Abduction of the Say Nine Women Flashcards
“30 St. Mary Axe in London”
“The Gherkin”
london
Norman Foster
British
Architecture
(nicknamed for looking like a cucumber)
“A Dutch Courtyard”
Pieter de Hooch
Dutch
Golden Age
“Abstract Head series”
Alexej von Jawlensky
Russian
Blue Rider
(Influenced by Orthodox icons)
“Abstraktes Bild”
Gerhard Richter
German
Postmodern
(Auctioned in 2010 for $21 million)
“Ads for the Containers Corp. of America in NJ”
Jacob Lawrence
African-American
Dynamic Cubism
(Farmers pick tomatoes to the left of a lighthouse)
“Agony in the Garden”
Andrea Mantegna
Italian
Renaissance
(Christ prays to a group of small angels on a cloud)
“Annunciation of Titian series”
Gerhard Richter
German
Postmodern
(Gets more blurry)
“Americana”
Charles Sheeler Jr.
American
Precionism
(1931)
(Includes a backgammon table)
“Ascension of Christ”
Luca della Robbia
Florentine
Renaissance
(Lunette)
(Vasari described how white, colored tin, and terracotta were used to make it)
“Arrest of a Propagandist”
Ilya Repin
Russian
Realism
(two men riffle through the contents of an open suitcase)
“At the Seaside”
William Merritt Chase
American
Impressionism
(Set at Southampton)
“Azara Herm”
Lysippus
Greek
Sculpture
(of Alexander the Great)
(in the Louvre)
“Autumn in France”
Emily Carr
(unofficial member of the Group of Seven)
Canadian
Landscape
“Baader-Meinhof”
Gerhard Richter
German
Postmdodern
“Baptism in Kansas”
John Steuart Curry
American
Regionalism
(Underneath a windmill)
(A white and black bird are surrounded by rays of light)
(Man in black reads from a book)
“Baptism of Hermogenes”
Andrea Mantegna
Italian
Renaissance
(Putti hang from the painted garlands above this early composition)
“Barge Haulers on the Volga”
Ilya Repin
Russian
Realism
(member of the Wanderers)
(eleven downtrodden men pulling a barge along the Volga)
“Bat Spinning at the Speed of Light”
Claes Oldenburg
American
Pop Art
(drawing in an exhibition of plans for never-built sculptures called Colossal Monuments)
“Batcolumn”
Claes Oldenburg
American
Pop Art
(latticework column)
(Madison Street, Chicago)
(divides Cubs / White Sox)
“Bottle with Apple”
Gerhard Richter
German
Postmodern
“Boy Leading Horse”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
(during his Rose Period)
“Brandenburg Gate in Berlin”
berlin #germany
Carl Gotthard Langhans
Prussia
Architechture
(Topped with a quadriga)
“Bride Mannikin”
Claes Oldenburg
American
Pop Art
(Plaster)
(Sold at the ‘Ray Gun Manufacturing Company’)
“Buddha”
Odilon Redon
French
Symbolism
(Dressed in mosaic robes holding a staff and standing to the left of a leafless tree)
“Burney Relief”
Some Mesopotamian
Mesopotamian
Relief Sculpture
(British Museum)
(Frontal depiction of a goddess)
(Surrounded by two owls)
(Three talons rest on lions)
(1800-1750 BCE)
“[namesake] Plan of Chicago”
Daniel Burnham
American
Architecture / Urban Planning
(created an unbroken stretch of parks along Lake Michigan, through the use of landfill)
(never implemented)
“Butcher’s Stall”
Pieter Aertsen
Dutch
Historical painting
(Flight of Egypt found in the background)
(Teacher of Joachim Bueckelaer)
“Can Lis in Mallorca, Spain”
Jorn Utzon
Danish
Architecture
(built for his wife)
(built Can Feliz for himself)
“Can Feliz”
“Canal of the Pharaohs”
King Necho II
Egyptian
Monarch
(Helped created ‘Necho’s Canal’, which is considered a predecessor of Suez Canal)
“Cantorias”
Donatello
Italian
Renaissance
(balcony)
(design for the Florence Cathedral)
(show angels singing)
(Luca della Robbia also did balcony for same cathedral)
“Card Players in an Opulent Interior”
Pieter de Hooch
Dutch
Golden Age
“Celestial Pablum”
Remedios Varo Uranga
Spanish-Mexican
Surrealism
(Woman grinds up stars to feed a hungry moon)
(1958)
“Chalk Cliffs on Rugen”
Caspar David Friedrich
German
Romantic
“Children’s Games”
Bruegel the Elder
Flemish
Renaissance
“Chords Bridge in Jerusalem”
jerusalem
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish
Architecture
(cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge)
“Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter”
Pietro Perugino
Italian
Renaissance
(two triumphal arches in background)
(scenes that depict the stoning of Christ and the tribute money)
(in Sistene Chapel)
(shows Temple of Solmon)
“Classic Landscape”
Charles Sheeler, Jr.
American
Precionism
(Railroad spans on right-hand side)
(Ford River Rouge plant)
“Clothespin”
Claes Oldenburg
American
Pop Art
(In Philadelphia)
“Combat of Love and Chastity”
Pietro Perugino
Italian
Renaissance
(Daphne turns into a laurel tree in the background)
“Composition (Still Life)”
Arshile Gorky
Armenian-American
Abstract Expressionism
(Eyeballs)
“Concert in the Egg”
A follower of Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(legs of a dead bird hang out of a wicker basket)
“Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois”
Ford Madox Brown
British
Pre-Raphaelite
(John Milton in conversation with Cromwell)
“Crucifixion with Saints”
Pietro Perugino
Italian
Renaissance
(Both John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene have the EXACT same pose)
“Danaë series”
“Danaë with Eros”
Titian
Venetian
High Renaissance
“Danaë Receiving the Golden Rain”
“Danaë”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(Winged golden statue who clasps its hands above Danae)
(In 1986, a Lithuanian named Maigis poured acid on it at the Hermitage Museum)
“Danaë”
Gustav Klimt
Austrian
Symbolism
(1907)
(fetal position wrapped in a purple veil)
“Danish Jewish Museum”
denmark
Daniel Libeskind
Polish-American
Architecture
“Der Krieg series”
“Nun”
Otto Dix
German
New Objectivty
(the series depicts scenes of WWI)
“Die Skatspieler”
“The Skat Players”
Otto Dix
German
New Objectivity
(horribly deformed veterans playing skat)
“Dying Hercules”
Samuel Morse
American
Realism
(title figure grasps his poisoned robe)
“Eight Grey”
Gerhard Richter
German
Postmodern
“Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle”
Remedios Varo
Spanish-Mexican
Surrealism
(In ‘The Crying of Lot 49’, Oedipa Maas cries with despair of the void because of this painting)
Princeton-based art historian of
- Studies in Iconology
- The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer
- Meaning in Visual Arts
Erwin Panofsky
German
(created the idea of habitus)
(Habitus refers to lifestyle, the values, the dispositions and expectation of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.)
“Evening, 9:10, 461 Lenox Avenue”
Romare Bearden
African-Amerian
Collage
(Two men and a woman playing cards)
“Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995”
Tracy Emin
English
Young British Artists
(Known as ‘The Tent’)
(Billy Childish is one of the names)
(Destroyed in 2004 by a fire)
“Five hundred bronze medallions of French people”
“Giacomo Meyerbeer”
David d’Angers
French
Sculptor
(Found in his museum in Angers)
“Flight into Egypt”
John Steuart Curry
American
Regionalism
(Mary and Jesus ride in a Conestoga wagon)
“Flaming June”
Frederic Leighton
English
Academicism
(a woman in golden robes sleeping)
“Flower Clouds”
Odilon Redon
French
Symbolism
(A sailboat holding two reclining people floats on the water in the foreground where the sky seems to bloom into colorful bouquets of flowers)
Art movement whose manifesto stated they wanted to “purge the world of bourgeois sickness … of dead art.”
Consisted of:
- Gerhard Richter
- Dick Higgins
- Joseph Bueys, who made this ‘Table with Accumulator’
“Fluxus”
“François I of France”
Jean Clouet
French
Renaissance
(Wears a lavish shirt enormous golden sleeves)
“Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupery station”
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish
Architecture
(looks like a bird in flight)
“Gallery of the Louvre”
Samuel Morse
American
Realism
“George Washington 1962”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
(Leo Castelli provided the frame)
(Riff on Gilbert Stuart’s famous painting)
“George Washington Bush series”
Jacob Lawrence
American
Dynamic cubism
(Pioneer holds a musket and rides on a horse in a wintry landscape)
“Grimms Fairy Tales series”
“The Juniper Tree”
Philipp Otto Runge
German
Romantic
(Series also includes ‘The Fisherman and His Wife’)
“Hopeless”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
(His divorce from Isabel Wilson inspired a painting where a crying blonde woman lies face down)
“Huaca del Sol near Trujillo, Peru”
the Moche
Peruvian
Civilization
(800-1200 AD)
(Lived on coast of Peru)
(Built canals)
“Hogs Killing a Snake”
John Steuart Curry
American
Regionalism
(pigs holds snake in mouth)
“Imperial War Museum North in Manchester”
Daniel Libeskind
Polish-American
Architcture
“Infant Academy”
Joshua Reynolds
English
Portraiture
(An infant in a mob hat is being painted by a child in a red robe)
“Interior series”
“With Bonsais”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
(Late series)
“Jerseys Homesteads Mural”
Ben Shahn
Lithuanian-American
Social Realism
(German immigrants)
“Jewish Museum Berlin”
berlin #germany
Daniel Libeskind
Polish-American
Architecture
(zigzag design)
(Connected by a series of underground tunnels)
(Features “The Void”)
“Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs”
california
Richard Neutra
Austrian-American
Architecture
(Many of the ideas in this house were later expanded in the Rourke House, and its architect mandated that photographer Julius Shulman emphasize its novel mechanized sliding living room panes and temperature controls.)
(commissioned by and named for the man who also commissioned Wright’s Fallingwater.)
“Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces”
Joshua Reynolds
English
Portraiture
(She pours an offering into a smoke-emitting tripod)
(Is offered a wreath by one of the Three Graces, which appear to be coming to life)
“Landscapes in the Chinse Style series”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
“Laocoon and His Sons”
Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus
Greek
Scultpure
(attributed to those guys by Pliny the Elder)
(snakes)
“Last Judgment Triptych”
Hans Memling
German-Flanders
Early Netherlandish
(Jesus sits on a rainbow above an armored angel)
(Red-caped Christ rests feet on golden ball)
(Donor Tommaso Portinari kneels naked in a golden pan)
(once stolen by privateer Paul Benecke)
“Letatlin”
Vladimir Tatlin
Russian
Architecture
(Spent the last years of his life working on it)
(glider in the form of a giant insect)
“Lion of Lucerne”
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Danish
Sculpture
(in Lucerne, Switzerland)
(dedicated to Swiss Guards who died during French Revolution)
(“the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world.” by Mark Twain)
(says HELVETORIUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI above it, or “To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss”)
“London Aquatics Centre”
london
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi-British
Architecture
(won Pritzker Prize in 2004)
(used in the 2012 Olympics)
“Lovell Health House in Los Angeles”
la
Richard Neutra
Austrian-American
Architecture
(on the side of a ravine in this city in partnership with Rudolph Schindler)
“Mademoiselle Lange as Danae”
Anne-Louis Girodet
French
Romanticism
(Includes a fat turkey inteded to lampoon Lange’s husband, Michel-Jean Simons)
“Maesta”
Simone Martini
Italian (Sienese)
International Gothic
(in the Palazzo Pubblico)
(Sala del Mappamondo)
“Migration series”
Jacob Lawrence
African-American
Dynamic Cubism
(series begins and ends at a train station)
Columbian University specialist who wrote “The Parma Ildefonsus”, that did extensive work on illuminated manuscripts like the Joshua Roll
Meyer Schapiro
Lithuanian-American
(Specialist in Medieval art history was the leading American Marxist art historian)
“Modjesko, Soprano Singer”
Kees van Dongen
Dutch
Fauvism
“Morning”
Philipp Otto Runge
German
Romantic
(Was to be part of a cycle ‘The Times of Day’)
“My Egypt”
Charles Demuth
American
Precionism
(of the John W. Eshelman and Sons building in Lancaster, PA)
(low vantage point to heighten the monumentality of two white grain elevators next to black smokestack)
“Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine”
Paolo Veronese
Italian
Renaissance
(Two angels argue over a sheet of music in the bottom left of the painting)
“Netherlandish Proverbs”
Bruegel the Elder
Flemish
Netherlandish Proverbs
“Oath of the Tennis Court”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
(French Revolution)
“Ohhh…Alright”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
“Olympic with Returned Soldiers”
Arthur Lismer
(Group of Seven)
British
Landscape
“One World Trade Center”
nyc
David M. Childs
American
Architecture
“Pantheon”
rome #italy
Commissioned by Marcus Agrippa in 126 AD
143 feet to the oculus or “eye”
Rebuilt by Hadrian
Devoted to all of the Roman gods
“Parnassus”
Anton Raphael Mengs
German
Neoclassical
(at the Villa Albani)
(lauded by Johann Winckelmann)
“Pastry Case, I”
Claes Oldenburg
American
Pop Art
(Plaster)
(Sold at the ‘Ray Gun Manufacturing Company’)
“Pediment of the French Pantheon”
David d’Angers
Sculpture
French
(included the allegorical La Patrie in the center)
“Peephole”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
(Sold for $43 million in 2012)
“Physical Energy”
G. F. Watts
English
Symbolist
“Point and Line to Plane”
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian
Blue Rider
“Pittsburgh”
Elsie Driggs
American
Precionism
(At the Whitney Museum)
“Portrait of Andrea Odoni”
Lorenzo Lotto
Italian
High Renaissance
(grasps statuette of Diana)
“Portrait of Francesco delle Opere”
Pietro Perugino
Italian
Renaissance
(motto “timete deum” found on book in painting)
“Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted”
John Singer Sargent
American
Portraiture
(Walking stick)
(Found at the Biltmore House)
“Portrait of Guillaume Bude”
Jean Clouet
French
Renaissance
“Portrait of John D. Rockefeller”
John Singer Sargent
American
Portraiture
(seated)
“Portrait of Suleika”
Otto Dix
German
New Objectivity
(depicts a topless Maud Arizona)
“Preaching of the Antichrist”
Luca Signorelli
Italian
Renaissance
(part of a series of works for the Chapel of the Madonna di San Brizio)
“Prouns”
El Lissitzky
Russian
Avant-garde
(Pronounced pro-oons)
“Puente del Alamillo in Seville”
seville #spain
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish
Architecture
(cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge)
“Railroad Station in the Form of a Wristwatch”
Claes Oldenburg
American
Sculpture
(drawing in an exhibition of plans for never-built sculptures called Colossal Monuments)
“Recanati Annunciation”
Lorenzo Lotto
Italian
High Renaissance
(angel busts through the window with giant lily)
“Rondanini Portrait of Alexander the Great”
Leochares
Greek
Sculpture
(arms missing)
(once drove a chariot)
“Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife”
John Singer Sargent
American
Portraiture
(The wife is reclining on the right)
“Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
(Early work)
(Kneeling St. Roch pleading with Mary)
“Saint Zeno Altarpiece”
Andrea Mantegna
Italian
Renaissance
(An oil lamp hangs from an egg above the central figure, who is flanked by two gilded wooden columns in the central panel)
“Satyr and Nymph”
Clodion
French
Sculpture
(Terracotta)
(Nationalmuseum in Stockholm)
(Hoof wrapped around woman’s leg)
“Sanctuary of the Santa Maria della Vita”
Niccolo dell’Arca
Italian
Early Renaissance
(Niccolo dell’Arca was considered the master of Terracotta)
(Flying drapery)
(Dramatic facial expressions)
“School of Pan”
Luca Signorelli
Italian
Renaissance
“Sculpture in Rotterdam”
Naum Gabo
Russian
Constructivism
(Eight-branched sculpture that rises from two blocks of black marble)
“Self Portrait with a Palette”
“Myself, Portrait-Landscape”
Henri Rosseau
French
Post-Impressionism
(A balloon, a ship, and a newly erected Eiffel Tower)
(black beret and a palette)
“Lots of Shakespearean tableuax”
“Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest”
Angelica Kauffman
Swiss
Neoclassical
“Shrine of St. Urusla”
Hans Melmin
German-Flanders
Early Netherlandish
(is a reliquery)
(in Bruges, Belgium)
“Sidi Yahya Mosque in Timbuktu”
Abu es Haq es Saheli
Al-Andalus
Architecture
(Built in 1440)
(Destroyed in Sept 2012)
“Singer with a Glove”
Edgar Degas
French
Impressionism
(black glove - green/orange striped wall)
“Skeleton of a Horse”
George Stubbs
English
Animal Painting
(painted lots of horses, including this one)
“A Lion Attacking a Horse”
“Slaughtered Ox”
“Carcass of Beef”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(title hangs from a frame of 1655)
“Spirit of the Forest”
Odilon Redon
French
Symbolist
(Tree branches grow out of a bald head attached to a proportionally small skeleton’s body)
“St Sebastien Attended by St Irene”
Georges de La Tour
French
Baroque
(St Irene holds a large torch)
“St. James Led to His Execution”
Andrea Mantegna
Italian
Renaissance
(The title figure blesses a kneeling penitent in front of an arch rendered from a very low perspective)
(Destroyed by the Allies during WWII)
“St. Louis of Toulouse Crowning Robert of Anjoy, King of Naples”
Simone Martini
Italian (Sienese)
International Gothic
“St. Sebastian”
El Greco
Spanish
Mannerism
(bound to a tree and has several arrows sticking into him)
“Still Life with Dead Fish”
William Merritt Chase
American
Impressionism
“Strathmore Apartments in Los Angeles”
la
Richard Neutra
American
Architecture
“Susanna and the Elders”
Gianbattista Tiepolo
Italian
Baroque
“Taddei Tondo”
Michelangelo
Italian
Renaissance
“Susanna and the Elders”
Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian
Baroque
(man puts finger in his mouth)
“Takka Takka”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
(Machine guns discharges ammo)
“Tattoos”
Norman Rockwell
American
The Man
(Olga is a name crossed out)
“Thanksgiving in Camp”
Winslow Homer
American
Realism
(For ‘Harper’s Weekly’ during the Civil War)
“The Battle Between Carnival and Lent”
Bruegel the Elder
Flemish
Renaissance
(potbellied man in a pink coat wears a bucket on head and plays mandolin)
(figures on right have ash marks)
(fat man riding barrel jousting with a starved man being pushed on a blue chair)
“The Bean Eater”
Annibale Carracci
Italian
Baroque
“The Beothic at Bache Post”
A. Y. Jackson
(Group of Seven member)
Canadian
Landscape
(Depicts a steaming ship moving through icy waters)
“The Birth of Venus”
Odilon Redon
French
Symbolism
(Shows her emerging from a conch shell rather than a scallop or oyster)
“The Bronze Horseman”
Etienne Maurice Falconet
French
Rococo
(in St. Petersburg)
(depicts Peter the Great)
(the stone this statue is on is the ‘Thunder Stone’, and is the largest stone ever to be moved by humans, at 1500 tons. Damn.)
“The Card-Sharps with the Ace of Clubs”
Georges de La Tour
French
Baroque
“The Charterhouse”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Portraiture
(frame made by the grandfather of either Mr. or Mrs. William Hallett)
“The Concert Singer”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
(fern juts out)
(Weda Cook wearing pink dress)
(hand conducting)
“The Cyclops”
Odilon Redon
French
Symbolism
(The cyclops peering over a hill at a sleeping nude woman)
“The Dream of Saint Joseph”
Anton Raphael Mengs
German
Neoclassicism
“The Dream”
Henri Rosseau
French
Post-Impressionism
(Lotus flowers surrounding nude reaching towards a black snake charmer)
“The Egg Dance”
Pieter Aertsen
Dutch
Historical Painting
(Man trying to cover bowl with foot)
“The Epic of American Civilization”
“Panel 7: The Departure of Quetzalcoatl”
Jose Orozco
Mexican
Muralist
(found in the Baker Library at Dartmouth College)
(A golden patch of wheat contrasts with pile of golden coins)
(“Eternal flame” burning underneath a figure buired in flower wreaths, next to a tuba player)
(A gray cloaked figure hugs a cross benhind Cortez who is armored and carrying a sword)
(Pile of bodies being devoured at Cortez’s feet by “The Machine”)
(Snakes come out of the sea as the blonde Quetzacoatl points right)
(Skeleton lying on a pile of books gives birth to dead ideas)
(A horde of stern identical-looking blonde children are depicted near a barnhouse)
(Decorated general about to stab Emiliano Zapata)
“Panel 17: Gods of the Modern World”
“The Fall of the Rebel Angels”
Bruegel the Elder
Flemish
Netherlandish Renaissance
(Skinny-looking Michael wearing a golden suit of armor stands in center)
(Grotesque monsters)
(Bosch-like)
“The Finding of Moses”
Orazio Gentileschi
Italian
Mannerism
(He was handsomly rewarded by Philip IV of Spain in 1633 for this)
“The Horse Fair”
Rosa Bonheur
French
Realism
(horses reverse direction across the Boulevard de l’Hopital)
“The horses on top of the Brandenburg Gate”
Johann Gottfried Schadow
German
Sculpture
(name of the chariot is ‘quadriga’)
“The Hulsenbeck Children”
Philipp Otto Runge
German
Romantic
(pulling a wagon)
“The Hurdy-Gurdy Player”
Georges de La Tour
French
Baroque
(man with a vulgarly open mouth)
“The Jack Pine”
Tom Thomson
(unofficial member of the Group of Seven)
Canadian
Landscape
(in front of Carcajou Bay)
“The Manchester Murals”
“Dalton collecting Marsh-Fire Gas”
Ford Madox Brown
British
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(Boy laying face-down on a plank)
(One of twelve murals at the Manchester Town Hall)
“The Romans Building a Fort at Mancenion”
“The Morning Walk”
“Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Portraiture
(Young couple on a promenade)
(Mr. tucks his hand into his jacket)
(White Spitz dog looks up at the central figures of the painting)
(Dog is found in ‘Perdita’)
(Three white ostrich feathers stick out of the black hat of Mrs.)
(Mrs. has a black silk band tied around her waist)
(Grandfather of one of the figures helped make the frame of Gainsborough’s “The Charterhouse”)
“The Newborn Christ”
Georges de La Tour
French
Baroque
(chiaroscuro)
(influenced by Caravaggio)
“The original Ferris Wheel”
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
American
Engineer
(Died of typhoid at 37)
“The Painter’s Honeymoon”
Frederic Leighton
English
Academicism
“The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows”
Man Ray
American
Modernism
(colored paper)
“The Sleeping Danae”
Hendrik Goltzius
Dutch
Golden Age
(old woman holding a gold chalice placed three fingers on Danae’s shoulder)
“The White City”
Part of the World’s Columbian Exposition (or Chicago World’s Fair of 1893)
Temporary buildings for that fair
Classical style of architecture
Used white stucco
Overseen by Daniel Burnham
“The Young Fortune Teller”
Joshua Reynolds
English
Portraiture
(A fortune teller points her right forefinger at the palm of a boy)
“They Did Not Expect Him”
Ilya Repin
Russian
Realism
What job did Henri Rousseau once hold?
A tollgate operator
Was nicknamed “Le Douanier” or “The Customs Officer” because of it
“Tombstones”
Jacob Lawrence
African-American
Dynamic Cubism
(1942)
(Depicted a black child throwing a white doll on the ground)
“Tornado Over Kansas”
John Steuart Curry
American
Regionalism
(wagon in bottom-left corner)
“Torpedo…Los!”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
“Triumph of Mordecai”
Paolo Veronese
Italian
Renaissance
(Haman is about to fall off of his black horse)
(Rendered from a below-ground perspective)
(ceiling of the Church of Saint Sebastian)
“Triumph of the Virtues”
“Minerva Driving Away Vice from the Garden of Virtue”
Andrea Mantegna
Italian
Renaissance
“Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden”
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish
Architecture
(His own marble sculpture of a twisting human form was the basis)
“Variations”
Alexej von Jawlensky
Russian
Blue Rider
(painted from his window during WWI)
“Vegeta Vampires”
Remedios Varo
Spanish-Mexican
Surrealism
(Vegetarian vampires sipping on watermelons and tomatoes with straws)
“Virgin among Virgins”
Gerard David
Netherlandish
Early Netherlandish
(Jesus is holding grapes)
“Virgin and Child Flanked by Two Angelic Musicians”
Gerard David
Netherlandish
Early Netherlandish
(Depicted Jean de Sedano and his family on the outer panels)
“Turkish Horse, No. 2”
Antoine-Louis Barye
French
Sculpture
(commonly did animals)
“West 57 Housing Project in New York”
nyc
Bjarke Ingels
Danish
Architecture
“Winner of the competition to design Freedom Tower or One World Trade Center”
Daniel Libeskind
Polish-American
Architecture
(Was to resemble the Statue of Liberty kind of)
(Mostly a scrapped idea, except for the height being at 1776 feet)
“Women Singing series”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expressionism
(inspired by watching television)
“L’Hemisfèric for the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain”
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish
Architecture
(Outer ‘eyelid’ of concrete can open to reveal a pool in an IMAX)
