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Title: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Artist: Seurat Date: 1884-1886 Style: Pointillism, neo-impressionism, [modernism] POI: small dots [points] of pure color when 'mixed in the eye' makes color more luminous (so Seurat thought) -study of the way that light falls on people and the landscape -created an island of perpetual tranquility, a place to escape the worlds messy problems -mixture of horizantals and verticals receding into the background -rich warm colors |
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Title: Wainwright Building [location: St. Louis, Missouri] Artist: Louis Sullivan Date: 1890 Style: skyscraper POI- divided the 10 story building into three parts 1. base - store front, big windows 2. body - vertical lines from base to cornice (to suggest a steel frame beneath them) -rows/columns of windows 3. cornice - housed the mechanical stuff... -form to fit function |
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Title: The Gross Clinic Artist: Eakins Date: 1865 Style: naturalism in everyday setting
POI: depicts Dr. SD Gross performing an operation while med students look on -neg. reception -light not for emphasis, to make a point (science is the light amid darkness of ignorance and fear) - |
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Title: The Luncheon on the Grass Artist: Manet Date: 1863 Style: POI: manet wanted to be a salon painting, added all the elements of succ. painting into one [still life, bathing woman, lounging group, landscape] -ignored perspective (bathing woman too large for scale) -well dressed men relaxing with scantily clad women? -cool blues and greens shut painting off, not inviting -figures seem to stand off the painting -figure grouping taken directly from "The Judgement of Paris" -Raphael (1520) [image] |
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Title: Olympia Artist: Manet Date: 1863 Style: POI: supposed to be based off of Venus of Urbino, however is almost opposite in composition (angular, flattened -her gaze puts her in the position of power, instead of the viewer (a male) -attempts to give the push pull by placing a screen behind her sheilding off half of the room, however a curtain covers the rest, making the work a little cluttered |
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Title: Impression, Sunrise Artist: Claude Monet Date: 1872 Style: impressionistic POI: capture of instantaneous impression of nature -technique using strokes and touches of pure color used to describe things like flowers, waves and leaves, but ALSO as strokes of paint on a canvas -recording of the shifting play of light on an object and the effect of light on the eye - |
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Title: In The Dining Room Artist: Berthe Morisot Date: 1886 Style: Impressionistic POI: use of white everywhere characteristic of morisots work -shows a moment in time rather then a story 'good housewife' story which is typical when painting women [dog in motion, cabinets open, something in hand, she is focused on the viewer rather then the task at hand] -brushwork, rapid and varied brings attention to the acto fo painting itself |
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Title: A Bar at the Folies Artist: Manet Date: 1881-1882 Style: POI: bar area gave manet area to paint still life (oranges, bottles, flowers) -suggestive painting, if you look at the lace or chandelier...detail not actually painted, lets you fill in the rest -inconsistencies in the painting, we see the girl straight on, yet the mirror does not reflect her correctly even thought it does correctly reflect the still life -this is accounted for in the sketch...[image] |
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Title: Luncheon of the Boating Party Artist: Renoir Date: 1881 Style: POI: transition out of impressionism -more stable groupings then just a fleeting glance at subject matter -still uses lush color and sensual brush work |
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Title: Maternal Caress Artist: Mary Cassatt Date: 1891 Style: POI: meant to recall a Japanese print -modern interpretation of Madonna and Child pieces -simple patterns, few variants in the background -she is awkwardly perched on the edge of the chair |
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Title: Still Life with a Basket of Apples Artist: Paul Cézanne Date: 1885 Style: POI: inconsistencies -right and left side of the table do not match up, wine bottle going to tip? -not a sign of incompetence, rather, a sign of disregard -viewed the subject from several different vantage points, assembled the composition from these different view points |
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Title: The Starry Night Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1889 Style: POI: completed near the asylum where he was institutionalized -more a piece about what he felt and not what he saw -cyprus tree [symbol of both eternal life and death] connects heaven and earth, and the stars represent the heavens -van Gogh felt that after death people traveled to the stars -influenced by both impressionism and neoimpressionism -bright colors,thick pigment, multidirectional dashes |
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Title: The Scream Artist: Edvard Munch Date: 1893 Style: POI: combines symbolist suggestiveness with expressionist intensity of feeling -vibrant reds, oranges and blues |
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Title: Burghers of Calais Artist: Rodin Date: 1884-1886 Style: POI: background story about six local heroes who risked death to save their city -first elimination of the pedestal in order to make ordinary people feel that they are equal to these ordinary heroes -elongated arms, large hands and feet |
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