Watteau, Antoine. France. Return to Cythera, 1717-1719. 

Cythera is the isle of Love; people are coupling off.

He always included a realistic angel statue in his paintings

Unreal and dream-like; the perfection foreshadows on-coming revolution.

West, Benjamin, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770-1771.

A staged painting for political propaganda; in actuality the General died behind a bush and was no where near as dramatic as depicted.

The figures are similar to Christ's Descent from the Cross.

David, Jacques-Louis. France. Oath of the Horatti, 1784.

David was the court painter, a revolutionary painter, and Napoleon's painter.

Goya, Francisco de. Spain. The Third of May, 1808, 1814.

Depicts the Spanish Revolution with the Napoleon Frenchmen as the soldiers.

Later Goya gets sick and becomes deft; he moves from Madrid to the country.

Delacroix, Eugene. France. Liberty LEading the People, 1830.

The liberty figure later inspires the Statue of Liberty  

she also becomes to symbol of the French Revolution.

Cole, Thomas, The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Mass), 1836.

Landscape artists like Cole were all about nature's spirituality.

His imagery represents the American spirit of Manifest Destiny.

Courbet, Gustave. France. The Funeral at Ornans, 1849.

One of the first times a peasant funeral was depicted and

the public thought that the peasants were ugly.

Bonheur, Rosa. France. The Horse Fair, 1853-1855.

She needed permission to wear pants at the Horse Race.

Manet, Edouard. France. Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe, 1863.

His work was rejected from the Salon because of the controversial subject,

painting technique, and the challenging look from the nude woman.

Eakins, Thomas. The Gross Clinic, 1875.

A mother cringes in terror as she watches her young child be operated on.

The public reacted to this just as the title and thought it was just 'gross.'

Monet, Claude. France. Impression: Sunrise, 1872.

Monet studied light in the same locations across the tay at various intervals.

Cassatt, Mary. The Bath, 1892.

Eastern oriental art influenced Cassatt.

Whistler, James McNeill, Nocturne in Black and Gold (Falling Rocket), 1875.

Whistler was born in America, but became famous for his art in London.

Seurat, Georges. France. An Afternoon on La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886.

Seurat invented pointalism and it is utilized in this painting.

Van Gogh, Vincent. Starry Night, 1889.

He did not eat right and drank paint and absinthe.

He painted whule he was instatutionalized.

He cut off his left ear.

Cezanne, Paul. France. Mont Ste. Victoire, ca.1902-1904.

Cezanne began to paint with plains rather than brush strokes.

This was the foundation for later Cubism.

Rodin, Auguste. France. The Burghers of Calais, 1884-1889. Bronze.

Rodin represented how the poor people worked.

It was rejected in Paris because no one wanted to see it.

Duchamp, Marcel. Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2, 1912.

Duchamp was influenced by Futurism.

Matisse, Henri. France. Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908-1909.

Many of Matisse's paintings have a Turkish print influence.

Kandinsky, Vassily. Improvisation 28, 1912.

One day his canvas fell on its side, but he preferred the new orientation and thought it was even better than the original.

He was also part of the Blue Ryders Group.

Picasso, Pablo. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907.

Picasso was influenced by African masks.

He also signals the beginnings of the Cubist movement.

Boccioni, Umberto. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913.

The statue is in the Futurist style.

Hoch, Hannah. Cut with a Kitchen Knife, 1919-1920.

Part of the the Dada anti-art movement to oppose war by depicting dismemberment.

Hartley, Marsden. Portrait of a German Officer, 1914.

Hartley's boyfriend got killed in the war and the initals of him are included in the painting.

Magritte, Rene. The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images, 1928-1929.

Magritte challenged the viewer on how to percieve art.

Mondrian, Piet. Compostion in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930.

Mondrian began tree paintings and kept breaking it down into purer and purer forms.

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Bracusi, Constantin. Bird in Space, 1928.

Bracusi was the first to practice stacking forms.

Lange, Dorothea. Migrant Mother, 1935-1936.

The lady in the photo is Native American with 6 children

and had just sold the tires off of her car.

Rivera, Diego. Ancient Mexico, from the History of Mexico, 1929-1935. Mural.

Rivera depicts the Europeans coming into native Mexico.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Falling Water (The Kaufmann House), 1936. Bear Run, P.A.

Wright was the leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture.