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Edgar Degas, The Orchestra at the Opera House c 1868-69 oil on canvas
-space is compressed, people are upfront
-barely see ballerinas



Hiroshige, Plum Estate, Kameido 1857
-woodblock print
-though not valued in Japan, Europeans thought they were incredible
-as though viewer is sitting in tree



Claude Monet, Impresssion, Sunrise 1872 oil on canvas

Impressionism = obvious brushstrokes, doesn't portrau scene accuratley, distortion of feeling



Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881 oil on canvas
-loose brushstrokes
-middle class people enjoying lunch



Eduord Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere 1881-82 oil on canvas
-bar maid has detatched look
-looks like she's thinking about something else
-artist creates mystery with mirror: when gentleman with top hat is present, she looks more animated
-why is the mirror at an angle?
-OR is the mirror what she is thinking about (since her eyes are looking down)



Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath, 1891-92 oil on canvas
-artist best known for depicting mother and children
-chest in background: loose strokes
-unusual perspective: we are standing abover her



Claude Monet, Wheatstack, Sun in the Mist 1891 oil on canvas
-wheatstacks are very abstract
-little information about object
-artist uses complements of color



Paul Cezanne, Mount Sainte-Victoire c,1885-87 oil on canvas
-interested in space & how to build form through color
-gets to underlying structures
-reduces forms to flat plains
-creates scenes through plains of brushstrokes



Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples in a Bowl 1879-83 oil on canvas
-wall paper design has dimensionality
-no rest - everything is geometric
-busy



Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Isand of La Grand Jatte oil on canvas 1846-86
-artist creates pointilism
-orderly, hardly an movement
-elegant long figures, but working class people
-artist believed that colors shouldn't be blended



Vincent Van Gogh, The Night Cafe 1888
-expresses sickness of humanity with red and green
-figures of sleeping hooligans



Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night 1889 oil on canvas
-idea of movement in sky



Paul Gauguin, Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) 1888 oil on canvas
-women are thinking about the vision
-flat areas of color
-makes us think about meaning


Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? oil on canvas



Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878
-inspired by invention of cinema



Edgar Degas, Small Dancer at Age 14

-artist's only sculpture
-real tutu
-gave bodice wax, but real ribbon
-shows realistic detail



Rodin, The Gates of Hell bronze
-based on Dante's inferno
-artist studied baptistry doors




Rodin, The Thinker 1878-87 bronze
-artist was a modeler and would form figures
-light bounces off and becomes important



Rodin, The Burghers of Calais 1884-89 bronze
-6 figures
-one is holding a key
-texture of rough clothes
-meant for town square, but such a radical design



Victor Horta, Tassel House 1892-93
-first structure of Art Noveau
-creates curves on facade



Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila 1905-10
-apartment building
-biomorphic
-made of blocks of stone, looks like coral form/cliffs
-inside there are no straight lines
-no single room has 4 right angles
-2 wells in the middle bring light
-artist sculpts roof



Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building 1890-91
-artist becomes the father of the skyscraper
-new approach to building because of it had an iron skeleton
-form follows function



Louis Sullivan, Carson-Pirie-Scott Store 1899-1904
-highly decorative entrance on modern building


Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House 1908-10



Matisse, Woman with a Hat 1905 oil on canvas
-areas of color
-arm over chair roll hard to see
-flat surface of colored patterns



Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911
-patterns, objects he's describing
-trying to disrupt, illusionary space
-toys with figure ground
-didn't actually paint white, the white is the canvas
-space-time theme - no time on grandfather clock



Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles of d'Avignon 1907 oil on canvas
-response to Matisse's Joy of Life
-interior space
-supposedly brothel in Barcelona
-one person is drawing the back curtain
-abstract facials
-takes things and rearranges
-violent edges



Georges Braques, The Portuguese 1911 oil on canvas
-suggestion of head and arm
-circle suggests guitar
-intersecting planes make it hard to read waht is on top of what
-letters included
-abstracting forms & breaking them down, deconstructing



Picasso, Guitar, Sheet Music, & Wine Glass 1912 charcoal, gouache, pasted paper

-shapes suggested
-illusionistic woodgraph is part of the guitar
-plays with perception with space and layering
-this is synthetic cubism, which is constructing



Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Steet Dresden 1908 oil on canvas
-unlike Matisse, colors are used to convey emotion
-space is amorphic pink surface
-idea of women coming forward asserting themselves
-mask life forces - shows alienation of people



Kandinsky, Sketch for Composition VII, 1913 oil on canvas
-animated forms
-wild juxtapositions of color
-none of it has a focus
-everything is on the surface and available to us



Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait (Man Turning Arm Around Head) 1910 watercolor, goache, charcoal on paper
-emaciated form
-we can see ribs & expression



Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1913 oil on canvas



Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913 bronze



Kasimir Malevich, Black Square 1915
-replaces religious Russian icons that were hung in corners



Vladimir Tatlin, Vladimir Tatlin's Tower or The Monument to the Third International 1923



Marc Chagall, I and the Village 1910 oil on canvas
-cubist faces
-reference to village in Russia



Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 oil on canvas
-woman is moving down staircase
-20 simultaneous views, but representation of one action



Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel 1951
-artist decides art can be just concepts
-act of choosing is what makes artist an artist



Photo of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by Alfred Stieglitz 1917
-Duchamp buys urinal, turns it on its side, signs it, and dates it
-takes an article of life, changes it, and creates new thought for object



Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany 1919, collage
-colored in countries where women have been given the vote



Joan Miro, Composition 1933 oil on canvas
-has reference to figures
-very simplistic figures, childlike



Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory 1931 oil on canvas
-times has ended in a way - insects on water
-insects imply decay
-paints precisely



Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow 1930 oil on canvas
-artist paints these grids obsessively throughout his life
-simple, suppose to bring us to higher thought
-artist believed objects were distractions
-wanted purity of feeling
-plays with thickness of lines and widens them
-edge doesn't got to edge of canvas
-artist thought through his paintings, people's perceptions would be heightened



Merret Openheim, Object, 1936
-Surrealist scuplture
-plays with idea of usefulness of object
-plays with 2 ideas of femeninity - fur & teacup
-made teacup sensous



Constantin Brancusi, The Newborn 1915
-humor with the screaming mouth
-artist takes away as much as he can


Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1932-40 polished brass



Alexander Calder, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, 1939 painted steel wire and sheet aluminium
-artist best known for mobiles
-works on balancing objects so they move more gently



Arthur Dove, Plant Forms 1912 pastel on canvas
-one of the first abstract artists
-primarily uses curvilinear forms


Georgie O'Keeffe, Black Iris III, 1926 oil on canvas



Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927 oil on composition board
-American version of pyramids
-place of confinement almost slavery



Stuart Davis, Hot Still Scape for Six Colors - Seventh Avenue Style, 1940 oil on canvas
-6 colors used as instruments in musical composition
-influenced by jazz



Jacob Lawrence #58, In the North the Negro had Better Educational Facilities 1940-41 tempera on gesso on composition board
-shows importance of education



Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942 oil on canvas
-feeling of empty night time
-simplified forms, very geometric



Arshile Gorky, The Liver is the Cock's Comb, 1944 oil on canvas
-suggests space



Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, enamel on canvas
-record of gestures
-expresses feeling on canvas
-artist interested in life energy
-web layers of line



Willem de Kooning, Woman I 1950-52 oil on canvas
-expressive of vitality and activity
-vulgar and violent - dismembers figures and distorts
-says flesh was reason oil painting was invented
-blending brushstrokes & color create chaotic background



Barnett Newman, The Promise oil on canvas 1949
-huge compositions
-his compositions are visually one color, & animates canvas with seperations called zips
-juxtaposed straight edged zip with one with rugged edges
-the idea is to get you to think about detail



Mark Rothko, No. 61 (Rust and Blue) 1953 oil on canvas


Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Caravaggio Boy) c.1953



Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral - Moon Garden Plus One, 1957 painted wood
-has boxes filled with wool, uses pieces of furniture, doorways
-monochromatic, often black/white/gold
-takes trash and makes art



David Smith, Australia 1951
-first artist to use steel
-gets rid of n otion that sculpture grows out from central core



Cubi XVIII, CubiXVII, Cubi XIX 1963-64
-turns planes into 3d forms
-invokes awe



Robert Rauschenberg, Odalisk 1955-58
-uses collage elements
-male rooster
-the women on box make a gender suggestion



Jasper Johns, Flag 1954-55 encaustic, oil, and collage
-gave objects no context, so you see actual flag
-paints with process called encaustic
-thick vicous substance
-painting has texture



Roy Lichenstein, Drowning Girl 1962 oil and synthetic polymer on canvas
-takes low form of art, comic strips, and makes it monumental
-adopts comic book style and melodrama
-women usually are helpless, plays on gender expectations



Andy Warhol, Soup Cans 1962 sythetic polymer paint
-artist depicts low objects into art
-individual canvas, but each can is different soup
-reference to advertisign and consumer culture



Claes Oldenburg, Giant Hamburger 1962 printed sailcloth stuffed with foam
-soft sculpture



Morris Louis, Saraband 1959 acrylic resin on canvas
-actual fabric of canvas becomes part of color
-color field painting


Frank Stella, Empress of India 1965



Donald Judd, Untitled 1969 copper
-perfect minimal sculpture
-geometry is basis
-minimalists play around with industrial materials (like copper)
-10 units
-we should appreciate scale of it, color, reflection of material
-minimalists = essential things
-got rid of tradition of pedestal



Dan Flavin, The Nominal Three (To William of Ockham) 1963

-material becomes light
-light is illuminating space
-says universals don't matter, only individual experience



Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs 1965 Wood folding chair
-conceptualism - conception of art not as important as idea behind it
-there is the physical actual chair and a photogrpah of it
-on the wall there is a dictionary definition of the chair
-question: "What constitutes chairness?"



Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S 1995
-connecting way we are fed information with art
-precursor to video art
-info fed to us through sysyems



Romare Beardin, The Prevalence of Ritual: Baptism, 1964
-Black artists look to Africa to create black identity
-through collage, takes idea from contemporary works
-brings in aspects of African art



Walter Gropius, Shop Block 1925-26
-creates idea of total architecture
-Bauhaus have utopian ideals
-strong design
-basic forms - rectangular structure, built with reinforced concrete



Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye 1928-29 France
-no ground floor, part of it is glassed in
-thin columns
-artist wanted an unadorned exterior
-artist's idea was that a house was a machine that serves functions of living



Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House 1936-39
-there cantilevers - rectangular figures jetting out
-hearth is home - brings in the stone the house is sitting on into the house



Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Seagram Building 1954-58
-thin rectangular block
-glass curtain interrupted by vertical grid
-geometric
-tinted glass amber
-used color to create difference
-example of International Style



Philip Johnson, Glass House 1949


Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenhein Museum 1943-59


Robert Venturi, Vanna Venturi House 1964



Michael Graves, Public Services Building 1980-82



Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum 1992-1997
-disorder, imbalance, dysmmetry
-an example of deconstructivism
-challenges our assumptions
-uses concrete, titanium, limestone
-builds curvelinear masses by computers