Arts: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Seven Flashcards
“A wrapped Reichstag”
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Bulgaria / Morocco
Environmental art
“Abstract Speed + Sound”
Giacomo Balla
Italian
Futurism
“Ad Parnassum”
Paul Klee
German/Swiss
Expressionism / Pointillism
“Alhambra”
spain
Authorized by Muhammad al-Ghalib
Architecture
(Granada, Spain)
“Autumn Rhythm”
Jackson Pollack
American
Abstract Expressionism
“At the Piano”
James Whistler
American
Tonalism
“Beer Street”
William Hogarth
English
Realism
(Paired with ‘Gin Lane’, saying beer is a happy drink)
“Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets”
Edouard Manet
French
Realism
“Black on Maroon”
Mark Rothko
American
Color Field
(Is off and on being put sideways by the Tate)
“Boccioni’s Fist”
Giacomo Balla
Italian
Futurism
“Boy on the Rocks”
Henri Rousseau
French
Post-Impressionism
(portrait nicknamed “Dwarf with the Enormous Head” at the 1889 Salon des Independents)
“Butterflies Series”
“Long Grass with Butterflies”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
(Was hung upside down in the National Gallery in 1965)
“Charing Cross Bridge”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
“Cardinal”
Franz Kline
American
Abstract Expressionism
“Charioteer of Delphi”
Anonymous
Greek
Sculpture
(Dat face)
“Charles I Insulted by Cromwell”
Paul Delaroche
French
Historical painting
(book and blown smoke)
“Chicago [artist name]”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
(
“Christ Healing the Sick”
Benjamin West
American
Historical painting
“Chief”
Franz Kline
American
Abstract Expressionism
The technique developed by Georges Seurat also called Divisionism defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically.
Chromoluminarism
“Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles”
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Philip Johnson
American
Architecture
(giant “prayer spire”)
(the church declared bankruptcy and sold their Catholic Diocese of Orange)
“Cross in the Mountains”
“The Tetschen Altar”
Caspar David Friedrich
German
Romanticism
(crucifixion scene)
(Five rays from the setting sun illuminate the orange sky)
(Comissioned by the Countess of Thun for a Bohemian chapel)
“Daniel in the Lion’s Dens”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
“David Garrick as Richard III”
William Hogarth
English
“Death and Fire”
Paul Klee
German/Swiss
Expressionism
“Death of Marat”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
“Declaration of Independence”
John Trumbull
American
Neoclassical
“Design of the city of Washington D.C.”
Charles L’Enfant
French-American
Surveyor
- Technique sometimes known as prospettiva melozziana, after its pioneer Melozzo da Forli.
- Trompe-l’oeil technique used on ceiling frescoes
- “from below, upward”
- “Ceiling painting in the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua”
Di sotto in su
“Dropped Cone in Cologne, Germany”
Claes Oldenburg
American
Pop Art
“Dymaxion House”
Buckminster Fuller
American
Architect
“Early Snow at Louveciennes”
Alfred Sisley
French
Impressionism
Man who helped revitalize Japanese art in the late 19th century, through collection and exhibitions
Ernest Fenollosa
American
Teaching
“Flood at Port-Marly”
Alfred Sisley
English
Impressionism
Founder of Gallery 291
Alfred Stieglitz
American
Photographer
“Fountain”
Marcel Duchamp
French
Surrealism
(R Mutt)
“Four Crowned Martyrs”
Nanni di Banco
Florentine
Sculpture
“Four Fisherman’s Wives at Cadaques”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
(It was kept in Dali’s collection until his death, but in 1994, it was discovered that the people in London hung it upside down)
“Funeral of the Anarchist Galli”
Carlo Carra
Italian
Futurism
“Gattamelata”
Donatello
Italian
Renaissance
(looks like a tomb underneath)
(trap doors
“George Washington”
John Trumball
American
Historical painting
(Shows Washington’s valet William Lee)
“Gin Lane”
William Hogarth
English
Realism
(Paired with Beer Street, saying gin causes societal problems)
(House falling apart, hanging man, deadly skinny man, man and dog sharing bone)
“Gramieous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses”
Max Ernst
German
Surrealism
“Graphic Novel ‘La Femme 100 Tetes’”
Max Ernst
German
Surreal
(translates to ‘Woman with 100 Heads’)
(Did other novels like ‘Une Semaine de Bonte)
“Hagia Sophia”
istanbul #turkey
Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles
Authorized by Justinian I
Finished in 537
(Wouldn’t hurt just to read whole WIkipedia article)
“Harbor in Normandy”
Georges Braque
French
Cubism
“Interior of the Hagia Sophia”
John Singer Sargent
American
Portraiture
“Kritios Boy”
Anonymous
Greek
Sculpture
(Named after Atheniain sculptor who taught Myron)
(Kenneth Clark called it “the first beautiful nude in art”)
(Most famous kouros state)
(First surviving example of contrapposto)
“La Bateau”
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
(paper-cut artform)
(Discovered in 1961 that it was upside down by a 5 year old. The artist’s son had not noticed an error)
(Inspiration of a NYT crossword)
“Lamentation over the Dead Christ”
Andrea Mantegna
Italian
Renaissance
“Lansdowne Portrait”
Gilbert Stuart
American
Historial painting
(table with column-shaped golden chair leg)
(books under table that could be misspelled)
(black hat and silver dog ink well)
“Lion of Belfort”
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
French
Sculpture
(Red sandstone)
(Was supposed to face east/Prussia, but was turned the other way due to German protests)
“Laurentian Library”
Michelangelo
Italian
Renaissance
(in the Basilica di San Lorenzo)
(Tuscan columns)
(triple staircase leading to its reading room)
“Lives of the Artists”
Giorgio Vasari
Italian
Literature
(First published in 1550)
(Commissioned by Cardinal Franese)
“Luncheon on the Grass”
Max Ernst
German
Dada/Surrealism
(fish lying next to vegetable)
“Loplop Introduces Loplop”
Max Ernst
German
Surrealism
(birdman - found in Ernst’s work, like the Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightengale)
“Madame Charpentier and her Children”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French
Impressionism
“Madonna of the Carnation”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
High Renaissance
(shadowy carnation)
(only painting in Germany)
“Madonna of the Yarnwinder”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
High Renaissance
“Maiastra”
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian-French
Modernism
“Mama, Papa is Wounded!”
Yves Tanguy
French
Surrealism
Max Ernst used dead birds in paintings. Why?
His sister was born the day his pet bird died
“Murdering Airplane”
Max Ernst
German
Surrealism
(plane with human arms)
(three soldiers)
“Night and Day”
MC Escher
Dutch
Math-art
“Night, Day, Dusk, and Dawn”
Michelangelo
Italian
Sculpture
(For the sides of the Medici Chapel)
“Nijinsky”
Franz Kline
American
Abstract Expressionism
(based on a Nijinsky photograph)
(Denied his black and white paintings were imitations of Japanese calligraphy)
“One Hundred Famous Views of Edo”
“Night Rain in the Paulownia Garden at Akasaka”
Hiroshige
Japanese
Ukiyo-e
(travelers on bridge caught in a sudden rain)
“Novel ‘Beyond Painting’”
Max Ernst
German
Surrealism
“Parthenon”
athens #greece
Ictinus and Callicrates
Greek
Architecture
“Partially Buried Woodshed”
Robert Smithson
American
Land Art
(Found at Kent State, later would be demolished)
(Symbolism of geological time)
“Petronus Towers in Kuala Lumpur”
kualalumpur #malaysia
Cesar Pelli
Argentine-American
Architecture
(in the shape of a Muslim Rub el Hizb)
(Added a double-decker skybridge between the two)
(Above the KLCC park)
(Surpassed in height by Taipei 101)
“Pieta”
Michelangelo
Italian
Renaissance
(only he worked he signed)
“Prisoners from the Front”
Winslow Homer
American
Realism
“Promontory Palace”
Yves Tanguy
French
Surrealism
“Pygmalion and Galeta”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
- “opening up”
- Trompe-l’oeil technique that has vaulted architecture painted to make it look bigger
Quadratura
“Satire on False Perspective”
William Hogarth
English
Printmaking
(Probably the coolest damn thing ever)
(There are 22 persepctive errors, but the main errors include the man fishing a mile away, and the sign is behind the trees)
“Sears Tower”
chicago
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill firm
Fazlur Khan & Bruce Graham
Architecture
“Snap the Whip”
Winslow Homer
American
Tonalism
“Spiral Jetty in Utah”
Robert Smithson
American
Land Art
(Rozel Point in Great Salt Lake)
“Spirit of Haida Gwaii”
Bill Reid
Canada
Indigenous art
(Found in Vancouever and in Canadian Embassy in DC)
“Spring Day in Karl Johan Street”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Surrealism
“St. Mark in the Orsanmichele”
Donatello
Italian
High Renaissance
“St. Sebastian”
Titian
Italian
High Renaissance
“Stained glass window at Cedar Rapid Veterans’ Memorial”
Grant Wood
American
Regionalism
(Had German glass in it)
(Afterwards, Wood painted Daughters of Revolution)
“Stormy Sea at Etretat”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
(at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon)
“Supper at Emmaus”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
(hands different sizes)
(fruit bowl hanging off the edge)
“Taj Mahal in Agra”
india
Ustad Ahmad
Persian
Mughal Architecture
(commissioned by Shah Jahan)
“The Abbey Theatre in Dublin”
dublin #ireland
Michael Scott (architect)
Annie Horniman (patron)
(original theater built in 1904)
(burned down 1951)
(new theather built 1966)
(riot for the Playboy of the Western World play)
(co-founded by Yeats)
“The Analysis of Beauty”
William Hogarth
English
Realist
“The Awakening”
J. Seward Johnson
American
Sculpture
(Originally in Washington DC)
“The Blinding of Samson”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(Delilah in background with shears)
“The Blue Nude”
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
(Inspired Damoiselles by PIcasso and Blue Nude II by Matisee)
“The Boating Party”
Mary Cassatt
American
Impressionism
“The Boulevard Montmarte at Night”
Camille Pissaro
French
Impressionism
(Painted several depictions of Boulevard Montmarte)
“The Boulevard Montmarte
“The Channel of Gravelines”
George Seurat
French
Pontilism
(Indianapolis Museum of Art)
(lighthouse in upper left)
“The Cradle”
Mary Cassatt
American
Impressionism
“The Dinner Table”
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
“The Disasters of War series”
“Plate 3: The Same”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
(Series of 82 prints)
(visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, the subsequent Peninsular War of 1808–14 and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814)
“The Feast of the Gods”
Giovanni Bellini
Italian
Renaissance
(Pan man holding bowls)
“The Football Players”
Henri Rousseau
French
Post-Impressionism
(blue striped)
“The Furniture of Time”
Yves Tanguy
French
Surrealism
“The Gates in Central Park”
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Javacheff
Bulgaria / Morocco
Environmental art
“The Glass of Absinthe”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
“The Hand of God”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
“The Hat Makes the Man”
Max Ernst
German
Surrealism
(Hats linked to form phallic pillars)
“The Hermitage in St. Petersburg”
stpetersburg #russia
Commissioned by Catherine the Great
Russian
“The Lamentation”
Giotto
Italian
Late Gothic
“The Legislative Belly”
Honore Daumier
French
Printmaking
“The Little Mermaid”
Edvard Eriksen
Danish-Icelandic
Sculpture
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
“The Magpie”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
“The Man with the Broken Nose”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
“The Old King”
Georges Rouault
French
Fauvism
“The Prayer at Valley Forge”
Arnold Friberg
American
Historial sculpture
“The Rehearsal”
Edgar Degas
French
Impressionism
“The Return of the Bucentaur to the Molo on Ascension Day”
Canaletto
Venetian
Landscape
“The Rokeby Venus”
Diego Velazquez
Spanish
Baroque
“The Satin Tuning Fork”
Yves Tanguy
French
Surrealism
“The Sistine Madonna”
Raphael
Italian
High Renaissance
(Two cherubs at bottom)
“The Sleeping Gypsy”
Henri Rousseau
French
Post-Impressionism
“The Sleeping Muse”
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian-French
Modernism
“The Snake Charmer”
Henri Rousseau
French
Post-Impressionism
“The Surrealist Manifesto”
Andre Breton
French
Surrealism
(founder of Surrealism)
“The Two Fridas”
Frida Kahlo
Mexican
Portraiture
(One has white European dress, the other has green Indian dress)
(One in green holds portrait of Diego Rivera in left hand)
(Painted during divorce proceedings)
(Surgical scissors cuts artery of exposed hearts)
“The Upper Room”
Chris Ofili
English
Young British Artist
(Won 1998 Turner Prize)
(Tate purchase caused protest by Stuckists)
(depict rhesus monkeys)
“The Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses”
Max Ernst
German
Dada
(Depicts Paul Eluard and Andre Breton)
“The Women of Algiers”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Neoclassic
(Mirror at top-left hangs next to a niche above a door)
(Mirror reveals an inaccessible corner of the room)
(Best-known work of author Assia Djebar is entitle after painting)
(Inspired Picasso to interpretations in 1950s)
(Delacroix showed smaller version at the 1845 Salon)
(A black slave draws a curtain to reveal the three titular people to viewer)
(Based upon an actual visit to an Arab household during 1832 trip to North Africa)
“Threatening Weather”
Rene Magritte
Belgium
Surrealism
(a torso, a tuba, and a chair)
“Tiger in a Tropical Storm”
“Surprised!”
Henri Rousseau
French
Post-Impressionism
“Tilted Arc”
Richard Serra
American
Minimialism sculpture
(Complained “To remove the work is to destroy it!” after controversey to move the structure of the New York plaza)
“Trevi Fountain in Rome”
Giuseppe Pannini
Italian
Sculpture
“Typewriter Eraser, Scale X”
Claes Oldenburg
American
Sculpture
(in DC)
“Ubu Imperator”
Max Ernst
German
Surrealism
(cylinder body - green hair - top - barren wasteland)
“Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”
Umberto Boccioni
Italian
Futurism
(On the Italian 20-cent Euro)
“Venus de Milo”
Believed to be Alexandors of Antioch
Hellenistic
Sculpture
(Many artists like it, not Renoir)
(At the Louvre today)
“Venus Victrix”
Antonio Canova
Italian
Sculpture
(influenced heavily from the ‘Capitoline Agrippina’)
(depicts Pauline Bonaparte)
(wooden base originally rotated)
(could only be viewed via torchlight with the special permissions of her husband Prince Camillo)
“Viva la Vida”
Frida Kahlo
Mexican
Portraiture
(shows watermelon rounds cut into different configurations)
(title on one of the watermelons)
“Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog”
Caspar David Friedrich
German
Romantic
(features the Zirkelstein and the Kaiserkrone)
“Washington Series”
“Constitutional Convention 1787”
JB Stearns
American
Historial painting
“Washington with Slaves at Mt. Vernon”
“Westminster Abbey”
london
Modern from began under Henry III
Architect Henry Yevele largely finished it
“Wheat Field with Crows”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
“Young Girl with a Flute”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
