Art History

  • Period: 327 BCE to 27 BCE

    Greek and Hellenistic Period

  • Period: 200 to 400

    Roman Imperial Period

  • Period: 400 to 1400

    The Middle Ages

  • 1285

    Madonna Ruccelai

    Madonna Ruccelai
    by Duccio di Buoninsegna
  • Period: 1300 to

    Italian Renaissance

  • 1314

    Ognissanti Madonna

    Ognissanti Madonna
    by Giotto
  • 1338

    Allegory of Good and Bad Government

    Allegory of Good and Bad Government
    by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
  • 1400

    Tacuinum Sanitatis

  • 1415

    Linear Perspective

    Discovered by Fillipo Brunelleschi
  • 1425

    Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity
    by Masaccio
  • 1434

    Jan Van Eyck

    Arolfini Wedding (1434)
    Lucca Madonna (1436)
  • 1434

    Emerald Buddha

    Un-referenced artist from Sri Lanka possibly; buddha now located in Thailand
  • 1435

    Alberti's On Painting

    Only 4 true colors
    -red
    -blue
    -green
    -grey
  • 1480

    Carlo Crivelli

    Madonna and child
    -surrealistic aspects
  • 1498

    The Four Horsemen

    by Albrecht Durer
  • 1504

    Michelangelo

    Sculpture of David (1504)
    Pieta (1499)
    -open hand is an indication of coming to terms with loss
  • 1510

    Raphael

    Raphael
    School of Athens (image-1510)
    Madonna of Loreto (1509)
  • 1526

    Lucas Cranach the Elder

    Adam and Eve (1526)
  • 1538

    Titian

    Venus of Urbino (1538)
  • Period: 1550 to

    Dutch Renaissance

  • 1563

    Giuseppe Arcimboldo

    The Four Seasons
    -most famous painting Vegetables in a Bowl or the Gardner Reversible Head with Basket of Fruit (1590
  • 1567

    The Peasant Wedding

    by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
    -bride not eating
    -wearing crown w/paper crown above head
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Juan Sanchez Cotan

    Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber (1602-1603) Spanish painter
  • Frans Snyders

    Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market (1614) Flemish, 1570-1657
  • Judith Slaying Holofernes

    Artemisis Gentileschi (1614-1620)
  • Peter Paul Rubens

    Venus and Adonis (Mid-1630's)
  • Johannes Vermeer

    The Milkmaid (1657-1658)
  • Rembrandt von Rijn

    Self Portrait (1659)
    -made 50 self portraits
    -adds more white as he gets older, more light in general
  • Jan Steen

    The Dissolute Household (1663-1664) Dutch, 1626-1679
  • Period: to

    Age of Enlightenment

  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Optiks
    -color wheel
    -used prisms to divide white light into a spectrum
    -red, yellow and blue as primary colors
    -white is the combination of all colors (in light emitting mediums)
  • Giovanni Paolo

    Panini (1757)
  • Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

    Self-Portrait (1771-1775) (1815)
    Self-Portrait with Doctor Arrieta (1820)
    -represented himself rather than the idealized version of himself
  • David, Jacques-Louis

    Self-Portrait (1790)
    -very different facial expressions in all
    -more recent example had much more light
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    1749-1832
    -suggested that darkness does not mean the absence of color
    -yellow invites light therefore blue has an inherent darkness
  • Jean August Dominique Ingres

    La Grand Odalisque (1814)
    -painting of a prostitute, representation of Venus but not her
  • Jean Chalgrin

    Arc de Triomphe (1806-1836)
    -creators = Jean Chalgrin & Louis-Etienne Hericart de Thury
  • Eugene Delacroix

    Self-Portrait (1837)
    George Sand (1838)
  • Gustave Courbet

    Portrait of Baudelaire (1848)
    Woman with Parrot (1866)
    Courbet with Black Dog (1842-1844)
    Man with Striped Collar (1844)
    The Desperate Man (1843)
    Man with Leather Belt (1845-1846)
    The Cellist (1847)
    Man with Pipe (1848-1849)
    Self Portrait at Sainte-Pelagie (1872)
  • Edouard Manet

    Le Dejeuner sur I'herbe (1863)
    Olympia (1856)
    Bar at the Follie Bergere (1882)
    Self-Portrait with a Palette (1879)
  • Period: to

    Impressionism

  • James Abbot McNeill Whistler

    The Artist in His Studio (1865-1866)
  • James McNeill Whistler

    Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871)
  • Camille Pissaro

    Self-Portrait (1873)
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

    Self-Portrait in front of Mirror (1882-1883)
    Vincent van Gogh (1887)
  • Vincent van Gogh

    The Potato Eaters (1885)
    Self Portraits (1886-1889)
  • Claude Monet

    Self-Portrait in Beret (1886)
  • The Night Cafe

    by Leonardo DaVinci
    -intentionally flattening space again (post-photography)
  • Repin

    They Did Not Expect Him (1888)
  • Period: to

    Modern

  • Ogden Rood

    1831-1902
    -Modern Chromatics - parceled ideas of color
    -divided color into 3 constants
  • Marie Cassatt

    Maternite (1890)
    Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1889)
  • Paul Gauguin

    Self-Portrait (1889) (1896)
    Self-Portrait with Palette (1893-1894)
    Self-Portrait with Yellow Christ (1889)
  • Paul Cezanne

    Self-portrait with Felt Hat (1890-1895)
    Self-Portrait with Palette (1885-1887)
    Self-Portrait in Peaked Hat (1873)
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautree

    At the Moulin Rouge (1892-1895)
  • Edvard Munch

    The Three Stages of Woman (Sphinx) (1894
  • Paul Cezanne

    The Basket of Apples (1895)
  • Albert Henry Munsell

    1858-1918
    -color tree
    -color solid - consistent steps from light to dark, color to color
    -scientific studies + painting ability = accurate model
    -divided into 3 new dimensions (hue, value, chroma)
    -"Not all colors act the same"
  • Pablo Picasso

    Self Portraits (1901-1972)
    -painted self-portraits through age 90
    -of course, super abstract after the 1910's
  • Albert Speer

    Nazi Party Lead Architect (1905-1981)
    - "major buildings should be constructed so that they leave aesthetically pleasing ruins when they fall"
    -tasked with designing the new germany
  • Polenov

    He That Is Without Sin (1908)
    -religious allegorical painting
  • Egon Schiele

    Tote Mutter (Dead Mother) - (1910)
  • Wassily Kandinsky

    Composition 6 (1913)
  • Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    by Giorgio de Chirico
    -return to medieval style of painting
  • James Ensor

    The Banquet of the Starved (1915)
    -also called Comcial Repast
    -has miniatures of his other paintings in the background
  • Abbott H. Thayer

    -Camoflauge
    -dazzle camo = misleading, not hiding
  • Man Ray

    Mina Loy (1918)
  • Hannah Hoch

    Marlene (1920)
  • Period: to

    Surrealism

  • F.T. Marinetti and Fillia

    The Futurist Cookbook (1930)
  • Meret Oppenheim

    Votive picture (Strangling Angel) - 1931
    -admittedly, not great
  • Meret Oppenheim

    The Luncheon in Fur (1936)
  • Dorothea Lange

    Migrant Mother With Three Children (1936)
  • Frida Kahlo

    The Two Fridas (1939)
  • Norman Rockwell

    Freedom from Want (1943)
    -opposite of surrealists and abstract artists
  • Pantone

  • Yves Klein

    Yves Klein's IKB - Mixed "Klein blue" and patented the color
    -can be used by others, but he owns it Anthropometry of the Blue Period (1960)
  • Daniel Spoerri

    Prose Poems (1960) Kitchka's Breakfast (1964)
  • The Situationist International

    1960's-ish
    -influenced by Lettrists, a politically left group of artists and activists active in the 40's who were inspired by Dada and Surrealism but advocated for greater critical discourse
    -founded by Asger Jorn and Guy DeBord
  • Guy DeBord

    1931-1994
    -founder of the situationist international
    -psycogeography - "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals"
    -Derive - "a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society
  • Andy Warhol

    Campbell's Soup Cans (1962)
  • Claes Oldenburg

    Floor Burger
  • Josef Albers

    1888-1976
    -Interaction of Color
    -professor at Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale
  • Marcel Broodthaers

    Triomphe de Moules I
  • Juan Miro

    Seated Woman and Child (Femme as-sise et enfant) - 1967
  • Dieter Roth

    Literaturwurst (1961-1974)
  • Period: to

    Contemporary

  • Ana Mendieta

    From Silueta Series (1976)
  • Nam June Paik

    TV Buddha (1976)
  • Keith Harring

    Fertility Series B (1983)
  • Sally Mann

    Immediate Family (1984-1991)
  • Guerrilla Girls

    Founded in 1985
    -Underground activist group of women artists
    -wear gorilla masks when in public
    -noticed exclusivity of the art world
  • A Fire in My Belly

    video by David Wojnarowicz (1986-1987)
  • Yasumasa Morimura

    Portrait (Futago) - 1988
    -recreation replacing female bodies with male bodies
    -reflection of Manet's Olympia on art history and lack of inclusiveness
  • Lorna Simpson

    Stereo Styles (1988)
  • Rasheed Araeen

    Bismullah (1988)
    -minimalist sculptor
    -moved to England
  • Just Seeds

    Founded 1988
    -Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized network of 30 artists committed to social, environmental and political engagement
    -"Molly Fair"
  • Buddha Statue of Hyderabad

    Located in India (1990)
  • Fleix Gonzalez Torres

    Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA - 1991)
    -175lbs of hard candy
  • Monywa Buddhas

    Reclining Buddha (1991)
    Standing Buddha (2008)
    -located in Burma
  • Rirkrit Tiravanija

  • Louise Bourgeois

    Spider (1994)
    -representation of her mother
    -work full of imagery
  • Rudolf Stingel

    untitled Buddha (1994)
    -cast urethane rubber (18x21x19)
  • Sophie Calle

    The Chromatic Diet (1998)
  • Catherine Opie

    Selft Portrait Nursing (2004)
  • Doris Salcedo

    Shibboleth - 2007
    -Concrete and metal sculpture, 548 ft long crack in the floor
  • LaToya Ruby Frazier

    Momme Portrait Series (Shadow) - 2008
  • Nicole Eisenman

    Winter Solstice (2012) Dinner Party (2009)
  • Mickalene Thomas

    Le dejeuner sur I'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires (2010)
    -reversal of the traditional painting using black subject matter
  • RGB Colorspace Atlas

    Digital offset print on paper, case bound book airbrushed with every color
    -three books total, 8x8x8in each
  • Anish Kapoor

    -owns vantablack (darkest black, turns 3D objects look flat)
    -creator of the bean in millennium park Chicago
  • William Pope L.

    Claim (2014)
    -bologna with faces on it because ART
  • Wangechi Mutu

    You Are My Sunshine (2015)