Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus

Benjamin West

1768

The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West

1770

Paul Revere

John Singleton Copley

1768

Watson and the Shark

John Singleton Copley

1778

A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)

Thomas Cole

1839

-General Notes-

-Still new and raw land

-Landscape = seperate from old

-Hudson River school = American landscape

-Thomas Cole= Founder of school

--Painting Notes--

-Ominous Atmosphere = Rock Avalanche Story

-Uglyness of tree stumps and human removal of nature

-Scale swallows inhabitants

-Antagonism between human and natural worlds

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Thomas Cole

1828

Notes:

-Landscapes not near scenic views

-Using time of day/year to make more expressive conception of nature 

-"Not just a leaf painter"

-Adam/Eve are TINY=would still make sense w/o them

-Upright to sharp jagged textures 

- Pleasing landscapes to terrifying things

Pair painting= strengthens narrative

The Course of the Empire

Thomas Cole

1833-1836

Notes: 

-A Natural form (strange mountain) appears in all to bring them together

-Five Paintings

1) Raw and untamed-start of humanity

2) Leisurely and intelligent persuits, but one tree stump to foreshadow human taming

3) No room for nature to grow and breathe and mountain/nature is minimal.

4) Chaos and turmoil, only the mountain remains, and loss of reason(head)

5) Desolation because only the reminants of humans dusk vs dawn of 1.

The Course of the Empire

^{(The Savage State)} 

Thomas Cole

1833-1836

The Course of the Empire

^{(The Arcadian Or Pastoral)} 

Thomas Cole

1833-1836

The Course of the Empire

^{(The Cosummation of the Empire)} 

Thomas Cole

1833-1836

The Course of the Empire

^{(Destruction)} 

Thomas Cole

1833-1836

The Course of the Empire

^(Desolation) 

Thomas Cole

1833-1836

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church

1859

Notes:

-Most Famous Work

-Coherent and ordered in a X format.

-MINUTE details! SO SMALL. (opera glasses)

-Detail vs order = defines experience

Sharpshooter

Winslow Homer

1863

Right and Left

Winslow Homer

1909

Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

Thomas Eakins

1871

The Gross Clinic

Thomas Eakins

1875

Black Iris

Georgia O'Keeffe

1926

Notes:

-Women feel through the womb.

-Charcoals = Finally a women on the page!

-Husband lots of pictures with her and her work.

-Sexually charged impression in painting

-"Outpouring of sexual juices" - she hated it!

-Why paint flowers? Feminine and sexual

-Not a bouquet, but a single flower that commands attention

-Flowers are very suggestive, "Dark empty centers"

-Suggestive, but still just a flower

-"You hung all your assosiations with my flower but I don't agree"

Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue

Georgia O'Keeffe

1931

Notes:

36 By 40 Inches

-Skull is the emblem of mortality, the fleetingness of life

-Skull like a crucifix!

-Skull luminecent, and an unnatural vision

-Her symbol of the desert

-Gives this skull great importance and prescence

-"They talked so often of making the American work, but never the painting, so I'll make it even though they'll never notice it."

-Defined America as a place besides NYC.

Ground Swell

Edward Hopper

1939

Notes:

-Painting in New England

-Inspired by Winslow and Eakins

-But departs, from others with a subtle unease

-Undulation (wave) from a distant storm w/danger

-Never presents danger infront of you, always subtle.

Nighthawks

Edward Hopper

1942

Slave Drum

Anonymous

late 17th century

Rice Fanner Basket

Anonymous

circa. 1850

Storage Jar

 David Drake, aka "Dave the Potter"

1858

Bible Quilt I

Harriet Powers

1886

Ethiopia Awakening

Meta Warrick Fuller

circa. 1914

Notes:

-Instead of persuring careers as art she followed to come together as a dynamic community.

-Drew from the past, anchored in the present, distinctly African American.

- Paris inspired and Rodin inspired

- Reamerging from a sleep and unconsciousness

- Egypt a huge African source of pride.

"Future Expectations/Wedding Portrait"

James Van Der Zee

1926

Notes:

-Visual agenda to create a new image of AfAm.

-Brought them into the bourgouis/ prosperous

-Girl is superimposed = happy family life in their dreams!

Blues

Archibald Motley

1929

Notes: 

-A french depiction of "Le Petite Cafe"

- 3 things that captures the dynamism of black music and dance.

1) lots of energetic bodies

2) Cropping of the body

3) Warm/earth tones with orange and browns and sensuality 

African Dancer

Richmond Barthé

1933

Notes:

-Bottom of a man and top of a women.

-African thought of as the dark continent

Aspects of Negro Life

^{Panel 1: "The Negro in An African Setting"}
Aaron Douglas

1934

Notes:

-Very geometric and very large paintings

- Lots of concentric circles, the lightest parts are the key parts.

- Inspired by modern art.

Aspects of Negro Life

^{Panel 2: "From Slavery Through Reconstruction"}
Aaron Douglas

1934 

Aspects of Negro Life

^{Panel 3: "An Idyll of the Deep South"}
Aaron Douglas

1934 

Aspects of Negro Life

^{Panel 4: "Song of the Towers"}
Aaron Douglas

1934

Notes:

-Industrial North and the Great Migration

-Contradictory 

Baptism Scene

Doris Ulmann

1929-1930

Notes:

- Folk culture was the new thing!

-Agrarian life was the new place to be! Warm and happy!

- People wanted less complicated living and more easy values.

The Flag is Bleeding

Faith Ringgold

1967

Notes:

Die

Faith Ringgold

1967

Notes:

-Based off of a riot scene

-White boy and black girl together and unbloodied

-Angular legs and contrasting colors

Wall of Respect

Organization of Black American Culture

1967

Notes:

-Black arts movement

-Wall of black heros made during the summer 

-Obasci 

Wall of Respect

Organization of Black American Culture

1967

The Dinner Party

Judy Chicago

1974-79

Untitled

Ana Mendieta

1976

"Jump in Place, Feet Together"

Etienne-Jules Marey

circa 1886

"Portrait of his Wife, Ernestine Nadar"

Nadar

circa 1900

"Corsets"

Eugène Atget

1912

"Parc de Sceaux. June, 7 a.m."

Eugène Atget

1925

Le Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life)

Henri Matisse

1905-1906

Dance

Henri Matisse

1910

Studio with Eggplants

Henri Matisse

1911

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Picasso

1907

The Poet

Pablo Picasso

1911

Maquette for Guitar

Pablo Picasso

1912

Still Life Violin and Fruit

Pablo Picasso

1912

Guernica

Pablo Picasso

1937

Houses at l'Estaque

Georges Braque

1908

Le Courrier

Georges Braque

1913

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even

Marcel Duchamp

1915-1923

In Advance of the Broken Arm

Marcel Duchamp

1915

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

1917

L.H.O.O.Q.

Marcel Duchamp

1919

Rotoreliefs

Marcel Duchamp

1935

Suprematist Compostion, White on White

Kasimir Malevich

1918

Monument to the Third International

Valdimir Tatlin

1921

Proun LN 31

El Lissitsky

1922

Composition No. 10 (Piere and Ocean)

Piet Mondrian

1915

Composition No. 2

Piet Mondrian

1922

Red-Blue Chair

Marcel Breuer

1925

Wassily Chair

Marcel Breuer

1925

Senecio

Paul Klee

1922

The Master's Bedroom It's Worth Spending A Night There

Max Ernst

circa 1920

Approaching Puberty

Max Ernst

1921

Accomodations of Desire

Salvador Dali

1929

Object

Meret Oppenheim

1936

Untitled photograph

Walker Evans

1936

Guardians of the Secret

Jackson Pollock

1943

Lavender Mist: Number 1

Jackson Pollock

1950

Excavation

Willem De Kooning

1950

Study for Woman 1

Willem De Kooning

1950

Compostion no. 10

Mark Rothko

1950

Target with Plaster Casts

Jasper Johns

1955

100 Cans

Andy Warhol

1962

Red Race Riot

Andy Warhol

1963

Jackie

Andy Warhol

1965

"Indianapolis"

Robert Frank

1955-1956

"Untitled Film Still #56"

Cindy Sherman

1980

Higher Goals

David Hammons

1986

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson

1970

La Jetée

Chris Marker

1962

The Bowery In Two Inadequate Descripitive Systems

Martha Rosler

1974-1975

Yielding Stone

Gabriel Orozco

1992

Extension of a Reflection

Gabriel Orozco

1992

Cremaster 4

Matthew Barney

1994

Untitled photograph of the ongoing collective project, The Land

Rirkrit Tiravanija

2002

One Million Kingdoms

Pierre Kuyghe

2001

Ubu Tells the Truth

William Kentridge

1997

Dammi I Colori

Anri Sala

2003

Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest - Part 1

Yang Fudong

2003

Strikes at Time

Raqs Media Collective

2011

Le Antichitá Romane

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756

Le Carceri d'Invenzione

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1745

House of the Architect

London

John Soane

1794-1824

Saltworks

Arc-et-Senans

Claude Nicholas Ledoux

1775-80

Chaux

Claude Nicholas Ledoux

1804

Cenotaph to Issac Newton

Étienne Boullée

1784

Altes Museum

Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

1823-1830

Crystal Palace

London

Joseph Paxton

1850-1851

Contrasts: A parallel Between the Nobel Edifices of the Middle Ages, and Corresponding Buldings of th Present Day Shewing the Present Decay of Taste

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

1836

All Saint's Magaret Street

London

William Butterfield

1849-1859

The Guaranty Building

Buffalo

Louis Sullivan

1891-1894

Robie House

Chicago

Frank Lloyd Wright 

1908-1910

Vers une architecture

Le Corbusier

1923

Villa Savoye

Poissy

Le Corbusier

1929-1932

Ronchamp

Le Corbusier

1951-1954

Bauhaus Building

Dessau

Walter Gropius

1925-1926

Seagram Building

New York

Mies van der Rohe

1956-1959

Guggenheim Museum

Bilbao

Frank Gehry

1991-1997