Title of work:  Jockeys Before the Race, 1878-1879

Artist:  Degas

Country:  France

Century: 19th

Style:  Impressionist

Media:  Oil essence, gouache, and pastel

Details:  Diagonal opposition.  Asymmetrical balance.  The contrast of the red cap is very important to the balance.

Title of work:   Le Petit Dejeuner apres le Bain (The Breakfast after the Bath)

Artist:  Degas

Country:  France

Century: 19th

Style:  Impressionist

Media:  Pastel on Paper

Details:  Bold contours give a sense of movement.

Title:  The School of Athens, 1508

Artist:  Raphael

Country:  Italy

Century:  15th-16th

Style:  Renaissance

Media:  Fresco

Details:  Linear perspective.  Vanishing point in the center.  There are some things that do not go towards the vanishing point, like a block in the foreground.

Title:  Madonna of the Chair, 1514

Artist:  Raphael

Country:  Italy

Century:  15th-16th

Style:  Renaissance

Media:  Oil on wood

Details:  Pictured are Mary, Jesus, and John the Baptist.  An easel painting.

Title:   A Man Tricked by Gypsies, 1493

Artist:  Da Vinci

Country:  Italy

Century:  15th

Style:  Italian Renaissance

Media:  Pen and brown ink

Details:  Da Vinci was a real "renaissance man"; he was an architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, writer, and many other things.  He understood the importance of sketching.

Title:   Ceci n'est pas une Pipe (This is not a Pipe), 1928-1929

Artist:  Magritte

Country:  France

Century:  20th

Style:  Trompe L'oeil (Fool the Eye)

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  A realist (obviously); part of the trompe de l'oeil movement.

Title:   A Smoke Backstage, 1877

Artist:  Harnett

Country:  America

Century:  19th

Style:  Trompe L'oeil/Realism

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  A realist (obviously); part of the trompe de l'oeil movement.  Harnett led an unfortunate life; he developed rhumatoid arthritis which slowed down production of his paintings.  He died at the age of 44.

Title:  Shuttlecocks, 1994

Artist:  Oldenburg

Country:  Sweden

Century:  20th

Style:  Modern Scultpure/Pop Art

Media:  Aluminum, fiberglass, plastic, paint

Details:  Distortion of scale was playful social commentary.  There are several of these shuttlecock sculptures, which Oldenburg created with Coosje van Bruggen.

Title:  Studies for the Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel cieling, 1510

Artist:  Michelangelo

Country:  Italy

Century:  15th-16th

Style:  Italian Renaissance

Media:  Red Chalk.  Paper.

Details:  Intensely studied human form; sketched in preparation.

Title:  Pietà, 1501

Artist:  Michelangelo

Country:  Italy

Century:  15th-16th

Style:  Italian Renaissance

Media:  Marble

Details:  The scale of Mary is extremely exaggerated; in reality she would be 8 feet tall.  Her form is used to support, and contrast, the body of Jesus.

Title:  Prevalence of Ritual:  Tidings, 1967

Artist:  Romare Bearden

Country:  USA

Century:  20th

Style:  Modern/Collage

Media:  Photomontage

Details:  Focused on social commentary of the black American life.

Title:  Rocket to the Moon, 1971

Artist:  Romare Bearden

Country:  USA

Century:  20th

Style:  Modern/Collage

Media:  Collage on Board

Details:  Used symbolism to convey the social and economic situation of African Americans.  The Rockets in the background represent the technological advances elsewhere, while a red stoplight seems to halt the same expanses in urban life.

Title:  Old Man with Head in Hands, 1882

Artist:  Van Gogh

Country:  Nederlands/France

Century:  19th

Style:  Post-Impressionist

Media:  Pencil & Paper

Details:  An early study showing Van Gogh's advances in conveying emotion as well as anatomical accuracy.

Title:  Carpenter, 1880

Artist:  Van Gogh

Country:  Nederlands/France

Century:  19th

Style:  Post-Impressionist

Media:  Black charcoal/crayon

Details:  Got fired for being awesome.  True story.

Title:  Self Portrait with Gray Hat, 1887

Artist:  Van Gogh

Country:  Nederlands/France

Century:  19th

Style:  Post-Impressionist

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  Used colour and texture as a way to express emotion; he was one of, if not, the first artists to do this.  Unfortunately, when he died at the age of 37 he was unknown.

Title: Nocturne:  Blue and Gold- Old Battersea Bridge, 1872-1875

Artist:  Whistler

Country:  U.S./Britain

Century:  19th-20th

Style:  Tonalism

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  A rich surface with limited tones.  Monochromatic, blue-green, with a few gold flecks.  Started the tonalist movement.

Title:  Chariot, 1950

Artist:  Giacometti

Country:  Switzerland

Century:  20th

Style:  Surreal/Expressionist

Media:  Bronze

Details: Sculpted exaggerated, thin, elongaged figures.  "Open Form"

Title:  Man Pointing, 1947

Artist:  Giacometti

Country:  Switzerland

Century:  20th

Style:  Surrealist/Expressionist

Media:  Bronze

Details:  Sculpted, exaggerated, thin, elongated figures.  Open form.

Title:  I and the Village, 1911

Artist:  Chigall

Country:  Russia/France

Century:  20th

Style:  Surreal/Expressionist

Media:  Oil on canvas

Details:  Use of implied lines, as well as a drawn-in line to define the visual line between the sheep and the man.

Title:  Wheel of Fortune, 1977-1978

Artist:  Flack

Country:  USA

Century:  20th

Style:  Photo Realism

Media:  Oil over acrylic on canvas

Details:  Airbrush used for gradual colour gradation.  The name of the art is featured on a tarot card.

Title:  This is Definitely Not a Pipe, 2000

Artist:  Beldner

Country:  USA

Century:  20th/21st

Style:  Modern

Media:  Money...!  (Sewn currency)

Details:  Beldner uses money to recreate famous works of art; this is a sort of social commentary on the way that art is often valued only by it's worth in dollars, rather than it's worth in aesthetic or political value.

Title:  Guernica, 1937

Artist:  Picasso

Country:  Spain

Century:  19th-20th

Style:  Cubist

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  Documented his process from start to finish.  The work features a woman holding a lamp and a bull with a bird on it's back.

Title:   Oriental Poppies, 1927

Artist:  Georgia O'Keeffe

Country:  America

Century:  20th

Style:  Modern

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  Major influence on U.S. modern art.  Painted flowers, and other natural scenes, in bold, abstract, style.

Title:  Jack in the Pulpits, No. 5, 1930

Artist:  Georgia O'Keeffe

Country:  USA

Century:  20th

Style:  Modern

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  Natural items in bold, abstract, colourful styles.

Title:  Banana Flower, 1933

Artist:  Georgia O'Keeffe

Country:  USA

Century:  20th

Style:  Modern

Media:  Charcoal/chalk on paper

Details:  ...

Title:  Madonna and Child with the Chancellor Rolin

Artist: Jan Van Eyck

Country:  Belgium

Century:  14th-15th

Style:  Early renaissance

Media:  Oil and tempera on panel

Details:  Father of oil painting.  He used glaze to add texture and shine to things like jewels and fur.

Title:  Pietà

Artist:  Titian

Country:  Italy

Century:  16th

Style:  Italian Renaissance

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  Bold, loose brushwork.  Triangular composition.

Title:  Large Reclining Nude, 1935

Artist:  Matisse

Country:  France

Century: 19th-20th

Style:  Modern Art

Media:  Oil on Canvas

Details:  Art formed in stages with attentioin to visual weight.

Title:  Aztec Calendar Stone, 1479

Country:  Mexico

Century:  15th

Media:  Basalt

Details:  The center of the circle is the sun god, representing the world.  There are four quarters of the circle, each compartment representing previous incarnations of the world.

Title:  Sloop, Nassau, 1899

Artist:  Homer

Country:  USA

Century:  19th

Style:  Realist

Media:  Watercolor and graphite on paper

Details:  Said to be the father of watercolour.  He used the white of the paper to create highlights.

Title:  Detroit Industry, 1932-1933

Artist:  Rivera

Country:  Mexico

Century:  20th

Style:  Mexican Muralist Renaissance

Media:  Fresco

Details:  Fresco is made quickly, while the pigments used bind with lime, creating a durable surface.  The colours of the fresco reach their full intensity 50-100 years after being painted.  Rivera was married to Frida Kahlo!