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The Execution of May 3rd
Fransisco Goya
-Protest military action
-Citizens of Madrid rose up against Naoleon's army
-Rioters were executed
-Supposed to make us feel pain for the victims (faces)
-arms up= crucifixion of Christ
-Source of light
-dehumanizing French soldiers by not showing faces |
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Goering the Executioner
John Heartfield
Germany
-Goering: a German general
-No neck = aggressiveness
-burning building = govt. up in flames
-black & white = blunt
-meat cleaver & stained apron = Nazi bloodshed |
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Echo of a Scream
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexico
-response of horror of Spanish civil war
-industrial waste = result of war; destroyed progress and disaster remains
-child = innocent (screaming b/c of the destruction
-dark colors = sad/ugly |
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Liberty Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix
France
-Protest oppression
-Subject = lady liberty
-beauty = Greek goddess, dress pulled down, not ordinary woman
-excitement = she is: energized, oblivious to danger, carries rifle and flag
-celebrates Paris revolt
-she leads victory
-light behind her (goddess) is encouraging
-realism (people die in war; ppl of diff backgrounds)
-idealism (not accurate depiction of war; no women)
-Romanticism (portrayal of fighting being liberating and dangerous) (war is not actually liberating) |
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Leo, 48 Inches High, 8 Years Old, Picks Up Bobbins at 15ยข a Day
Lewis Hine
U.S.A.
-subject = boy
-protests labor conditions in the early 1900's
-scale = large machines; small boy
-child = young, scared, barefoot, dirty
-conveys shock
-call to action/activism |
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The State Hospital
Edward Kienholz
-Subject = bodies
-shocking = dead & tied in
-shows terrible conditions and mistreatment |
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Sun Mad
Ester Hernandez
U.S.A.
-subject = girl
-artist uses known product and changes the art to depict realistic messages
-medium is a print = mass production |
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Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da Vinci
Italy
-Florentine Cloth merchant commissioned it
-somber colors used
-eyes gaze and smirky, mysterious smile
-3/4 arm pose revolutionary
-front facing portrait also revolutionary
-pyramid structure
-cropped (not full length) = more intimate
-sfumato = blended smokey colors (sense of movement)
-atmospheric perspective = blurry far background |
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Self-Portrait with Monkey
Frida Kahlo
Mexico
-health problems b/c of traffic accident as a teenager
-surrealist
-she painted accurate portraits of herself, not glorified or misrepresented |
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Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Polykleitos
Rome
-Human Perfection = contrapposto (counterbalance)
-flexing body
-large hands and head
-no emotion
-warrior, young, male
-classical Greek period |
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The Last Judgment
Gislebertus
France
-humanity = low self esteem
-fear of life after death (worried about soul)
-sin and corruption
-bodies are frail, skinny, agony
-cover faces in shame (heaven/hell)
-hands = hands of god (pulling ppl form pergitory) |
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David
Michaelangelo
Italy
-sculpted in Renaissance
-re-elevated status of human body
-humanism:importance of human body |
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Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum
Guerrilla Girls
-feminists
-art in museums is mostly of nude women |
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The liberation of Aunt Jemima
U.S.A.
-Aunt Jemima is subject |
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| Exit Through the Gift Shop (Film) |
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-Mr. Brainwash (commisioned people to bring his own fame)
-street art
-banksy portrays a message in his artworks (original)
-Mr.brainwash just edits already made artwork |
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-Born in Spain
-Used mother's maiden name (Picasso, not Ruiz)
-Blue period: death of friend (somber)
-Rose period: fell in love (circus performers)
-rose period ended poverty
-cubism started his abstract art career
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
-prostitutes(ugly)
-cubism
-shocking because very horrifying |
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Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David
-Warfare of Rome and Neighboring City
-Brothers oath to fight to the death
-relatives(women) mourn the battle
-Hands are the focus point
-heroism
-Simple/severe space and architecture (shallow)
-art split in 3 sections |
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La Grand Jatte
Georges Seurat
-Science to impressionism (light & color)
-dividing color into pieces (optical mixture)
-leisure (Paris)
-Upper class
-very ambiguous |
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