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“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.)