Arts: Flat Four Mill Flashcards
1
Q
“A Modern Olympia”
A
Paul Cezanne
French
Post-Impressionist
2
Q
“Aphrodite of Cnidus”
A
Praxiteles
Ancient Greek
Sculpture
3
Q
“Apollo Saurocton”
A
Praxiteles
Ancient Greek
Sculpture
(killing a lizard)
4
Q
“At the Ball”
A
Berthe Morisot
French
Impressionism
5
Q
“Beethoven Frieze”
A
Gustav Klimt
Austrian
Symbolism
(fourteenth exhibition of the Vienna Secession)
(Three fat women and a giant brown furry monster)
6
Q
“Birds of America”
“Carolina Parakeet”
A
John James Audobon
American
Real life
7
Q
“Black Paintings”
“Die Fahne Hoch!”
A
Frank Stella
Italian-American
Abstract Expressionism
“What you see is what you see”
8
Q
“Blue Poles”
A
Jackson Pollock
American
Abstract Expressionism
9
Q
“Brueghel the Younger, from the Icoography series”
A
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish
Baroque
10
Q
“Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose”
A
John Singer Sargent
American
Impressionism
11
Q
“Christ in Limbo”
A
Albrect Durer
German
Woodblock
(Part of his “Little Passion” series)
12
Q
“Christ Taken Captive”
A
Albrect Durer
German
Woodblock
13
Q
“Composition series”
“Composition VIII”
A
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian
Expressionism
(denounced by Nazis as “degenerate art”)
14
Q
“Concerning the Spiritual in Art”
A
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian
Expressionism
(claimed that works of art cause an inner resonance in the soul)
15
Q
“Counter-Composition XVI”
A
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch
De Stijl
(split with Mondrian probably due to his use of diagonal lines)
16
Q
“Eccentric Polygons series”
“Wolfeboro I”
A
Frank Stella
Italian-American
Abstract Expressionism
“What you see is what you see”
17
Q
“Estate”
A
Robert Rauschenberg
American
Pop Art
18
Q
“Exotic Bird series”
“Eskimo’s Curlew”
A
Frank Stella
Italian-American
Abstract Expressionism
“What you see is what you see”
19
Q
“Fish Magic”
A
Paul Klee
German-Swiss
Expressionism
20
Q
“Flag”
A
Jasper Johns
American
Pop Art
(attend USC)
21
Q
“Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid”
A
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
(also named Homage to Crick and Watson (Discoverers of DNA))
22
Q
“Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State”
A
arizona
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
23
Q
“Gassed”
A
John Singer Sargent
American
Impressionism
24
Q
“Gates of Paradise”
A
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian
Early Renaissance
(in Florence)
25
"Golden Door"
Louis Sullivan
American
Architecture
(part of the Transportation Building in Chicago)
26
"Gray Tree"
Piet Mondrain
Dutch
De Stijl
27
"Guaranty / Prudential Building"
Louis Sullivan
American
Architecture
#buffalo #newyork
28
"Houses at l'Estaque"
Georges Braque
French
Cubism
29
"Insane Woman"
Theodore Gericault
French
Romanticism
30
"Jasper's Dilemma"
Frank Stella
Italian-American
Abstract Expressionist
"What you see is what you see"
31
"L'Atelier Rouge"
Henri Matisse
French
Modernism
(grandfather clock with no hands)
32
"Las Meninas"
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
33
"Le Coq"
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian-French
Romantic Sculpture
34
"Le Courrier"
Georges Braque
French
Cubism
35
"Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks"
Claes Oldenburg
Swedish-American
Sculpture
36
"Love Conquers"
Jean-Francois Millet
French
Realism
37
"Luxe, Calme et Volupte"
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
(ladies drinking tea)
(A group of relaxing nude women have tea on the seashore in a painting by this man titled after a line in a Baudelaire poem.)
38
"Lydia Crocheting in the Garden of Marly"
Mary Cassatt
American
Impressionism
39
"Madonna of the Magnificent"
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
40
"Madonna of the Pomegranate"
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
41
"Male and Female"
Jackson Pollock
American
Abstract Impressionism
42
"Miss Pogany"
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian-French
Romantic Sculpture
43
"Model by the Wicker Chair"
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
44
"Monogram"
Robert Rauschenberg
American
Pop Art
45
"Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue"
Paul Cezanne
French
Post-Impressionism
46
"Mount Desert Island, Maine"
Jervis McEntee
American
Hudson River School
47
"Mount Washington"
John Frederick Kensett
American
Hudson River School
48
"Music in the Tuileries"
Edouard Manet
French Impressionism
49
"Mystery and Melancholy of a Street"
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek
Surrealism
50
"National Farmer's Bank in Owatonna"
Louis Sullivan
American
Architecture
(jewel box)
#minnesota
51
"Negro Life in the South"
Eastman Johnson
American
Portraiture
52
"Niagara Falls"
Frederic Edwin Church
American
Hudson River School
53
"No. 5, 1948"
Jackson Pollock
American
Abstract Expressionism
(4ft x 8ft)
54
"Nude in a Black Armchair"
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
55
"October in the Catskills"
Sanford Robinson Gifford
American
Hudson River School
56
"Ordinary"
Alexander Calder
American
Mobilist
(outside of Seagram Building)
57
"Oxbow of the Connecticut"
Thomas Cole
American
Hudson River School
58
"Portrait of a Kleptomaniac"
Theodore Gericault
French
Romanticism
59
"Portrait of Félix Fénéon"
Paul Signac
French
Post-Impressionism
60
"Princess X"
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian-French
Romantic Sculpture
(Marine Bonaparte)
(Removed from the Salon des Independents for looking too much like a penis)
61
"Secession Building in Vienna"
Joseph Maria Olbrich
Austrian
Architecture
(Designed to display paintings that were not part of the Art Noveau movement)
(Co-founded the Vienna Secession)
#vienna
62
"Self Portrait with Skeleton Arm"
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
63
"Self-Portrait as Ravenswood"
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
(character from Walter Scott)
64
"Shotgun Hospitality"
Frederic Remington
American
Impressionism
(Cowboys and Indians)
65
"Slow Swirl on the Edge of the Sea"
Mark Rothko
American
Abstract Impressionism
66
"Soft Bathtub (Model)"
Claes Oldenburg
Swedish-American
Sculpture
67
"Sophisticated Young Lady"
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian-French
Romantic Sculpture
(sculpture of Nancy Cunrad?)
68
"Still life with Apples"
Bart van der Leck
Dutch
De Stijl
(cofounded De Stijl with Mondrian and van Doesburg)
69
"Still Life with Playing Cards"
Georges Braque
French
Cubism
70
"Table of Silence"
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian-French
Romantic Sculpture
(Targu Jiu, Romania)
71
"The Angelus"
Jean Francois Millet
French
Realism
72
"The Art of Painting"
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
(blue-and-orange tapestry servies as a repoussoir)
(golden chandelier that features a double-headed eagle with no candles)
(was attributed to a contemporary, but made his by Gustav Waagen and Theophile Thore-Burger, who rescued this artist from obscurity)
(Woman wearing a laurel wreath and holding a trumpet, thought to represent Clio)
73
"The Auditorium Building in Chicago"
Louis Sullivan
American
Architecture
(used floating ties for one work for which he collaborated with Dankmar Adler)
#chicago
74
"The Basket of Apples"
Paul Cezanne
French
Post-Impressionism
75
"The Bath"
Berthe Morisot
French
Impressionism
76
"The Bathers"
Paul Cezanne
French
Post-Impressionism
77
"The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb"
Hans Holbein
German
Northern Renaissance
78
"The Card Players"
Paul Cezanne
French
Post-Impressionism
(valued at $250-$300 million)
79
"The Charging Chasseur"
Theodore Gericault
French
Romanticism
80
"The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit"
John Singer Sargent
American
Impressionism
(based on Las Meninas)
81
"The Disquieting Muses"
Giorgio de Chirico
Italian
Surrealism
82
"The Execution of Emperor Maximilian"
Edouard Manet
French
Impressionism
83
"The Greek Slave"
Hiram Powers
American
Neoclassicism Sculptor
(riled up the abolitionist movement)
84
"The Green Christ"
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
85
"The Green Stripe"
Henri Matisse
French
Modernism
(portrait of wife)
86
"The Last of the Tribe"
Hiram Powers
American
Neoclassicism Sculpture
87
"The Last Supper"
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
(Book with two candles)
88
"The Last Supper"
Nikolai Ge
Russian
Realism
89
"The Night Cafe"
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionist
(Pool table)
(The clock on the wall reads 12:15)
(van Gogh said it has "four lemon-yellow lamps" in a letter to his brother Theo)
(Two inconsolable-appearing men stare down at table on right)
(Mustachioed man in a white suit stands in center)
("where one can ruin oneself, go mad, committ a crime")
(counter holding a vase of flowers in background was painted in a "tender Louis XV green")
(shows back room that's yellow and has a green door)
90
"The Night Wanderer"
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
(self portrait)
91
"The Old Guitarist"
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
(This is part of his Blue Period)
92
"The Papal Palace, Avignon"
Paul Signac
French
Post-Impressionism / Pointilism
93
"The Race (Death on a Pale Horse)"
Albert Pinkham Ryder
American
Tonalism
94
"The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak"
Albert Bierstadt
German-American
Hudson River School
95
"The She-Wolf"
Jackson Pollock
American
Abstract Expressionism
96
"The Surrender of Breda"
Diego Velazquez
Spanish
Baroque
97
"The Three Soldiers"
Frederick Hart
American
Realism Sculpture
(Vietnam Memorial)
98
"The Triumph of Bacchus"
Diego Velazquez
Spanish
Baroque
(also called The Drunks)
99
"The Waterseller of Seville"
Diego Velazquez
Spanish
Baroque
100
"Two Acrobats with a Dog"
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
(Rose period)
101
"Viaducts Break Ranks"
Paul Klee
German-Swiss
Expressionism
102
"Violin and Newspaper : Musical Forms"
Georges Braque
French
Cubism
103
"Violin and Pitcher"
Georges Braque
French
Cubism
104
"Vision After the Sermon"
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
(2 groups divided by tree trunk outlined in brown on left and orange on right)
(Women wear bonnets watching Jacob wrestle)
105
"We Can Do It!"
J. Howard Miller
American
Graphic Artist
(Rosie the Riveter)
106
"Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
(Blue idol looks at viewer)
(Man in loincloth picks fruit)
(Dove in bottom left has lizard in its claws; represents vanity of useless words)
(Intented to kill himself after it was made)
(Naked figure looks at arm)
