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Art History 102 Excelsior
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/27/2009

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Analytic Cubism

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Analytical Cubism is one of the two major branches of the artistic movement of Cubism and was developed between 1908 and 1912. Analytic cubists "analyzed" natural forms and reduced the forms into basic geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture plane
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Breakfast Piece

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A breakfast piece is a still life painting originating in the Netherlands, especially Haarlem, from about 1620. In a Breakfast Piece painting, the dining table shows simple foods such as bread, cheese and a glass filled with wine or beer.
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Camera Obscura

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The camera obscura (Latin for "dark room"; "darkened chamber") is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment
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Complementary Colors
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In color theory, two colors are called complementary if, when mixed in the proper proportion, they produce a neutral color (grey, white, or black).
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Der Blaue Reiter
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Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany. Der Blaue Reiter was a German movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism
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Die Brucke
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Die Brücke (The Bridge) was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905, after which the Brücke Museum in Berlin was named. Founding members were Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
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Divisionism
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Divisionism (also called: Chromoluminarism) was the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically
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Synthetic Cubism
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Synthetic Cubism was the second main movement within Cubism that was developed by Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris between 1912 and 1919. Synthetic cubism is characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements, papier collé and a large variety of merged subject matter
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Symbolism
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Symbolism was largely a reaction against naturalism and realism, anti-idealistic movements which attempted to capture reality in its gritty particularity, and to elevate the humble and the ordinary over the ideal.
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Merry Company
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De Hooch's major innovations are in the area of spatial organization based on linear perspective, paintings in the exhibition are tavern scenes, what are known as ''merry company'' paintings
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Vanitas
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A type of symbolic still life painting especially associated with Northern European painters in Flanders and the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The word is Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of vanity
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A type or category of artists form, subject, technique, style or medium.
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PEETERS, Clara. Flemish woman painter (b. 1594, Antwerpen, d. after 1657) ... Still-Life with Flowers and Goblets 1612.
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Frans Hals (1581/1585-1666), Catharina Hooft With Her Nurse, 1619-1620, Dutch. Oil on canvas
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Banquet of the Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of Saint Adrian
c. 1627
Oil on canvas, 179 x 257,5 cm
Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem
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Judith Leyster Self-Portrait
c. 1635
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting by Rembrandt
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Night Watch or The Night Watch is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt .

The painting may be more properly titled The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch

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Rembrandt Self Portrait, 1658, a masterpiece of the final style, "the calmest and grandest of all his portraits
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The Jewish Cemetery 

c. 1654/1655
(Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael)

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The View of Delft is a veduta painting made between 1659 and 1660 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.
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Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers.

 

Flower Still Life

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Samuel Adams
about 1772
John Singleton Copley, American, 1738–1815
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Salon de la Princesse in the Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, by Germain Boffrand, begun 1732
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The Kaisersaal, Bishop's Palace (Residenz), Wurzburg, Germany. 1719-1744

 

Neumann, Balthasar (1687-1753)

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Jean-Antoine Watteau 

 

The Pilgrimage to Cythera

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Triumph of Venus

 

Francois Boucher

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The Meeting. One of the panels from The Progress of Love series. 1771-72. Oil on canvas
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Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Treasures

 

Angelica Kauffman; circa 1785

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Oath of the Horatii

 

Jacques-Louis David

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The Death of Marat

 

Jacques-Louis David

 

Neoclassical Painter

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George Washington

 

Jean-Antoine Houdon

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The Nightmare

 

John Henry Fuseli

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Chiswick House

 

Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington)

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The Large Odalisque

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was a Fench painter who was a leading figure in the neoclassical movement.
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The Raft of the Medusa is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was just 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism.
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Scenes from the Massacre at Chios

The Chios Massacre refers to the slaughter of tens of thousands of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops in 1822 by Eugene Delacroix
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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is an etching made by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya. Etched between 1797–1799
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The Third of May 1808 is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish master Francisco Goya.Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808.
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The material of legend: in "Snow-storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps", J.M.W. Turner envelopes Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps in Romantic atmosphere
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John Constable. The White Horse. 1819
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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a painting by Thomas Cole.
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The Gleaners

Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the naturalism and realism movements.

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The Artist Studio

 

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787 - 1851) was the French artist and chemist who is recognized for his invention of the Daguerreotype process of photography.

 

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Burial at Ornans

Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans, 1849-1850,  Exhibition at the 1850–1851 Paris Salon created an "explosive reaction" and brought Courbet instant fame

 

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The Stone Breakers

 

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting

 

 

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The Lunch on the Grass

 

Painting by Édouard Manet. Created in 1862 and 1863, its juxtaposition of a female nude with fully dressed men sparked controversy when the work was first exhibited.

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Olympia

 

Painting by Édouard Manet in the Realism style. Painted in 1863.

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The Gross Clinic

 

An 1875 painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. Dr. Samuel D. Gross, a seventy-year-old professor dressed in a black frock coat, lectures a group of Jefferson Medical College students

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Moulin de la Galette

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition

 

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The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage


Edgar Degas   Degas was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.

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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère 

 

Was the last major work by French painter Édouard Manet. It depicts a scene in the Folies Bergère nightclub in Paris.

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Maternal Caress


Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

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Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral. The paintings mostly have one viewpoint but are painted at different times of the day and under different weather circumstances
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Mont Sainte Victoire

 

Paul Cezanne, 1885-1887

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Still Life with Basket full of Apples

 

Paul Cezanne, 1890-1894

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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Georges-Pierre Seurat. His large work 1884-1886, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting

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Starry Night

 

The Starry Night is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanatorium room window at night

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Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903)
Day of the God (Mahana no Atua),
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is one of Paul Gauguin's most famous paintings
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James Ensor
Intrigue. 1911
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The Scream 

 

 Edvard Munch, depicting an agonized figure against a blood red sky. The landscape in the background is Oslofjord, viewed from the hill of Ekeberg, in Oslo Norway

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Les Bourgeois de Calais is one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin, completed in 1889. 
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Mountains of Collioure

 

Andre Derain, 1905

 

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Woman with a Hat 

 

Henri Matisse from 1905. It is believed that the woman in the painting was Matisse's wife, Amelie.


It was exhibited with the work of other artists, now known as "Fauves"

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Joy of Life

 

Henri Matisse 

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Street Scene, Berlin

 

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner  one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge",

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Improvisation No. 30 second version

 

Wassily Wasilyevich Kandinsky

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The Large Blue Horses

 
Franz Marc

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon

 

Spanish artist Pablos Picasso (1881–1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Avinyó Street in Barcelona

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Guernica 

 

Pablo Picasso, depicting the bombing of Guernica,by German and Italian warplanes on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War

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Violin and Palette

Georges Braque was a major 20th century French painter who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as Cubism

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Glass and Bottle of Suze

 

Pablo Picasso

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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 

 

Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni. It is seen as an expression of movement and fluidity.

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