Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe "Luncheon on the Grass"

1863

Oil on Canvas

Edouard Manet

Depicts the juxtaposition of nude females. Rejected by Salon Jury.  Made his own exhibit and got alot of notority and controversy.  It is not a realist painting. Subjects were Monet's brother and his brother-in-law.

Impression, Sunrise

1872

Claude Monet

Oil on Canvas

Gave rise to the name of Impressionist movement.  Is the Harbor of Le Harre in France. Monet Explains landscape is nothing but Impression; painted from his window. Very loose brush strokes.

Burghers Of Calais

Auguste Rodin

1889

Bronze Sculpture

One of Rodins most famous sculptures.  Served as a monument to an occurence in 1347 during the 100 years war when Calais, a port was under siege by english for over 1 year.

Boulevard Des Capucines

Claude Monet

1873

Oil on Canvas

Gives you a view of Paris and its beauty; recieved scorn and anger.  Contributed to the first Impressionist Exhibition.

Artist's Studio

Louis Daguerre

1837

Photograph

First photo done this way--called "daguerreotype"

"Migrant Mother" Florence Thompson, Nipomo, CA

Dorothea Lange

1936

Black and White Photograph

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Paris

originally "The Brothel of Avignon"

Pablo Picasso

1907

Oil on Canvas

5 prostitutes in Barcelona. Women appear in a confrontational manner and none are very feminine. Very angular and disjointed. Two are in African masks. 3 others are in the Iberian style of Spain. Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional painting.

Ma Jolie

Pablo Picasso

1911

Oil on Canvas

Took after Braque's innovations; began Cubanism era.  Relies on abstract meaning and concepts. It is of picasso's mistress at the time Eva Gouel aka Marcelle Humbert.

Bottle of Suze

Pablo Picasso

1913

Painting

Synthetic Cubism; during the Cubist Period

Early example of collage; first serious collage at point in time. Traditional still life.  Suze is a popular after dinner liquor.

Guernica

Pablo Picasso

1937

Painting

Work had gained monumental status, becoming a perpetual reminder of tradegies of war.  Created in response to the bombing of Guernica. Shows the tragedy of war and the suffering it inflicts.

Running Fence

Christo

1972

Architecture

Teotihuacan: Pyramid of the Sun

150 CE

Unknown

Stone Architecture

Mexico City, Mexico

Contains some of the largest pyramidal strutures built in the pre-Columbian Americas.

Crystal Palace

Joseph Paxton

1851

London

Wainwright Building

1891

Architecture

Louis Sullivan

St. Louis

Seagram Building

1955

New York

Architecture

Mies Van Der Rohe and Johnson

Kaufmann House

1935

Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

TWA Flight Terminal

1956

New York

Eero Saarinen

Architecture

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

1989

Moshe Safdie

Architecture

Montreal, Quebec

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

1989

Moshe Safdie

Architecture

Montreal, Quebec

Vietnam Veterans' Memorial

1981

Maya Ying Lin

Architecture

Washington, D.C.

Pompidou Center

1971

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers

Paris, France

Architecture

Autumn Rhythm

1950

Jackson Pollock

Oil on Canvas

Has a commanding large prescence of black, white, and tan.  The large scale of his many drip paintings is associated with his masculine assertiveness and his status as a US hero.

Current

1964

Bridget Riley

Painting

Uses hard edges and smooth surfaces, but remain abstract.  Looks 3D but is completely flat. Lines give the illusion of volume.

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

1956

Richard Hamilton

Painting/Collage on paper

It was the first POP art to achieve iconic status

Marylin Diptych

1962

Andy Warhol

Painting

Completed during the weeks after her death contains 50 single publicity photos from the film Niagara.  The colored are thought to symbolize her life and morality, whereas the black and white are her career in film/magazines.

Spiral Jetty

1970

Robert Smithson

Architecture/Earthwork Sculpture

Considered to be the central work.  Made of mud, salt, crystal, basalt rocks, earth, and water.

Supremist Painting, Eight Red Rectangles

1915

Kazimir Malevich

Oil on Canvas

Attempt to free art from the burden of the object. Kazimir tries to show the supremacy of pure feeling in art.

Fountain

1917

Marcel Duchamp

Sculpture (unrinal)

Purpose was to shift focus of art from physical craft to intellectual interpretation. Original was lost but he authorized a reproduction. Regarded by Avant-Garde as a major landmark in 20th c. art.

Great Stupa at Sanchi

India

3rd century BCE

Buddhist Relic

Oldest stone structure in India. Parasol-like structure symbolizes high-rank which was intended to honor and shelter relics.  Its nucleus is a hemispherical brick built over Buddha.

Olympia

1863

Edouard Manet

Oil on Canvas

Caused a huge uproar; conservatives condemned the work as "immortal and vulger"

Liberty Leading the People: July 28, 1830

1830

Eugene Delacroix

Oil on Canvas

Commemorates the July revolution that toppled Charles X.  Robust woman of the people; was denounced as ignoble.  Known as marker to the end of the Age of Enlightenment and beginning of Romantic Era.

British Museum

1823

Sir Robert Smirke

London, England

National Gallery of Art (The Louve)

19th Century

John Russell Pope

Architecture

Washington, D.C.

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump

1768

Joseph Wright

Oil on Canvas

Depicts a scientific project in a reverential manner formerly reserved for scenes of historical or religious significance. Liked to depict the Industrial Revolution. Regarded as a masterpiece of British Art.

Ancient Ruins in the Canon de Chelley, Arizona

1873

Timothy O'Sullivan

Albumen Print

Geographical explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian.

The Dinner Party

1974

Judy Chicago

Painted Porcelain place settings

Depicts place settings for 39 mythical and historical famous women.  She was a feminist artist.

First Communion

1895

Pablo Picasso

Oil on Canvas

Depicts his sister lola at her first communion.

Was Picasso's official entry into artistic world.

La Grenouillerre

1869

Claude Monet

Oil on Canvas

Done next to Renoir, they were friends that were poor at the time; paintings look similar.

La Grenouillere

1869

Renior

Oil on Canvas

The Critics

1862

Honore Daumier

Shows a family viewing Olympia by Edouard Manet

Chimney Sweeps walking

1851

Charles Negre

Photograph

Was among first painters to turn to photography

Uses his camera to extend the painters vision in search of visual info on human activity. Posed to simulate motion.

Woman in the Garden

1867

Claude Monet

Oil on Canvas

Painted outside. So big that he dug a trench so it could be painted from one point of view. Finished it inside. Woman is his companion Camille.  Bought by a friend to help Monet when he had no money.

Three musicians

1921

Pablo Picasso

Oil on Canvas

Exemplifies the Synthetic Cubist style; gives the appearance of cut paper.  Thought to represent Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob.

Gare St.Lazare

1877

Claude Monet

Oil on Canvas

Hoped to change effects of light, movement, clouds of steam and a radically modern motiff.

Portrait of Gertrude Stein

1906

Pablo Picasso

Oil on Canvas

She was one of the first major collectors of the cubists'

Sat down with Picasso to do it; many didn't see the resembelance.  She was okay with it.

In the cafe, Absinthe Drinker

1875

Edgar Degas

Oil on Canvas

Woman is Ellen Andree. Is a representation of the increasing social isolation in Paris during its stage of rapid growth.

Absinthe Drinker

1904

Pablo Picasso

Oil on Canvas

Picasso distorted color form

Still life with chair caning

1912

Pablo Picasso

Oil on Canvas

Meant to create confusion of what is 'real' and 'unreal' changed from geometry to elements from the real world.

The Artist in his Studio

1665

Jan Vermeer

Oil on Canvas

Did not sell or part with it. Offers a realistic presentation of an artist's work place and is notable for its depiction of light as its interior.

Nude Descending the Staricase no. 2

1887

Marcel Duchamp

Oil on Canvas

Widely regarded as a modernist classic. Depicts a figure demonstrating an abstract movement in its gate. Combines Cubist and futuristic movements.  Motion created by successive super imposed images.

Oath of the Horatii

David

1784

Painting

Death of Socrates

David

1787

Painting

Death of Marat

David

1793

Painting

Napolean crossing the Alps

David

1803 

Painting

Rouen Cathedral

Claude Monet 

1893

Painting

Water Lilies

Claude Monet

1905

Painting

Harvest of Death

Timothy O'Sullivan

1863

Photograph

Shoshone Falls

Photograph

1874

Timothy O'Sullivan

At the time of the Louisville Flood

Bourke-White

1937

Photograph

Mahatma Ghandi

Bourke-White

1946

Photograph

Wind tunnel, Fort Peck Dam

Bourke-White

1936

Photograph

Girl with a Mandolin

Pablo Picasso

1910

Painting

Self-Portrait

Pablo Picasso

1901

Portrait

Head of a woman 

Pablo Picasso

1909

Sculpture

Composition with Mona Lisa

Kazimir Malevich

1914

Painting