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Egypt. Relief carvings depicting unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, and the glory of its pharaoh
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Wiltshire, England. Built when religion and science were a unified means of understanding natural forces
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Susa (modern Shush, Iran). Shows the king standing before the sun god, Shamash
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Etruscan
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Shaanxi, China. Terra-cotta army to protect and serve the emperor after death
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Sanchi, India. Buddhist architecture associated with the body of the Buddha
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Rome, Italy. Shrine to the chief deities of Roman empire
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Originated from China in 220AD. Had the ability to reproduce books much quicker than by hand, but not as useful since many were illiterate.
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Cordoba, Spain.
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Locust Grove, Ohio. 900-1300. A Native American Earthen sculpture
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Naltunai Temple, Punjab, India. One of the avatars of Brahman
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Chinese inventor Bi Sheng during 1041-1048 created movable type with carved sticky clay.
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One of the first recorded documents made in Korea from a metal movable type.
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Round Hall, Beijing. Three tiered pagoda where emperor officiated religious and political ceremonies. Symbolized mountain form
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Produced books at a speed not seen before and resulted in an increase in literacy.
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By Sandro Botticelli
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By Raphael. Depicts tender relationship between Mary and baby Jesus
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Matthias Grunewald. Germany. Oil on wood.
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By Titian. A "come hither" look, but not over-sexualized even though she's in the nude
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Created by Ligier Richier.
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By Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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By Michelangelo, showing tenderness between mother and child (Mary and Jesus)
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Extravagance developed by Louis XIV (The Sun King), who moved entire French court there to admire him and his way of living (illusion of grandeur). Baroque style, Rococo influence
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By William Hogarth. From Marriage a la Mode series. Satirizes upper class living and the appearance of grandeur
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By Jean-Honore Fragonard. Oil on canvas. Shows the upper class acting frivolously
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By Jacques Louis David. Painting of him after being murdered by woman on opposing side of revolution. Notice him depicted without skin disease
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By Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. A prostitute, more shy. Notice the extra vertebrae
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By Theodore Gericault. Starts a talk about current events depicted in artwork
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first known photograph using a process he referred to as "Heliography."
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Louis Daguerre creates the daguerreotype process of photography and takes one of the earliest known photographs, the Doulevard du Temple.
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Henry Fox Talbot discovers the process of translucent imaging and creates photo-sensitive paper.
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An image of the Crimean War taken by Roger Fenton. Known as the "First Iconic Photograph of War." There is controversy as to if Fenton fake the photograph by artificially placing the cannonballs to create a more stimulating image.
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By Gustave Courbet. Portrayal of a prostitute more messy, perhaps after the act?
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George Eastman creates Kodak, resulting in the birth of mass market photography.
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By Thomas Eakins. Marks new excitement for scientific development
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Body of girl found in Seine (river), one of workers in morgue found her face so pure and beautiful that he made a cast of her face. Many more casts were made to the point where it becomes a huge influence in Parisian pop culture.
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Vassily Maksimov
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By George Seurat. Pixel painting technique, showing a leisurely middle-class
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Polenov
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By Egon Schiele, touches on mother's dying at childbirth
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Palace sculpture, Yoruba, Ikere, Nigeria. Head wife stands behind king, showing her procreative power
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Wassily Kandinsky. Theory about spiritual aspects in art.
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By James Ensor
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Suprematist Exhibition
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Kazimir Malevich. Oil on linen.
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Kazimir Malevich. OIl on linen.
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Suprematist Exhibition
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By Marcel Duchamp, Raises the question of "What is art?"
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Tatlin's Tower- building design
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By Hannah Hoch. Collage with images questioning gender bias, while seeing individual entities of women
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By Rene Magritte. “This is not a pipe”
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By Dorothea Lange. Commissioned by government to symbolize Great Depression
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By Frida Kahlo. Mexican and European, painted after divorce from Diego Rivera
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By Edward Hopper. Oil on Canvas
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(1953-2000)
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Salvador Dali
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Creation of the color company Pantone, which is best known for the Pantone Matching System.
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By Yves Klein. Controversial, criticized the women were used as objects
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Josef Albers developed a book at Yale. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for students, instructors, and artists.
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By Joseph Kosuth. Have the chair itself, next to a photo of chair, and dictionary definition of a chair
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Helio Oiticica. Wearable sculptures with a reference to both clothing and tribal-wear..
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Non-denominal chapel located in Houston, Texas. Artist planned out lighting and design and structure. Created to evoke an emotional and spiritual response.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky.
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By Hannah Wilke. Sculptures of vaginas made from chewing gum on her body
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By Carolee Schneeman. Performance art, applies mud and paint on body and pulls scroll from vagina as she reads it
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By Nam June Paik
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Founded to expose gender and racial bias in art
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Mona Hatoum.
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Narrative about a gay man's experience with aids and dealing with love and loss
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By Andres Serrano. Photographed small figures of christ in different liquids (milk, urine, etc). Very controversial, but also brings up real point of crucifixion (vulnerability, no privacy)
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Artist Rasheed Araeen's work. Depicts photographs that are overlaid over a geometric structure. "Bismullah" meaning "in the name of Allah." Influenced by Islamic ideas.
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By Keith Haring
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Rirkrit Tiravanija sets up lounge area with food, where people become the art; Similar to Duchamp, "What defines art?"
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Located in Kazan, Russia. Combines different stylistic construction types from different religions. Has 16 towers that each represent a major religion.
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By Fred Wilson. Putting one object in the middle of other objects completely changes meaning. An institutional critique
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By Louise Bourgeois. Spider symbolizes her mother
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By Shirin Neshat. Confronting the role of a women in the history of Iran. Splits image using a weapon, typically a gun (holding it passively or aggressively)
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By Lorna Simpson. Collection of 21 lithographs on felt, with 17 lithographed felt text panels. Focuses on hair as a cultural symbol
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Bilbao, Spain. By Frank O. Gehry
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Yinka Shonibare. To show complexity of world trade and protest colonial history
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Francis Alys, walking while spilling green paint through Jerusalem
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Ernesto Neto
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Kara Walker. combines silhouettes with a southern satirical narrative
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By Doris Salcedo
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By LaToya Ruby Frazier. History of toxic waste and unhealthy environment in town, leading to many with disease. Cycle of life and death of women
