Arts: The Three Philosophers with Musicians Flashcards
“A Bigger Splash”
David Hockney
British
Pop Art
“Adoration of the Magi”
Rogier van der Weyden
Flemish
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(red hat on the ground)
“Arcadia”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
“Archers of St. Hadrian”
Frans Hals
Flemish-Dutch
Golden Age
“Asmodea”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
Romanticism
(Part of the Black Paintings)
“Bank of Pennsylvania”
philly #penn
Benjamin Latrobe
American
Architecture
“Bathers at Asnieres”
Georges Seurat
French
Pointilism
(Second most common painting to occur in a Seurat tossup)
“Battle of the Amazons”
Peter Paul Rubens
Belgian
Baroque
“Before and After”
Andy Warhol
American
Pop art
(based on plastic surgery ads)
“Belshazar’s Feast”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(scene from the Book of Daniel)
“Bird in Space”
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian
Sculpture
(7 in marble, 9 in bronze)
(weird tarriff story involving import to US and a charge of $230)
“Black Lion Wharf”
James McNeill Whistler
American
Tonalism
“Blind Man’s Bluff”
Jean-Honore Fragonard
French
Rococo
“Bronco Buster”
Frederic Remington
American
Sculpture
(specializes in American, the West, and cowboys)
“Brooklyn Bridge”
nyc
John Augustus Roebling
German-American
Civil engineering
(known for wire rope suspension buildings)
“Carson Pirie Scott Department Store in Chicago”
chicago
Louis Sullivan
American
Architecture
(also the Sullivan Center)
“Corpus Hypercubus”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“Death of Achilles”
Peter Paul Rubens
Belgian
Baroque
“Deposition of Christ”
Fra Angelico
Italian
Renaissance
(man in red kneeling and kissing Jesus’s feet)
“Deposition of the Cross”
Pontormo
Italian
Mannerism
(blue dominated)
(no cross)
“Deposition”
Pieto Perugino
Italian
Renaissance
(Yellow and pink cloth hang from the cross)
“Detroit Industry”
Diego Rivera
Mexican
Muralist
(Ford company)
“Dido Building Carthage”
J. M. W. Turner
English
Romaniticism
(Painting similar to his ‘Regulus’)
(willed to the National Gallery on the condition that it be hung next to Claude Lorraine’s Embarkation with the Queen of Sheba)
(Depicts tomb of Sychaeus on the right while an armored Aeneas faces away from Dido)
“Dormition of the Virgin”
El Greco
Spanish
Mannerism
(Byzatine-influenced)
“Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash”
Giacomo Balla
Italian
Futurism
(The way I remember this is that a dog on a leash is pretty BALLA!)
“Empire State Building”
nyc
William F. Lamb
American
Art Deco Architecture
“Endless Column”
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian
Sculpture
(tribute to Romanian heroes in WWI)
“Ennis House”
la
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(interwoven textile blocks)
(seen often in Asian movies, and even an episode of South Park)
“Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
“Fallingwater”
penn
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(aka the Kaufman Residence)
(cantilevered residence)
(found in SW Pennsylvania)
“For the Love of God”
Damien Hirst
English
Conceptual art
(platinum and 8600 diamonds)
(sold for $100,000,000)
“Hamilton Hall in Salem, Mass.”
mass
Samuel McIntire
American
Architecture
(designed federal buildings in Salem, Mass.)
(this is Stephen Phillips House in Salem)
“Haystack series”
“Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
“Hegel’s Holiday”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“Holy Family with Saints”
Pontormo
Italian
Mannerism
“Johnson Wax HQ with ‘Great Workroom’ in Wisconsin”
wisconsin
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(wallless)
“Joseph in Egypt”
Pontormo
Italian
Mannerism
“Judith Beheading Holofernes”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
“Kansai International Airport”
osaka #japan
Renzo Piano
Italian
Architecture
(1998 Pritzker)
“Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth”
fortworth #texas
Louis I. Kahn
American
Architecture
“La Chahut”
Georges Seurat
French
Pointilism
“Lady with an Ermine”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
Renaissance
“Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo, NY”
buffalo #newyork
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(Demolished in 1950)
“Le Dejeuner”
Francois Boucher
French
Rococo
“Lincoln Memorial”
dc
Henry Bacon
American
Architecture
(Beaux-Art architecture)
“Lipstick Building in Manhattan”
nyc
Philip Johnson
American
Architecture
“Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints”
“Colonna Altarpiece”
Raphael
Italian
Renaissance
“Mares of Diomedes”
Gutzon Borglum
American
Sculpture
(first American sculpture in the MoMA)
“Miho Museum near Kyoto”
kyoto #japan
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American
Architecture
(had to dig out of a nearby mountain)
“Mile High Center in Denver”
denver #colorado
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American
Architecture
“Miller House”
indiana
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American
Architecture
(Mid-century Modern)
(Columbus, Indiana)
“Milliard House / La Miniatura”
pasadena #california
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(interwoven textile blocks)
“Monticello”
virginia
Thomas Jefferson
American
Architecture
(best known for apperance on $2)
“Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy”
David Hockney
British
Pop Art
“Mr. and Mrs. Andrews”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Landscape
“Museum of Modern Art - 5th Avenue”
nyc
Richard Morris Hunt
American
Architecture
“Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker”
Antonio Canova
Italian
Sculpture
(depicting holding an orb and a staff)
(now at the base of the staircase of the Apsley House)
“North Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana”
indiana
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American
Architecture
(192ft spire)
(hexagonal)
(last work of Eero before he died)
“Notre Dame du Haut in Haute, France”
france
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French
Architecture
(in Ronchamp)
(built where on a bombed site in WWII)
(south wall has stained glass)
“Painting”
Francis Bacon
Irish-British
Figurative
(headless man)
“Panama Canal”
panama
George Washington Goethals
American
Engineer
(military engineering award Goethals Medal)
“Paris Through the Window”
Marc Chagall
Russian-French
Surrealism
(cat on winow)
(man parachuting?)
“Parson Weems’ Fable”
Grant Wood
American
Regionalism
“Pieta, or Revolution by Night”
Max Ernst
German
Surrealism
“Pittsburgh Plate Glass Place”
PPG Place
pitt #penn
Philip Johnson
American
Architecture
“Portrait of Marie Antoinette”
Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
French
Rococo
(known for paintings of the queen)
“Portrait of Master Bill”
Arshile Gorky
Armenian-American
Abstract Expressionism
(shows Willem de Kooning)
“Portrait of Pere Tanguy”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
“Rest on the Flight into Egypt”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
(violin playing)
“Robie House”
chicago
Frankl Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(Roman brick & Bedford limestone)
(usage of Prairie style)
“Roof With Snow”
Georgia O’Keeffe
American
Modernism
“Rosenbaum House in Alabama”
(example of Usonian homes)
alabama
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
“Rouen Cathedral series”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
(the cathedral is the home of Richard’s lion heart)
“Samuel Freeman House”
la
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(interwoven textile blocks)
“Snow in New York”
Robert Henri
American
Ashcan School
“Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps”
J. M. W. Turner
English
Romanticism
“Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC”
nyc
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(Partly inspired by copper mining)
“South Wind, Clear Sky”
Hokusai
Japanese
Ukiyo-e woodcut
“Sprite Heads Playing Violins”
Andy Warhol
American
Pop art
“St. Jerome in the Wilderness”
Titian
Italian
High Renaissance
(Woodblock)
“St. John the Baptist”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
Renaissance
“St. Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo”
tokyo #japan
Kenzo Tange
Japanese
Architecture
(1987 Pritzker)
“Sydney Opera House”
sydney #australia
Jorn Utzon
Danish
Architecture
(sail-like roof structure made of precast concrete in shape of overlapping shells)
(Utzon redesigned its reception hall 20 years after completion)
(Utzon’s son collaboratd with Richard Johnson on The Collonade, an exterior addition to it)
(Mayan ruins inspired its podium)
(2003 Pritzker)
“Symphony in White No. 2 - The Little White Girl”
James McNeill Whistler
American
Tonalism
“Taliesin West”
arizona
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(winter home)
(Scottsdale, Arizona)
“Taliesin”
wisconsin
Frankl Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(this thing burns to the ground in 1914…and then got restored)
“The Adoration of the Magi”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
Renaissance
(palm tree in the center)
“The Apotheosis of George Washington”
Constantino Brumidi
Greek/Italian-American
Historical
(GW sits on rainbow)
(Next to Victoria and Liberty)
(GW holding sword and 13 angels)
(Mercury handing a bag of gold to Robert Morris)
(Ceres is shown seated on a McCormick Reaper)
“The Baptism of Christ”
Andrea del Verrocchio & his pupil Leonardo da Vinci
Italians
Renaissance
“The Biltmore House”
northcarolina
Richard Morris Hunt & Frederick Law Olmstead
American
Architecture
(Chateauesque)
“The book ‘Towards a New Architecture’”
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French
Architecture
“The Burial of the Sardine”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
Romanticisim
(weird face on banner)
“The Cardsharps”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
“The Conspiracy of Cladius Civilis”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(leader of the rebellion against Vespasian)
(one-eyed)
“The Conversion of St. Paul”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
“The Death of Marat”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
“The Death of Socrates”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
(shackles/scroll on floor)
(lyre on bed)
(man waving in background)
“The Descent from the Cross”
Peter Paul Rubens
Belgian
Baroque
(Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea on ladders)
(large white cloth)
“The Descent from the Cross”
Rogier van der Weyden
Flemish
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(skull/bone on the ground)
(woman in blue fainting)
“The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“The Ecstasy of St. Theresa”
Bernini
Italian
Baroque Sculpture
“The Empire of Light”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido series”
“Shinagawa: 1st”
Hiroshige
Japanese
Ukiyo-e woodcut
(55 lithographs in this series)
“25th station: Nissaka”
“The Fighting Temeraire”
J. M. W. Turner
English
Romanticism
(full name is “The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838”)
“The Fortune Teller”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
(fingers across palm)
“The Frieze of Life series”
“Jealousy”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
(24 paintings)
(This cycle is divided into the themes of Love, Angst and Death and includes images of a red-headed vampire feeding on a man’s neck and an elderly woman holding the hand of an ill child in a bed.)
“Death in the Sick Room”
“The Great Wave off Kanagawa”
Hokusai
Japanese
Ukiyo-e painter
(Part of the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”)
“The Hundred Guilder Print”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(Jesus healing sick, debating with scholars, and calling the children)
“The Incredulity of Saint Thomas”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
“The Intervention of the Sabine Women”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
“The Jewish Bride”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(Spanish sugar merchant’s marriage scene)
“The Last Judgment”
Rogier van der Weyden
Flemish
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
“The Lover Crowned”
Jean-Honore Fragonard
French
Rococo
(Part of the ‘The Progress of Love’)
“The Menaced Assassin”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“The Music Lesson”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
“The Mysteries of the Horizon”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“The One Knows as Mona Lisa”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
Renaissance
(pillars on both sides)
(a winding path and icy mountains)
(crossed wrists)
(use of sfumato on the face, a style of region painting named after Italian word for ‘smoke’)
“The Peacock Room”
James Abbot McNeill Whistler
American
Tonalism
(dining room of Fredrick R. Leyland)
(Whistler got caught up in painting)
(now in Smithsonian)
“The Princess”
“The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living”
Damien Hirst
English
Conceptual art
“The Rape of Prosperina”
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian
Sculpture
“The Red Rigi”
J. M. W. Turner
English
Romaniticism
(Rigi is a mountain in Switzerland)
“The Return of the Dove to the Ark”
John Everett Millais
English
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
“The Sacrament of the Last Supper”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“The Sacrifice of Isaac”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
“The Sureme Court Building”
dc
Cass Gilbert
American
Architecture
(His last major work)
“The Swimming Hole”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
“The Three Graces”
Antonio Canova
Italian
Sculpture
“The Tiger Hunt”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
“The Umbrellas”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French
Impressionism
“The Virgin and Child with St. Anne”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
Renaissance
(Freud saw a vulture in this painting)
(Another painting named ‘The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist’)
“The Woman in the Green Dress”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
(his wife Camille Doncieux)
“The Athenaeum”
Gilbert Stuart
American
Portraiture
(That’s Washington by the way)
“The Pursuit”
Jean-Honore Fragonard
French
Rococo
(Part of the ‘The Progress of Love’ series)
“Thomas Jefferson Memorial”
dc
John Russell Pope
American
Architecture
(Neoclassicism)
“Tokyo Imperial Hotel”
tokyo #japan
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(one of the only buildings in Tokyo that survived a 1923 earthquake)
“Transco Tower in Houston”
(Williams Tower)
houston #texas
Phillip Johnson
American
Architecture
(it’s tall)
“Trinity Church in Boston”
boston #mass
Henry Hobson Richardson
American
Architecture
(named with Richardsonian Romanesque)
“Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale”
Max Ernst
German
Surrealism
“Two People, The Lonely”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
(Woodcut)
“Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois”
illinois
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(Unitarian Universalist Church)
(this is the inside)
“V. C. Morris Gift Shop / Xanadu Gallery”
sanfran #california
Frank Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(in San Francisco)
(prototype for Guggenheim
“Vietnam Veterans Memorial”
dc
Maya Lin
American
Architecture
(Subject of documentary ‘A Strong, Clear Vision’)
“Villa Savoye”
paris
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French
Architecture
“Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic”
czech
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German-American
Architecture
“Wainwright Building in St. Louis”
stlouis
Louis Sullivan
American
Architecture
(one of the first skyscrapers)
(“father of skyscrapers”)
“Washington Monument”
dc
Robert Mills
American
Architecture
“White Crucifixition”
Marc Chagall
Russian-French
Surrealism
(burning house)
(army with red flags)
“Wingspread / Herbert F. Johnson House in Wisconsin”
wisconsin
Frankl Lloyd Wright
American
Architecture
(same clientale as Johnson Wax HQ Building)
“Witches’ Sabbath”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
Romanticism
“Woman III”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expressionism
(really expensive)
“Work”
Ford Madox Brown
English
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
“World Trade Center”
nyc
Minoru Yamasaki
American
Architecture
(Never forget)
“Wrigley Field”
chicago
Zachary Taylor Davis
American
Architecture
(Known as the ‘Frank Lloyd Wright of Ballparks’)
“Yale’s Ingalls Rink”
“The Whale”
yale #conn
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American
Architecture
