Arts Episode 5 : The Course of the Empire Strikes Back Flashcards
“Abstract Painting: 1966”
Ad Reinhardt
American
Abstract Expressionism
(Loved painting in black)
“Monarch of the Glen”
Sir Edwin Landseer
English
Animalier
“Racing Thoughts”
Jasper Johns
American
Pop Art
(Includes a depiction of Mona Lisa in black in white)
“A Bigger Grand Canyon”
David Hockey
English
Pop Art
“A Burial at Ornans”
Gustave Courbet
French
Realism
“Shows an altar boy holding a censer near a crucifix, while a crowd listens to a priest at the artist’s grand-uncle’s funeral”
“A Stag at Sharkey’s”
George Wesley Bellows
American
Ashcan
“A Wood Gatherer”
Hokusai
Japanese
Ukiyo-e
“Allegory of Good Government”
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Italian
Gothic
(First panoramic city and country views since antiquity)
(Located in Siena)
“Andrea Doria as Neptune”
Bronzino
Italian
Mannerism
(name on wood behind him)
“Angelus Novus”
Paul Klee
Swiss
Expressionism
“Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard”
Fra Lippo Lippi
Italian
Early Renaissance
(shows demon chewing on chains)
“Assumption of the Virgin”
Correggio
Italian
Mannerism / High Renaissance
(ceiling of the dome of the Cathedral of Parma)
“Attic”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expressionism
(Inspired by closing of Wanamaker’s Department Store)
“Avery Fisher Hall of the Lincoln Center”
nyc
Max Abramovitz
American
Architecture
“Azuma House in Osaka”
osaka #japan
Tadao Ando
Japanese
Architecture
“Benefits Supervisor Sleeping”
Lucian Freud
British
Realism
(Sold for a record for a living artist)
(Shows really fat woman Sue Tilley nude on a couch)
“Betrayal of Christ”
Giotto
Italian
Renaissance
(first true Renaissance artist)
(night scene showing mob with Judas with gold cloak)
(Man with dagger slices ear off servant)
(in the Arena Chapel)
“Black Friday”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expressionism
“Both Members of this Club”
George Wesley Bellows
American
Ashcan
(A boxing match depicts a white boxer and the black fighter Joe Gans. Its title satirically refers to the practice of fighters not truly being part of private sport groups.)
“Broken Obelisk outside Rothko Chapel”
houston #texas
Barnett Newman
American
Color Field Painting
“Cain, or Hitler in Hell”
George Grosz
German
Dada
(Taught the Harlem Renaissance artist Romare Bearden)
“Cestello Annunciation”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
(boat in background)
“Church of the Light in Ibaraki”
Tadao Ando
Japanese
Architecture
“Cliff Dwellers”
George Wesley Bellows
American
Ashcan
(New York City)
“Clock with Heads of Prophets in the Florence Cathedral”
Paolo Uccello
Italian
Early Renaissance
“Cloud Shepherd”
Hans Arp
French/German
Sculpture
“Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Change”
Jean Arp
French/German
Abstract
“David H. Koch Theater of Lincoln Center”
nyc
Phillip Johnson
American
Architecture
“Deer in the Forest”
Franz Marc
German
Blue Rider
“Domine, quo vadis?”
Annibale Carracci
Italian
Baroque
“Earthen Bound”
Kenneth Noland
American
Color Field
“Elegy to the Spanish Republic”
Robert Motherwell
American
Abstract Expressionism
(First of the series included a Harold Rosenberg poem)
“Empress of India”
Frank Stella
American
Minimalism
(Puts 4 canvases in V shapes together)
“Fate of the Animals”
Franz Marc
German
Blue Rider
(Shows effects of logging and industrialization)
“Fighting Forms”
Franz Marc
German
Blue Rider
(Clashing swirls of red and black)
“Five Famous Men”
Paolo Uccello
Italian
Renaissance
(Shows Manetti, Bruno, Giotto, Donatello, and himself)
“Fizzles”
Jasper Johns
American
Pop Art
(Accompanies Beckett story)
“Flagellation of Christ”
Piero della Francesca
Italian
Renaissance
(shows Pontius watching Jesus being whipped)
“Fool’s House”
Jasper Johns
American
Pop Art
(broom, towel, cup all labeled)
“Fortitude Panel”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
(first work)
“Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood in the Florence Cathedral”
Paolo Uccello
Italian
Early Renaissance
“Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle”
Correggio
Italian
Mannerism / High Renaissance
(Part of the ‘Loves of Jupiter’ series)
“God is Not Cast Down”
Kazimir Malevich
Russian
Suprematism
“Grazing Horses”
Franz Marc
German
Blue Rider
“Hierarchial Birds”
Mark Rothko
American
Color Field
“Holy Trinity at Sta. Maria de Novella”
Masaccio
Italian
Renaissance
(“I once was what you are and what I am you also will be”)
(Kneeling donors flank entrance to the vault)
“Homage to the Square series”
“Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken”
Josef Albers
German-American
Geometric Abstraction
“Indefinite Divisibility”
Yves Tanguy
French
Surrealism
“Indian Love Song”
Kenneth Noland
American
Color Field Painting
“Land’s End”
Jasper Johns
American
Pop Art
“Landscape with a Footbridge”
Albrecht Altdorfer
German
Renaissance
(The first oil landscape)
“Large Interior, Notting Hill”
Lucian Freud
British
Realism
“Last judgment Frescos at Orvieto Cathedral”
“Resurrection of the Flesh”
Luca Signorelli
Italian
Renaissance
“Le pont de l’Europe”
Gustave Caillebotte
French
Impressionism
(brown dog, top hat, parasol, bowler hat gazing out)
“Leda and the Swan”
Correggio
Italian
Mannerism / High Renaissance
(Part of the ‘Loves of Jupiter’ series)
“Light in August”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expresionism
“Madonna del Latte”
Correggio
Italian
Mannerism / High Renaissance
“Madonna of the Star”
Fra Angelico
Italian
Early Renaissance
“Maesta with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints”
Duccio
Italian
Sieniese
“Man and Woman at a Casement”
Fra Lippo Lippi
Italian
Early Renaissance
“Man Proposes, God Disposes”
Sir Edwin Landseer
English
Animalier
“Menil Collection in Houston”
houston #texas
Renzo Piano
Italian
Architecture
(used ferroconcrete “leaves” on roof)
“Michael Jackson and Bubbles”
Jeff Koons
American
Art, I gues
“Mountains and Sea”
Helen Frankenthaler
American
Abstract Expressionism
(Robert Motherwell’s wife)
(Helped organize school of Color Field painters in DC with Kenneth Noland)
“Movement in Squares”
Bridget Riley
British
Op art
“Murals for the ‘Four Seasons Restaurant’ at the Seagram”
Mark Rothko
American
Color Field Painting
(Purpose was “something that will ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who ever eats in that room.”)
“The Cardboard Series”
“Nabisco Shredded Wheat”
Robert Rauschenberg
American
Abstract Expressionism
“National Monument in Amsterdam”
amsterdam #netherlands
Pieter Oud
Dutch
De Stijl
(Abandoned De Stijl to work on this)
“Ognissanti Madonna”
Giotto
Italian
Renaissance
(“The All Saints Madonna”)
“Old Testament Trinity”
Andrei Rublev
Russian
Icons / Frescoes
(considered greatest medieval Russian frescoer)
“Onement 1”
Barnett Newman
American
Color Field painting
(Painted large vertical lines called “zips”)
“Painted Bronze”
Jasper Johns
American
Pop Art
(Ballantine Ale)
“Peasant Woman with Buckets and Child”
Kazimir Malevich
Russian
Suprematism
“Pedagogical Sketchbook”
Paul Klee
Swiss
Expressionism
(Student manual of the Bauhaus)
(Opens discussing transformation of a dot into linear dynamics)
(Translated into English by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy)
“Peonies”
Cy Twombly
American
Abstract Expressionism
“Periscope (Hart Crane)”
Jasper Johns
American
Pop Art
“Phaedrus”
Cy Twombly
American
Abstract Expressionism
(all white)
(kissed by Rindy Sam)
“Pier and Ocean”
Piet Mondrain
Dutch
De Stijl
“Pink Lady”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expressionism
“Playing Forms”
Franz Marc
German
Blue Rider
“Pompidou Centre in Paris”
paris
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers
Italian / British
Architecture
(pipes on the outside)
“Portrait of Elaine”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expressionism
(His wife, apparently she painted too)
“Prado Altarpiece”
Fra Angelico
Italian
Early Renaissance
“Prager Street”
Otto Dix
German
New Objectivity
“Profit 1”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American
Neo-expressionism
(Sold for $5.5M in 2003)
“Putto with Hunting Trophy”
Correggio
Italian
Mannerism / High Renaissance
“Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing”
“Cranes”
Hokusai
Japanese
Ukiyo-e
“Radiant Baby”
Keith Haring
American
Pop / Street art
“Realistic Manifesto”
Naum Gabo
Russian
Constructive Art
(Divorces art from mainstays as lines and volume)
(“at the workbench, at the office, at work, at rest, and at leisure; work days and holidays, at home and on the road, so that the flame of life does not go out in man.”)
(“to you artists … for whom art is not just a pretext of talking but a source of real joy”)
“Reclining Figue”
Henry Moore
English
Sculpture / Modernism
“Red Egg”
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian
Expressionism
(Chicken representing Czcechoslovakia laid it)
(Giant Mussolini and Hitler heads)
“Revoling Torsion at St. Thomas Hospital”
Naum Gabo
Russian
Constructive Art
(named “constructivism”)
(created “kinetic art”)
“Rocket to the Moon”
Romare Bearden
African-American
Collage
“Santa Trinita Maesta”
Cimabue
Italian
Mosaics
(teacher of Giotto)
“Shadow Country”
Yves Tanguy
French
Surrealism
“Siege of Asola”
Tintoretto
Italian
Renaissance
(The canvas portrays two scenes. From the left to the middle is, in the foreground, a clash of knights occurred during the siege of the Venetian town of Asola by the troops of the Austrian emperor Maximilian I in 1516. Among the clashing soldiers is the banner of Asola, the fortress itself being shown in the background.
On the right is depicted to homage of the citizens of Asola to the Venetian provveditore (curator) Francesco Contarini, the nobleman who organized the city’s defence and forced Maximilian’s troop to withdraw.)
“Solar Eclipse with Mona Lisa”
Kazimir Malevich
Russian
Suprematism
“St. Andrew led to his Martyrdom”
Guido Reni
Italian
Baroque
“St. Cecilia”
Guido Reni
Italian
Baroque
(Blind saint looking into air playing violiun)
“St. George and the Dragon”
Paolo Uccello
Italian
Early Renaissance
(swirly cloud)
“Still Life with Ginger Pot”
Piet Mondrain
Dutch
De Stijl
“Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas”
Otto Dix
German
New Objectivity
“Struck From the List”
Paul Klee
Swiss
Expressionism
(Painted after losing job at Bauhaus)
“Suprematist Composition: White On White”
Kazimir Malevich
Russian
Suprematism
“The Annunciation at St. Mark’s Convent”
Fra Angelico
Italian
Early Renaissance
“The Artist’s Studio: A Real Allegory”
Gustave Courbet
French
Realism
(black hat with white dog near peasants)
(Charles Bauldilaire stands right of central)
(nude model behind artist)
“The Awakening Conscience”
William Holman Hunt
English
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
“The Battle of Eylau”
Antoine-Jean Gros
French
Neoclassical
“The Battle of San Romano”
Paolo Uccello
Italian
Early Renaissance
(Shows knights in a 1432 battle)
(Nicolo da Tolentino is on horseback)
(Bernardo della Ciarda gets unseated)
“The Blue Guitar”
David Hockney
English
Pop Art
(Volume of Wallace Stevens insired etchings)
“The book ‘Art as Art’”
Ad Reinhardt
American
Abstract Expressionism
“The Bride of the Wind”
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian
Expressionism
(Self portrait with Alma Mahler)
(They’re in a cocoon as a storm rages)
“The Bridge at Mantes”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
“The Bridge at Narni”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
(it’s broken)
“The Butcher’s Shop”
Annibale Carracci
Italian
Baroque
“The Calabash”
Romare Bearden
African-American
Painting
“The Card Players”
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch
De stijl
“The Death of a Miner”
Ben Shahn
Lithuanian-American
Social Realism
“The Deliverance of Arsinoe”
Tintoretto
Italian
Mannerism / Renaissance
“The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”
Hokusai
Japanese
Ukiyo-e
(Damn it Japan. Stop with the stereotypes.)
“The Expulsion of the Demons from Arezzo”
Giotto
Italian
Renaissance
(Part of the St. Francis cycle)
“The Flight into Egypt”
Annibale Carracci
Italian
Baroque
“The four lions in Trafalgar Square”
london
Sir Edwin Landseer
English
Animalier
“The Green Violinist”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
“The History of the True Cross series”
“The Dream of Constantine”
Piero della Francesca
Italian
Renaissance
“The Judgment of Hercules”
Annibale Carracci
Italian
Baroque
(Inspired Caravaggio’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt)
“The Kill of Deer”
Gustave Courbet
French
Realism
(Man cracking whip)
“The Lamp”
Romare Bearden
African-American
Collage
(Celebrates 30th anniversary of Brown v. Board)
“The Last of England”
Ford Madox Brown
British
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(White Cliffs of Dover in the background)
(Inspired by the departure of Thomas Woolner)
“The Legend of St. Francis at Peruzzi Chapel”
“Apparation at Arles”
Giotto
Italian
Renaissance
“The Loves of the Gods at the Farnese Gallery”
Annibale Carracci
Italian
Baroque
“The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence”
Bronzino
Italian
Mannerism
(laurel wreaths and over grills)
“The Monument to the Third International”
stpetersburg
Vladimir Tatlin
Russian
Constructivism
(This artist’s reliefs at the 0.10 (zero ten) exhibit in 1915 helped define Russian futurism, an important precursor to constructivism.)
“The Music Lesson”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
(white jug on rug)
(playing the ‘virginal’)
(woman seen in reflection)
“The Open series”
“Summer Open with Mediterranean Blue”
Robert Motherwell
American
Abstract Expressionism
“The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti”
Ben Shahnah
Lithuanian-American
Social Realism
(Includes depiction of Judge Webster Thayer)
(Lawrence Lowell wears cap and gown)
(Incorporated into a mosaic at Syracuse University)
“The Procuress”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
(features white and blue porcelain)
(one of three Vermeer signed, along with ‘Geographer’ and ‘Astronomer’)
“The Red Stairway”
Ben Shahn
Lithuanian-American
Social Realism
(one leg)
(Something to do with Nuremburg maybe?)
“The Resurrection”
Piero della Francesca
Italian
Renaissance
(Aldous Huxley called Jesus ‘athletic’)
(soldier at bottom is legless)
(Christ’s wound dripping blood)
“The Scapegoat”
William Holman Hunt
English
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
“The School of Love”
Correggio
Italian
Mannerism / High Renaissance
(Shows Mercury teaching Cupid to read)
“The Sea of Ice”
Caspar David Friedrich
German
German Romantic
(HMS Griper in painting)
“The Shape of Content”
Ben Shahn
Lithuanian-American
Social Realism
(Lectures)
“The Soldier Drinks”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
(Based on memories of the Russo-Japanese War)
“The Stations of the Cross”
“The First One”
Barnett Newman
American
Color Field Painting
“The Story of Virginia”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
“The Surrender of Barcelona”
Percy Wyndham Lewis
English
Vorticism (spinoff of Cubism)
“The Triumph of Music”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
(Hangs at the Lincoln Center)
(notice the ‘starburst’ chandelier in picture, they recede into ceiling during performances)
“The White Paintings”
“Seven Panels”
Robert Rauschenberg
American
Abstract Expressionism
“The Women of Algiers”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
(Picasso painted 15 versions of this after Matisse’s death)
(Black servant woman looks at the title women)
(Title chicks are smoking a hookah)
( Unworn red slipper is in front of jeweled necklace wearing figure)
(Mirror reflects to door)
“The Yellow Cow”
Franz Marc
German
Blue Rider
(At MOMA)
“Trench Warfare”
Otto Dix
German
New Objectivity
“Trial by Jury” or “Laying Down the Law”
Sir Edwin Landseer
English
Animalier
“Venus and Mars”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
(Shows naked Mars letting satyrs play with armor and weapons)
(Satyrs steal lance and blow a hunting horn into his ear)
(Wasp nest on right side refers to coat of arms of Vespucci family, which some say means Simonetta Vespucci was the model)
“Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time”
Bronzino
Italian
Mannerism
(blue cloth)
(hourglass)
(foot from Monty Python)
(honeycomb)
“Vir heroicus sublimis”
Barnett Newman
American
Color Field Painting
(How do people get famous from this?)
“Vivian Beaumont Theater of the Lincoln Center”
nyc
Eero Saarinen
Finnish
Architecture
“War Cripples”
Otto Dix
German
New Objectivity
“Warning of the Ships”
Paul Klee
Swiss
Expressionism
“Woman series”
“Woman and Bicycle”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expressionism
(Inspired by Mesopotamian fertility idols)
(Exhibited at Sidney Janis gallery)
(Koonig quit doing them but resumed when he saw a cigarette ad)
