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Baker Midterm Slides

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slides images for midterm test 2009

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10/17/2009

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Joukahainen's Revenge

1897

Axel Gallen Kallela

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Leminkainene's mother

ateneum museum helinski

1897

axel gallen kallela

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Ad Astra (to the stars in latin)

Axel Gallen Kallela

1894

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What is Kalevala and how does it relate to A. Gallen Kallela's work?

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in 1835 the first edition of the kalevala appeared, compiled naad edited by elias loonrot on the bassis of the epic folk poems he had collected in finland and karelia. these poems, handed down for many generations had been part of the oral tradition among speakers of balto-finnic languages for two thousand years. deals with the birth of the world, finland, and the finns somwhere back in a mythical iron age. later is was considered to be the story of how the newly arriving finns fought back the encumbent lapps and forced them northard to snowier climes, the characters in the poems taking on real substance as folk heroes. the poems would have been sung, at festivals and fairs, the th accompaniment of the kantele.

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Who is Sibelius?

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a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity

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what is one of the great hoaxes of the 20th century?

Definition

The Works of Ossian.

Ossian is the narrator, and supposed author, of a cycle of poems which the Scottish poet James Macpherson claimed to have translated from ancient sources in the Scots Gaelic. He is based on Oisín, son of Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill, a character from Irish mythology. The furor over the authenticity of the poems continued into the 20th century.The poems achieved international success (even Napoleon became a great fan) and were proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the ClassicalHomer.

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Definition

Andy Warhol

Silk Screen Print - serigraph

1967

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When did Monroe Die?

Definition

august 5th, 1962

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Definition

Jackie II

Screen print

1966

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What event is memorialized in Jackie II by Warhol?

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the assasination of jfk.

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Electric Chair Series

1965

Andy Warhol

Print

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What is the reference in the Electric Chair Series?

What countries allow capital punishment?

Definition

The Electric Chair / Death Penalty

Countries and territories still using capital punishment include Afghanistan, the Bahamas, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, North and South Korea, Libya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.

the US has it too.

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Definition

Honore Daumier

Louis-Phillippe - project d'une medallion.

1848

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Honore Daumier

Gargantua (Louis Phillipe on his throne)

c. 1831

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Definition

Louis Phillippe (becomes a pear)

Honore Daumier

1831

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Who is Louis Phillipe and Why is Daumier making such a mockery of him?

Definition

Louis-Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 in what was known as the July Monarchy. He was the last king to rule France After the abdication of Napoleon, Louis-Philippe, known as Louis Philippe III, Duke of Orléans, returned to France during the restoration of the monarchy under his cousin King Louis XVIII. Louis-Philippe had reconciled the Orléans family with Louis XVIII in exile, and was once more to be found in the elaborate royal court. However, his resentment at the treatment of his family, the cadet branch of the House of Bourbon under the Ancien Régime, caused friction between him and Louis XVIII. He openly sided with the liberal opposition.

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Rue Transonain

Honore Daumier

1835

Rue Transnonain was created in response to the massacre of 19 people - including women and children - by the French National Guard in response to the strike of silk weavers in Lyon, on April 14, 1834.

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Outbreak (losbruch) Part 5, peasants war

Kathe Kollwitz

1903

etching (drypoint)

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Definition

Kathe Kollwitz

Whetting The Scythe, part 3

etching, drypoint, etc.

1905

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Kathe Kollwitz

The Downtrodden (symbolic)

c. 1900

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Kathe Kollwitz

From Many Wounds You Bleed

c 1893-97

etching.

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What event does this refer to?

Definition

Kathe Kollwitz

Woodcut

1919

Karl Liebknecht was an attorney and left-wing member of the German parliament (Reichstag). In 1919, he and compatriot Rosa Luxemberg were abducted, tortured, and murdered by the Freikorps—an ultra-conservative militia.

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Kollwitz worked in a variety of styles and media.

using the examples given, and others, characterize her work. what was her primary interest.

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Power to the people. duh.

she was a political artist very concerned with the plight of the everyday worker. She was very liberal and against the nazis.

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Jacques Louis David

Sorrow

1773

Chalk on Paper

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What is the story here and what other work by him deals with this subject matter?

Definition

Jacques louis David

Patroclus

1780

Patroclus was achielles' best friend - killed in battle, caused achielles to go ape shit. Other work that deals with classical sources is the oath of the horatii, the death of socrates, the lictors bring to brutus the bodies of his sons, and just about any other early work of david's.

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