
Definition

Jean-François Millet

The Gleaners

1857

Oil on canvas

-Member of the Barbizon school - detailed pictures of forest and countryside, peasant stock & country poor

-Heavy, weighty figures - reminiscent of sibyls on Sistine Chapel

Term
{image:http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/34/72734-004-8C76E7B8.jpg|center}
Definition

Gustave Courbet

Burial at Ornans

1849

Oil on canvas

-Ordinary, starkly anti-hero

Term
{image:http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/SSPOD/SuperStock_900-3287~Three-Women-in-Church-Posters.jpg|center}
Definition

Wilhelm Leibl

Three Women in a Village Church

1878-1881

Oil on canvas

-Rustic Sunday best

Term
{image:http://daphne.palomar.edu/mhudelson/WorksofArt/23PostImp/3545.jpg|center}
Definition

Henry Ossawa Tanner

The Thankful Poor

1894

Oil on canvas

-Studied with Thomas Eakins

-Love of Rembrandt

Term
{image:http://artlung.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/millais-ophelia.jpg|center}
Definition

John Everett Millais

Ophelia

1852

Oil on canvas

-Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

-distaste for materialism and ugliness of contemporary world

Term
{image:http://italiangreyhounds.org/errata/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/horsefair.jpg|center}
Definition

Marie-Rosalie Bonheur

The Horse Fair

1853-1855

Oil on canvas

-Realism

-Most celebrated female artist of the 19th century

-"heroism of modern life"

Term
{image:http://www.gophila.com/assets/dmt/images/eakins.jpg|center}
Definition

Thomas Eakins

The Gross Clinic

1875

Oil on canvas

-Studied in Philadelphia & France

-Believed knowledge and science was intrinsic & necessary in art

Term
{image:http://www.ticket-finders.com/paris%20opera.jpg|center}
Definition

J. L. Charles Garnier

The Opéra

Paris, France

1861-1874

-Neo-Baroque façade - mimics façade of Louvre

-Extremely symmetrical!

Term
{image:http://www.artyfactory.com/perspective_drawing/artworks/Gustave_Caillebotte/images/paris_street_1.jpg|center}
Definition

Gustave Caillebotte

Paris: A Rainy Day

1877

Oil on canvas

-Impressionism

-Depicts new grand avenues of Paris by Haussmann

-Composition is most Impressionist aspect - captures fleeting, arbitrary nature of city life

Term
{image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/paintings-by-edouard-manet-1.jpg|center}
Definition

Édouard Manet

Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe

1863

Oil on canvas

-Articulated Realist principles, but at the same time, critical to development of Impressionism

-Shocked & outraged the public!

-Flat tones - Manet was acknowledging painting was a flat surface

Term
{image:http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/1713846-2-nymphs-at-satyr.jpg|center}
Definition

Adolphe-William Bouguereau

Nymphs and Satyr

1873

Oil on canvas

-Graceful - contrast to Manet's depictions of nudes

-Neo-classical - acceptable to public - also used fictional theme and traditional painting modes

Term
{image:http://miburbuja.iespana.es/tema%203/imagenes%20tratadas/e.manet%20-%20olympia.jpg|center}
Definition

Édouard Manet

Olympia

1863

Oil on canvas

-Again, outraged public - shamelessness of the prostitute

Term
{image:http://rsta.pucmm.edu.do/biblioteca/pinacoteca/impresionismo/imagenes/bar%20manet.jpg|center}
Definition

Édouard Manet

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

1882

Oil on canvas

-Spatially distorted

-Radical break with tradition makes many consider Manet the first modernist artist

Term
{image:http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=207&size=550x550_mb&ptp_photo_id=146385|center}
Definition

John Singer Sargent

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

1882

Oil on canvas

-Studied in Paris, settled in London

-Lively realism

Term
{image:http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/photography/photproces/significproc/impression/sunrise.jpg|center}
Definition

Claude Monet

Impression: Sunrise

1872

Oil on canvas

 

Term
{image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/claude-monet-paintings-1873-1878-15.jpg|center}
Definition

Claude Monet

Saint-Lazare Train Station

1877

Oil on canvas

-Application of paint contributes to energy in scene

Term
{image:http://www.classicartrepro.com/data/large/Morisot/In_a_Villa_at_the_Seaside.jpg|center}
Definition

Bethe Morisot

Villa at the Seaside

1874

Oil on canvas

-Escaped criticism most Impressionists received - her work was viewed as delicate, graceful and sensible

Term
{image:http://www.renoirgallery.com/paintings/renoir-le-moulin-de-la-galette.jpg|center}
Definition

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Le Moulin de la Galette

1876

Oil on canvas

-Outside dancehall

-Dappled shade and sun

Term
{image:http://www.impressionist-art-gallery.com/images/placeduTheatreFrancais.jpg|center}
Definition

Camille Pissarro

La Place du Théâtre Français

1898

Oil on canvas

-Think of Nadar Elevating Photography

Term
{image:http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/turnerwhistlermonet/images/nocturnebgfallingrocket_l.jpg|center}
Definition

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Nocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling Rocket)

ca. 1875

Oil on panel

-American expat in London and Paris

-Wanted his work to ressemble musical compositions - called works "nocturnes"

Term
{image:http://www.lib.fit.edu/pubs/librarydisplays/colors/393px-Cassatt_the_bath.jpg|center}
Definition

Mary Cassatt

The Bath
ca. 1892

Oil on canvas

-American in Paris

-Strong patterning and visual solidarity

Term
{image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/paintings-by-hilaire-germain-edgar-degas-11.jpg|center}
Definition

Edgar Degas

The Tub

1886

Pastel

-Linear hatch marks

 

Term
{image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/502701334_5f3ab0685d.jpg?v=0|center}
Definition

Claude Monet

Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun)

1894

Oil on canvas

-Light and color provide understanding of form

Term
{image:http://www.theawakenedeye.com/images/victoire.jpg|center}
Definition

Paul Cézanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire

1902-1904

Oil on canvas

-Turn from Impressionism to more analytical style

-Cool colors recede, warm colors advance

Term
{image:http://www.lasplash.com/uploads/1/cezanne_to_picasso_at_art_institute_chicago_review_10.jpg|center}
Definition

Paul Cézanne

The Basket of Apples

ca. 1895

Oil on canvas

-Captured solidarity of each object by color

-Two- and three-dimensional simultaneously

Term
{image:http://takeda.cooh3.com/works/seurat/seu_img/seurat1.jpg|center}
Definition

Georges Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

1884-1886

Oil on canvas

-Pointellism

Term
{image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/paintings-by-henri-de-toulouse-lautrec-2.jpg|center}
Definition

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Moulin Rouge

1892-1895

Oil on canvas

-Satirical, almost caracature
-Masklike and cruel

Term
{image:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/intune/media/Rehearsal-Degas-web.jpg|center}
Definition

Edgar Degas

Ballet Rehearsal

1874

Oil on canvas

-Brings viewer in to the image by capturing a moment in time

Term
{image:http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152-3/f05/manli/Van%20Gogh%27s%20Night%20Cafe_comparison.jpg|center}
Definition

Vincent van Gogh

The Night Café

1888

Oil on canvas

-Innocuous, innocent scene, but van Gogh imbued it with "the terrible passions of humanity"; wanted to create a place where one could go mad in an oppressive atmosphere

Term
{image:http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/van-gogh-vincent-starry-night-7900566.jpg|center}
Definition

Vincent van Gogh

Starry Night

1889

Oil on canvas

-Painted the year before his death from his asylum window

Term
{image:http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Gaugin_The_Vision_after_the_Sermon_1889.jpg|center}
Definition

Paul Gauguin

The Vision after the Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

1888

Oil on canvas

-Scene of Breton countryside

-Images not Impressionist - images are what the impressionest eye saw & memory and imagination modified

Term
{image:http://www.harley.com/art/abstract-art/images/(gauguin)-where-do-we-come-from.jpg|center}
Definition

Paul Gauguin

Where Do We Come From?  What Are We? Where Are We Going?

1897

Oil on canvas

-Tahiti

Term
{image:http://a5.vox.com/6a00ccff930f92d75600f48cecb6450002-500pi|center}
Definition

Gustave Moreau

Jupiter and Semele

ca. 1875

Oil on canvas

-Semele overcome by apparition of Jupiter and swoons - beautiful inertia

Term
{image:http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/artists/redon/cyclops-400.jpg|center}
Definition

Odilon Redon

The Cyclops

1898

Oil on canvas

-Adoption of Impressionist palette and stippling b rush strokes

-Fetal head of Polyphemus above sleeping Galatea

Term
{image:http://classinfoonline.org/images/arh102/102Final/Munch_Scream1893.jpg|center}
Definition

Edvard Munch

The Cry

1893

Oil, pastel and casein on cardboard

-pain of human life - primal scream

Term
{image:http://tawnyamarie.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/klimt.jpg|center}
Definition

Gustav Klimt

The Kiss

1907-1908

Oil on canvas

-"Fin de Siècle" culture - wealthy middle class living the good life - sexual drives, unconscious, freewheeling - DECADENCE!

-Ties to Art Nouveau

Term
{image:http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_33.43.132.jpg|center}
Definition

Gertrude Käsebier

Blessed Art Though among Women

1899

Platinum print on Japanese tissue

-Title is quote of the angel Gabriel

-Used soft focus to create aura of otherwordliness

-Imbue everyday scenes with sense of divine

Term
{image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JaiZhsz4uks/SLKjc-Aw_tI/AAAAAAAAAMs/wJRN93I4Vs0/s400/Aubrey+Beardsley+-+the+peacock+skirt.jpg|center}
Definition

Aubrey Beardsley

The Peacock Skirt

1894

Pen-and-ink illustration for Salomé

-Obvious influence from Japanese screens

-Eliminates shading, purely linear and shape

Term
{image:http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/03/3f/4b/gaudi-s-casa-mila.jpg|center}
Definition

Antonio Gaudi

Casa Milá

Barcelona

1907

-"Sculpted" building

-Undulating and cave like - following buzz from discovery of Altamira

Term
{image:http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152-3/f05/bgreeley/images/Rodin%20-%20Walking%20man.jpg|center}
Definition

Rodin

Walking Man

1905, cast 1962

Bronze

Term
{image:http://www.musee-rodin.fr/images/imagra/S450.jpg|center}
Definition

Auguste Rodin

Burghers of Calais

1886

Bronze

-Six citizens offered their lives to lift the siege

Term
Definition

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Ugolino and His Children

1865-1867

Marble

-Love of Baroque

-Lacöon?

Term
{image:http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-07/matisse-red-room.jpg|center}
Definition

Henri Matisse

Red Room

1908-1909

Oil on canvas

-Fauve use of colors

-Color selection = warmth = emotional response

Term
{image:http://afeatheradrift.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/kirchner1.jpg|center}
Definition

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Street, Dresdon

1908

Oil on canvas

-German expressionism: Die Brücke (The Bridge) - bridging old & new age

-Compare to The Cry ; zombie-like people, garish, conrfrontational

Term
{image:http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/painting/20th-century/expressionism/stmaryegy.gif|center}
Definition

Emil Nolde

St. Mary of Egypt Among Sinners

1912

Oil on canvas, left panel of a triptych

-St. Mary before her conversion

Term
Definition
Term
{image:http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_47.106.jpg|center}
Definition

Pablo Picasso

Gertrude Stein

1906

Oil on canvas

-Used an Iberian mask on her face - face is now made of linear planes

Term
{image:http://robertarood.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/gypsy.jpg|center}
Definition

Henri Rousseau

The Sleeping Gypsy

1897

 

Term
{image:http://www.xtec.cat/~fchorda/ee6/10/jpg/basic1.jpg|center}
Definition

Pablo Picasso

Les Demoisselles d'Avignon

June-July 1907

Oil on canvas

-Tension between representation and abstraction

-Two heads on right are reminiscent of African sculpture - came later in the painting

Term
{image:http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/art107/images/BraquePortuguese.jpg|center}
Definition

Georges Braque

The Portuguese

1911

Oil on canvas

-Analytic cubism

Term
{image:http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol284/issue1/images/medium/jcs00019f1.jpg|center}
Definition

Robert Delaunay

Champs de Mars or The Red Tower

1911

Oil on canvas

-Differed from other Cubists in that he favored color

-Eiffel tower - ambiguously rises and collapses

Term
{image:http://home.vs.moe.edu.sg/whitenoise/Images/F_C_E/Braque/BottleNewspaperPipeGlass13.jpg|center}
Definition

Georges Braque

Bottle, newspaper, pipe and glass

1913

Charcoal and various papers pasted on paper

-Synthetic cubism

Term
{image:http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/art107/images/PicassoStillLifeChairCaning.jpg|center}
Definition

Picasso

Still Life wth Chair Caning

1912

Oil and oilcloth on canvas

-Chair caning is purely an illusion

 

Term
{image:http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Picasso_Guitar_sheet_metal_wire_1912.jpg|center}
Definition

Picasso

Guitar

1912

Cardboard, string, and wire (restored)

Term
{image:http://homepage.newschool.edu/~quigleyt/vcs/jameson/leger_city.jpg|center}
Definition

Fernand Léger

The City

1919

Oil on canvas

-Purism - machine aesthetic

Term
{image:http://negroartist.com/negro%20artist/aaron%20douglas/images/Aaron%20Douglas%20%20Noahs%20Ark%20927_jpg.jpg|center}
Definition

Aaron Douglas

Noah's Ark

1927

Oil on Masonite

-Harlem Renaissance

Term
{image:http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/286bg.jpg|center}
Definition

Giacomo Balla

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

1912

Oil on canvas

-Futurist

-Sense of motion

Term
{image:http://www.dialoginternational.com/.a/6a00d83451c36069e2011278fe065f28a4-800wi|center}
Definition

Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

1913, cast 1931

Bronze

-Blur of motion

Term
{image:http://siteimages.guggenheim.org/gpc_work_midsize_479.jpg|center}
Definition

Wassily Kandinsky

Improvisation 28

1912

Oil on canvas

-Theosophy

-Wished to make music like art

-Der Blaue Reiter

Term
{image:http://timothyministries.org/images/Franz_Marc-The_fate_of_the_animals-1913.jpg|center}
Definition

Franz Marc

Fate of the Animals

1913

Oil on canvas

-Der Blaue Reiter

- Animals are trapped in forest, being destroyed by some event

Term
{image:http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/DixWarTrypich.jpg|center}
Definition

Otto Dix

Der Krieg (The War)

1929-39

Oil on canvas

-Neue Sachlichkeit (New objectivity)

Term
{image:http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/20thc/SchroderHouse05.jpg|center}
Definition

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

Schröder House

Utrecht, the Netherlands

Term
{image:http://media.photobucket.com/image/suprematist%20composition/iluvthenightlife1/00293032.jpg|center}
Definition

Kazmir Malevich

Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, 1915

Oil on canvas

-art is divorced from reality

-supreme reality is pure feeling - attached to no object

Term
{image:http://rebeccareilering.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/vladimirtatlin-monument-to-the-third-international-1919-20.jpg|center}
Definition

Vladimir Tatlin

Monument to the Third International

1919-1920

Term
{image:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15_XARXHxfs/SZ60C9sFyRI/AAAAAAAAABo/_RIBkbhheLk/s320/moholy-nagy_radiotower3.jpg|center}
Definition

Làzlò Moholoy-Nagy

From the Radio Tower Berlin

1928

Gelatin Silver Print

-Marvels of modern age - radio, & new vision (perspective)

Term
{image:http://www.modern-art-reproductions.com/cartdata/uploads/1043178736_large-image_63_twittering_machine_1922_lg.jpg|center}
Definition

Paul Klee

Twittering Machine

1922

Watercolor and pen and ink on oil transfer drawing on paper mounted on cardboard

-Charming, fanciful

Term
{image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/351680663_de7dd543a5.jpg?v=0|center}
Definition

Vera Mukhina

The Worker and the Collective Farm Worker

Sculpture for the Soviet Pavilion

Paris Expo,

1937

Term
{image:http://thebarrowboy.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/crystal_palace.png?w=476&h=341|center}
Definition

Sir Joseph Paxton

Crystal Palace

London

1850-1851

Term
{image:http://www.alpabroad.org/multiattachments/2398/Image/31_07_5---The-Houses-of-Parliament--London--England_web.jpg|center}
Definition

Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin

Houses of Parliament, London

Designed 1835

-Moral purity and spiritual authenticity in architecture of Middle Ages

-Rebuttal against Industrialization

Term
{image:http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-07/eiffel-tower-day.jpg|center}
Definition

Gustave Eiffel

The Eiffel Tower

1887-9

Wrought Iron

Term
{image:http://www.essential-architecture.com/IMAGES2/Marshall_Field_Warehouse_Store.jpg|center}
Definition

Henry Hobson Richardson

Marshall Field wholesale store

Chicago

1885-1887

-Fond of Romanesque Architecture

Term
{image:http://www.wrightnowinbuffalo.com/whattodo/images/Guaranty.jpg|center}
Definition

Louis Henry Sullivan

Guaranty Building

Buffalo, NY, 1894-1896

-Utilized ornate embellishments

-Steel, sheathed in terracotta

Term
{image:http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/imgb/imgb3/138c.jpg|center}
Definition

Sullivan

Carson, Pirie, Scott Building

Chicago

1899-1904

 

Term
{image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/7/g/P/prairie-iStock_000000160679_1.jpg|center}
Definition

Frank Lloyd Wright

Robie House

Chicago, 1907-1909

Term
{image:http://coolboom.net/en/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/savoye1.jpg|center}
Definition

Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye

Poissy-sur-Seine, France

1929-1930

-The "International Style"

Term
{image:http://www.eikongraphia.com/wordpress/wp-content/2%20Mies%20van%20der%20Rohe%20-%20Maquette%20Glazen%20Wolkenkrabber%201922.jpg|center}
Definition

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Model for a glass skyscraper

Berlin, Germany

1922

-Less is more

-Cylindrical

Term
{image:http://www.gothereguide.com/Images/USA/NY/Chrysler_Building_new_york.jpg|center}
Definition

William van Alen

Chrysler Building

New York, New York

1928-1930

-Art Deco

Term
{image:http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/45/5845-004-E8BC8F20.jpg|center}
Definition

Michael Graves

Portland Building

Portland, Oregon, 1980

-Enlarged Jukebox

-Classical references

-Postmodernist

Term
{image:http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ueberblick/daten/img/hysolar_big.jpg|center}
Definition

Günter Behnisch

Hysolar Institute Building

University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

1987

-Decontructivist architecture

Term
{image:http://www.worldenough.net/picture/English/lab/Lab_street/picts%20videos%20own/Guggenheim%20Bilbao%202.jpg|center}
Definition

Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Bilbao Museum

1997

-Decontructivist - entire building is mass of unbalanced and asymmetrical forms

Term
{image:http://artintelligence.net/review/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/duchampfountaincol.jpg|center}
Definition

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

1950 (Original in 1917)

Ready-made glazed sanitary china with black paint

-Dada

-Art lies in choice of object

Term
{image:http://www.n4t3nate.info/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.jpg|center}
Definition

Marcel Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

1912

Oil on canvas

-Compare to cubists

Term
{image:http://www.marcelduchamp.net/images/The_Bride_Stripped_Bare_By_Her_Bachelors,_Even.jpg|center}
Definition

Marcel Duchamp

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)

1915-1923

Oil, lead, wire, foil, dust and varnish on glass

-Top is bride - motor filled with love gasoline

-Bachelors fills lower part - masturbating?

Term
{image:http://www.brooklynrail.org/article_image/image/364/Hoch_Cut_with_the_Kitchen_Knife.jpg|center}
Definition

Hannah Hoch

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dad through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

1919-1920

Photomontage

Term
{image:http://fmk03208.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/de-chirico-melancholy-and-mystery-of-a-street.jpg|center}
Definition

Giorgio de Chirico

Melancholy and Mystery of a Street

1914

Oil on canvas

-Precursor to surrealism

-Metaphysical

Term
{image:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1215/1297055132_98a98ab6fa.jpg?v=0|center}
Definition

Max Ernst

Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

1924

-Oil on wood with wood construction

-Dreamworld

Term
{image:http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~fellows/hart206/images/miro_painting.jpg|center}
Definition

Joan Miro

Painting

1933

Oil on canvas

-Fantasy and hallucination

Term
{image:http://www.artquotes.net/masters/salvador-dali/the-persistence-of-memory.jpg|center}
Definition

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

1931

Oil on canvas

-Barren landscape where time has ended

Term
{image:http://interactionculture.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/treachery.jpg|center}
Definition

René Magritte

The Treachery of Images

1928-1929

Oil on canvas

-Discrepency between image and words

Term
{image:http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/OppenheimFurLunch-thumb.jpg|center}
Definition

Meret Oppenheim

Le Déjeuner en fourrure

1936

Fur-covered cup

-

Term
{image:http://nineteen69.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/two_fridas.jpg|center}
Definition

Frida Kahlo

The Two Fridas

1939

Oil on canvas

-Personal struggles and struggles of Mexico

Term
{image:http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/4550/images/PicassoGuernica_big.jpg|center}
Definition

Picasso

Guernica

1937

Oil on canvas

-Brutality, darkness and death

Term
{image:http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/self_portraits/img/img_orozco_american_civilizatio_lg.jpg|center}
Definition

José Clemente Orozco

Epic of American Civilization: Hispano America

1932-1934

Panel

-Mexican peasant armed to participate in Mexican Revolution

Term
{image:http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/art/img/pho313x485discrimination.jpg|center}
Definition

Jacob Lawrence

No. 49 from The Migration of the Negro

1940-1941

Tempera on Masonite

-ongoing exodus of black labor

Term
{image:https://honorsushistory.wikispaces.com/file/view/1928_Grant_Wood_American_Gothic-wR400.jpg|center}
Definition

Grant Wood

American Gothic

1930

Oil on beaverboard

-Rural scenes from Iowa

-Extreme nationalism

Term
{image:http://contemporaryartetc.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/de-kooning.jpg|center}
Definition

Willem de Kooning

Woman I

1950-52

Oil on canvas

-fertility?

-raw. intense

Term
{image:http://www.harley.com/art/abstract-art/images/(pollock)-lavender-mist-(small).jpg|center}
Definition

Jackson Pollock

Number 1, 1950, Lavender Mist

1950

Oil, enamel and aluminum paint on canvas

-Gestural painting

-"feels" the painting - relies heavily on subconscious

Term
{image:http://www.the-artwork.com/acatalog/r720no141960m.jpg|center}
Definition

Mark Rothko

No. 14

1960

Oil on canvas

-Color is primary conveyor of meaning

Term
{image:http://www.matthewlangley.com/blog/uploaded_images/Rauschenberg-Canyon-1959-NGA-MI-sm-791276.jpg|center}
Definition

Robert Rauschenberg

Canyon

1959

Mixed Media

Term
{image:http://stillsearching.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/jasper-johns-flag.jpg|center}
Definition

Jasper Johns

Flag

1954-1955

Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood

Term
{image:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/2266333172_d9c22b78d9.jpg|center}
Definition

Richard Hamilton

Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?

1956

POP

-Values of modern consumer culture

Term
{image:http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/bacon_painting1946.jpg|center}
Definition

Francis Bacon

Painting

1946

Oil and pastel on linen

-Existentialism - postwar expressionism

-Wars butchery

Term
{image:http://www.painsley.org.uk/gallery/images/war2.jpg|center}
Definition

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

1962

Oil, acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas

-Following the suicide of MM

-Garish, masklike, part of consumer culture

Term
{image:http://www.leninimports.com/roy_lichtenstein_gallery_4.jpg|center}
Definition

Roy Lichtenstein

Hopeless

1963

Oil on canvas

 

Term
{image:http://www.cyberpathway.com/art/lane/marilyn.jpg|center}
Definition

Audrey Flack

Marilyn

1977

Oil over acrylic on canvas

-Superrealism

-like Dutch vanitas paintings

Term
{image:http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~hermanns/art/art/43.gif|center}
Definition

Duane Hanson

Supermarket Shopper

1970

Polytester resin and fiberglass

-

Term
{image:http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/davidsmith/images/rooms/cubixix_lg.jpg|center}
Definition

David Smith

Cubi XIX

1964

Stainless steel

 

Term
{image:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/2459783385_1696973805.jpg?v=0|center}
Definition

Frank Stella

Mas o Menos

1964

Metalic powder in acrylic emulsion on canvas

-

Term
Definition
Term
{image:https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/download/attachments/15205755/Kosuth_OneAndThreeChairs.jpg|center}
Definition

Joseph Kosuth

One and Three Chairs

1965

-Conceptual art

Term
{image:http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue2/images/hesse_hangup_large.jpg|center}
Definition

Eva Hesse

Hang up

1965-6

Acrylic on cloth over wood and steel

-fragility and grandeur of life among pressures of modern age

Term
{image:http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Serra_Tilted_Arc_1981-9.jpg|center}
Definition

Richard Serra

Tilted Arc

1981

Cor-ten steel

-Federal plaza, NYC

-Intended to disrupt the flow of traffic

Term
{image:http://www.burrac.com/ah/45/Smithson,%20Spiral%20Jetty,%201970.jpg|center}
Definition

Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

1970

Black rock, salt crystals, earth, red water at Great Salt Lake

 

Term
{image:http://www.e-flux.com/journal_images/1233617233Beuys%20(How%20To%20Explain%20Pictures%20to%20a%20Dead%20Hare%201965).jpg|center}
Definition

Joseph Beuys

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

1965

Photograph of performance art

-Shaman

Term
{image:http://www.sofaexpo.com/chicago/2005/img/special/release/12_Judy_Chicago_dinner_party_full3.jpg|center}
Definition

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

1979

Multimedia

 

Term
Definition



Home  ·  Login  ·  myFlashCards  ·  FlashCardDB  ·  Help  ·  Links  ·  Flash Cards by Subject


© 2001-2009 Flash Card Machine, LLC. Privacy Policy / Terms of Use
Design/Development by Madhu