Art - can you recognise this art piece? Flashcards
10 – Three Musicians - Pablo Picasso
This artwork is in the New York Museum of Modern Art now.
It is part of series painted while was with his young family in the Fontaineblueau in the summer of 1921.
A large painting measuring more than 2 meters wide and high.
09 – Girl Before A Mirror - Pablo Picasso
This painting was painted in March 1932.
The young girl was named Marie Therese Walter and was painted multiple times during the 1930’s by Picasso.
She was his mistress and had children / child? by him
08 – The Old Guitarist - Pablo Picasso
It is painted after the suicide death of Picasso’s close friend, Casagemas in 1903. This work was created in Madrid, and the distorted style is reminiscent of the works of El Greco.
07 – Seated Woman (Marie-Therese) - Pablo Picasso
Seated Woman was painted in 1937 - at the beginning of an amazingly prolific year, in which Picasso produced many powerful creations, including Guernica (1937).
Pablo Picasso again returns to his technique of red and green polarisation to add a further dimension of animation.
06 – Dora Maar au Chat - Pablo Picasso
Painted in 1941.
It is one of Picasso’s most valued depictions of his lover and artistic companion.
The painting depicts Dora Maar, Picasso’s lover, sitting in a chair and there is a small cat sitting on her shoulders
The painting is also remarkable for its brilliance of colour and the complex and dense patterning of the model’s dress.
05 – Blue Nude - Pablo Picasso
Painted in 1902.
This masterpiece is one of the Picasso’s early works.
It was created at a time when Pablo Picasso was still mourning over a friend’s tragic death.
04 – Le Rêve (The Dream) - Pablo Picasso
1932 oil painting.
He is portraying his 24-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter in this artwork.
She is masturbating.
It belongs to Pablo Picasso’s period of distorted depictions, with its oversimplified outlines and contrasted colors resembling early Fauvism.
03 – Asleep - Pablo Picasso
Painted in 1932.
Model is again Marie-Therese Walter.
We see her asleep, her body resting between the two powerful polarized color blocks of red and green.
It is a really weird combination of beauty and ugliness, another theme that continually fascinated Picasso.
02 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust - Pablo Picasso
painted early 1932.
Marie-Therese Walter is the model.
The painting was sold for a price of $106.5 million which was a world record in 2010.
01 – Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - Pablo Picasso
Painted in 1907.
It was called the most innovative painting since the work of Giotto.
A brothel scene.
The reductionism and contortion of space in the painiting was incredible, and dislocation of faces explosive.
Tableau I - Piet Mondriaan
1921 - oil on canvas.
Mondrian was a Dutch painter who worked at the very end of the 19th Century and throughout the first half of the 20th.
His works are instantly recognisable for their bright, flat, block colours, horizontal and vertical black lines, and square and rectangular shapes.
Malibou - Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko was born in what is now known as Latvia, but moved to America as a child.
By the middle of the 20th Century his style had developed considerably, to the point where he began creating the paintings that he’s famous for today. These include large, rectangular shaped blocks in deep, rich colours – often shades of red and blue.
A Bigger Splash - David Hockney
1967.
Tate Gallery - London
David Hockney was a hugely influential name during the pop art movement of the 1960s.
Aside from his world-famous paintings, Hockney has also gained international notoriety from his other creative pursuits including photography and set designing.
Whaam - Roy Lichtenstein
1963.
Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings have become iconic works of art from the 1960s pop art movement.
His most famous paintings have been heavily influenced by comic strips, which is part of what has kept them so popular and relevant to this very day.
For the Love-Of-God - Damien Hirst. (2007?)
A platinum cast of a human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds
Damien Hirst is the controversial British artist who has pushed people to reconsider what can be called ‘art’.
His most famous works include
- The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (the preserved body of a shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde),
For the Love of God (a diamond encrusted skull), and his series of ‘spot paintings’.
No. 5, 1948 - Jackson Pollock.
Jackson Pollock was an American artist who lived between 1912 and 1956.
He quickly became a major name within the abstract art world, thanks to his iconic technique whereby he dripped paints across the canvases.
Sadly, he battled with alcohol, which eventually led to his untimely death.
Salvador Dali –
1931 Painting.
Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist considered to be one of the leading names within the surrealist movement.
First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.
His works are jammed full of symbolism, which makes them both intriguing and impressive to look at!
Impression Sunrise - Claude Monet.
Date1872.
Claude Monet died in 1926, so he was only active during the very early part of the 20th Century.
He was one of the leading artists within the Impressionist movement.
Marilyn Diptych - Andy Warhol.
1962 - silkscreen painting.
The piece is one of the artist’s most famous works.
The original piece is currently owned by the Tate.
The top right panel has faded , this was done to show Marylin’s more mortal and realistic features .
Diana and Actaeon - Titian.
Italian Renaissance master Titian, finished this between 1556–1559.
It portrays the moment in which the goddess Diana meets Actaeon. Diana is the woman on the right side of the painting. She is wearing a crown with a crescent moon on it and is being covered by the dark skinned woman who may be her servant or slave.
In 2008–2009, the National Gallery, London and National Gallery of Scotland successfully campaigned to acquire the painting from the Bridgewater Collection for £50 million. and will alternate between the two galleries on five-year terms.
Diana and Actaeon is one of six large mythologies that Titian produced for King Philip II of Spain between 1549–62. The project seems to have been conceived when Titian met Philip, first at Milan in 1548, and then at the Imperial Diet at Augsburg in the winter of 1550–1, on both of which occasions he also painted the prince’s portrait
Eight Elvises - Andy Warhol.
1963 silkscreen painting.
In 2008 it was sold for $100 million to a private buyer, making the painting the most valuable work by Andy Warhol at the time.
The current owner and location of the painting, which has not been seen publicly since the 1960s (it was owned by Italian collector Annibale Berlinghieri), are unknown
The sale made Eight Elvises one of the most expensive paintings ever sold, and made Warhol only the fifth artist, behind Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning to have a painting sold for at least $100 million.
Garçon à la Pipe - Pablo Picasso.
Painted in 1905.
Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Period, soon after he settled in the Montmartre section of Paris, France.
The painting was first bought by John Hay Whitney in 1950 for US$30,000.
On May 5, 2004 the painting was sold for US$104,168,000 at Sotheby’s auction in New York City.
Sources say that it was Guido Barilla, owner of the Barilla Group.
The amount, US$104 million, includes the auction price of US$93 million plus the auction house’s commission of about US$11 million.
The painting was given a pre-sale estimate of US$70 million by the auction house.
Picasso expert Pepe Karmel, reached in New York the morning after the sale, was waxing wroth about the whole affair. “I’m stunned,” he said, “that a pleasant, minor painting could command a price appropriate to a real masterwork by Picasso. This just shows how much the marketplace is divorced from the true values of art.
The Scream - Edvard Much
Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker Edvard Much (1863-1944).
Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is the title Munch gave to these works,
The scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, between 1893 and 1910.
The National Gallery, Oslo, holds one of two painted versions (1893).
The Munch Museum holds the other painted version (1910) and a pastel version from 1893
The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, both The Scream and Madonna were stolen from the Munch Museum, and were both recovered two years later
For years he had suffered from anxiety, excessive drinking, hallucinations and feelings of persecution.
“Illness, insanity, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life,” he said.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Gustav Klimt. (Also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold).
1907
Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881–1925) was the only person to be painted twice by Klimt. She was a personal friend.
This painting, which took three years to complete, was commissioned by the wealthy industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who made his money in the sugar industry.
The first of two portraits Klimt painted of Bloch-Bauer, it has been referred to as the final and most fully representative work of his golden phase.
Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881–1925) was the only person to be painted twice by Klimt. She was a personal friend.
This painting, which took three years to complete, was commissioned by the wealthy industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who made his money in the sugar industry.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II - Gustav Klimt.
1912
Adele’s portraits had hung in the family home prior to their seizure by the Nazis during WWII. The Austrian museum where they resided after the war was reluctant to return them to their rightful owners, hence a protracted court battle in the United States and in Austria (see Republic of Austria v. Altmann) ensued, which resulted in five Gustav Klimt paintings being returned to Maria Altmann, the niece of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, in January 2006.
In November 2006, Christie’s auction house sold Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II at auction for almost $88 million, the fourth-highest priced piece of art at auction at the time.
In the fall of 2014, Adele Bloch-Bauer II was given as a special long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, by the private owner who purchased the painting in November 2006 at Christie’s New York
Woman III - Willem de Kooning - 1953
One of 6 paintings done by Abstract expressionist Kooning in which the central theme was a woman.
From late 70s to 1994 this painting was part of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art collection, but after the revolution in 1979, this painting could not be shown because of strict rules set by the government about the visual arts and what they depict.
Finally, in 1994 it was quietly traded by Thomas Ammann Fine Art to David Geffen for the remainder of the 16th century Persian manuscript, the Tahmasbi Shahnameh.
In November 2006, the painting was sold by Geffen to billionaire Steven A. Cohen for $137.5 million, making it the fourth most expensive painting ever sold.
The Card Players - Paul Cézanne. 1890-1892
5 in the series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne.
Painted during Cézanne’s final period in the early 1890s. The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted.
One version of The Card Players was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for a price variously estimated at between $250 million and $300 million, making it the second most expensive work of art ever sold.[
In this version, the bottle on the table, with its gleaming white highlight, divides the composition in two, calling attention to the light and dark tonalities of the dress of the two figures.
