1. Techniques & Media: Painting
2. Style / Period: Surrealism
3. Cultural / Geographic: Moche Pottery, Peru
4. Subject Matter Content: Still Life
1. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Effects of Good Government, 1338-9, fresco, length 46 feet.
(The Allegory of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and the Country)
2. Andrea Mantegna, Madonna and Child, c. 1480, tempera on canvas, 43 x 31 cm.
3. Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), 1503-5, oil on wood, 30 ¼ x 21 inches.
4. Abul Hasan and Manohar, Jahangir in Darbar, c. 1620, gouache on paper, 13 ⅝ x 7 ⅝ inches.
5. Edouard Manet, The Railroad, 1872-73, oil on canvas, 36 ½ x 45 inches.
6. Vincent Van Gogh, Irises, c. 1889, oil on canvas, 28 x 36 ¾ inches.
7. Jacob Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro, panel 57, 1940-41, casein tempera on
hardboard, 18 x 12 inches.
8. Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 60 inches.
9. Andy Warhol, Big Campbell’s Soup Can, 19¢, 1962, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 72 x 54 ½ inches.
10. Jean (Hans) Arp, Moustache Hat, from 7 Arpaden portfolio, 1923, lithograph, 10 ¾ x 13 inches.
11. Jean (Hans) Arp, Head and Shell, ca. 1933. Polished brass, 7 ¼ x 7 ⅞ inches.
12. Andre Breton, Surrealist Landscape, 1950, crayon on envelope, 4 x 4.8 inches.
13. Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, 1914, Oil on canvas, 2 ft 10½ in x 2 ft
4¼ inches.
14. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931, oil on canvas, 9 ½ × 13 inches.
15. Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921, oil on canvas, 49.37 in × 42.48 in.
16. René Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1928-29, oil on canvas, 25 x 37 inches.
(“This is not a pipe”)
17. Joan Miró, Carnival of Harlequin, 1924, oil on canvas, 36 ½ x 26 inches.
18. Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), Shakespearean Equation: Twelfth Night, 1948, Oil on
canvas, 34 ⅛ x 30 ⅛.
The Peruvian Moche culture
inhabited a series of river valleys
along the arid coastal plain of
northern Peru from about A.D.
100 to 800. They were one of
the largest civilizations in South
America. Through farming and
fishing, they supported a dense
population and highly stratified
society that constructed
irrigation canals, pyramids,
palaces, and temples.
19. Fearsome Face, ceramic stirrup-spout bottle (stirrup-shaped handle and spout).
Although they had no
writing system, the Moche
left a vivid artistic record
of their activities in
beautiful ceramic vessels,
elaborately woven textiles,
colorful murals, and
wondrous objects of gold,
silver, and copper.
This pottery is unusual because
of its three-dimensional animals.
20. (left) Lizard Redux (reconstructed, found broken), 3-D spotted lizard ceramic bottle, pottery.
(right) Lizard, as it was originally found.
One of the most distinctive art
works is known as the Moche
Lord with a Feline. This ceramic
vessel depicts a lord sitting in a
throne-like structure. Such vessels
were known to be extravagan​t
items and were typically buried
with the lord.
21. Moche Lord with a Feline, c. 100B.C.–A.D. 500, painted ceramic, height 7 ½ inches.
22. Moche Portrait Vessel, c. 100–700 A.D. (C.E.), painted ceramic (terracotta), 16 x 29 x 22 cm.
23. Resting Deer, painted ceramic.
24. Moche Condor, 300 A.D., painted ceramic.
This ceramic vessel
of a supernatural
owl warrior
illustrates how the
Moche people of
northern Peru
associated warriors
and predators,
likening warfare to
hunting prey. These
vessels frequently
featured beings with
characteristics of
both people, plants
and animals.
25. Moche Owl Warrior, painted ceramic.
The most magnificent
vessels were decorated in a
great detail. This vessel
depicts a scene between
two mythological persons.
26. Moche Vessel, painted ceramic.
The Moche, or Mochica, are perhaps best
known for their ceramic art. Their pots
include life-sized portrait heads of
individuals and three-dimensional
representations of animals and people.
Many of these pots, looted long ago from
Moche sites, can be found in museums
throughout the world.
27. Moche Portrait Pottery, life-size head.
28. Matt Deakin, The End of an Era, graphite pencil.
29. Willem Claeszoon Heda , Still Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Crab, 1658, oil on canvas,40.6 x 48.4 inches.
30. Francisco de Zurbarán, Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and Rose, 1633, oil on canvas, 60 X 70 cm.
31. Frida Kahlo, Still Life with Parrot and Fruit, 1951, oil on canvas, 10 ½ x 14 inches.
32. Conor Walton, Veiled, oil on linen, 2007, 16 x 18 inches.
33. Conor Walton, Purple Grapes, 2007, oil on linen, 12 x 9 inches.
34. Baron Adolf Gayne de Meyer, Still Life, Hydrangea, photograph, 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches, 1907.
35. Edward Henry Weston, Kale, Halved, 1930, gelatin silver print photograph, 7.2 x 9.3
inches.
36. Irving Penn, Broken Egg, 1959, dye-transfer print photograph, 22 ⅝ x 18 ¾.
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