1750-76 (style term for only decorative arts and painting)

Rocaille/Barroco

-Teakettle on stand, c.1760 (Yale University)

-J. Richardson

-People are really rich so they buy 2nd homes & use their money to make silver/gold objects

-Horror-vacui: fear of empty spaces

-cabriole legs & pinapple on top

-when in debt-melt down the silverware

-Teapot #9093 (Whistling Bird)

-Michael Graves

1985—manufactured by Alessi

Post-modernism: late 1960s to present—embraces historical references

-Red Bird/White Base/Blue Handle

-Egg (lid): meant to symbolize hearth/home

-made for Target

-High Chest [made in Philadelphia]

-Anonymous

1760-70 (Winterthur Museum, DE)

Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1754

-Cabriole legs

-usually to show off - held linens/clothing

-made from mahogany

-brass handles

-legs look like a claw grabbing marbles

-Sony (formerly American Telephone and Telegraph) Building

-P. Johnson

Post-modernist style - 1978 (New York)

-looks like a piece of furniture

Seagram Building

P. Johnson/Mies van der Rohe 

               -German Architect

-1954-1958—International Style

-"Less is More"

-Set back from the street

-Lights lit up at night

-Philip Johnson House (The Glass House)

-P. Johnson

1948-9—International Style

(epitome of the Modernist sensibility—less is more)

-All metal & glass

-Only bathroom is enclosed

-Guest house is complete opposite (no windows)

-Furniture built by Mies van der Rohe\

-Underground Art Gallery

-Port Royal parlor

-Anonymous

1760-80 (Winterthur Museum, DE)

-Symmetry: fireplace in middle/high chest on both sides of room

-Most likely the 2nd house

-Rug is now on the floor

-Mahagony wood

-Mr. and Mrs. R. Andrews, 1748

-T. Gainsborough

-use of soft pastel colors

-oil painting but looks like watercolor

-land = wealth

-akimbo pose (hand on hip/gun in hand)

-Mrs. is seated

-Hunting (gun/dog)

-Dog is a symbol of marital fidelity (dog/master)(husband/wife)

-General George Washington before Princeton, 1779

-C. W. Peale

(several replicas were painted –Metropolitan Museum of Art/NY; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Smithsonian American Art Museum/DC) 

-Well off: fabric is tight which means he has some weight = $$

-akimbo pose (leaning on cannon)

-Hero of Battle of Princeton

Deborah Hall, 1766 (Brooklyn Museum)

W. Williams

-Commissioned by her father

-Full length: almost like a personal ad

-Arrow: cupid of love

-Trimming plant: sexual readiness/ Roses: need tender care

-Tiara: princess image making

-Parfume bag: clean hygene

-Squirel on a leash

-Vine: woman/rose needs support

-Isaac Winslow and his Family, 1755

-J. Blackburn

-Akimbo pose

-Satin/lace are well drawn

-suit unbuttoned/tight

-Mary and Elizabeth Royall

-J. S. Copley

c. 1758 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)