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MICHELANGELO
Buonarroti
Title: David
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1501-1504
Source/Museum: Copy of the original as it stands in the Piazza della Signoria,
Florence. Original in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.
Medium: Marble
Size: Height 13 ft. 5 in.
Title: Doryphoros
Artist: Polykleitos
Date: 450 BCE
Source/Museum: Roman copy after lost bronze original. National
Museum, Naples. Art Resource, New York.
Medium: Marble
Size: Height 84 in.
Title: The Creation of Adam (restored)
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1508-1512
Source/Museum: Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, The Vatican, Rome. Photo ©
Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokyo.
Medium: Fresco
Size: n/a
Title: The Laocoön Group
Artist: n/a
Date: 1st century CE
Source/Museum: Roman copy, perhaps after Agesander, Athenodorus, and
Polydorus of Rhodes. The Vatican Museum, Rome.
Medium: Marble
Size: Height 7 ft.
Title: The Libyan Sibyl
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date: 1511-1512
Source/Museum: Detail of the Sistine Ceiling, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City. Canali Photobank,
Capriolo, Italy.
Medium: Fresco
Size: n/a
LEONARDO
DA VINCI
Title: Perspective analysis of The Last Supper
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Date: c. 1495-1498
Source/Museum: Refectory, Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie,
Milan.
Medium: Mural (oil and tempera on plaster)
Size: 15 ft. 1 1/8 in. x 28 ft. 10 ½ in.
Title: Mona Lisa
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Date: c. 1503-1505
Source/Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris. Erich Lessing/Art Resource,
New York.
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 30 ¼ x 21 in.
ARTEMESIA
GENTILESCHI
Italian Baroque, 17thC
Artemisia
Gentileschi,
Judith &
Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith & Holofernes
18th-19th Century
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Neoclassical
Romanticism
Realism
Impressionism
Title: Cornelia, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures
Source/Museum: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. The Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams
Artist: Angelica Kauffmann
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: c. 1785
Size: 40 x 50 in.
Fund. Photo: Katherine Wetzel. © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Title: The Raft of the Medusa
Source/Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris. Herve Lewandowski. Inv.: RF 2229. ©
Reunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY.
Artist: Théodore Géricault
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1819
Size: 16 ft. 1 ¼ in. x 23 ft. 6 in.
Title: Monk by the Sea
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Date: 1809-1810
Source/Museum: Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin. Joerg P. Anders/Bildarchiv
Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resources, NY.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 42 ½ x 67 in.
REALISM
Title: Burial at Ornans
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Date: 1849
Source/Museum: Musée d'Orsay, Paris. RMN Reunion des Musées
Nationaux/Art Resource, NY.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 10 ft 3 ½ in. x 21 ft. 9 in.
EARLY MODERNISM:
EDOUARD MANET
Titian
Venus of Urbino, 1538
Title: Olympia
Source/Museum: Musée d'Orsay, Paris. RMN Reunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. ©
Artist: Edouard Manet
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1863
Size: 51 x 74 ¾ in.
2007 Edouard Manet/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Title: Relief-printing technique
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Medium: n/a
Date: n/a
Size: n/a
Ukiyo-e Prints
from Japan
Influence on 19th century France
Ukiyo-e Style Characteristics
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Flat vs. Deep Space
Flat vs. Form/Mass
Broad Areas of Flat Color vs. Shading
Importance of Line- Calligraphic Line
Diagonals, division of Space
Pattern & Decorative Design
Importance of Negative Space
Ukiyo-e & French Prints
• Patrons- male, middle class
• Subjects: genre, urban life, theater, sometimes
nature
• Female subjects: geisha, entertainment,
brothel, erotic pleasure, bawdy, unaware of
observer
• NOT: religious, historical, inspirational, for
public consumption
From Realism to Impressionism:
Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Morisot
*The Parisian flaneur observes
*Subject Matter: Pleasures of modern life
*Real Subject: Fleeting effects of light
*Focus on the surface of objects and the
canvas:
*Form & structure dissolve
*Technology: paint in tubes, en plein aire
*Critical rejection, independent exhibits
Title: Impression-Sunrise
Source/Museum: Musée Marmottan, Paris. Bridgeman Art Library, International Ltd.
Artist: Claude Monet
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1872
Size: 19 ½ x 25 ½ in.
Title: Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies
Source/Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. H. O. Havemeyer Collection. Bequest of Mrs.
Artist: Claude Monet
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1899
Size: 36 ½ x 29 in.
H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.113). Photo © 1984 Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Title: Waterlillies, Morning Willows (central section)
Artist: Claude Monet
Date: 1916-1926
Source/Museum: Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris. Giraudon/Art
Resource, New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: Each panel 80 x 170 in.
Title: Waterlillies, Morning Willows (right side)
Artist: Claude Monet
Date: 1916-1926
Source/Museum: Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris. Giraudon/Art
Resource, New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: Each panel 80 x 170 in.
Cubism
Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque
Cubist style of Picasso
*Abstraction to capture the ESSENCE
*Flattened figures and space
*Geometric shapes shattered & reassembled
*Intermingling of figure and ground
*Multiple simultaneous points of view
*Limited color palette
*Influence of African & Iberian art
Title: Houses at l'Estaque
Artist: Georges Braque
Date: 1908
Source/Museum: Hermannn and Margit Rupf Foundation. © 2007
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 28 ¾ x 23 ¾ in.
Picasso in his studio, Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1908
Picasso, Girl w Fan, o/c
Picasso, Nude w Drapery, 1907
O/c 152x101cm Puskin Museum Moscow
Title: Violin and Palette, Autumn
Source/Museum: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 54.1412. © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New
Artist: Georges Braque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1909
Size: 36 1/8 x 16 ⅞ in.
York. Photo by David Heald. © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1907
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P.
Bliss Request.
Photo © 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed by Scala-Art Resource, New York. © 2003
Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 8 ft. x 7 ft. 8 in.
Guernica by Picasso
His only political painting
The test of Germany’s new aerial
bombing technology on innocent
Spanish civilians
Title: Guernica
Source/Museum: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. © Giraudon/Art Resource,
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1937
Size: 11 ft. 5 ½ in. x 25 ft. 5 ¼ in.
New York. © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Title: Guernica
Source/Museum: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. © Giraudon/Art Resource,
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1937
Size: 11 ft. 5 ½ in. x 25 ft. 5 ¼ in.
New York. © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
French Fauves:
COLOR
Matisse
German Expressionists:
STRONG EMOTION:
Kandinsky, Marc
EXPRESSIONISM
• French Fauves: Wild Beasts
• Colors Strong & Surprising: The Joy of Life
– Henri Matisse
• German Expressionists
• Powerful Emotion & Impact of War
– Wassily Kandinsky:
– Spiritual color & First Non-Objective Painting
– Franz Marc: Symbolic color & nature
Title: The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse)
Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1905
Source/Museum: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. J. Rump Collection. © 2007
Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.
Medium: Oil and tempera on canvas
Size: 15 ⅞ x 12 ⅞ in.
Title: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1908-1909
Source/Museum: The Hermitage, St. Petersburg. © Alinari/Art Resource, New York. ©
2003 Succession H Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 70 ⅞ x 86 5/8 in.
Futurism
Celebrate speed, aggression,
revolution, technology
Destroy the past & all its tradition
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Title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Source/Museum:Nuseum of Modern Art, New York.
Artist: Umberto Boccioni
Medium: Bronze
Date: 1913
Size: approx 4’ high
Dada
Marcel Duchamp
Irrational, senseless, meaningless
The importance of chance, accident
He challenges the very definition of art!
Title: Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q.)
Source/Museum: Private collection. © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP,
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Medium: Rectified Readymade (reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
Date: 1919
Paris/Estate of Marcel Duchamp.
altered with pencil)
Size: 7 ¾ x 4 1/8 in.
Title: The Fountain
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Date: 1917
Source/Museum: Fountain by R. Mutt. Photo by Alfred Stieglitz in The Blind Man, No. 2 (May, 1917);
original lost. © Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1998-74-1. © 2007
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, ADAGP, Paris/Estate of Marcel Duchamp.
Medium: Glazed sanitary china with black print
Size: n/a
Surrealism
Automatism techniques
Dreams & unconscious mind
Influence of Freud
Simultaneously irrational &
contradictory
Indecipherable riddles
Salvador Dali:
Exquisite realism
The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, 1931, oil on canvas, 9.5x13 in.
Abstract Expressionism:
Non-objective & Expressionist
Action Painting: Gesture
No narrative, Not specific
Large Format
Innovative in paint application
Jackson Pollock: action painting
(Critic Clement Greenberg)
Title: Jackson Pollock painting Autumn Rhythm
Artist: n/a
Date: 1950
Source/Museum: Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. Photo: Hans Namuth. ©
2001 Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Title: Jackson Pollock painting on glass
Source/Museum: Courtesy Hans Namuth Ltd.
Artist: n/a
Medium: Still from a color film by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg.
Date: 1951
Size: n/a
Title: No. 29, 1950
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Date: 1950
Source/Museum: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 1968. © 2003
Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas, expanded steel, string, glass, and pebbles on glass
Size: 48 x 72 in.
Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1950
oil on canvas