Art Appreciation B
Study Guide
For the final you will be asked to:
-Name the piece
-Name the artist
-Name any other important features about the piece
Be sure to look at the last slide for the Critical
Thinking Study Guide – you will be asked to
answer the questions in a short paragraph.
Arnolfini
Wedding
Jan Van Eyck, 1434.
Oil on panel.
Van Eyck excelled at portraying
direct and diffused light, shadow
falling on a variety of surfaces,
and light’s effect on the illusion
of distance.
Chapter 10
Garden of
Delights
Hieronymus Bosch,
1505-1510.
Oil on panel.
A Dutch painter, his
work presents a world
of images and
puzzling symbols.
Chapter 10
Magdalen with
the Smoking
Flame
Georges de La Tour,
1630-1635.
Oil on canvas.
La Tour often used a
candle as the only
source of light.
Chapter 11
Allegory of the Art of Painting
Jan Vermeer, 1665-1672.
Oil on panel.
This painting is filled with symbolism.
- It is thought that the model
represents Clio.
- The Muse of history, looking at a
table full of objects that symbolize
other Muses.
- The artist in a sixteenth-century
costume might be Vermeer.
- The map of Holland on the wall,
surrounded by pictures of twenty
cities, could symbolize that Holland is
the center of world art.
Chapter 11
The Mill
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650.
Oil on canvas.
Rembrandt was the greatest of
Dutch painters and one of the
great geniuses of the art world.
The Mill is his greatest
landscape and details are
nonexistent because a powerful
chiaroscuro eliminates them.
Chapter 11
Third of May
Francisco Goya, 1808. Oil on canvas.
Goya’s dramatic work could be termed a “social protest” painting.
It shows the slaughtering of Spanish rebels by French soldiers.
Chapter 12
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur, 1853. Oil on canvas.
Ms. Bonheur, an important Realist painter, successfully
persuaded her father to let her attend boarding school with her
brothers.
She worked in sculpture as well as painting, but it was her
paintings of animals that brought her fame.
Chapter 12
Rouen Cathedral
Chapter 13
Claude Monet, 1894.
Oil on canvas.
Monet became the
leading force in the
Impressionist
movement.
Monet enjoyed directly
confronting the
environment, painting a
single subject at
different times of the
day, at different times
of the year, under
different light.
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat, 1884. Oil on canvas.
Seurat conveys color and light through the technique of
pointillism, tiny dots of color which the viewer’s eyes visually
mix together to create values.
Chapter 13
The Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh, 1889. Oil on canvas.
Van Gogh only sold a single painting while he was alive. Yet today
he is considered one of the world’s more important artists.
His paintings jump alive with brilliant color and texture, with paint
applied in thick impasto.
Chapter 13
The Red Studio
Henri Matisse, 1911. Oil
on canvas.
In this picture of his
studio, and in his other
work, Matisse
emphasized the idea that
a painting of threedimensional space still
should remain true to the
fact that a canvas is
really two-dimensional.
Chapter 14
Diego y yo
Frida Kahlo, 1940.
Oil on masonite.
Frida Kahlo was a selftaught artist who often
painted works that were
psychologically
mysterious and almost
always worked with
figures.
Chapter 14
Guernica
Pablo Picasso, 1937. Oil on canvas.
Cubism was begun in 1907 by Picasso.
He was a creative innovator of ideas and techniques and a master of
many styles, he was constantly searching and changing during his
long lifetime.
Chapter 14
The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali, 1931.
Oil on canvas.
Dali became the
most famous
surrealist.
His paintings were
magical
presentations using
exacting realism.
Chapter 14
I and the Village
Marc Chagall, 1911.
Oil on canvas.
Chagall’s paintings were
inspired by:
- Dreams
- Memories
- Folklore
- Fairy tales
Chapter 14
The Banjo
Lesson
Henry O. Tanner, 1893.
Oil on canvas.
Religious and Genre themes
were important to Tanner.
Tanner was the most
honored of all AfricanAmerican artists, here and
abroad.
Chapter 15
Government Bureau
George Tooker, 1956. Egg tempera on gesso panel.
This painting is the stark, almost chilling, summation
of the dehumanizing of urban society that the
Social Realists sought to portray.
Chapter 15
Kaufmann House
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936.
Wright’s primary concern
was to develop a
compatible relationship
between the structure and
its location so that the
building would seem to
grow out of its
environment.
Chapter 16
No. 1 (Lavender Mist)
Jackson Pollock, 1950.
Oil enamel and aluminum on
canvas.
After going through realistic
and abstract periods, Pollock
began his series of drip
paintings.
His new working technique
completely freed him from the
use of traditional brushes and
opened the door to Abstract
Expressionism.
Chapter 17
Masterpiece
Roy Lichtenstein, 1962.
Oil on canvas.
Lichtenstein became one
of the stars of Pop Art.
His art brought Abstract
Expressionism to an
abrupt halt.
Chapter 17
Critical Thinking
• Know the definitions for Impressionism, Post-Impressionism,
and Expressionism and two artists whose work exemplifies
each style. (Chapter 13)
• Know at least 3 artists from Chapter 14. Know the style in
which the artist painted in and at least one piece the artist is
famous for.
• Know two of the artistic styles you learned about in this
class.
– Be able to describe the art style
– know the time period
– Discuss at least one artist and their work.