Art History

  • 25,000 BCE

    Venus of Willendorf

    Venus of Willendorf
    • Austria, c.25,000-20,000 BCE
    • Stone - A well-rounded, abstracted female fertility figure, made of stone
  • 1323 BCE

    Death Masks- King Tut

    Death Masks- King Tut
    A modeling of the face
  • 650 BCE

    Greek Archaic Period (650-500BCE)

  • 500 BCE

    Greek Classical (Hellenic) Period (500-323 BCE)

    The temple of Athena, Nike
  • 400 BCE

    Camera Obscura

    Camera Obscura
    Image projected through hole upside-down
  • 327 BCE

    Greece and Hellenistic Period

    Idea of collecting as sign of social class
  • 79

    Herculaneum papyri Scroll

    Herculaneum papyri Scroll
    (Covered 79AD and preserved by Mt. Vesuvius)
    Most text written in scroll form before books
  • 190

    Unswept House or Unswept Floor

    Unswept House or Unswept Floor
    Mosaic from the Emperor Hardrian’s villa at Tivoli Sosus of Pergamon – Supports the idea that excess = wealth
  • 220

    Wood Block Printing

    Wood Block Printing
    Traced back to China - Technology for printing books was available for a long time, but had little use because of the lack of literacy
  • 400

    The Middle Ages

    Benedictine Order
    -Art is to honor God
    -Decline in literacy
    -Start of apprenticeship and guilds
  • 700

    Portrait of Ezra from the Codex Amiatinus (not sure what this is)

    Portrait of Ezra from the Codex Amiatinus (not sure what this is)
  • 990

    Bi Sheng (990-1051) Commoner from Northern Song Dynasty

    Bi Sheng (990-1051) Commoner from Northern Song Dynasty
    First to use moveable clay type
  • 1100

    Codex Gigas

    Codex Gigas
    Codex (Codices): a series of sacked paper bound at one end
  • 1206

    Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368) woodblock edition of a zaju play entitled Zhuye Zhou

  • 1300

    Italian Renaissance

    14th-17th century
    Pesaro Modanna- by Titian color and more realistic baby
  • 1377

    Jikji

    Jikji
    1377 Korea – (a religious text) one of the first known documents that used metal type
  • 1400

    Tacuinum Sanitatis

    Tacuinum Sanitatis
    Book on how to achieve good health
  • 1415

    Linear Perspective

    Linear Perspective
    Invented by Architect Fillipo Brunelleschi
  • 1425

    Holy Trinity Masaccio

    Holy Trinity Masaccio
    Said to be earliest execution of linear perspective
    Figures have volume
    New Style of Florentine Realism
  • 1427

    Bidding Farewell at the Tiger Hill

    Bidding Farewell at the Tiger Hill
    Shen Zhou
    Ming Dynasty
  • 1434

    Emerald Buddha

    Emerald Buddha
    Ritualistic behaviors- not sure about exact date
    Was brought into field in order to solve crop issues
  • 1434

    Wedding Portrait

    Wedding Portrait
    Jan Van Eyck, Flanders, Northern Europe, 1434. - Oil on wood panel
    Symbols…
    Candles Burning: divine presence
    Golden Apples and Oranges: conquest of death
    Medallions on Mirror: passion of Christ
    Shoes taken off: shows couple is on holy ground
    Dog: Fedelity
  • 1435

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    Humanism- study of classics
    Alberti-Della Pictura regain understanding of perspective
  • 1435

    Alberti's On Painting (Della Pictura)

    Alberti's On Painting (Della Pictura)
    There are only four colors, blue, red, gray, and green
  • 1436

    Jan van Eyck- Lucca Madonna

    Jan van Eyck- Lucca Madonna
    Virgin Mary nursing Jesus
  • 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg’s Printing Press 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg’s Printing Press 1440
    Combines screw presses with moveable metal type - Makes more copies of Bible available, leading to more accessible knowledge
  • 1454

    Gutenberg Bible 1454

    Gutenberg Bible 1454
  • 1480

    Madonna and Child - Carlo Crivelli

    Madonna and Child - Carlo Crivelli
    Tempera and gold on wood – Use of food as symbolism: Apples & fly = sin and evil, cucumber and gold finch = redemption
  • 1495

    Last Supper

    Last Supper
    Leonardo da Vinci
    - 1495 to 1498 - Milan, Italy
    - shows a ritual meal as a religious ceremony - formal & symmetric composition
  • 1497

    Northern Renaissance

    Northern Renaissance
    Arnolfini Wedding-Jan Van Eyck-1434
  • 1504

    David by Michelangelo

    David by Michelangelo
    Sculpted head and hands larger so they would appear normal when viewed form the ground
  • 1509

    School of Athens

    School of Athens
    Raphael; Fresco
    1509-1511
  • 1526

    Adam and Eve

    Adam and Eve
    • Lucas Cranach the Elder
    • The view of female sexuality as sin
    • Hyper stylized image
  • 1538

    Venus of Urbino

    Venus of Urbino
    • Titian
    • For men, sensual, available, angled woman
    • An object of male sexual desire
    • By painting Venus, the artist can claim they are not making porn because Venus is historically painted naked
  • 1562

    The Triumph of Death

    The Triumph of Death
    Pieter Bruegel the Elder
    - lots of skeletons taking over humans regardless of their class
  • 1563

    Vegetables in a Bowl or The Gardener

    Vegetables in a Bowl or The Gardener
    Part of The Four Seasons by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (worked for the Hapsburgs)
    - Object Oriented Abstraction – combining objects to make them look like something else
    - Surprising that this was accepted – advanced and contemporary
  • 1567

    The Peasant Wedding

    The Peasant Wedding
    • Pieter Bruegel the Elder (famous for depicted peasant life and everyday life)
    • Completed between 1567-1569
    • Flemish Wedding – food as a support of peasant life
  • Baroque Period

    High drama
    1600-1750
  • Still Life With Quince, cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber

    Still Life With Quince, cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
    • Juan Sanchez Cotan – 1602-1603
    • Uses symbolism to tell a story – meditation on goodness and purity and excess
  • Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market

    Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market
    • Frans Snyders - (Baroque) heightened sence to the paintings of this period
    • Frans was Flemish, 1579-1657 – animals use symbolism and a mix of different qualities
  • Judith Slaying Holofernes

    Judith Slaying Holofernes
    • Artemisia Gentileschi
    • 1614-1620 (Baroque)
    • Women triumphing over powerful men
    • Artemisia was raped by her painting teacher – caused her to paint with a different style than she did before
    • Victims of sexual assault treated like damaged goods
  • Vanitas

    Vanitas
    Pieter Claesz
    -usually identified by a skull
  • Peter Paul Rubens- Venus and Adonis

    Peter Paul Rubens- Venus and Adonis
    Speaks to mother still having sexuality
  • The Age of Absolution and the French Academy

    Academic style
    Seen as luxury hobby for rich
  • The Milkmaid

    The Milkmaid
    • Johannes Vermeer – c. 1657-1658
    • Realness, not idealized like Queens or the Virgin Mary
  • Rembrandt von Rijn- Self Portrait

    Rembrandt von Rijn- Self Portrait
    Painted another one in 1660
    His paintings gain more light as he gets older
  • The Dissolute Household

    The Dissolute Household
    • Jan Steen – (Dutch, Leiden 1626-1679 Leiden) 1663-64
    • Hints of fun and sin
  • Rococo

    Rococo
    • (1700-1750): builds off of Baroque in terms of excess, interest in the East
    • Influenced by increased contact with non-Europe countries due to trade
  • Sir Issac Newton-1747 Optics

    Sir Issac Newton-1747 Optics
    Figures out primary colors
  • Palace of Versailles

    Palace of Versailles
    • Completed in 1710
    • Built by Louis XIV – The Sun King – Moved the bureaucracy (French court) to the palace
    • Baroque
    • Interior: attention and love of excess – decadent aesthetic added to the move of power
    • Baroque but meets up in terms of its usage with Rococo and Louis XV
  • Êtienne-Louis Boullée

    Êtienne-Louis Boullée
    • Interested in making architecture that expresses a purpose
    • A return to the grandeur and severity of Greek architecture and clean lines
    • Lived 1728 - 1799
  • Ancient Rome Giovanni Paolo Panini

    Ancient Rome Giovanni Paolo Panini
    • c.1757 – feticism of the past
    • Neo Classical
  • David Jacques- Louis

    David Jacques- Louis
    Looks older in the 1790 painting versus the one painted in 1794
  • The Death of Marat

    The Death of Marat
    Jacques Louis David
    -Marat was murdered by Charlot Corday
    -Painting was made for his friend to remember him
  • God Te Rongo and His three Sons

    God Te Rongo and His three Sons
    • Cook Islands, Polynesia
    • c. 1800-1900s. Wood – has a large penis showing virility
  • Arc de Triomphe

    Arc de Triomphe
    • 1806-1836 Jean Chalgrin, Louis- Êtienne Héricart de Thur
    • Built by Napoleon
  • La Grande Odalisque

    La Grande Odalisque
    Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
    - Her sexuality is still conditioned by the male gaze
  • Goya Y Lucientes, Grancisco de

    Goya Y Lucientes, Grancisco de
    1815- Started to look a little ill
    1820- Paints portrait with his doctor- looks very ill
  • The Raft of the Medusa

    The Raft of the Medusa
    Theodore Gericault
    -Studied bodies at morgue so he could paint them realistically
  • Hampstead Heath with Bathers

    Hampstead Heath with Bathers
    • John Constable – 1821-22
    • Famous landscape painter
    • Focus on the landscape and depicting an emotional space
    • Other Works: The Gleaners, Brighton 1824, The Sea near Brighton 1826
  • View from the Window at le Gras

    View from the Window at le Gras
    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - 1826 or 1827. Printed on a metal plate using emulsion. "heliography"
  • Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire 1833-1836

    Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire 1833-1836
    • This painting (The Savage State)
    • A series of paintings that explain the relationship between humans and nature
    • Founder of Hudson River School
    • Second painting (The Arcadian or Pastoral State)
    • Third (The Consummation of Empire) – The same space changing based on human interaction
    • Fourth (Destruction)
    • Fifth (Desolation)
  • Boulevard du Temple

    Boulevard du Temple
    First known picture of a person
    Louis Daguerra (1787-1851)
    Continued the work of Niépce and created images he called “Daguerrotypes”
    used a shorter exposure time and chemical emulsion to create an image
  • Delacroix, Eugene=George Sand

    Delacroix, Eugene=George Sand
    Also painted George Sand
  • Courbet, Gustave= Portrait of Baudelaire

    Courbet, Gustave= Portrait of Baudelaire
    The Desperate Man, 1843
    Self Portrait at Sainte-Pelagie, 1872
    Self Portrait with Striped Collar, 1842-44
  • Osage Scalp Dance

    Osage Scalp Dance
    Jon Mix Stanley
    – Showing Native Americans as noble savages – untame – violent – sexual –
  • Norham Castle, Sunrise - Joseph Mallord William Turner

    Norham Castle, Sunrise - Joseph Mallord William Turner
    • c.1845
    • Focuses on the energetic properties of nature Other Works: Three Seascapes c.1827, Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth exhibited in 1842
  • Le Transi de Rene de Chalon

    Le Transi de Rene de Chalon
    Sculpture in memorial for him
    He is clutching his heart in his hand- the original had his dried heart ( was stolen and replaced)
  • Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) (time ?)

    Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) (time ?)
    Discovered paper as an option for pictures
    Called these images “calotypes” or “talbotypes”
  • Valley of Death- Roger Fenton

    Valley of Death- Roger Fenton
    Speculation about whether cannonballs were moved to stage the photo
  • Olympia

    Olympia
    Edouard Manet
    - Troubling for the academy at the time because of its directness
    - The woman looks you in the eye, she has power in her position
  • Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe-Edourad Manet

    Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe-Edourad Manet
    Renaissance development coming appart - brushstrokes starting to loosen up
  • The Harvest of Death

    The Harvest of Death
    Timothy H. O' Sullivan
    -Sometimes criticized for moving bodies for "perfect shot"
  • James Abbot McNeil

    James Abbot McNeil
    The Artist in His Studio
  • Woman with Parrot

    Woman with Parrot
    • Gustave Courbet
    • New Realism Period
    • A woman who is a subject of male desire, she has already been used
  • Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1

    Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
    James McNeil Whistler
    Fear and respect for mother- no warm tones
  • Self-Portrait

    Self-Portrait
    Camille Pissarro
  • The Aegean Sea

    The Aegean Sea
    Frederic Edwin Church - c. 1877
  • Self-Portrait with a Palette

    Self-Portrait with a Palette
    Edouard Manet
  • L'Inconnue de la Seine

    L'Inconnue de la Seine
    Body was found in the river and there was no sign of struggle- thought to be a suicide
    Her face was so serene that the morgue made a cast of her face and it became famous
  • Arts and Crafts Movement – 1880-1920

    Arts and Crafts Movement – 1880-1920
    • Rejected the speed of industry
    • British origins, popular throughout Europe and USA – traditional craftsmanship anti-industrial, centered on labor reform socialist critique o William Morris 1834-1896 o John Ruskin 1819-1900
  • The Sick Husband-Vassidy Maksimov

    The Sick Husband-Vassidy Maksimov
    Icon corner- in Russian Orthodox, its a place in the home that is used to place icons so that they can pray to them- faces the east
  • Bar at the Folies Bergère

    Bar at the Folies Bergère
    Edouard Manet
    - A barmaid/female prostitute in Paris
    - Oranges: start meaning prostitute instead of paradise
  • Self-Portrait in front of a Mirror

    Self-Portrait in front of a Mirror
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1882-83
  • The Potato Eaters

    The Potato Eaters
    • Vincent Van Gogh
    • Showed everyday life – humbleness
  • Self-Portrait in Beret

    Self-Portrait in Beret
    Claude Monet
  • Vincent van Gough

    Vincent van Gough
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Self-Portrait

    Self-Portrait
    Vincent van Gough – Spring 1887, Paris
  • Paul Gauguin

    Paul Gauguin
    Self Portrait=1889
    He has a serpent, apples, and veil
    -looks like he is above both good and evil
    Self portrait-1896
    Self portrait with palette 1893-4
  • Exposition Universelle

    Exposition Universelle
    Paris – Humans on exhibition, 19th -20th century
  • Paul Cezanne

    Paul Cezanne
    1890
    1875-77 self portrait on rose background
  • Art Nouveau 1890-1910

    Art Nouveau 1890-1910
    • (Art New-vo)
    • Inspired by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of plants and flowers
  • Impressioniam as reaction to Photgraphy

    Impressioniam as reaction to Photgraphy
    Painting is becoming focused more on the art of it and not recreating images
    Claude Monet- Rouen Cathedral
  • Henry Ossawa Tanner

    Henry Ossawa Tanner
    The Banjo Lesson
    One of first African American artists to gain notoriety in 19th century
  • The Basket of Apples

    The Basket of Apples
    • Paul Cezzanne
    • The artist is not bound to painting only what they see – let go of photorealism (because they have a camera now)
    • Ignored perspective – the materiality of paint – shows apples but in reality shows the paint
  • At the Moulin Rouge

    At the Moulin Rouge
    • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
    • 1892-1895
    • Well know for his dinners – a history of artists thinking of food as art
  • Self Portrait

    Self Portrait
    Pablo Picasso – (Blue Period)
  • Casa Milá

    Casa Milá
    • Antonio Gaudí – 1906-1912
  • Tote Mutter (Dead Mother)

    Tote Mutter (Dead Mother)
    Egon Schiele
    Both died in childbith- produces chilling image
  • Ferdinand DeSaussure

    Ferdinand DeSaussure
    1857-1913 – Signifier and Signified
  • Mystery of Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery of Melancholy of a Street
    Giorgio de Chirico
    Artists are ignoring perspective
  • Charles Sanders Pierce 1839-1914

    Charles Sanders Pierce 1839-1914
    • The representamen (signifier) – The sign’s form.
    • An interpretant – What the audience or individual makes of the sign
    • An object (signified) – What the sign refers to.
    • Icon – Signifier resembles signified
    • Index – Causal connection to signified smoke>fire, footprint>foot
    • Symbol – Socially agreed upon, arbitrary relationship to signified.
  • 0.10 Exhibition- Kazimir Malevich

    0.10 Exhibition- Kazimir Malevich
    Replaces icon corner with black square
  • The Banquet of the Starved or Commercial Repast

    The Banquet of the Starved or  Commercial Repast
    • James Ensor
    • Evokes the Last Supper – during German occupation – Belgians and famine
    • Painted his own paintings into his paintings
  • Marcel Duchamp-Fountain

    Marcel Duchamp-Fountain
    Claims that urinal is art because he says so- this is then photographed and is translated into a different kind of art
  • Mina Loy

    Mina Loy
    Portrait by: Man Ray
  • Marlene

    Marlene
    • Hannah Hoch
    • Images questioning gender bias
    • Resistance to the female body being a complete entity
    • Recombination of sexual bodies
    • Images of not being confined to your given gender
  • Monument to the Third International

    Monument to the Third International
    Vladimir Tatlin 1919-1920
    - A design for a grand monumental building by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin
    - Was never built
  • Art Deco 1920s

    Art Deco 1920s
    • Luxury, Glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress
    • Influenced by cubism
    • Embracing mass production and technology – futuristic world
  • Constantin Brâncusi (1876-1957)

    Constantin Brâncusi (1876-1957)
    • Bird in Space 1928
    • The Newborn 1915 – (white)
  • The Futurist Cookbook-F.T. Marinetti and Fillia

    The Futurist Cookbook-F.T. Marinetti and Fillia
    Futurist- wanting to move quickly forward
    -first example of artists defining their own work and not using standards
  • Crime Scene Photography- Wee Gee

    Crime Scene Photography- Wee Gee
  • Votivhild or “Votive picture (strangling Angel)”

    Méret Oppenheim
    - A woman straggling a newborn child
    - A devastating image of trying to escape from expectations
  • Albert Speer

    Albert Speer
    • Joined Nazi party in 1931 – lead architect of Nazi party (Claimed he did not know about the Holocaust)
    • March 19,1905 – September 1, 1981
    • Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and Chief Architect of Hitler’s Germany
    • Lasting impact and how the building would leave ruins
    • Ruins = symbol of a great nation
    • The unbuilt Nazi Pantheon
    • Zeppenfield – 1936 Olympics held here in Germany
    • Emphasis on grandeur and magnificence – Greek Revival
  • Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Art in the Age of Mechanical  Reproduction
    Walter Benjamin
    He was concerned with mass reproduction and losing the meaning of the original
  • Triumph of Will

    Triumph of Will
    Propaganda film by Leni Riefenstah that showcased the Nazi party
  • Ken Gonzalez-Day

    Ken Gonzalez-Day
    The Wonder Gaze (St. James Park, CA)
    He takes lynching [photographs and removes the dead body to create a sense of violence without the actual subject
  • Meret Oppenheim

    Meret Oppenheim
    The Luncheon in Fur
  • Migrant Mother with Three Children

    Migrant Mother with Three Children
    Dorothea Lange
  • From series, Death

    From series, Death
    Kathe Kollwitz
    dedicated her life to depicting WWI and WWII
    her art was removed by Nazis and she was threatened to be put in death camps
  • Self Portrait

    Self Portrait
    Pablo Picasso
  • The Two Fridas

    The Two Fridas
    Frida Kahlo
    - One wearing traditional European dress and a Hispanic dress
    - The splitting in two after her divorce
    - She reinforced her image a lot
  • The Age of the "Zine"

    The Age of the "Zine"
    Comic fanzines
    -Made really quickly to get info out at a fast rate
  • Norman Rockwell

    Norman Rockwell
    Freedom from Want
    Title comes from FDR's state of union speech
  • Isamu Noguchi 1904-1988

    Isamu Noguchi 1904-1988
  • Stelarc - Third Ear

    Stelarc - Third Ear
    Bio Art - Grows a third ear on his arm – sensitive to touch
    born 1946
  • Saint Orlan

    Saint Orlan
    • Bio Art Saint Orlan – early practitioners of bio art – underwent plastic surgery to look like famous male painter’s ideal images of women
    • born 1947
  • Seated Man

    Seated Man
    Alberto Giacometti
  • Crucifixion- Salvador Dali

    Crucifixion- Salvador Dali
    "thinking about the 4th dimension"
  • Pantone

    Pantone
    Systematization of color that is a streamline for the color industry
  • Yves Klein's IKB

    Yves Klein's IKB
    Mixed blue color and patented it
  • Memoires

    Memoires
    Guy DeBord and Asger Jorn
    -cover made from sandpaper
  • Dejeuner Sur' L'Herbe - Pablo Picasso

    Dejeuner Sur' L'Herbe - Pablo Picasso
    Recreated in Cubism
    Artists started to flatten images
  • Anthropometry of the Blue Period (ANT 82)

    Anthropometry of the Blue Period (ANT 82)
    • Yves Klein
    • Women painted themselves and rolled on paper
    • The women didn’t feel like they were being used, that they were collaborators to Yves work
  • The Situationist International 1960’s

    • Influenced by letterists, a politically left group of artists and activists active in the 1940’s who were inspired by Dada and Surrealism but advocated for greater critical discourse
    • Founded by Asger Jorn and Guy DeBord
    • Developed theories such as Spectacle, Phytogeography and the “derive”
  • “Walking Man I”

    “Walking Man I”
    Alberto Giacometti
  • Dieter Roth

    Dieter Roth
    Literaturwurst- shredded up books to be "sausages"
  • Alison Knowles

    Alison Knowles
    Make a salad- performance art
    it;t about the activity eating not the materials
  • Andy Warhol

    Andy Warhol
    Campbell's Soup Cans
  • Souriez Rue Froide

    Souriez Rue Froide
    Asger Jorn
  • Josef Albers- The interaction of Color

    Josef Albers- The interaction of Color
    Wrote Interaction of Color- was very influential
  • Daniel Spoerri

    Daniel Spoerri
    Prose Poems
    snare pictures-objects kept in their normal positions, but are then fixed and mounted
    Kichka's Breakfast
  • Jorn’s Response to Guggenheim - Award

    Jorn’s Response to Guggenheim - Award
  • Marcel Broodthaers

    Marcel Broodthaers
    The Triumph of Mussels
    Was a poet and quit to do art
  • One and Three Chairs

    One and Three Chairs
    Joseph Kosuth
  • On Kawara Today

    On Kawara Today
    Each painting was the days date- he would destroy a painting if he couldn't finish it in that day
    -made nearly 3,000
  • The Society of the Spectacle

    The Society of the Spectacle
    • Guy DeBord (1931-1994)
    • “All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.”
  • Bruce Nauman

    Bruce Nauman
    "Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance)", 1967-68
    - Can anything that I do in the studio be considered art because it was done in studio
    - “Failing to Levitate in the Studio” 1966
  • Land Art/ Earthworks

    Land Art/ Earthworks
    Examples:
    - The serpent Mound 300 BCE
    - Maya Lin Homage to Serpent Mound
    - Richard Long – A Line Made By Walking 1967
    - Michael Heizer – Double Negative (1969-70)
  • Habitat

    Habitat
    Moshe Safdie - 1967
    - low-cost housing - minimize the land use - provided privacy and individualized living within a group setting
  • The Door (Admissions Office)

    The Door (Admissions Office)
    David Hammons
  • Fall 1 and Fall 2

    Fall 1 and Fall 2
    Bas Jan Ader
    Gets the seconds before he falls in photographs
    Went on voyage and was never found- he was an experienced sailor so people were suspicious that he died
  • Robert Smithson

    Robert Smithson
    • Spiral Jetty 1970 Other Works: A Nonsite, Franklin, New Jersey, 1968
    • Takes material from a site and asks the question is it still that site? Other Works: partially Buried Woodshed 1970
  • The Rothko Chapel

    The Rothko Chapel
    14 black paintings on the wall
    He committed suicide and did not get to see the chapel completed
  • Ways of Seeing-John Berger

    Ways of Seeing-John Berger
    -Images come to you, pilgrimages are over
    -The meaning of paintings shown on TV can differ dramatically from how they are in reality- panning over painting to show landscape, zooming in on one subject for emphasis etc. -Reproduction of art can make the meaning ambiguous
  • Roden Crater

    Roden Crater
    Bought crater and is not open to public
    Tickets are very expensive
  • Nancy Holt – Sun Tunnels – 1973

    Nancy Holt – Sun Tunnels – 1973
  • S.O.S. Starification Object Series

    S.O.S. Starification Object Series
    • Hannah Wilke
    • 1974-82
    • Advertisment-like images of her with chewing gum
    • Trying to reinsert a positive self-image
  • Body Print 1974-75

    Body Print 1974-75
    David Hammons
    - Stereo typing is a way of forcing a flattened identity
  • Nam June- Father of Contemporary Video Art

    Nam June- Father of Contemporary Video Art
    TV Buddha
  • From Silueta Series 1976

    From Silueta Series 1976
    Ana Mendieta
    - Artist’s body in dirt
    - famous for her earth works
  • Bus Rider Series

    Bus Rider Series
    • Cindy Sherman
    • Photographs with black-face, never apologizes
  • Running Fence

    Running Fence
    • Christo and Jeanne-Claude – 1976
    • Work with fabric on a massive scale – 24.5 miles
  • The Lightning Field (1977)

    The Lightning Field (1977)
    Walter de Maria
    - Attract lightning
  • Romare Bearden

    Romare Bearden
    Quilting Time
    Worked as social worker
  • Gerhard Richter

    Gerhard Richter
    Abstract and photo realistic paintings
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Fallen Angel
  • Vietnam War Memorial

    Vietnam War Memorial
    Maya Lin- was 21 year old female who won contest and was of Chinese descent
    -There were some changes to her original design
  • Sally Mann- Immediate Family

    Sally Mann- Immediate Family
    Controversial and it is a series of her children, her, and her husband
    -Children are posed doing things that may be seen as sexual or adult like
  • Mona Hatoum Performance Still

    Mona Hatoum Performance Still
    Circumambulation- the act of walking around something sacred in a ritualistic way
    -Doc Martens were known to be worn by police and skinheads
  • Guerrilla Girls

    Guerrilla Girls
    Founded 1985. “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”
  • Relocate Destroy, In Memory of Native Americans, In memory of Jews

    Relocate Destroy, In Memory of Native Americans, In memory of Jews
    Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954)
  • "A Fire in my Body"

    David Wojnarowicz
    -ants eating Christ's body; very disturbing and was removed from exhibit because of backlash
  • Higher Goals,

    Higher Goals,
    David Hammons, 1986
  • Immersion (Piss Christ)

    Immersion (Piss Christ)
    Andres Serrano- photo
    Pissed on picture of Jesus
  • Portrait (Futago)

    Portrait (Futago)
    Yasumasa Morimura
    - Men dress as women of Manet’s Olympia
    - Reflects on art history and the lack of human inclusiveness
  • Stereo Styles

    Stereo Styles
    • Lorna Simpson
    • Documenting black American life
    • Put at a distance because she does not show the face only the different hairstyles
  • Just Seeds Founded 1988

    Just Seeds Founded 1988
    Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 30 artists committed to social, environmental and political engagement
  • Cornered

    Cornered
    Adrian Piper
    It’s genetic and social fact that according to the conventions of racial classification in this country you are black. So if I choose to identify myself as black whereas you do not just a special, personal fact about me. It’s a fact about me….
  • Ignorance = Fear/Silence = Death

    Ignorance = Fear/Silence = Death
    Keith Haring (1958-1990). Offset lithograph
  • James Turrell

    James Turrell
    Works with light as material
  • Carrie Mae Weems

    Carrie Mae Weems
    The Kitchen Table Series-most noted for
  • Felix Gonzalez

    Felix Gonzalez
    Untitled
    175 pounds of hard candy- Aids epidemic
  • Glenn Ligon- Four Untitled Paintings

    Glenn Ligon- Four Untitled Paintings
    Avid reader and his paintings are dominated by text
    -Another work titled Condition Report-2000
  • The Couple in a Cage: Two Amerindians Visit the West

    The Couple in a Cage: Two Amerindians Visit the West
    – 1992-1993 performance art piece by artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco
  • Rudolf Stingel- Untitled

    Rudolf Stingel- Untitled
    During this time, the cool thing to do was appropriate eastern culture
  • Shirin Neshat

    Shirin Neshat
    Faceless Women of Allah Series
    Rebellious Silence- the weapons in the photos divide the picture
  • Lorna Simpson

    Lorna Simpson
    Wigs- Portfolio of twenty-one lithographs n felt with 7 lithographed felt text panels
    Guarded Conditions-1989
  • Assembly

    Assembly
    Terry Adkins 1994/97
  • Ai Wei Wei

    Ai Wei Wei
    Has been in and out of jail in China for his radical presentations
    -dropping a Han Dynasty Urn-1995
    -Documentary: Never Sorry-2012
  • The Wave Field

    The Wave Field
    Maya Lin
  • The Tourist Project (10)

    The Tourist Project (10)
    • Nikki S. Lee
    • Also, The Senior Project – The Hispanic Project
    • All of the work is so heavy in stereo types – simplification of a race to one flat image
    • Tricked people into her own belonging
  • Yinka Shonibare

    Yinka Shonibare
    -Takes only paintings and re-positions the imagery and how they're built
    Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without their heads
    The Swing (after Fragonard)-2001
  • Rachael Whiteread-Judenplatz

    Rachael Whiteread-Judenplatz
    Holocaust memorial
    -casts the inside of buildings
  • FP Bunny

    FP Bunny
    • Eduardo Kac
    • Glow in the dark bunny
  • Nicole Eisenman

    Nicole Eisenman
    Her work showcases all periods of art history
  • Doris Saicedo

    Doris Saicedo
    Born in Columbia
    Installation at 8th International Istanbul Biennial- what she became famous for
    -"Shibboleth"-2007= broke open the floor of the Tate museum
  • S-21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

    S-21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
    Many were killed during this regime and prisoners revisit the scenes of where they were imprisoned
  • Catherine Opie- Self Portrait Nursing

    Catherine Opie- Self Portrait Nursing
    Tattoo on chest reads pervert
    Seen as "non-traditional mother"
    Background resembles colors of Renaissance Madonna Paintings
  • Francis Alys= The Green Line

    Francis Alys= The Green Line
    Walked through street with paint can that had hole in it and made green line in Israel
  • Kehinde Wiley

    Kehinde Wiley
    Similar to Shonibare
    Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps-2005
    Ice T-2005
  • Love

    Love
    Maren Hassinger
    - Present
    - Pink plastic shopping bags with love notes inside, inflated by human breath – every time its different
  • Fountain of Light

    Fountain of Light
    Ai Wei Wei
  • Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

    Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
    Peter Eisenman created it to honor victims
    There was criticism that it was too abstract so they added a visitor center
  • Rodney McMillian – Untitled

    Rodney McMillian – Untitled
  • Animal Estates

    Animal Estates
    • Fritz Haeg
    • focuses on urban wildlife
  • Maurizio Cattelan- Untitled

    Maurizio Cattelan- Untitled
    taxidermized stuffed horse
    -INRI is written and stuck into it- could be referencing Christ and the inscription about the cross
  • Blind Pig #3,

    Blind Pig #3,
    Edgar Aceneaux
  • A Place for Nature

    A Place for Nature
    Maren Hassinger
  • No Seconds

    No Seconds
    Recreated the final meals of famous convicts before they were executed on death row
  • Erdem Gunduz- Standing Man

    Erdem Gunduz- Standing Man
    He stood quietly in the square against protest of the Islamic gov't
    -Became the face of Turkey's protest
  • Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

    Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
    both Palestinian
    "The Incidental Insurgents"
  • William Pope L.

    William Pope L.
    Claim- Bologna on wall with faces and white paint
    -letter describes false information
  • Asphalt and Chalk-Titus Kaphar

    Asphalt and Chalk-Titus Kaphar
    Made to honor those killed in police brutality
  • Ruffneck Constructivists

    Ruffneck Constructivists
    Curated by Kara Walker
  • Kara Walker

    Kara Walker
    Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
    -work is inspired by slave trade and sugar cane plantations
  • You Are My Sunshine

    You Are My Sunshine
    • Wangechi Mutu
    • The female form is almost always central in her art
  • “Art Hoe”

    “Art Hoe”
    • Stated by Amandla Stenberg and Willow Smith
    • Reinforcing women of color in a space they were traditionally excluded from (the white dominated art world)
  • Nick Cave

    Nick Cave
    Sound suit- they are meant to be worn
    Speak Louder-2011
  • Theaster Gates

    Theaster Gates
    Installation view of Double Cross-2013
    Monochrome Black History
  • 30 Americans

    30 Americans
    Showcases works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades