"Raft of the Medusa"

Theodore Gericault

1818-19 

-rejects neo-classical compostional features, now has "x-shape"

-suffering, despair, death

(Romanticism)

"Death of Sardanapalus"

E ugene Delacroix

1827

-based on poem by Lloyd Byron

-exoticism

-Assyrian king's funeral

(Romanticism)

"The Oxbow"

 (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, After a Thunderstorm)

Thomas Cole

1836

-landscape painting

-Hudson River School (america)

-painting split in 2 wilderness & civilization

(Romanticism)

"Burial at Ornans"

Gustave Courbet

1849 

-although on a monumental scale as history painings were, ordinary ppl as subjects

-critique of church

-influence of folk art

-palette knife used, crude execution

-diff from Romant: expressional painting in subdued manner

(Realism)

"Olympia"

Edouard Manet

 1863 

-Olympia perceived as prostitute

-critiqued as vulgar

-flatness of painting rejects Academic paintings

-no longer masking sexuality

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg,

Timothy O’Sullivan

1863 

(PHOTOGRAPHY)

"Impression, Sunrise"

Claude Monet

1872

-during beginning of modernization (Paris)

-atmos. effects, sketchy brushstrokes, unmixed colors

(IMPRESSIONISM)

"Le Moulin de la Galette"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1876 

-development of petit bourgeoisie 

-play of sunlight and shade, blurred figures

(IMPRESSIONISM)

"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat

1884-86 

-

"Vision After the Sermon, or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel"

Paul Gauguin

 1888 

"Mount Sainte-Victoire" 

Paul Cezanne

1902-04 

"Houses of Parliament"

Charles Barry and A. W. N. Pugin

London

designed 1835

"Guaranty Building Buffalo"

Louis Sullivan

New York

1894-96 

"Red Room (Harmony in Red)"

Henri Matisse

1908-09 

-wrote "Note on Painting" - 1908

-theory of psychological effect through color

-flatness, spatial ambiguity

(FAUVISM)

"Street, Dresden"

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

 1908 

-influence of Van Gogh and Fauvism

-distortions of forms to convey anxiety and empathy

-against materialist society

-asymetrical composition

(GERMAN IMPRESSIONISM)

"Improvisation 28"

Vassily Kandinsky

 1912 

-Der Blau Reiter (Blue Rider Group), Munich 1911

-concerning spiritual art

-non-objective painting 

-influence of atomic sense (matter as energy)

(GERMAN IMPRESSIONISM)

"Les Demoiselles d’Avignon"

Pablo Picasso

1907 

-primitivism

-original name was "Philosophical Brothel"

-fractured bodies interwoven with background

(CUBISM)

"Still Life with Chair Caning"

Pablo Picasso

 1912 

-invention of collage (after he and Braque struggled with figurism)

-incorporation of mass produced items

-word play Tableau

(CUBISM)

"Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" 

Umberto Boccioni

1913 

-dynamism/energy of modernism

-suggests motion thru space with breaking up of body in compos.

-human merging with machine for greater efficiency

(FUTURISM)

"Fountain"

Marcel Duchamp

1917 

-Readymade, mass produced items designated as art

-found object art

-ideas of the unconscious 

"R.Mutt" = alias written on object 

(New York DADA)

Millet 

"The Gleaners"

1857

-French, Realism

-Social Realist

-Salon de Refuses 

Courbet

'The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory"

1854

-Realism

-himself in center as artist

-monumental- ordinary subject (still life)

Manet

"Luncheon on the Grass"

1863

-Salon of the Refused

-Realist (maybe)

-different way of using the female nude in painting

-looking at paintings of the past (Raphael)

-parody of art of the past still being repeated

Manet 

Olympia

1863

-Realism (maybe)

-accepted into Salon

-flatening space

Monet

"Boulevard des Capucines"

1873

-Impressionism France

-like photography but use of color

-outdoor scene, plein-air

-modern city life

Degas

"Dance Class"

1876

-Impressionism France

-unlike Monet:

-indoor subject

-cropping like Japanese Prints

Seurat

"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

1884

-Neo Impressionist/Pointilism

-color theory

-painterly, visible strokes and content

Cezanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire

1885

-Post Impressionism

-reduces forms-abstracts

-patches of color

-relationship of space not as important as distinguishing colors

Monet

"Water Lillies, Sunset"

1914

-Impressionism

-later works

-pushing view of lilies into abstraction

-dematerialization

Cezanne 

"Still Life with Basket of Apples"

1890

-Post Impressionism

-off perspective

-evoking flat depth thru color

-color= emotion

Moreau

"The Apparition"

1876

-Symbolism- France

-biblical

-interested in what cant be seen from the eye (anti-realism)

Redon

"Cyclops"

1898

-Symbolism

-painterly

-mythological context

-combining the strange and fantasy

Bernard 

"Market in Brittany"

1888

-Post Impressionism, France

-moved away from city (Brittany, Fr)

-Primitive area set

-Cloisonne- inlay of color b/t partitions

Gauguin

"Vision after Sermon (Jacob Wrestling the Angel)"

1888

-not real space/ horizon line

-Primitivism

Van Gogh

"Night Cafe"

1888

-Post Impressionism, France

-Dutch

-expressive color, convey emotion

-ominous feeling conveyed by odd perspective

Van Gogh

"Starry Night"

1889

-Post Impressionism-France

-religious undertone

-vastness of universe

-color use, even brushstrokes

Toulouse-Lautrec

"At the Moulin Rouge"

1892

-Post Impressionist France

-Parisian nightlife

-curving, sinuous lines throughout composition

Klimt

"The Kiss"

1907

-Art Nouveau (Secessionist)- Austria

-Byzantine mosaic inspiration

-sinuous line + organic shapes integrated

Rodin

"The Gates of Hell"

1880-1900

-Early Modern Scupture, France

-commisioned museum of decorative arts

-influence: portals in medieval churches

-non-divine iconography=modernized

-(the thinker)

Rodin 

"Monument to Balzac"

1897

-Early Modern Sculpture, France

-wanted to imitate life rather than form (abstracting figure)

-commemorating french novelist

Matisse

"Open Window"

1905

-Fauvism, France

-wild use of color

-not impressionism:

-color not as the eye sees it

-used color to create flat planes

Matisse

"Woman with a Hat"

1905

-Fauvism, France

-traditional portraiture, unrealistic color

Derain 

"Westminster Bridge"

1905

-inspired by what is seen- filtered by artist

-bright color

-Fauvist, France

Matisse 

"Joy of Life"

1905

-Fauvism, France

-no longer representing reality

-salon of independents