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The Allegory of Painting
by Jan Vermeer
Variety of media are depicted: book, trumpet, tapestry, chalk lines, chandelier, map, mask |
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Mimis and kangaroo
Rock art, Austrailia
dates back 40,000 - 6000 BCE
Stick like figures represent ancestral spirits, or mimis
Drawing records knowledge of the artist |
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The Alba Madonna
by Raphael
Circular, he takes da Vinci's advice, sketch quickly and loosely, rough out the limbs
he sketched it out first
oil painting |
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Self-Portrait
Kathe Kollwitz
Charcoal, burnt wood, especially vines
expressive lines
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Untitled (Ocean)
Venice, CA
by Vija Celmins
graphite, photo realism
soft form of carbon, similar to coal |
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After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself
by Edgar Degas
Pastel, chalk medium, with colored pigment
sketch line marks, he used pastels proficiently and inventive |
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Prophet
by Emile NOLDE
relief - image to be printed is raised off the background in reverse, rubber stamps, press into ink pad and then paper
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Adam and Eve
by Albrecht Durer
iconographical meaning
Intaglio process - area to be printed are below the surface, strippling, dots are used in greater and greater density
elk - black bile, melancholy
cat - yellow bile, anger and cruelty
rabbit - blood, sensuality
ox - phlegm, lazziness, sluggish |
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Marilyn Monroe
by Andy Warhol
Silkscreen printing
depicted her in garish, conflicting colors
she is an image, she died of suicide, like an endangered species, her identity has been stripped
Campbell soup - commodity (compared to Marilyn)
a woman shot Warhol |
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Lamentation
by Giotto
Gold Halos - early Renaissance, early Christian Art
Trying to figure out how to give figures volume, to be more realistic
*Giotto also worked on the relief on Florence Cathedral
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Madonna and Child Enthroned
by Giotto
Realism |
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The Libyan Sibyle
by Michelangelo
Turning from pagan past towards christianity.
Closing the book to her past.
shows movement |
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Distortion of Human Figure
Greeks used |
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Primavera
by Botticelli
Tempera, drappery and transparency
30 coats of paint on gowns/material and you can still see the figures underneath |
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Braids (Helga)
by Andrew Wyeth
Oil Painting
Realism |
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A Wall, Nassau
by
Winslow Homer
Water color (Most expressive)
Divider wall, black shards of glass,
Intrusion of privacy by tourists
The people don't want them there
Sail boat - freedom |
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The Dove
by
Romare Bearden
Collage Artist
black experience, peace and harmony
paste/glue fragments of printed matter, fabric, usually on a flat surface
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Monogram
by Robert Rauschenberg
Combine - painting
high relief collages
bringing together diverse objects
to coexhist
Angora Goat |
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Horse in Motion, Cantering, Saddled
Edward Muybridge
PHOTOGRAPHY
Bet to see if horse is entirely free of the ground. |
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Le Boulevard du Temple - 1839
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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
PHOTOGRAPH |
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Maria Edgeworth, 1841
by
Richard Beard |
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Harvest of Death
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Timothy O'Sullivan
PA 1863 |
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Athens, The Decisive Moment 1953
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Henri Cartier-Bresson |
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The White Chapel of Senusret I
Relief sculpture, figure types, Egyptians
Figures are not depicted correctly, everyone is made the same, broad shoulders and pinched waist, carved in limestone, relief sculpture is meant to be seen from one side only, frontal |
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*The Rape of the Sabine Women
by
Giovanni da Bologna
CARVED MARBLE, SUBTRACTIVE PROCESS
It was an abduction, not a rape |
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Slave (Atlas)
by
Michelangelo
He wasn't able to finish and transform, he gave up and left it unfinished. |
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*King Menkoure and His Queen
Stone lasts forever, they were concerned with afterlife
KA - individual spirits
Criteria for Egyptian art:
broad shoulders
pinched waists
rigid stance |
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Kourous (Kritios Boy)
Marble
Greeks are more detailed, muscles, hair, eyes, abs.
**Body movement. Ideal proportions to human.**
Figure was very important to Greeks |
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Hermes & Dionysos
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PRAXITELES
Counterbalance - contrapposto
Greatest Greek sculpture of all time. Zeus had an affair and asked Hermes to take baby to nimphs in the mountains to be raised. |
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Tomb of the Emperor
by
Shih Huang
Accidental discovery
ceramic
Chinese were first to perfect porcelin
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*Lost Wax Casting Process
perfected by the Greeks
sculpture is modeled (clay, wax) -core
mold is made (left with negative or original, gelatin mold) inside in filled with plaster, mold is removed and you are left wtih wax casting
molten bronze is poured and cooled and mold is removed
you are left with bronze replica of wax form
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*Contingent
by
Eva Hesse
Assemblage art - individual objects brought together to for a larger one
fiberglass and latex |
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*A Frontal Passage
by
James Turrell
Light Artist
Deep Red Glow, dense haze like atmosphere, experience installation, state of hyper self consciousness |
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*Spiral Jetty
by
Robert Smithson
Earthwork Artist (Public Art)
Utah Dead Sea, earthwork, salt crystals, red water, agale, black rock, man made.
spiral - snails, whirl pools naturally appear in nature.
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*To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond
by
Zhang Huan
8-15-97
Performance Art
Immigrant workers who lost jobs to moderinization - protest
to show the power of collective action |
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Apotheeosis of Homer Vase, 1796
Blue Jasperware
ornamental ware - considered art
by Josiah Wedgwood
slip: clay mixed with water, poor runny clay in mold and then fire that
ornamnetal ware (considered art) |
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Wedgewood Queen's Ware kitchenware
mass production
everyone can afford and available to the middle class
more functional
"useful ware" - for the table |
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fine art - nonfunctional
craft art - functional |
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Tea Bowl Named Amaguno
by Koetsu
clay is rolled out in slab |
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CERAMIC
three types of construction |
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coiling - native american's used this process, clay is rolled out in long, rope-like strands, stacked on each other
slab - clay is rolled out flat and then shaped wtih hands (Tea Bowl)
wheel-throwing |
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*The Dinner Party
by
Judy Chicago
very controversial artist, for females to be recognized equally for their art
over 300 women worked on this
triangle - symbol of female power, celebration of women
Problems: she couldn't find history of famous women and Congress |
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*Rotunda
by
Dale Chihuly (still living today)
glass - chandelier
shapes were organic - found in nature
inspired by mother's flowers and the sea |
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*Tar Beach (Quilt)
by
Faith Ringgold
Rooftopin NY, hot summer time the parents would play cards on the roof, Cassie, is sleeping on blanket and dreaming as she flies over the Washington Bridge, wants mom to have icecream everyday |
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*3D sculpture is built on
Armiture wire |
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*warp - vertical threads, held taught on loom itself
weft - threads that are woven over and under, horizontal |
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Corner of the First Temple of Hera
Paestum, Italy
Architecture
greek architecture (mathematic approach)
columns are fluted (length of column), grooved area
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*three types of column
Doric - masculine, plain
ionic - feminine, more decorative, slimmer
corinthian - acanthus leaves, very decorative |
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*Arch - changed the way architecture could be done
perfected by Greeks
arch enables you to make structures with a larger span
single arch
barrel vault (tunnel)
groined vault |
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*The Colosseum
Rome
architectural wonder
Gladiator games, sports, fights to the death between humans and animals
could hold a lot of people
amphitheater - means double theater
two semicircular theaters are brought face to face |
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*Pantheon (every God)
Rome
known for dome with open air (oculus-eye of Jupiter) open to heavens, worshippers could make contact to heaven
poured concrete
Romans were first to perfect the dome
20 feet thick thins to 6 ft at circular opening
carved niches
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Eiffel Tower
by Gustave Eiffel
built for Paris Expo of 1889
symbol of Paris
1000 feet hight, skeletal beams, so wind could pass through, used cast iron, no load bearing walls
not well received at first
(add carbon to iron - very strong medal that can span massive areas)
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Falling Water
by
Frank Lloyd Wright
America's most famous architect
built homes that fit into environment
in Pennsylvania in 1936
still standing, problems with drooping |
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Turning Torso Residential Tower
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by Santiago Calatrava in Sweeden
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Guggenheim Museum (Spain)
by
Frank Gehry
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*Burlington Zephyr
Burlington Northern Company
streamlining - machines could move faster
STREAMLINER ERA
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Wall painting with three horses facing one another
Chauvet, France
30,000 BCE
Rock wall painting
EARLIEST ART |
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*Venus of Willendorf
Lower Austria
c 25,000 - 20,000 BCE
carved l+imestone
female form, no facial features, fertility is purpose of exaggerated breasts and belly area, statue, |
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Stonehenge
England
circular, gathering
rocks are called megaliths
orientation towards the rising sun at the summer solstice indicates a connection to planting and harvest
major cooperation among people working on this
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She-Wolf
c 500 BCE
Rome
bronze
Fierce protectiveness, power of motherhood |
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Porcelin
Earthware
Stoneware |
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Santa Costanza, Rome
Church
c. 354 CE
emphasis on spiritual, spread of christianity, softened corners, greek cross
Constantine legalized christianity in 313CE
the light was prevalent because of the mystery of the heavenly light of heaven |
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Theodora and Her Attendants,
San Vitale, Italy, c.546-47
Mosaic
Characteristics of early christian art: gold halos, large wide eyes, flat-no volume
Theodora, wife of Justinian (his most trusted advisor)
12 advisors like the 12 apostles
3 maji bearing gifts to the Virgin and newborn Christ |
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Chartes Cathedral, 1145-1220
Paris, France
Gothic art style: light and lacey (left side)
Romanesque style: darker (right side)
Rose Window |
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Florence Cathedral
Some releif done by Giotto
Color scheme: red clay because they were so proud of their blue sky
Exterior is Romanesque
Interior is Gothic |
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