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190 BCE
Unswept floor/Unswept House
-190 CE
-Emperor Hadrians villa at Trivoli Sosuc of Perhagmon
-In this era, those who were rich and didn’t care about their scraps, had mosaics made of the floor(on the floor?) and they generally had a creature in it.
-This started the game of Cat and Mouse in paintings -
1435
Alberti Color Theory
“Through the mixing of colours infinite other colours are born, but there are only four true colours – as there are four elements – from which more and more other kinds of colours may be thus created. Red is the colour of fire, blue of the air, green of the water, and of the earth grey and ash.
Believed that Black And White are not true colors. -
1436
Lucca Madonna
Jan van Eyck
Painting is interesting because he using Mary as a part of the architecture
Probably in a chapel
Tenderness and lovingness surrounding the child
On the windowsill we see what can be apples or oranges
Apples would represent?
Oranges would represent paradise -
1490
Da Vinci Color Theory
Was the first to suggest an alternative hierarchy of color.
In his Treatise on Painting, he said that while philosophers viewed white as the "cause, or the receiver" of colors and black as the absence of color, both were essential to the painter, with white representing light, and black, darkness. -
1509
Madonna of Loreto
Raphael
Through scans we can see that joseph was painted over an original window (in the painting) among other things
Mary typically portrayed as a young woman -
1563
Vegetables in a bowl or the gardener
Guiseppe Arcimboldo
His most famous painting is called the 4 seasons
Used surrealism 400 years before it became a thing -
1567
The Peasant Wedding
Genre Painting
Pieter Brugel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder enjoyed painting peasants and different aspects of their lives in so many his paintings
Netherlands
Peter was a painter who liked to depict peasant life
In a time where painters focused on royalty, rather than everyday peasant life
Really comical painting -
1579
Still life with dead game, fruits and vegetables in a market
Flemish
-Baroque- Very Dramatic
-Showing a scene in a market
-Seems to be pointing to God
-The way it's painted looks like a massacre, produce half dead half alive
-Theres a boy picking his pocket- bottom left corner -
Michelangelo Pieta
St. Peters Basilica
This compared to other images like it, is truly about the intimacy between mother and child
You’ll notice that there is not a lot of evidence of the crucifixion itself
At this point, her son is about the age of 33, but Mary does not look more than 20
Reason being that, as Mary stayed a virgin, her youth follows her.
Mary’s hand was remastered
Gesture was so made in accordance to Mary getting into terms with the loss of her son -
Self Portrait:Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master of three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits and even items such as animal studies. -
The Milkmaid
Johannes Verneer
He is a painting of light
looking at a dutch interior
not idealized in the same manner as royalty
she is not of high class
she is not an actual milkmaid, but she is doing her part in the household looks like a dutch breakfast scene -
Self Portrait:Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master of three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits and even items such as animal studies. -
Self Portrait:Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master of three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits and even items such as animal studies. -
The Dissolute Household
Jan Steen
The sins of
Sloth (embodied by the old woman at left),
Lust, and Gluttony (the latter concerns any comestible, including tobacco), are at home with seemingly lesser offenses, such as
sacrilege (the trampled Bible),
gambling (the backgammon board),
personal vanity and, of course,
poor parenting skills—one of Steen's standard subjects. -
Palace of Versailles
Initially purchased by Louis XIV
• Purchased the land primarily for hunting game
• It was not only a reason to solidify his sovereignty, but he saw Versailles as his power house
• It was laid out in such a way that it resembles the solar system:
• He moved the entire French Court to Verisailles, to admire all of the important events of the day such as
o Him going to bed, waking up, or even taking off his shoes -
Period: to
Étienne-Louis Boullée
o Most of his buildings were never built, and remained in a 2D form
Emphasis on clean lines, geometry and vanishing points
• Kind of a heavenly vibe to them
o Newton Cenotaph
Taller than the pyramids in Giza
Ability to have day and night -
Ancient Rome
Giovanni Paolo Panini
This is a pendant to Modern Rome and shows the most famous ancient monuments in the city. It was painted for Count de Stainville, later the Duke de Choiseul, who is shown in the center with a guidebook in hand. Panini shows himself behind the chair. -
Period: to
Self Portrait: Francisco de Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker and is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was also one of the great portraitists of modern times. -
Self Portrait:Jacques-Louis David
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Self Portrait:Jacques-Loius David
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Self Portrait:Jacques-Loius David
David painted his first self-portrait in 1784, in which he looks like a figure by Fragonard. This picture, which he painted in prison after the fall of Robespierre, expressed--perhaps more fully than the others--David's power and truthfulness, his determination, lucidity, and self-respect -
Geothe Color Theory
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's theory of the constitution of colours of the spectrum has not proved to be an unsatisfactory theory, rather it really isn't a theory at all. Nothing can be predicted with it. It is, rather a vague schematic outline of the sort we find in James's psychology. Nor is there any experimentum crucis which could decide for or against the theory. -
Self Portrait:Goya Y Lucientes
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Self Portrait: Goya Y Lucientes
This self portrait's significance comes from its unglamourized depiction. Goya is aging and dying. He doesn't paint himself younger or handsomer than he really is. Theres a blunt candor to it that separates his self portraits from many artists throughout history. -
Period: to
Series:The Course of Empire, 1833-36
• Thomas Cole
o Thought of as the founder of the Hudson River School
• Pretty much the same place, but depicted in various forms of human culture
o The Savage State
o The Arcadian or Pastoral State
THEME-The rural farm life is the purest form of existence
Overall very peaceful in a nature dominant painting
o The Consummation of Empire
o Destruction
o Desolation
How nature is a form and cannot and won’t be stopped -
Arc de triomphe
Created by Napoleon to symbolize the end of the Royal family of France, during his ascent of power -
Self Portrait:Eugene Delacroix
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Period: to
Charles Sanders Pierce
The Representamen(Signifier)-The signs form
An interpretant- what the onlooker makes of the sign
Object-What the sign refers to
Further classified into:
• Icon
• Index-casual connection to signified, e.g., Smoke>Fire, Footprint>Foot
• Symbol-Socially agreed upon, arbituary relationship to signified: basically all words are symbols -
Self Portrait: Gustave Courbet (The Desperate Man)
Many of Courbet’s early paintings from the 1840’s are self-portraits, such as this one. As he had yet to truly develop his realistic painting style, many of these self-portraits are Romantic in style, illustrating the smooth lines and perfection of form of the Romantic school of painting. As a method of self-promotion and advertisement, Courbet made an impression with his self-portraits, and used them to find his own artistic style. -
Self Portrait:Camille Pissaro
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Self Portrait with a Palette: Edouard Manet
Is an oil on canvas painting, and is one of only 2 of Manet's self-portraits.
Through X-Ray analysis it was discovered that Manet painted this over a portrait of his wife Suzanne. -
Self Portrait:Paul Cezanne
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The Potato Eaters
Vincent Van Gogh
o Van gogh thought this was his masterpiece when he was alive
o Theres a certain aspect to it, where everyone is eating off a single plate, showing their class
o Unlike most paintings of the era that were the privilege of the elite class showcasing luxury this is a departure, takes a look into the lifestyle of common folk -
Self-Portrait With A Beret( Claude Monet)
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Period: to
James Van Der Zee
o One of the main photographers of the Harlem Renaissance -
Self Portrait: Paul Gauguin ( Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake)
Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake, also known as Self-Portrait, is an 1889 oil on wood painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, which represents his late Brittany period in the fishing village of Le Pouldu in northwestern France. -
Banjo Lesson
Henry Ossawa Tanner
o Reason important is because he was one of the first African artists to achieve notoriety during his lifetime
o He was one of the first and only black student to study at the Pittsburg arts school( -
Period: to
Albert Speer
o Was an architect, who joined the Nazis
o Worked as lead architect for the Nazis, and worked extremely close to Hitler, as Hitler did not only was to take over Germany, but remodel it
o He forethought that the ruins of a building should be in such a way that it stands out
o Most of it did not get built
• Zeppenfield(Where the Olympics were held in 1936)
o While most of those that were built were taken down after the war, by Germany except for
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Tote Mutter (Dead Mother)
a. Egon Schiele
i. A time where painting was more for feeling than being realistic
ii. A mother going through childbirth and the darkness along it
iii. Numerous women died from childbirth during the time, as medicine was not as advance
1. Childs color palette is brighter as it is alive while the mothers has a darker one, as she is slowly dying -
Monument to the Third International
Vladimir Tatlin -
Marlene
Hannah Hoch
1920
We start to see images that question
See female bodies being cut up and put together
Beginning where the stereotypical gender roles are starting to go away -
Photo of Marcus Garvey
Photo taken by James van Der Zee
James Van DerZee was an African-American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance -
Evening Attire
James Van der Zee(Photographer) -
Battleship Potemkin(The Cover art)
Sergei Eisenstein -
The Treachery of Images
The Treachery of Images is a painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
The picture shows a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe.", French for "This is not a pipe."
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe', I'd have been lying!
— René Magritte -
Photo:Migrant mother with 3 children
Dorothea Lange
1936
Commissioned by the Government to show the effect of WW1 and the effects of the Great Depression
No idea where the father is
Controversies about the image being Photoshopped -
Period: to
Nick Cave
o American artist who makes sounds suits
Made out of 2nd hand materials -
Yves Klein IKB
IKB-International Klein Blue -
Anthropometry of the Blue Period
Yves Klien
People looked own upon the idea of him using living nude females as a tool in his artwork
But the women did not feel that they were being used and were comfortable with what they were doing, and felt as if they were collaborators rather than tools -
The Chromatic Diet
Sophie Calle asked writer and filmmaker Paul Auster to “invent a fictive character which I would attempt to resemble”[9] and served as the model for the character Maria in Auster’s novel Leviathan (1992). This mingling of fact and fiction so intrigued Calle that she created the works of art created by the fictional character, which included a series of color-coordinated meals. -
Campbell Soup Cans
Andy Warhol first exhibited these Campbell’s Soup Cans in 1962, they were displayed together on shelves, like products in a grocery aisle. At the time, the Campbell’s Soup Company sold 32 soup varieties; each canvas corresponds to a different flavor. Warhol did not indicate how the canvases should be installed. At MoMA, they are arranged in rows that reflect the chronological order in which the soups were introduced. The first flavor introduced by the company was tomato, in 1897. -
Floor Burger
Claes Oldenburg
It is a painting because its on canvas, but also a sculpture
The Art Gallery of Ontario purchased the Floor Burger from the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York on Jan. 27, 1967, for $2,000. The work, created in 1962 by pop art pioneer Claes Oldenburg, was initially titled Giant Hamburger. -
One and three chairs
Joseph Kosuth
• There is a picture of a,
o Painting of a chair, the icon
o A physical chair, the object
o Dictionary definition of a chair, the symbol -
The Door
David Hammons -
Partially Buried Wood Shed
Robert Smithson
o Dumps soil on a woodshed, on the main beam and structure, and using the views of entropy, wants to figure out how long the earth would take over and destroy the shed -
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson.
Built on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah entirely of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks, Spiral Jetty forms a 1,500-foot-long (460 m), 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake. -
Self Portrait: Picasso(Age 90)
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Literaturwurst
-Dieter Roth
-Each book was made using traditional sausage recipes, but replacing the sausage meat with a book or magazine. The cover of the edition was then pasted onto the skin of the sausage and signed and dated
-Roth made the first Literature Sausage from a copy of the Daily Mirror, whilst living in Iceland,[3] and gave it to his friend and colleague Daniel Spoerri in 1961 -
Running Fence
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
• They are knowing for wrapping stuff with fabric
• This runs for 24.5 miles
• Maintains a height of 8 feet throughout
• Crosses numerous roads, ranches in its journey to the Pacific -
Quilting Time
Romare Bearden
Visual artist, part of Harlem Renaissance
First time where artists in the US came together as a single unity -
Fallen Angel
Jean Michel Basquiat -
Higher Goals
David Hammons
Higher Goals consists of five bottle cap-studded telephone poles ranging in height from 20’ to 30’. Mounted at the top of each pole will be a basketball backboard (also covered with bottle caps) complete with hoop and net. In a labor-intensive process, Hammons nailed more than 10,000 bottle caps onto the surface of each pole to create distinctive diamond, spiral and mesh patterns. -
Guarded Conditions
Caption interpretation:
being women of color
there is a stigma/violence against black bodies
entirely a greater complex issue -
The Kitchen Table Series
Carrie Mae Weems,
o Female photographer working from the 70s
o Work spans almost every medium possible, but is most well known for her staged pictures of the intimate lives of black families -
The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan
Ornal
o Using plastic surgery, she used different parts of various artworks on herself
o Goal-to acquire the perfect woman painted by various male artists -
Mining the Museum
Fred Wilson
Although they are in museums, they are coupled with a storied background that diminishes their prominence -
Wigs
Lorna Simpson
o Wigs
21 pictures of various types of black hair styles
On felt, as she felt that is was the material most like hair -
Spider
Louise Bourgeois
1994
Spiders are sort of a redemption piece with her mother, had a traumatic relationship with her father -
The Wave Field
Maya Lin
Meant to mimic the patterns of mathematical sine waves, the criss-crossing rows of verdant berms on UMich's Campus were built using the simplest landscaping tool: dirt. Designed by artist Maya Lin, the dips and rises on the picturesque lawn were specifically designed to cast shadows that change with the passing of the sun so that the look of the site evolves throughout each day and across each year. -
Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp
Kara Walker
o One of the few famous black women artists
o in theToledo Museum of Art
o She looks at images produced starting in the 16th century -
RGB Colorspace Atlas
Tamba Auerbach
In essence, made tech colorspace material
Digital offset print on paper, case bound book, airbrushed cloth cover and page edges
Three books, 8 x 8 x 8 inches each
20.3 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm. Binding co-designed by Daniel E. Kelm and Tauba Auerbach. The books were bound by Daniel E. Kelm assisted by Leah Hughes at the Wide Awake Garage. -
Installation view of double cross
Theaster Gates -
The Sugar Sphinx
-Kara Walker
-35 tonnes of sugar
-the sphinx is made of 330 foam blocks, carved to fit perfectly together by Digital Atelier and a group of sculptors on site.
It took two months and 20 people to do the job.
-the most frequently asked question is about why theyre are no pests
-Why aren’t there [insert pest here: rats, mice, ants, bees] attacking the sculptures. People seem to lavish the creativity of the quandary, and up until recently, I’d heard only that rats don’t really like sugar
