Albrecht Dürer-Adam and Eve 1504

o   About to give the apple to adam

o   Animals in the work are humanist symbols

§  Cat- impatience, yellow bile

§  Ox- lethargy, phlegm

§  Rabbit- lust, blood

§  Elk- melancholy

   Engraving

giorgione - the tempest, 1506-1508

§  Representative of war in venice

Titian - the venus of urbino 1538

o   maids in the background

bernini - david, 1623-1624

·      Highest point of drama, movement

caravaggio - supper at emmaus, 1601

§  Chicken: death

gentilschi - judith beheading holofernes, 1611-1612

·      Tenebrism again

Taj Mahal 1632-43

·   Built by Shah Hahan of the indian Mughal Dynasty   

-"For his most beautiful wife"

Entire complex complete with guest house, garden, mosque, surrounded by gate/walls

Peter Paul Reubens- The Landing of Maria de Medici at Marseilles 1623-1625

-Maria married Henry IV--assassinated shortly after marriage, she became regent

-commissioned 21 works to show her power

-this picture shows her arriving in france

-figure with fleur de lis represents france

-medici coat of arms--six spheres

-figures at the bottom reflect classical influences--lancoon and his sons (sculpture)

rembrandt- the anatomy lecture of dr. nicolaes tulp 1632

oil on canvas

diego velazquez- las meninas 1656-1657

oil on canvas

lines of reality blurred

where is the focal point?

proportions

goya - third of may 1808: the excecution of the defenders of madrid, 1814

oil on canvas

theodore gericault - the raft of the medusa, 1818-1819

romantic painting

 gericault v disturbed by the story of the medusa (15/147 people died after the ship wrecked alongside the french coast)

eugene delacroix - liberty leading the people (28th july 1830), 1830

oil on canvas

les mis, basically

hokusai - the great wave

1829-1832

part of the print set "36 views of mt fuji"

bright colors, mt fuji not in the foreground

manet - olympia, 1863

caused shock when first exhibited at the salon in paris

response/mirror of venus of urbino

depicts a hostile looking prostitute

monet - impression, sunrise

1872

first impressionist painting

caused outrage-looks unfinished, etc.

shadows aren't black

degas - the dance class, 1874

peering in at a moment we aren't supposed to see

focal point in the back

eye is led up by the movement

renior - the luncheon of the boating party, 1881

depicts people having fun--free time as a new concept, taking the train, etc

flowing brushstrokes, soft flickering light

gauguin - nevermore 1897

oil on canvas

what does this painting mean?

different type of female nude

van gogh - the starry night, 1889

tree means death

view from asylum window 

cezanne - the large bathers, 1898-1905

unfinished at time of death

shows bodies in different views, movement

matisse - the joy of life, 1905-1906

oil on canvas

curvy lines, joyful colors

dance in the back

picasso - les demoiselles d' avignon, 1907

prostitutes in famous red light district

iberian mask faces on two

unwelcoming, bodies distorted 

kandinsky - composition vii, 1913

completely abstract

musical names -- wanted art to be appreciated for what it is

synesthesia

malevich - black square on a white ground, 1915

suprematist movement

"face of god"

duchamp - fountain, 1917

found urinal piece

turned upside down and signed

wittiest part is the name

dali - the persistence of memory, 1931

oil on canvas

hyperreal painting style

surrealist

pollock - one: number 31, 1950

1950

oil and enamel on canvas

worked with canvas on floor

warhol - marilyn diptych, 1962

silk screen

evocative of her life and death--colors vs washed out

woven mesh supports an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image

squeege moves across screen, spreading ink and leaving image on textile/paper