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Art20_IVC_Exam_2__Ch4
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/01/2011

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Paul Cézanne
The Basket of Apples, c. 1893
still life, make it so still life is not dead

wine bottle, fruit non linear

animate

complex arrangement of visual elements

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Alberto Giacometti
Man Pointing. 1947

elongated figure

implied line and movement

fragility

figure activates space around it

human condition

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Titian

The Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin

"titian red"

implied line

three triangles

diagonal

eyes go up

warm color

top looks down while middle and bottom look up

illuminated

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Rembrandt van Rijn,

The Three Crosses,

The Netherlands

The crucifixion of Christ between the two thieves

hatching, cross hatching

dark and light to illuminate

less lines in the light

Christ in center

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Vincent van Gogh

Starry Night

(Expressive Line)

autographic- swirl lines are recognizeable

curvilinear

swirlly emotion


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Vincent van Gogh

The Sower

(Expressive Line)

lines bundle together in groups of 5 or 10

own direction and flow



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Sol LeWitt

Wall Drawing No. 681 C

analytical lines

installation

buy work they install

 

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Jasper Johns,

Numbers in Color

expressive throughout

organized by grid

grids geometric lends a sense of order and unity

fluid and loose but still in control

logic where nonexists

 

 

 

 

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Hung Liu.

Virgin/Vessel. 1990

pointed feet (foot binding)

vessel-controversial

grim/harsh reality

body became a sexual vessel

isolated and vulnerable








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Jacques Louis David. The Death of Socrates. 1787

the linear arrangements possess a certain

architecural stability

 

 

 

right angles dominate painting

 

gridwork in stone



 

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Eugène Delacroix

The Death of Sardanapalus 1847

ordered everyone to be slain in front of him

emotional and romantic

dynamic quality

diagonal almost dizzinglly disorienting as subject is emotionally disturbing

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Robert Mapplethorpe1982

Lisa Lyon

compared to the greek statue Zeus/Poseidon

First World Women's Bodybuilder Championship


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