Art History Midterm Flashcards

Cold Dark Matter
1989-1990
Cornelia Parker
Post-Modern/YBA

Pompidou Centre
1971-1977
Piano and Rogers
High-tech

Gnaw
1992
Janine Antoni
Post-Modern

Apollo and Daphne
1622-24
Bernini
Baroque

Artist’s Shit
1961
Piero Manzoni
Fluxis

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
1993-1997
Frank O. Gehry
High-Tech/Deconstructivist
Blackboard Series
1993
Jane Ash Poitras
*Canadian First Nations Artist

Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1981-1983
Maya Lin
Abstract

Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation’s Millenium General Assembly
1960-1964
James Hampton
Gold

Man in a Red Turban
1433
Jan Van Eyck
Northern Renaissance

Arnolfini Wedding Portrait
1434
Jan Van Eyck
Northern Renaissance

Woman of Willendorf
24 000 BCE
Paleolithic
*Do not call it “Venus”, patriarchal
*Made of limestone

Newgrange
3000 BCE
Passage Grave
*Once a year the sunlight illuminates the back of the grave

Stonehenge
3000 BCE
Prehistoric Britain
*Used for either healing or death ceremonies

House
1993
Rachel Whiteread
YBA

The Kiss
1907-1908
Brancusi
Modern

Judith and Holofernes
1619-1620
Artimesia Gentileschi
Baroque

Pieta
1489
Michaelangelo
Renaissance

Pieta
2001
Sam Taylor Wood
Contemporary

Amor Vincit Omnia
1602
Caravaggio
Baroque

Sacred and Profane Love
1602
Giovanni Baglione
Baroque

Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time
1540
Bronzino
Renaissance

Echo and Narcissus
1903
John Waterhouse
Late Victorian

Cupid and Psyche
1797
Canova
Neo-Classical

Peasant Wedding
1567
Peter Breugel
Northern Renaissance

The Hireling Shepherd
1851
William Holman Hunt
Victorian

Kiss
1889
Rodin
Post-Impressionist

A Kiss With Strings Attached
2003
Cornelia Parker
*Rodin’s Kiss with strings wrapped around it

Kiss
2007
Marc Quinn
Post-Modern
LOVE
1970
Robert Indiana
Pop Art

Portrait of Hitler
1939
Fritz Erler
*aestheticizing politics

If Hitler Was a Hippie
Chapman Brothers
YBA
*added bright colours to Hitler’s artworks

Fucking Hell
2008
Chapman Brothers
YBA

Henri IV Recieving the Portraits of Marie de Medici
1621-25
Peter Paul Rubens
Baroque

Heracles and Omphale
1730
Francis Boucher
Baroque

Island on the Mur
2003
Vito Acconci
High-Tech

The Kiss
1909
Gustav Klimt
Symbolist