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- "Death Mask of Tutankhamen"
- goldy & inlay
- removed from Tut's tomb
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- "Mycerinus and Queen"
- tomb figures
- formal, idealized, rigid blocklike (solid closed figures, stylized)
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- "Ajax & Achilles Playing Droughts"
- Scene from Homer's Iliad
- Black figure Style
- painted deisng into thin clay that turned black during firing
- also incised fine lines into the clay
- FIRST TO SIGN NAME ON ARTWORK
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- "Eros & Memmon"
- Red-figure style
- has brush painting on red clay
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- "Bronze Warrior"
- Classical Style
- calm expression & Contra-posto (weight on one foot)
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- "Venus de Milo"
- Mythological goddess of love
- clinging drapery
- very naturalistic
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- "Laocoon and Sons"
- Hellenistic Style, Greek Art
- drama and action, texture
- Laocoon (Trojan priest) who, with his sons, was squeezed to death by sea serpents as punishment for displeasing the gods
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- "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci
- artist is a genius (not craftsman)
- Incomplete modeling (no defined barriers or lines)
- atmospheric perspective
- Sfumato lighting (soft light that dissolved edges and made details unclear)
- Background does not line up (gives appearance that she is tilting her shoulders)
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- "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
- Perspective & architecture emphaisze Christ
- large group divided into smaller groups
- fresco= painting on plaster
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- "unfinished sculpture" by Michelangelo
- emerging from stone
- artist's process is shown
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- "David" by Michelangelo
- Classical Greek tradition (ideal man, calm, rational, contra-poso)
- tense, self-contained
- David prior to killing Goliath
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- "Creation of Adam/Sistine Chapel" By Michelangelo
- Sculptural forms
- over 300 figures on ceiling
- Creation of Adam= most famous
- (powerful and campassion God brings a still-weak Adam the spark the life)
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- "School of Athens" by Raphael
- fresco
- influenced by Michelangelo & Leo. Da Vinci
- picture of a a world of knowledge
- greatest philosphers including Plato, Aristotle, Pythagorus, Euclid are in picture. These portraits also portray famous artists
- perfect composition and perspective
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- "Venus of urbino" by Titian
- Venetian painting
- peaceful-sensual emphasis on poetic mood
- Reclining nude
- hazy color, 34 layers of glazes
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- "arnolfini and his Bride" by Van Eyck
- Northern Renaissance
- marriage document
- Secondary symbolism- symbolic puzzle within picture
- OIL PAINT- SLOW DRYING
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- "Adam and Eve" by Durer
- printer of internationl acclaim
- Italian influence
- massive sculptural figures with correct proportions
- Symbolism and Detail
- Used printer press with engravings in copper plate (filled with ink) to literally stamp the picture
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- "Grady of Earthly delights" by Bosch
- fantasy painting
- Trptych center panel, earthly delights
- Hell on right panel, heaven left
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- "David" by Bernini
- Baroque art, Italy
- The element of time (takes place mid action with implied movement)
- Dramatic
- negative space is important
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- "Converstion of St. Paul" By Carvaggio
- Baroque art, Italy
- Dramatic
- uses SPOTLIGHT to emphasize art
- strong light and dark areas gives 3-D appearance (chiaroscuro)
- used street models
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- "Judith and Maidservant with the head of Holfernes" by Artemisia gentileschi
- Caravaggio influence (drama and emotion)
- biblical heroine
- Dark manner (tenebroso)
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- "the Elevation of the Cross" by Rubens
- Baroque art
- dramatic twisting diagonals, rich color
- take place mid action
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- "self-portrait" by Rembrandt
- Baroque period
- Dutch, focus on personality (insightful, sensitive)
- think impasto used
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- "The Heard Quitter" by Russel
- western frontier through a cowboy's eyes
- bright color, tinted atmosphere
- man and animal are part of the landscape
- captures essence of a moment
- popular art
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- "the Bronco Buster" by Remington
- Cast bronze
- lost wax casting method (hallow area in casting was filled with wax that melts out, leaving negative impression of sculpture which may be filled with bronze to be hardened into a statue)
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- "The War Bridle" by Remington
- glorify frontier
- light and atmosphere accentuate movement
- paointed from memory
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- "Fur Traders Descending Missouri" by Bingham
- LUMINISM- light and atmosphere
- calm, poetic, genre scene
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- "Twilight in the Wilderness" by Frederick Church
- Hudson River valley painter
- captured vast untamed and beautiful wilderness
- Patriotism- show off God's great country
- Religion- show God's greatness through beauty of nature
- tried to hide brush stroke
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- Chine landscape
- brush and ink on paper or slik (paint as if writing, as if calligraphy)
- purpose= set the mind at peace and meditation
- simplifies and abstracts to show the underlying structure or essence
- very little color
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- "Nymphs and Satyr" by Bougereau
- technical polish, mythological subject
- totally governement control over accepted art subjects- FRENCH ACADEMY ART
- highly refined, thin brush stroked, realistic, glossy
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- "Bridge Over a Pool of Waterlilies" by Monet
- interest in effects of climate (light and atmosphere)
- IMPRESSIONIST STYLE (french)
- re rapidly captures momentary effects of light and color
- used short strokes of pure color
- Because of invention of camera, Monet thought copying things precisely no longer was needed. Art was beyong that.
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- "Le Moulin De La Galette" by Renoir
- momentary, flickering light
- unposed, pleasant, sensuous
- outdoor cafe for middle-class families
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- "Mother and Child" by Cassat
- pastel= soft chalky crayon
- brought Impressionism to USA
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- "The Bath" by Cassat
- print, japanese influence
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- Woman Bathing her Son
- Japanese print
- asymmetry, negative space, flat pattern, unposed genre scenese, cropped image, simple design, boldly defined lines
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- Most famous Japanese Print
- Simple, abstact design, strong and clear, boldly defined outlines and strong flat colors
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- "Still Life with Apples" by Cezanne
- father of modern art/ inspired cubists and other abstract artists
- structures analyzed and simplified into flat color planes
- background and foreground merge
- rejects perspective
- recreates fragmented way we see relationships/ looks like a painting not an illusion of world
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- "Spirit of the Dead Watching" By Gauguin
- natural color intensified
- artist left Europe for Tahiti to revive European art with the primitive
- his wife scared of dead spirit watching her in dark
- flat, bold
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- "Starry Night" By Vincent Van Gogh
- emotional, spontaneous, animated, nervous energy
- quickly painted using long strokes of think impasto
- All Van Gogh's best work done within two years time
- Starry Night painted while in an asyllum
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- "The dream" by Rousseau
- naive artist paints fantasy environments
- no training
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- "The Kiss" by Rodin
- realism, the illusion of flesh in marble, romantic and erotic
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- "The Kiss" by Brancusi
- abstraction
- essence of a kiss in pitted limestone and block shape
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- "Les Damoiselles D'Avignon" by Picasso
- Cezanne and African influence
- analytical cubism
- Objects are broken down and reconstructed using multiple view points
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- "L.H.O.O.Q." by Duchamp
- anti-art, anti-institution
- ready-made= altered found object shown as art
- Also responsible for upside down urinal art
- Aventegard Art
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- "Persistence of Memory" by Dali
- realistic style
- irrational world of dreams
- Freud influence
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| Breaking new ground in the art world |
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| distorts recognizable objects |
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| light and atmosphere, calm, poetic, genre scene |
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