Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Picasso. Painted in the early 20th century in France

He was experimenting with three (3) ideas that would come to define cubism.

-He was influenced by non-Western art

-He was fragmenting figures into flat planes

-He was merging figure & groud

St. Jerome in His Study

Albert Durer.

The first image to depict multiple vanishing point perspective.

Las Meninas

Diego Velazquez

His masterpiece of the royal family. It is a compostional piece.

There are three (3) compositional differences between Baroque and Renaissance

-Baroque composers are more complex

-" " are more asymmetrical

-" " are more 3-dimensional

The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci. Mural painting in 1495-1497 (Renaissance period)

Used linear perspective (depicting 3-d images on a 2-d plane) and experimented with the fresco method.

Ginevra de Benci

Leonardo da Vinci. 1474. Painted (on a woodpanel) in Verrocchio's workshop.

His first portrait. 

David

Adrea del Verrocchio

The subject is David (the young biblical hero that killed the giant, Goliath), but the model was da Vinci himself (young).

If that is true than that is our only reference of a young da Vinci.

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci

Third portrait. Painted 30 years after his first portrait.

Atmospheric/Aerial Perspective (objects meant to be seen as distance appear hazy)

Mona is shorthand for Madonna (My Lady)

In his possession until his death

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

Birgham

Atmospheric Perspective - when the objects meant to be seen as distant appear hazy

Amplifed Perspective - when the object depicted is depicted perpendicular to the picture plane instead of parallel to it

Girl with an Ice Cream Cone

Wayne Thiebaud (T-Bow)

1960's. Pop style

The Holy Trinity

Masaccio

Fresco. Example of Artistic Achievement (the first artist to do somethign)

AA - first to depict true linear perspective

The Ambassadors

Holbein the Younger

Example of (the pictorial known as) anamorphic

Anamorphic - stretched

The skull can be a symbol for Death comes to all or a pun on his name

The School of Athens

Raphael

Reflects the two ancient schools of philosophy 

Pluto & Aristotle drawn as da Vince & Michaelangelo

Each gesturing to reflect own philosophy

The Arnolfini Wedding / The Wedding Portrait

Jan Van Eyck

Painted in 1434 (Early Germen Renaissance)

First image with two regular people

Bunch of traditional/religious symbols in this painting

Ida Painting

Ivan Albright

Summer

Arcimboldo

Painted in France. Mannerist (anti-realism)

Fauve (These artists in France use arbitary color)

AC - color that has no relationship to the natural world

Turning Road

Andre Derain

Henri Matrise

Odalisque - a female member of a harem or a concubine

Local color - the color the object would appear in natural daylight

Optical color - when the color used in a work of art is affected by a light source other than natural daylight

Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh

1889. Past Impressionism style

Career only lasted 10 years. All the paintings we know of him came from the last two and a half years of his life