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1436
Jan van Eyck
Lucca Madonna
-Virgin Mary
-Tenderness towards the baby Jesus
-Oranges in the window brings Mary closer to paradise
-Lions symbolize Solomon and wisdom
-Symbolism throughout -
1470
Albertus Pictor
Playing Chess with Death -
1472
Carlo Crivelli
Madonna and Child
-Apples and Flies symbolize sin/evil
-Cucumber symbolizes purity -
1510
Raphael
Madonna of Loreto (1509-1510)
Lots of tenderness between Mary and Jesus
Joseph hanging out in the back as a psychic being
Mary is young -
1526
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Adam and Eve
-Strange things about virgins and proprietary -
1538
Titian
Venus of Urbino
-Available, inviting
-Venus is a goddess that is depicted nude -
1547
Ligier Richier
Le Transi de Rene de Chalon
-Either his or his wife’s decision to memorialize him
-Holds his heart in his left hand
-Used to have the original heart, but it was stolen -
1554
Peter Paul Rubens
Venus and Adonis
-Venus is pricked by her son, Cupid’s, arrow and falls in love with Adonis
-Mother as a sexual being -
1562
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Triumph of Death
-Scorched barren earth and no signs of healthy life
-Skeletons are taking over the living, who are running or fighting ineffectively
-If death is personified then they are usually a fucking immortal god-slaying beast -
1567
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Peasant Wedding (1567)
-In peasant life/everyday life
-Landowner on the furthest right
-In a wedding
-Porridge/grain based food -
Michelangelo
Pieta
-Marble sculpture
-Tenderness between mother and child despite his age
-She’s still youthful/virgin imagery (virginity = youth) -
Jean Sanchez Cotan
Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
-Lots of symbolism that is exclusive to the time period -
Frans Snyders
Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market (1614)
-Baroque
-Peacock is Vanity
-Dove is Purity -
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Slaying Holofernes
-Baroque
-Daughter of a painter, so got exempt from patriarchy
-Depicts the Old Testament story of Judith, the heroine, killing the Assyrian general
-She was raped by her sensei -
Pieter Claesz
Vanitas Still Life with Self Portrait
-a form of still life from the Netherlands
-recognizable by a skull and timepiece
-refers to vanity -
Willem Claesz Heda
Still LIfe, oil on wood
-Sort of a vanitas
-It’s a moralizing image -
Johannes Vermeer
The Milkmaid
-Pouring into Dutch oven
-Not actually poor/a milkmaid -
Rembrandt van Rijn
Self Portrait
-Light in last symbolizes change in character later in life -
Jan Steen
The Dissolute Household
-The wife is stepping on the Bible trying to get alcohol
-The husband is trying to get with the maid -
Thomas Gainsborough
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
-Couple without heads and identity -
Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Swing -
E-L Boulee
Newton Cenotaph
-Giant sphere for a tomb larger than the pyramids of Giza(?)
-Surrounded by cypress trees -
E-L Boulee
Library
-Most of his work is hypothetical
-His works have emphasis on symbology -
Jacques Louis David
The Death of Marat
-During a time of hyper-embellishment
-Marat had a disease that required him to be in the bathtub a lot
-Murdered by a woman, with the knife being in the painting
-The large space in the background is contemplative
-Marat is Jesus-like, with no skin-disease present -
David, Jacques-Louis
Self Portrait
-Portrayed himself as young in his last because of how he wanted to be remembered -
Jacques-Louis David
Napoleon Crossing the Alps -
William Blake
House of Death
-Shows the creator presiding over his creations inevitable death -
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
La Grand Odalisque
-Prostitute
-Painting for men
-She does not have any power -
Francisco de Goya
Self Portrait
-In each he becomes more sickly until the last when he's almost dead -
Theodore Gericault
The Raft of the Medusa
-He built a model
-Studied dead bodies
-Talked to survivors of raft -
William Blake
Life mask
-Made when he was still alive -
Thomas Cole
The Course of an Empire Series
The Savage State
The Arcadian or Pastoral State
The Consummation of Empire
Destruction
Desolation
-Nature is dominant
-Series shows purity of nature
-Born in England -
Eugene Delacroix
Self Portrait -
Eugene Delacroix
George Sand painting of women -
Gustave Courbet
The Desperate Man (Self Portrait) -
Jon Mix Stanley
Osage Scalp Dance -
Gustave Courbet
Portrait of Baudelaire -
George Catlin
Self Portrait Among the Mandans -
Edouard Manet
Olympia
-She is in power
-She looks at the viewer in the eye
Bar at the Folie Bergere (1882)
Barmaid, melancholy
Notable prostitute in France
Oranges became symbol for prostitution -
Timothy H. O’Sullivan
The Harvest of Death
-Moved dead Union soldiers around on the Gettysburg battlefield to create to perfect picture -
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Artist in His Studio -
Gustave Courbet
Woman with Parrot
-Realism Period
-After being ravaged
-She is a mess/used up -
James McNeill Whistler
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
-Painting of his mother
-She is severe
-She is placed in a cold and gray background -
Camille Pizarro
Self Portrait -
Thomas Eakins
The Gross Clinic
-Shows the surgery theater for something other than surgery
-Eakins himself is in the picture in da back -
Frederick Edwin Church
The Aegean Sea -
Edouard Manet
Self Portrait -
William Blake
L’Inconnue de la Seine
-Morgue worker found a dead girl that was so pure and did not have any of the agony -
Paul Cézanne
Self Portraits -
Vassily Maksimov
The Sick Husband
-Icon corner
-Russian Orthodoxy
-A mix of Catholicism and other stuff -
Edouard Manet
Bar at the Folie Bergere
-Barmaid, melancholy
-Notable prostitute in France
-Oranges became symbol for prostitution -
Toulouse- Lautrec
Self Portrait in front of a Mirror -
Vincent VanGogh
The Potato Eaters
-About common people again
-Darkly lit and shadowy/poor -
Claude Monet
Self Portrait -
Vincent Van Gogh
Self Portrait
-Show his struggle with his self image -
Van Gogh
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother
-Warm portrait -
Repin
They Did Not Expect Him -
Paul Gauguin
Self Portrait
-Arrogant thought that he would make it to heaven and that he was above good and evil (Snake, apples, Halo) -
Marie Cassatt
Maternité
-Breastfeeding
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother
-The start of women in the artspace besides men -
Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Banjo Lesson -
Paul Cezanne
The Basket of Apples
-Deemphasized realism
-One of the few that he signed
-Skewed perspective
-Meditation on the material vs the depiction -
Pablo Picasso
-Started to show his change to cubism
-Gertrude Stein portrait which she returned with a painting of him -
Polenov
He That Is Without sin
-Representational art -
Marianne Stokes
Death and the Maiden -
Egon Schiele
Tote Mutter (Dead Mother)
-He painted a lot of prostitutes
-Depicted them as bony and disfigured
-The painting depicts a baby and its dead dead mother
-Baby is painted in warm colors because it is still alive, mother is painted in cooler colors because she is dead -
Antonio Gaudí
Casa Mila -
James Ensor
The Banquet of the Starved
-Emulates the Last Supper
-During WWI
-Shows the turmoil of the War
-Depicts famine -
Constantin Brâncuşi
The Newborn -
Man Ray
Mina Loy
-Loving portrait
-Showed the assemblage of inanimate objects with humans -
Hannah Hoch
Marlene
-Graffiti
-Body parts were combined with architecture and body parts from other sexes -
Vladimir Tatlin
Monument to the Third International
-Leftist piece
-Constructionist movement -
James Van Der Zee
Evening Attire
-Harlem Renaissance
-Photo of Marcus Garvey -
Diego Rivera
Dia de los Muertos
-Celebration rather than mourning -
Constantin Brâncuşi
Bird In Space
-Court case over whether it was art or not
-Delicacy in forms -
Rene Magritte
The Treachery of Images
-Drawing of a pipe -
Meret Oppenheim
Votive picture (Strangling Angel)
-Depicts woman strangling child
-Symbolizes her constraint when married on her artistic license -
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother With Three Children
-Poor migrant mother during the Great Depression
-Shows the suffering and responsibility of a mother -
Käthe Kollwitz
Death series
-Kollwitz was a drawing professor
-Seen as a degenerate artist by Hitler -
Frida Kahlo
The Two Fridas
-One is wearing traditional European clothing, the other with traditional Hispanic clothing
-Right after her divorce -
Isamu Noguchi
Leda -
Alberto Giacometti
Seated Man -
Salvador Dali
Crucifixion
-Towards the end of his life
-Nuclear mysticism -
Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal film -
Yves Klein
Anthropometry of the Blue Period (ANT 82)
-Used naked female bodies as stamps with blue paint -
Alberto Giacometti
Walking Man I -
Andy Warhol
Campbell’s Soup Cans
-Mass production of food and homogenization of it -
Claes Oldenburg
Floor Burger
- Both a painting and a sculpture, a baroque interpretation -
Allison Knowles
Make a salad
-Made a salad to feed people
-Performance piece -
Asger Jorn
Souriez Rue Froide -
Andy Warhol
Twelve Electric Chairs
-Simple, elegant
-Empty room with an empty chairs
-Temporary bliss of object or subject -
Asger Jorn
Jorn’s Response to Guggenheim Award
-Didn’t want money
-$100,000 -
Marcel Broodthaers
Triomphe de Moules I
- Made from an iron pot, mussel shells, and paint -
Joseph Kusth
One and Three Chairs
Photograph of the chair (Icon)
Description of the chair in writing (Symbol)
The actual chair (Object) -
Isamu Noguchi
Worm Pyramid -
Bruce Nauman
Collection of Various Flexible Materials Separated by Layers of Grease with Holes the Size of My Waist and Wrists (1966)
Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (1967-1968)
Failing to Levitate in the Studio (1996) -
Isamu Noguchi
Slide Mantra
-Power of form -
Juan Miro
Seated Woman and Child (Femme assise et enfant)
-Cast sculpture
-Influenced by found object stuff -
Richard Long
A Line Made By Walking -
Robert Smithson
A Nonsite, Franklin, New Jersey
-Questioned what landscape means -
Helio Oiticica
Eden
-Audio in tent
-Foam in pit
-Interactive
-Brings his experience into art world
-Parangoles
-Wearable sculpture
-Films and public performances -
David Hammons
The Door (Admissions Office)
-Black Identity
-Modernist sculpture
-References that african americans were not allowed the same schooling -
Bas Jan Ader
Fall I, Los Angeles
Fall 2, Amsterdam
-Pictures of artist right before falling Real pictures of hurting himself -
Daniel Wolf
Vietnam Referendum ‘70 Committee, Let the People Vote on War
-Lithograph with pen and ink
-Many of these pieces were created using different printing techniques like silk screen. Some of the earlier prints were made by wooden block prints -
Mark Rothko
Rothko Chapel
-Non denominational
-Believes in spiritual power of color
-Octagon inscribed in greek cross
-Nelson Mandela spoke there -
Alejandro Jodorowksy
-The Holy Mountain
-Film
-Jesus killing plaster casts -
Nancy Holt
Sun Tunnels
-Show solstices and equinoxes that shine light through -
Dieter Roth
Literaturwurst (1961-1974)
-Play on the words Literature and Bratwurst
-He made sausages of books, ground books -
Carolee Schneeman
Interior Scroll
-Performance
-She covers herself with mud/paint and pulls a scroll out of her vagina. She then proceeds to read it to her audience. -
Ana Mendieta
From Silueta Series
-Merging herself or a depiction of herself with nature in earthworks -
Nam June Paik
TV Buddha
-Self-reflection through technology -
Francesca Woodman
House #3 Providence, Rhode Island
-Suicide at 22 -
Cindy Sherman
Bus Rider Series -
Christo and Jeanne Claude
Running Fence -
Walter De Maria
The Lightning Field -
Romare Bearden
Quilting Time -
Jean Michel Basquiat
Fallen Angel -
Hannah Wilke
SOS Starification Object Series
-Black and White silver gelatin prints of her nude
Fifteen chewing gum vanginas -
Maya Lin
Vietnam Wall
-Her design was picked but people wanted her to add soldiers and a flag -
Keith Harring
Fertility Series B
-Silkscreen prints based on imagery depicting fertility and pregnancy -
Guerilla Girls
-Activist group founded in 1985
-Protest the ‘poor’ usage of the woman body in art, more specifically in museums -
Mona Hatoum
Performance Still
-Skinhead fight
-Circumambulation -
Edgar Heap of Birds
Relocate Destroy, In Memory of Native Americans, In Memory of Jews -
Andres Serrano
Piss Christ
-Submerged in urine
-Different pictures in different liquids -
David Wojnarowicz
Controversial Still from “A Fire in my Belly”
-Video and sound (4 minutes)
-Experience with AIDS -
Yasumasa Morimura
Portrait (Futago)
-They’re men now and dressed as women -
Lorna Simpson
Stereo Styles
-Uses advertizing to model her work
-This piece show popular hairstyles at the time -
Rasheed Araeen
Bismullah
-About identity
-How cultures are held down by european white culture
-Overlayed pictures
-Arabic for “In the name of Allah” -
Adrian Piper
Cornered
-Performance
-Her black experience -
Keith Haring
Ignorance = Fear/Silence = Death
-Lithograph -
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #215 (1989)
Dresses up in different ages attire -
Lorna Simpson
Guarded Conditions
Skin attacks = violence against African Americans -
Nancy Spero
Picasso and Frederick’s of Hollywood
-Hand-printed collage
-From Cleveland -
Carrie Mae Weems
The Kitchen Table Series
-Real point was social inclusion -
Felix Gonzalez Torres
Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
-175 lbs. of candy: weight of his lover
-Visitors take a piece -
Sally Mann
Immediate Family
-A series of work
-More sensual and sexual stuff with her children
-Treating children as adults -
Ildar Khanov
The Temple of All Religions
-Kazan, Russia
-An attempt to cobble all religions under one roof -
Glenn Ligon
Four Untitled Etchings -
Fred Wilson
Mining the Museum
-Modernized modern art museums
-Institutional critic = why is history presented the same way
-Slave shackles up front change the narrative of picture -
Fred Wilson
Modes of Transport
-Clans hood in baby stroller
-Crucifix before chairs
-Indians looking at art -
Guillermo Gómez Peña and Coco Fusco
The Couple in a Cage:Two Amerindians Visit the West
-Performance
-Audience was allowed to interact
-Used student as guards and to explain the performance
-Made up tribe -
Louise Bourgeois
Spider
-The spider symbolizes her relationship with her mother -
Rineke Dijkstra
New Mothers Series
-Catches people in their most vulnerable state
-Photograph taken right after birth -
Rudolf Stingel
Untitled
-Cast urethane rubber
-Represents the snippeting of cultures by America
-The lack of respect and actual sincerity when Buddhism was reappropriated
-“Pure decoration” -
Lorna Simpson
Wigs
-Exploration of history of ethnic hairstyles in African cultures -
Terry Adkins
Assembly
-The Lone Wolf Recital Corps -
Sophie Calle
The Chromatic Diet
-colorful meals for everyday of the week -
Montien Boonma
-Allowed to be a part of the construction
-Calming of the mind
-Domination of space -
Rachel Whiteread
Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
-Replaced last memorial because of the previous aesthetic of the jews being beaten down -
Glenn Ligon
Condition Report
-Uniform text
-Power of text as an image -
Yinka Shonibare
The Swing -
Doris Salcedo
Installation of the 8th International Istanbul Biennial
-Columbian artist
-1550 wooden chairs
-Mass graves reminder for her
-Implied bodies that have been lost -
Rithy Panh
S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
-Thousands killed
-Marxist backgrounds
-Two survivors -
Catherine Opie
Self Portrait Nursing
-She has ‘Pervert’ tattooed in white ink on her chest -
Marlene Dumas
Stern
-Contemporary art about death
-Death portrait
-Original work had rope around neck -
Francis Alÿs
The Green Line
-Poetic artwork
-Dumping green paint as he walks through Jerusalem -
Peter Eiserman
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
-Memorial to the jewish prisoners killed
-Underground facility with learning center
-Piece has to do with loss of identity amongst the numbers because of the many who died and each block being different has to do with the individuality of each prisoner -
Kehinde Wiley
Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps -
Kara Walker
Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp
-Young black person under her skirt -
Maren Hassinger
Love
-Pink plastic shopping bags filled with love notes inflated by human breath -
Ken Gonzales Day
The Wonder Gaze
-Erased Lynching Series
-Removes bodies and leaves the picture haunting and still violent -
David Altmejd
The Giant 2
-You need death for life
-More cheerful -
Doris Salcedo
Shibboleth
-Concrete and metal
-Creates divide and that is the purpose
-Social divides in our world today -
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Momme Portrait Series (Shadow)
-Daughter living in the shadow of her mother -
Rodney McMillian
Rodney McMillian
Untitled
-Uses architecture and sculpture to make portraits -
Maurizio Cattelan
Untitled
-Taxidermied horse with INRI sign -
Edgar Arceneaux
Blind Pig #3
-Graphite
-Looking at the history of EDM in Detroit as done by the black community -
Nick Cave
Speak Louder -
Maren Hassinger
A Place for Nature
-Nature, love, renewability -
Henry Hargreaves
No Seconds
-Recreated last meal requests from criminals on death row -
Erdem Gunduz
Standing Man
-Stood for several hours without a word for protest -
Theaster Gates
Installation view of Double Cross
-Social practice art -
Titus Kaphar
Asphalt and Chalk Michael Brown, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, Trayvon Martin -
Ebony G. Patterson
Invisible Presence - Bling Memories
-Discrepancy between class regarding death traditions and burials -
The Propeller Group
The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music
Projects all over the world
Vietnam funerals -
Ernesto Neto
CanoeKeneJaguaPataLampLight
(CanoaKeneOnçaPawLampadaLuz)
-Let’s get physical, physical
-Simple tribe
-Created new culture -
Nick Cave
Soundsuit
-Musical instruments -
James Turrell
Roden Crater
-Painted desert in Arizona
-Has buildings with oculuses
-He believes the crater is artwork
-Pinhole camera in tunnel
-Lunar standstill
