Who created villa at the seaside?
Who created villa at the seaside?
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School: Georgia State University
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Course: Survey of Art II
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Term: Fall 2016
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Who created villa at the seaside?
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Train station in Paris
When & where: Paris, Europe, 19th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Impressionism – Late 19th century art movement that
sought to capture a fleeting moment,
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thereby conveying the elusiveness
and impermanence of images and
conditions; paint application
contributes to energy of urban scene
Title: Moulin de la Galette
Artist: Renoir (leading Impressionist)
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Parisians at a dance
club
When & where: Paris, Europe, 19th
century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Impressionism;
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sunlight and shade create the effect
of floating; causal poses,
asymmetrical placement of figures, &
continuity of space position viewer as
participant instead of outsider
Title: Villa at the Seaside
Artist: Morisot
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: A woman & child
When & where: London, Europe, 19th
century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Impressionism; focused on domestic scenes because she was a woman; rejected contour lines in favor of patches of color that define the shapes of figures; sketchy brushstrokes unify figure and ground; captures freshness of brightly lit summer day
Artist: Degas
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Ballerinas
When & where: Glasgow, Europe, 19th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Impressionism; recorded unstable postures of ballerinas; painting is antithesis of a classically balanced composition; implied position of viewer is in a balcony looking down; Japanese woodblock prints were inspiration for painting
Title: Burghers of Calais
Artist: Rodin
Patron: City of Calais in France
Subject Matter: Men that lost their lives in the Hundred Years War
When & where: France, Europe, 19th century
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Style & terms: City was
disappointed because the statue emphasized human suffering instead of heroism
Artist: Seurat (devised pointillism) Patron: N/A Don't forget about the age old question of pamela shapiro
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Subject Matter: Parisians of various classes on island in the Seine River
When & where: France, Europe, 19th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Post-Impressionism – Style that more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form, & color than Impressionists did; uses pointillism – System of painting that separates color into its
component parts and then applies the component color to the canvas in tiny dots
Title: Night Café
Artist: van Gogh
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: A bar
When & where: Europe, 19th century Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Post-Impressionism; room is seen from above & floor takes up large portion of canvas; used vivid
hues (red & green) to express madness and intensity
Title: Vision after the Sermon
Artist: Gauguin
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Women visualizing
a sermon they just heard
When & where: Scotland, Europe,
19th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Post-Impressionism;
Gauguin twisted perspective to
emphasize the innocent faith of the
women; used tree limb to divide
spiritual and earthly realm; use of
color is flat, often dissolves into
abstract patterns Title: The Scream Artist: Munch
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: A man standing on
a bridge
When & where: Oslo, Europe, 19th
century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Symbolism – Late
19th century movement based on the
idea that the artist was not an
imitator of nature but a creator who
transformed the facts of nature into a
symbol of the inner experience of that
fact; man is simplified almost to a
skeletal form; landscape’s curvilinear
lines echo the shape of the man’s
head & mouth; red & yellow give the
sky an eerie glowTitle: Demoiselles D´Avignon (Women of Avignon)
Artist: Picasso
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Woman in a brothel
When & where: Europe, 20th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Proto-Cubism (precursor to Cubism – Early 20th century art movement that rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes/forms abstracted from conventionally perceived world); faces were inspired by “primitive” African art; Picasso broke the figures into ambiguous planes so it seems as though the viewer were seeing them from more than one place in space at once
Title: Woman with the Hat Artist: Matisse
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Matisse’s wife Amélie
When & where: Europe, 20th century Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Fauvism – Early 20th century art movement led by Matisse in which color was the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence & the primary conveyor of meaning; entire image consists of patches & splotches of color juxtaposition
Title: Street, Dresden
Artist: Kirchner
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Bustling German city before WWI
When & where: Germany, Europe, 20th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: German
Expressionism – Early 20th century regional Expressionist movement; the composition & color convey the disquieting & alienating character of the city; the women are large and ghoulish; the perspective pushes the women into the viewer’s space, making them appear confrontational
Title: Improvisation 28
Artist: Kandinsky
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Innermost feelings
expressed w/ colors
When & where: Germany, Europe,
20th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: German
Expressionism; elimination of
recognizable forms grew from his
interest in theosophy
(religious/philosophical belief system
that incorporated a wide range of
tenets from, among other sources,
Buddhism & mysticism
Title: The Portuguese
Artist: Braque
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Portuguese musician
When & where: Europe, 20th century Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Analytic Cubism – 1st phase of Cubism, developed jointly by Picasso & Braque, in which artists analyzed form from every possible vantage point to combine various views into one pictorial whole; used solely brown tones to focus on form; forms of man/guitar are constructed from large planes
Title: Armored Train
Artist: Severini
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Train w/ a cannon When & where: Europe, 20th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Futurism – Early 20th century Italian art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent & that celebrated the speed & dynamism of modern technology; painting is light & bright; death & destruction, consequences of war, are absent from the painting
Title: Fountain
Artist: Duchamp
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Urinal turned into a fountain
When & where: NY, America, 20th
century
Technique: Store bought urinal
Style & terms: Dada – Early 20th
century art movement, prompted by
revulsion against the horror of WWI,
that embraced political anarchy, the
irrational, & the intuitive (often
enlivened by humor/whimsy); signed
with a witty pseudonym derived from
plumbing company & comic
Title: Cut with Kitchen Knife
Artist: Höch
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Story that the name
“Dada” resulted from
When & where: Germany, Europe,
20th century
Technique: Photomontage
Style & terms: Dada; eclectic
mixture of cutout photos placed
seemingly haphazardly, but really
placed carefully; juxtaposition of
military leaders’ heads & exotic
dancers’ bodies; Höch added her
photograph to collage, juxtaposed w/
map of Europe showing countries that
granted women the right to vote
Title: Suprematist Composition:
Airplane Flying
Artist: Malevich
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Squares & lines
When & where: Russia, western Europe, 20th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Suprematism – Type of art formulated by Malevich to convey his belief that the supreme reality in this world is pure feeling, which attaches to no object & thus calls for new, nonobjective forms in art – shapes not relate to objects in the visible world; placed brightly colored shapes in dynamic
relationship to one another (shapes also float against & w/in a white space)
Title: Noah’s Ark
Artist: Douglas
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: The story of Noah’s Ark
When & where: America, 20th
century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: American Cubist –
used style to represent symbolically
the historical & cultural memories of
African Americans; based on James
Weldon Johnson: God’s Trombones:
Seven Negro Sermons in Verse; flat
planes evoke mystical space;
unmodulated color shapes create a
pattern that cancels any dimension
Title: Two Children are Threatened by
a Nightingale
Artist: Ernst
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: 2 children & a
landscape
When & where: Europe, 20th century Technique: Collage
Style & terms: Surrealism – A successor to Dada, the movement incorporated the improvisational nature of its predecessor into its exploration of the ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious; landscape painted following rules of linear/atmospheric perspective; children look as though they belong in a dream world; 3-D mini gate, button knob, & strange closed building violate the bulky frame’s space
Title: The Persistence of Memory Artist: Dali
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Empty space where time has ended
When & where: Europe, 20th century Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Surrealism; sense of depth creates realism; Dali skews realism by painting things that wouldn’t happen (i.e. melting clock – which symbolizes time passing; the watches are succumbing to death); painting ties back to memory of Dali (swirling ants, which is seen on gold clockwatch)
Title: Falling Water
Artist: Wright
Patron: Designed for Edgar Kaufmann Sr.
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Mixed materials
Style & terms: Organic Architecture;
house is suspended over water, so the
sound is a part of the house; glass
makes you feel a part of nature;
natural colors of materials used (only
red pained beams add color); Wright
was a good architect but not engineer
(engineers had to make changes to
design to keep it from crumbling) Title: Number 1 (Lavender Mist) Artist: Pollock
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: America, 20th
century
Technique: Oil, enamel, aluminum
painting
Style & terms: Abstract
Expressionism – 1st major American
avant-garde movement that
expressed state of mind and hope to
strike emotional chords in viewers &
developed along 2 lines: gestural
abstraction & chromatic abstraction;
mural-sized painting consists of
rhythmic drips, splatters, & drips of
paint; Pollock immersed himself in the
painting – his technique highlights the
most significant aspect of gestural
abstraction – the creative processTitle: No. 14 Artist: Rothko
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: America, 20th
century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Abstract
Expressionism; used color to convey meaning; Rothko confined himself to using two/three rectangles of pure color w/ hazy edges in his
compositions; the forms seem to float on the canvas
Title: The Bay
Artist: Frankenthaler
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Acrylic painting
Style & terms: Post-painterly
Abstraction – American art movement
that emerged in the 1960s & was
characterized by cool, detached
rationality emphasizing tighter
pictorial control; Frankenthaler uses
color-field painting, which is pouring
diluted paint onto a plain canvas and
allowing the pigments to soak in
Title: Canyon
Artist: Rauschenberg
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: America, 20th
century
Technique: Mixed materials
Style & terms: Neo-Dada; he called
his multimedia works combines;
Rauschenberg based the combine on
a Rembrandt painting of Jupiter in the
form of an eagle carrying the boy
Ganymede heavenward – photo in
combine is a reference to the Greek
boy & the hanging bag is a visual pun
on his buttocks
Title: Green Coca-Cola Bottles
Artist: Warhol
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Coca-Cola bottles
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Pop Art – Art that incorporated elements from consumer culture, the mass media, & popular culture, such as images from motion pictures & advertising; used silk screen technique to print image endlessly, although he varied each bottle; the repetition & redundancy of the bottle reflect the saturation of product in American society
Title: Big Self-Portrait Artist: Close
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Himself
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Acrylic painting
Style & terms: Photo Realism – Also referred to as Superrealism, photo realism is a painting & sculpture movement of the 1960s & 70s that emphasized producing artworks based on scrupulous fidelity to optical fact; main goal was to transfer photographic info into painted info; deliberately avoided creative compositions, flattering light effects, & revealing facial expressions
Title: Dinner Party
Artist: Chicago
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Dinner table for women
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Mixed materials
Style & terms: Feminist Art; used
craft techniques like china painting &
needlework to celebrate the
achievements and contributions that
women made throughout history;
originally had table settings for 13
guests but tripled it to 39 because she
uncovered so many worthy women in
her research; triangular form of table
refers to ancient symbol for both
woman & Mother Goddess; notion of
dinner party also alludes to women’s
traditional role as homemakers
Title: Untitled Film Still #35
Artist: Sherman
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Sherman, in costume & wig
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Photography
Style & terms: Feminist Art; Sherman appears in her images in costume & wig; most of her images recall popular film genres but are generic so viewers cannot relate them to specific movies
Title: Guggenheim Museum Artist: Wright
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: America, 20th century
Style & terms: Organic Architecture;
last building designed by Wright;
structure inspired by spirals of a
snail’s shell; skylight strip in
museum’s outer wall illuminates
interior ramp; thick walls & solid
organic shape give the building the
sense of turning on itself
Title: Napoleon Leading the Army
Over the Alps
Artist: Wiley
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Napoleon
When & where: America, 21st
century
Technique: Oil painting
Technique: Mixed materials
Style & terms: Based on Jacques
Louis David’s painting of same
subject; Wiley presented an African
American Napoleon on horseback in a
gilt wood frame to evoke the era of
the original; narrative unfolds against
vibrantly colored ornate wallpaper
instead of a sky
Title: Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima
Artist: Ringgold
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Story of
stereotypical black “mammy” told by
Aunt Jemima
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Quilt collage
Style & terms: Composed of dyed, painted, & pieced fabric; Jemima is depicted as a successful African American businesswoman; Ringgold narrates story using black dialect, embroidered portraits, & traditional pattern squares; narrative also speaks to larger issues of history of African American culture & struggles of women to overcome oppression
Title: Allegiance and Wakefulness Artist: Neshat
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Neshat’s feet &
Farsi poetry
When & where: America, 20th
century
Technique: Photography
Style & terms: Focus is Neshat’s
feet covered with verses of militant
Farsi poetry (remind the viewer of
long tradition of calligraphy in Persian
art) & the barrel of a rifle (emblem of
militant feminism), which she points
towards the viewer
Title: Branded
Artist: Saville
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Nude portrait
When & where: London, Europe, 20th
century
Technique: Oil painting
Style & terms: Commentary on the
obsession w/ bodies of fashion
models; brands portrait with words
like “delicate,” “decorative,” &
“petite.”
Title: Pink Panther
Artist: Koons
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: Pink Panther & pin
up model
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Porcelain sculpture
Style & terms: Intertwined pin-up model & Pink Panther character; his pieces were intended to draw attention to everything that he believed was wrong with
contemporary American society
Title: Bleeding Takari II Artist: Anatsui
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: America, 21st century
Technique: Bottle tops, wire
Style & terms: The colors Anatsui uses resemble Asante kente cloth; his works can be rolled & folded like fabric; assembled from almost entirely recycled materials
Title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Artist: Lin
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: America, 20th century
Technique: Mixed materials
Style & terms: Simple geometric form; V-shaped inscribed wall
constructed of polished black granite panels
Title: Guggenheim Bilbao Museum
Artist: Gehry
Patron: N/A
Subject Matter: N/A
When & where: Spain, Europe, 20th century
Technique: Mixed materials
Style & terms: Deconstructivism – Late 20th century architectural style
that attempted to disorient the observer by disrupting the
conventional categories of
architecture – haphazard presentation of volumes, masses, planes, lighting, & so forth challenges the viewer’s assumptions about form as it relates to function
