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Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis-David
1784
Paris
-Oil on canvas
-10 feet
-Depicts a Story from Pre-Republican Rome
-The leaders of the fighting cities of rome and Aebra decided to resolve the conglict by enourers waged by 3 representatives from each side. The Roman's choose the 3 Horatius Brothers.
-The painting depicts the 3 brothers being sworn to oath by their father
-They are olbivious to the upset female relatives
-Perfect Example of Neo classical Style
-Depicted the scene in a shallow space.
-deployed his characters carefully, placing them across the scene and close to the foreground.
-A manner that is Reminiscent of ancient releif sculpture |
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Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
Edouard Manet
1863
-example of realism
-Depicts two women (one nude) and two men enjoying a Picnic
-The two men wear Parisian attire from the 1860s.
-The Nude women looks at the viwier in neither seduction of embarassment.
-Public was outraged it was not like Poastoral Symphones where the figured were not based on people.
-Seemed torepsresent ordindary men and Premiscusious women
The Lighting creates strong contrasts
-Manet himself declared that the main actor in this painting is light. |
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Les Demoiselles D`Avingon
Pablo Picasso
1907
-Oil on canvas
-Opened the foor to radically new methond of representing form in space.
-Originally Portrayed 2 men mingling with women in a brothe; but by the time it was finished he eliminated the male sclients and simplified a schematic foreground still ..
-he fractured the figured as continuous volumes
-Tension below 3 demensional figured and painting on a flat 2-d surface
Tension below represention and abstract
-The Three women on the left were inspired by Ancient Iberian sculptures.
-The Two women on the right were inspired by African sculpture.
Gone is the traditional concept of an orderly, constructed, and unified pictorial space that mirrors the world. |
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Raft of Medusa:
1818-1819
Theodore Gericault
-Oil on canvas
16 feet
-depiction of a historical event. The subject is a shipwreck that occured in 1816 off the coast of africa
-When the Medussa ship ran aground, 150 remaining passageners built a raft out of the ships wood.
-The raft driffted fro 12 days and the passengers dwindeled down to 15. Finally the ship was spotted and the surviviors were picked up
-Took 8 months to finish
-Sought to capture horror, choas and emotion of the tragedy.
-He Visited hospitals and morgues to look and talk with survivors
-He had a model of the ship produced in his studip
-he was a member of an Abolistionist group which gave him a chance to place Jean Charles a black soilder at the top of surviviors |
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Number 1, 1950 (lavender Mist)
-Jackson Pollock
-1950
Consists of rythmic drips, splatters and dribbles of paint.
-Pollock used sticks and brushes where he flung, poured, and dripped paint.
He used not only traditional oil paint, but house hold panints and sometimes cig butts
-Simply roled the canvas out on the ground of his studies
-Pollock created art that was both spontaneous and choreographed.
-lack of well defined compositional focus made him different from traditional easel art.
-`the source of my painting is the unconcious` pollock |
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The Slave Ship
Joseph Mallord willian Turner
-1840
-Oil on canvas
-Its subject is an 1783 incident reported in the book ` The History of the aboliation of the slave trade`Book was printed in 1839- This is probabaly what inspired turner.
-Incident involved the captian of the slave ship who relayed that his insurance would not reimburse slaves who have died, but only those lost at sea. The captian decided to throw the sick and dying slaves overboard.
-The Artists turned the sun into a encandescent coment amit the redish clouds
-The Slave ship moves into the distance, with the sea of bodies sinking to their death.
-It is difficult to notice the bodies until the viewever looks closely and sees the shackles attached t othe singing arms and legs.
The realitiy of color is at one with the realitiy of feeling.
-conveys emotional power through color. |
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Schroder House
Gerrit Thomas Reitveld
1924
-Utrecht, Netherlands
-The Main living rooms are on the 2nd floor. He desinged the entire 2nd floor with patritions that can be closed to designed to be rooms, or open to be one complate room.
Railing, free-floating walls and long rectangular windows can be seen from the outside
-gives the effect that the cubis units are breaking apart right in from of the viewers eyes.
Makes the structure look like a 3-d projection
-attached to a row of old school homes. |
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Improvisation 28
Vassily kandinsky
-1912
Born in russia , but omved to munich in 1896.
Was one of the first artists to explore complete abstraction.
Kandinsky was a ture intellect-widealy read in philsophy, religion, history, and other arts.
May have been influence by scienctitists explortation of atomic structire- maybe have convinced him that material objects had no real substrance.
Kadinsky beleived artists must express their spirit and inner feels by using color, form, line and space. impied spatial relation ships
Kadinsky saw these abstracts as evolving bueplrints for a more enlightened society emparsizing spirituality.
-German expresionism |
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Women with dead child
Kathe Kollwitz
1903
Etching
- A seated, cross legged, naked womean envelopes the body of a child.
-The limp childs head is tipped far back, while the body is being tightly clutched by the mother.
-The mothers featued are mostly hidden by the childs body except one eye and a nose nestled into the skin.
-The mothers muscular leg forms the base from the viewers eye.
the shainf and lines drawn contribute to the othe drama of the pcuiture. the artists drew the mothers hair delicate to the same as the boys body.
-Not based on personal experience |
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Night Cafe
-Vangogh
-September 1888
-Oil Painting
-Executed on industrial primed
-depicts the interior of a cage, with a half .... doorway in the in the centre of the background.
-5 customoers ist at tables along the walls on the left and rise side (drunks and prostituses)
A waiter stands on the right side of the pool table in a light coat.
-Use of vivid colors: (green ceiling) (Red walls) yellow floors and glowing gas lights.
-The paint is applied thickly with many of the lines leading toward the door in the back
-Vangogh often wrote to this brother, he stated:
``I tried to express the idea that a cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself. Go mad or commit a crime`` |
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Return from Cythera
Antonine Watleau
1717
-rococoo
-Cynthera is the mythcial island of love (people are returning from a voyage)
-Ellegantly dressed men and women
-The man on the far right is whisperting into ta womens ear.
-Painting was the artists entry for the admission to the frnech royal academy of painting and sculpture.
-The Elegent figured move gracifully from the protecture shade of a woodland park filled with cupids and statues
-His figured are a blend of sweetness and elegance
-Watteau strove for the most exquisite shades of color difference |
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The two Fridas
Frida Kahlo
1939
Two Fridas are sitting in adjacent chairs and and holding hands and staring at the viewers
-The two are sitting on a green ... bench on a brownish smooth floor. Behind them is a painted blue sky.
One Frida is wearing a natiure indian costime and blouse. The blouse is blue with gold trim and the skirt is green with a with a white train.
-The Other fridas is dressed in a white european long , style dress with flower embroidery on the bottom.
-The two Fridas are connected to each other by a shared circulatory system w their hear exposed.
The frida in the white dress has snipped the blood flow to her heart.
The pool of blood on her lap repsresents her inablitiy to have children |
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Maya Lin
1981-1983
In 1981 a jury of architects, sculptors and landscapers selected lins idea for the memorial.
-Found at the consition gardens in washington D.C
-The public did not like it, the black walls and the receding from the ground was too morbid and remsembled a grave.
-Minimalist- does not dictate repsones and encourages personal exploration
-Act of cutting open the eart and posishling the earth`s surface
-Names of vietnam members allign the black wall.
-The comission of fine arts added a 2nd memorial to settle the controversy.
-The polished granile allows the person viewing names to see their reflection. |
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Unique forms of contnuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni
1913
-example of futurism
-Bronze
-3 feet
-Futurist Manifesto
-Highling the formal and spatial effects of motion rather then thair source, the strinding human figure.
-The figure is so expanded, interupped and broken in plane and contour that it almost disappears behind the blur of its movement.
-Futurist painting to create images symbolic of the modren life.
-To see this, people must only reflect on how details of an object look while driving on a highway. |
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The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago
1979
-originally conceived to be the feminsist last supper, eventually expanded to 39 seats,
-witchcraft
-Permanet display in brooklyn museum since 2007
-Triagnular table that measrues 48 fr on each side
-Each place setting includes runner (embrioded), napkin, utensils, goblet and a dinner playe in the shape of a flower like vulva
-Each place cetting is decorated with symbols from the woman's life
-place setting for 39 mythical and historial famous women.
-13 place settings on each side are represetable of the 14 seats of the last supper
-"Give women their place in history, since they were largely written out of it"
-White-Ceramic floor |
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Marilyn Diptych
Andy Warhol
1962
pop art
-Silk screen painting
-completed during the weeks after marilyn monroe's death in august.
-contains 50 images of the actress
-25 pictures in color/25 pictures in black and white
-The contrast below the coloared and black and white may symbolize Monroe's life and mortality.
-black and white can symbolized her carrer in film |
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Mont Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cezanne
1902-04
-Oil on canvas
- He Sought a lasting structure behind the formless and fleeting visual info the eye absorbs
-He shought to order the lines, planes and coloars that compromised nature.
-He sought to acheive the effect of distance, depth, structure and solidity not by using traditional perspectice but bu recording the color patterns nature provides.
-To create the ullusion of 3=d form and space, he focussed on carefulling selecting colors.
-Cool colors tend to redece where as warm ones advance.
-Foreground include roads, fields and houses
-portrays the real experience a person has when viewing a landscapes form.
-Diffrerent proportions rather than being stuck to one such as a photograph. |
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The bath
Mary Cassatt
1892
impressionist period
-Mary had trained as apainter before moving to europe to study.
-She also had the respondsibility of caring for her aging parents and often could not attend the cafes as her male artist friends could.
-for these reasons Mary's subjects are mainly womean and children
-"The Bath" decpicts the relationship between a mother and child
-"Visual Solidarity of the mother and child contrasts with the flatness of the peper and ring.
-Borrowed inspiration from friend Degas and Japanese prints. |
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Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow.
Piet Mondrain
1930
-Oil on canvas
-1 foot
-Limited his formal vocabulary to three primary colors: (red blue and yellow)
-The primary values (black, white, grey)
-Twp Primary directions (horizontal/ vertical)
-Mondrain altered the grind patterns and the size of the color planes to create an internal cohesian and harmony.
-He Concluded that primary colors and values are the purest colars and therefor are the perfect tools to create something of harmony.
-Locking color planes into a grid of interescting vertical and horizontal lines. |
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Girande Odalisque
Jean auguste-domonique Ingres
1814
Ingres was seen as a tue neoclassical painter
subject is in a reclining nude position reminiscent of titan
-ingres admiration for raphael on borrowing the type of female head.
-relaxed pose, small head and elongated limbs
-Cool color scheme (blues, nude, colors and gold)
-THe women is of turkish decent
-Critiques hated paiting when first revealed, called ingres a rebel in terms of both form and content |
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Breakfast Scene from Marriage a la mode
-William Hogaith
-1745
-roccoco
Oil on canvas
-london
-One in a squence of six paintngs that poke fun at the marital immortalities of the rich in england
-the husband and wife are seared, tired from the night before. While the wife stayed home for the night playing cards and listening to music while her husband has been suspiciously away from the house all night.
-The husbands hands are placved deep in his moneyless pockets, while their dog sniffs his pocket at a women's lace cap sticking out of his pocket.
-A Steward, with his hand full of unpaid bills, raises his eyes and hand in dispair, the at the married couople.
The vow of religious painting in the back room is next to a painting with a curtian. (nude painting) |
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Night Hawks
Edward Hopper
1942
Hopper created a realist vision of the post war but all simplified the shapes moving toward abstraction.
Hopper concetraed his scenes on contemporary American city and country life
-His paintings depict building streets and landscapes that are curiously muted and filled with empty spaces- depciting the nature of the depression era
-From the darkened streets outside a resturant, the viewer views the lighted inside through a large placed glass window. giving the inner space a feeling of safeness as well as a unvurnerable.
-His paintings suggests the loneliness of people. |
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Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet
1849
-depicts a funeral in a bleak provincal landscape
-while a clergyman reads the office of the dead
-those attending gather around the excaved grave site, their faces differeing in their response to the buriel.
-3 groups across the canvas
1) Somberly clad women on the far right
2) Semi circle of clad men and
3)assorted churchmen on the left.
-Some of the models were courbert sisters and friends
-About and behind the figured are bands of overcast sky and barren cliffs.
-The dark pitt of the grave opens into the viewers space in the center foreground.
-Agressively presents the viewe with the nundance realities of daily life and death.
-realism captured the ordinary rhythms of daily existance. |
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Object
Meret Oppenhiem
-1936
-Sculpture appealed to the idealists because its concrete tangibility made their art all of the more disgusting.
-captures the incongruity, humor, visual appeal and eroticism chracterizing the surrealism.
-inspired by a convo w/ picasso he admired her brass bracelet covered in fur. He noted anything might be covered in fur. Once meret tea beame cold, she came up with that idea. |
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Fountain
-Marcel dunchamp
-1950
-1917
-example of dada
A frenchman who became the central dacla artist in N.Y but was also active in paris.
-Porcelain urinal presented on its back, signed "R mutt" and dated
-The "out" of "artwork" was in the artists choice of object in a new light.
-took an oridinary article of life, place it so that its useful appearance was lost under the new tittle and point of view. |
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Red Room
(harmony in red)
Fauvism
1908-1909
Henri Matisse
-The Subject is the interior of a comfortable, prosperous household
- a maid is placing wine and ruit on the table
- Matisse presented the painting in simplified dashioned and flattened out the forms.
- Ex: Table has no front which appears flattened and sinks into the wall.
-The window on the left could also be a painting
-the colors contrast richely and intensly
-shows the importance and effect color can have.
-Initally was gree, painted over blue then finally matisse was happy with the harmony of red. |
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Eugene Delacroix, 1855
nardar
early example of photography
in this photo the artists appears with remarkable presence, even in half length
his gesture and expression create a realving mood that seems to tell the viewers much about him
nardar put clients at easy by allowing them to pick a pose which best suited their personality |
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