20 Art Works that every
Art 1 student should know.
Egyptian
King Tut’s Death Mask,
New Kingdom,
18th Dynasty, 1323 BCE
Cairo, Egypt
Gold, semi precious
stones, glass
Ancient Greek Architecture
The Parthenon,
Acropolis,
Athens, Greece.
447-432 BCE
Roman Architecture, the Colosseum, Rome, Italy,
70-80 AD
Anglo Saxon, Sutton Hoo Purse Lid, Great Britain,
circa 625 AD, British Museum, London, England
Gothic Architecture, Notre Dame de Paris, Paris,
France 1163- 1345 AD, Paris, France
Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa,
Le Musee de Louvre,
Paris, France 1503-1507
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel’s ceiling and
altar wall frescoes (1508-1541), Rome, Italy
Matthias Grünewald, The Isenheim
Altarpiece (1509-1515) Cologne, France
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy
Lesson,(1632) The Hague, Netherlands
John Singleton Copley, Brook Watson and the
Shark, (1778) The National Gallery,
Washington, DC
Third version much smaller
than original and more with
gruesome details.
Original version of an 1849 shark attack on 14 year old Watson in
Havana Harbor, Cuba. He survived.
Impressionnism paintings, Claude Monet,
• 1905 Le Musee de l’organerie,Paris France
1886
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Munch, The Scream (1893), National Gallery, Oslo,
Norway
Klimt, Gustav, The Kiss (1909) The Austrian Gallery
Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, (1931)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937), Reina Sofia
Museum, Madrid. Spain
Jackson Pollock, Convergence (1952)
Albright/Knox ART Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Chuck Close, Mark,
photo realism (1979
Museum of Modern Art,
New York City, NY
Maggie Taylor, The girl in the Bee Dress, computer
collage, A Gallery, New Orleans, LA