Francisco Goya

Third of May

Romanticism

Factual event, Spanish response to Napoleonic troops

Gustave Courbet

The Stone Breakers

Realism

"If you are born poor, your destiny is to be poor your whole life."

Edouard Manet

Olympia

Realism

Parody of Venus of Urbino by Titian

Prostitute and slave

Henry Ossawa Tanner

The Banjo Lesson

Realism

The lives of ordinary people; no luxury

Claude Monet

Impression: Sunrise

Impressionism

Source of the name "Impressionism"; painterly/sketchy

Edouard Manet

Bar at the Folies-Bergere

Impressionism

She cannot afford her own products; labels on the alcohol

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Le Moulin de la Galette

Impressionism

Scenes of daily life and entertainment

Paul Gauguin

The Vision After the Sermon

Post-Impressionism

Reality (women) and imagination (angel)

Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night

Post-Impressionism

Nature is more powerful than industry.

Edvard Munch

The Scream

Post-Impressionism

Personal anguish of the artist; chaos of the world

Henri Matisse

Woman with the Hat

Fauves

Flashy color and emotion

Henri Matisse

Le Bonheur de Vivre

(aka The Joy of Life)

Fauves

The figures as part of nature.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Street, Berlin

German Expressionism

Workers as robots with routine lifestyles.

Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Primitivism

European and non-western art/culture

Georges Braque

The Portuguese

Analytical Cubism

We depend on the title to get some ideas in art.

Pablo Picasso

maquette for Guitar

Synthetic Cubism

What the mind sees is more important than what the eye sees.

Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Futurism

Man walking in the wind; movement

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

Dada

Remake of the original

Ready-made

Marcel Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q.

Dada

L.H.O.O.Q. = "She has a hot ass."

Rene Magritte

Attempting the Impossible

Surrealism

What is reality? Are paintings real?

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

Surrealism

Recurrent dream; dreams do not have time

E. Lissitzky

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge

Russian Constructivism

Propaganda for Russia; art for social purposes

Kazimir Malevich

Black Square

Russian Suprematism

The absolute form; the absence and abundance of everything

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley

America during WWI & WWII

Icon of photography and the Great Depression

Photojournalism

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks

America during WWI & WWII

Contemporary, industrial America; isolation

Grant Wood

American Gothic

America during WWI & WWII

American reginalism; strength & pride of America

Otto Dix

Der Krieg (The War)

Post-WWI

German tragedies of war; artist was a veteran of WWI

Asger Jorn

The Great Victory

Post-WWII

"Victory" in war is a distortion

Jackson Pollock

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)

Abstract Expressionism

Gestural abstraction; emotions, not technique, are important

Barnett Newman

Vir Heroicus Sublimis

Abstract Expressionism

Chromatic abstraction; traumas of war

Mark Rothko

Blue, Orange, Red

Abstract Expressionism

Chromatic abstraction; image of the bomb

Donald Judd

Untitled

Minimalism

Not representing anything

Richard Hamilton

Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

Pop Art

Entertainment to forget the war

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

Pop Art

Idols are consumed like products; who are they really?

Roy Lichtenstein

Drowning Girl

Pop Art

Low vs. High art; portrayal of women in comics

Walter De Maria

Lightning Field

Earth & Site-Specific Art

Sublime; nature as art (lightning)

Maya Lin

Vietnam's Memorial

Site-Specific Art

Walls covered in names of veterans

Joseph Kosuth

One and Three Chairs

Conceptual Art

Mental idea versus Reality

(Visuals & language versus Real chair)

Edward Kienholz

John Doe

Conceptual Art

Assemblage; Commentary on the average American man

Joseph Beys

Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me

Performance Art

Opposed to American action in Vietnam; coyote symbolises colonizers vs. Native Americans

Cindy Sherman

Untitled Film Still #48

Feminism

Stereotypical movie women; vulnerable, waiting for a man, sexually accessible

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

Feminism

Last Supper parody; women as consumable food; water (in the middle) as the source of life

Barbara Kruger

Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face

Feminism

Pastiche (roman busts; media portrayal of women as ideal)

Yves Klein

Anthropometries of the blue Period

Performance Art

Painted with women's bodies

James Luna

Half Indian/Half Mexican

Identity Art

Eugenics (identifying someone on profile and front view); Stereotypes

Bansky

Graffiti Removal Hotline

Public Art & Graffiti

No real hotline exists

Fred Wilson

Mining the Museum

Identity & Issue-Oriented Art

Critique on art is displayed in museums (no African American or Native American portraits)

Dario Robleto

At War With The Entropy of Nature/ Ghosts Don't Always Want To Come Back

Post-Modern Art

Material from an atomic bomb test; Pastiche

Nam June Paik

Electronic Superhighway

Video Art

Global village connected by TV

Thomas Hirschorn

Superficial Engagement

Issue-Oriented Art

Commentary on the war in Iraq; media could show news on Iraq and then entertainment