Arts: The Tribute One-y Flashcards
“A Bar at the Foiles-Bergere”
Edouard Manet
French
Realism, Impressionism
(Bowl of oranges means she’s probably a prostitute)
(Behind her is a mirror that reflects to see the rest of the bar)
(You are the guy with the top hat in the top-right, perspective wise)
(Trapeze artist)
“A Cotton Office in New Orleans”
Edgar Degas
French
Impressionism
“American Gothic”
Grant Wood
American
Tonalism
(Figures in painting are based on Wood’s sister and dentist)
(House is the Dibble House, built in Gothic Revival)
(The woman on the left of this work wears a patterned blouse and a brooch, while the man on the right is wearing a blue coat over a pair of overalls)
(Green and white striped undershirt, with a button)
(Red barn)
(Potted plant on porch, germanium and mother-in-law’s tongue)
(Curtain in window above has diamonds)
“American Today”
Thomas Hart Benton
American
Muralist
“Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1”
James Whistler
American
Tonalism
“Artistole Contemplating the Bust of Homer”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
“Bank of China Tower”
china
I. M. Pei
American
Architecture
“Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Militia Company”
Frans Hals
Dutch
Baroque
“Between Clock and Bed”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
“Black Iris”
Georgia O’Keeffe
American
Modernism
(husband Alfred Stieglitz)
“Breaking Storm”
Winslow Homer
American
Landscapist
“Broadway Boogie Woogie”
Piet Mondrian
Dutch
De Stijl
“Central Park”
nyc
Fredrick Law Olmstead
American
Landscape architecture
“Charles I at the Hunt”
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish
Baroque
“Chop Suey”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
“Christ’s Entry into Brussels 1889”
James Ensor
Flemish-Belgian
Expressionism/Surrealism
#1 Buzz: A clown wearing green and red polka dots and yellow hat stands on a podium on right
Notable people in this painting:
- Jesus, who is supposed to be James Ensor
- Parade leader with long blue baton and yellow hat
- Skeleton man with top hat with greens stripe
- Man with blue and yellow pants on podium
- Man with blue suit and white sash
- Man with sad yellow mask
- Man with white mask and witches hat
(There was a parody painting named ‘American Fundamentalists’ that showed famous evangelicals and Republicans)
“Christina’s World”
Andrew Wyeth
American
Realism
#1 Buzz: Christina Olson has polio
(The house is the Olson House, and is in Cushing, Maine, and Christina is actually buried at the house)
(At MoMA)
(Christina wears pink dress)
“Compisition with Yellow, Blue, and Red”
Piet Mondrain
Dutch
De Stijl
“Daughters of Revolution”
Grant Wood
American
Regionalism
(Leutze’s ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ hangs behind)
“Death on a Pale Horse”
Benjamin West
American
Historical painting
“Dulles Airport in Washington”
dc
Eero Saarinen
Finnish - American
Architecture
“Early Sunday Morning”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
“Eight Bells”
Winslow Homer
American
Landscapist
“Flatford Mill”
John Constable
British
Romanticism
(Rise to fame: 2012 USC Puzzle Hunt)
“Four Freedoms”
Nornam Rockwell
American
Realism
(From a quote by FDR)
“Four Horsemen”
Albrecht Durer
German
Renaissance
(Like the Four Horsemen from Revelation)
“Fur Traders Descending the Missouri”
George Caleb Bingham
American
Luminism
(That’s a bear cub in the boat)
“Garden of Earthly Delights”
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
Notable things happening in this triptych (The best way to study is just browse over it sometime)
Left side:
God blessing Eve to Adam
Large pink fountain
Monkey riding elephant
Birds flying through hut in S-shape
Center:
Clams, fruits, circular parade, blue fountain (just look at it)
Right:
Bird eating man and pooping person in hourglass
Die balancing on person head and a backgammon
Man leaning against table with hand pierced with knife
City burning in background
(The picture below is the triptych closed, revealing the Earth on the Third Day of creation)
(German critic Wilhelm Fraenger thought this painting was a altarpiece for a cult)
“Garden of Love”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
“Gateway Arch”
stlouis
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American
Architecture
“Ghent Altarpiece”
Hubert AND Jan van Eyck
Flemish
Portraiture
(Commissioned by Joos Vijold)
(two kneeling patrons pray to grisalle representations of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist)
(Angels singing and playing an organ to flank a seated depiction of God the Father in a meticulously painted red robe)
“Girl with a Pearl Earring”
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
(Lapis lazuli is what makes her headbanner so blue)
“Girls on the Bridge”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
“Glass Pyramid of the Louvre”
paris #france
I. M. Pei
American
Architecture
(There are NOT 666 glass panels. Urban legend.)
“Golconda”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“Guernica”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
(Based on a 1937 bombing during Spanish Civil War of the city of Guernica)
(Lamp looks like an eye)
(There is a door on the rightmost)
(Horse is stabbed)
“Gulf Stream”
Winslow Homer
American
Landscapist
(Water spout in the distant)
(Sharks around boat)
(Broken mast and rope on ship)
(Ship in distance)
“Gypsy Girl”
“La Bohemienne”
Frans Hals
Dutch
Baroque
“Heart of the Andes”
Fredric Church
American
Hudson River School
(Tiny white cross)
“Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Maria de Medici”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
“House by the Railroad”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
(This house served as the inspiration for the Bates Hotel)
“Hunters in the Snow”
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Flemish
Landscape
(A sign post in this painting displays a kneeling man and a deer)
(that sign post hangs over a child and two adults who kindle a large fire)
(mid-ground, a figure carries a bundle of hay over a bridge with two arches)
(Several black birds are perched on barren trees at the top of this painting)
(shows a castle in the mountains in its top right)
“I and the Village”
Marc Chagall
Russian-French
Surrealism/Expressionism
(Necklace on green man with cross/St. Christopher)
(Green man holding tiny tree)
(Woman milking cow in the center of sheep)
(Five houses, two are upside down)
(Man hiding inside of yellow chapel)
(Man with scythe talking with upside down woman)
(Green man wearing a ring)
“Impression, Sunrise”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionist
(This painting named the field)
(Harbor of La Havre)
“Isenheim Altarpiece”
Matthias Grunewald
German
German Renaissance
(St. Anthony stands on a pillar calmly despite an approaching fish-monster in the window)
“John Hancock Tower in Boston”
boston #mass
I. M. Pei
American
Architect
(worked with Cobb)
(had panels come off)
“Jupiter and Io”
Antonio Allegri da Correggio
Italian
Renaissance
“Kindred Spirits”
Asher Dunrad
American
Hudson River School
(Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant stand on cliff)
(Bought by Alice Walton from the New York Public Library)
“Kresge Building at MIT”
MIT #boston #mass
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American
Architecture
“Lady Innes”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Landscape
“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Flemish
Landscape
(Man tilling land)
(Shepherd in blue looking up at sky)
(Icy mountains in the background)
(Black bird sitting on branch)
(Icarus is drowning, but is clearly not the focus of the painting)
“Las Meninas”
“The Maids of Honor”
Diego Valezquez
Spanish
Baroque
(Painter who is Valezquez standing behind easel with palette)
(Mirror that reflects two people)
(Man stands on staircase in background)
(Works of Peter Paul Rubens hang on walls in background)
(Main girl is being handed red cup)
(Girl in red dress has foot on dog)
(Girl is blue is a dwarf, no lie)
(Picasso did a version of this)
“Lavendar Mist”
Jackson Pollock
American
“action painting”
Abstract Impressionism
“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
#1 Buzz: Bowl of fruit at the bottom
(These 5 ladies are prostitutes)
(The red/blue background is apparently a cloth)
(Two women are wearing African masks)
(Picasso and Matisse hated each other. Matisse thought Picasso made this painting in response to his Blue Nude.)
“Liberty Leading the People”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
(Depicts the July Revolution of 1830)
(Notre Dame can be seen in distance)
(Delacroix’s portrait is the man with the black top hat)
(Liberty has rifle in left hand and tricolor in the right)
(Man on ground has one blue sock and no pants)
(Boy has two guns in hands)
(Believe it or not, I saw a packet where the first tossup had the answer of someone standing up and forming the hand position that Liberty has in this painting, so in case another tossup asks for you to stand up and make the motion, note how she is standing)
“Lifeline”
Winslow Homer
American
Realism
“Long Branch, NJ”
Winslow Homer
American
Landscapist
“Look Mickey, I’ve Hooked a Big One”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
“Luncheon of the Boating Party”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French
Impressionism
(Artist Caillebotte is the one backwards in the chair)
(Orange awning)
(Woman is about to kiss a dog)
(Man in yellow hat leaning against rail)
(Man in black top hat looking to distance)
(Woman with hands on ears while two men talk to her)
(His wife is the one drinking while looking at viewer)
(Sailboat in distance)
“The Luncheon on the Grass”
Edouard Manet
French
Impressionist
(Woman is in pond with rowboat)
(Woman is naked)
“Madame X”
John Sargent
American
Portrait / Impressionism
(Wooden table)
“Madonna with the Long Neck”
Parmigianino
Italian
Mannerism
(St. Jerome holding scroll)
(A single column)
(Woman holding blue vase)
(Red cloth hangs down)
“Man at the Crossroads”
or “Man, Controller of the Universe”
Diego Rivera
Mexican
Muralist
(Originally painted in the Rockefeller Center at request of Nelson Rockefeller in 1934. He wanted Matisse or Picasso, but couldn’t get them. His depiction of Lenin did not suit Rockefeller, so it was draped. It was later destroyed)
(Lucienne Bloch took photos of mural, where he recreated it in Mexico City)
(The main person in this work stands in the middle of lenses and microscopes)
(Top left dominated by an army with bayonets and gas masks)
(A hand in dead center holds a sphere that emerges from a garden of plants)
(Large white statue on left without hand wears a crucifix)
(Bottom left, black child stands next to a collection of animals, including a bearded monkey sitting on an aquarium)
(Darwin stands next to X-ray machine)
(People playing cards near the large cross in center)
(Three men sit on a black pipe)
“Man in a Turban”
Jan van Eyck
Flemish
Portraiture
“Market Cart”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Landscape
“Mein Leben”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
“Melencolia I”
Albrecht Durer
German
Renaissance
(magic square on wall)
(above magic square is a bell next to a hourglass)
(a polyhedron with 18 edges and 12 verticies with a faint skull)
“Moulin de la Galette”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French
Impressionism
“Moulin Rouge posters”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
Post-Impressionism
“Mt. Rushmore”
southdakota
Gutzon Borglum
American
Sculpture
(The Avenue of Flags leads up to Mt. Rushmore)
“Napoleon Crossing the Alps”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
(Napoleon asked to appear “calm on a fiery steed”)
(At St. Bernard Pass, and the horse is named Marengo)
(Names HANNIBAL and KAROLVS MAGNVS IMP appear on a rock in the bottom left)
(Versions named First Versailles, Second Versailles, Charlottenburg, Malmaison, and Belvedere)
(Artist’s son hung from a ladder to get the pose right)
“The Night Watch”
“The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
Four early buzzes here:
1. Man on right with drum gets cut off
2. A man holds a yellow and blue flag
3. Girl is glowing gold, and has a chicken on her
4. Helmeted man near flag may be a self-portrait
- Mr. Cocq is wearing black and a red sash
- This painting actually takes place during the day. Only the varnish make the scene black
“No. 5”
“I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold”
Charles Demuth
American
Precisionism
(drew on a William Carlos Williams poem)
(streetlights throughout)
(word BILL found in upper-left)
(colors resemble a fire truck)
“Nude Descending a Staircase”
Marcel Duchamp
French
Dada, Surrealism
(First shown in the 1913 Armory Show in New York)
(One critic refered to the painting as a “explosion in a shingle factory”)
(inspired future Futurists)
“Office at Night”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
“Office in a Small City”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
“Old Checkered House”
Grandma Moses
American
Folk Art
“Olympia”
Edouard Manet
French
Realism, Impressionism
(black cat at the end of the bed)
“Penn’s Treaty with the Indians”
Benjamin West
American
Historical painting
“Perdita”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Landscape
“Portrait of George III”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Landscape
“Portrait of Henry VIII”
Hans Holbein
German
Portraiture
“Portrait of Sir Thomas More”
Hans Holbein
German
Portraiture
“Primavera”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
(Lord, here we go)
Setting: ORANGE GROVE, except for a MYRTLE TREE in the center for Venus
From left to right:
Mercury: Weaing red robe, has a curved sword on his sash, holds a caduceus into a cloud. Might have been inspired by Verrocchio’s David or Giuliano de Medici
The Three Graces: Beauty, Joy, Charm. Are in a circle dancing
Venus: Stands where the trees arch. Holds a red cloth around waste
Flora: Wears a floral outfit, as well as a crown of flowers
Chloris: Roses trail out of her mouth, while being held by Zephyrus
Zephyrus: Blue robes and blue-gray skin with large wings
Cupid: Above Venus, and has a bow and arrow pointed at the Graces
“Prometheus Bound”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
“Rain, Steam, and Speed”
J. M. W. Turner
British
Romanticism
(THERE IS A RABBIT IN THIS PAINTING. ON THE BRIDGE. DO NOT FORGET.)
- On the ‘Great Western Railway’
- The bridge is the Maidenhead Railway Bridge
- People play on land, as well as couple in a boat
“Red Hills and Bones”
Georgia O’Keeffe
American
Modernism
(husband Alfred Stieglitz)
“Red Mobile”
Alexander Calder
American
Scultpor/Mobilist
“Rock and Roll HoF in Cleveland”
cleveland #ohio
I. M. Pei
American
Architecture
“Salisbury Cathedral”
John Constable
British
Romanticism
“Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse”
Joshua Reynolds
British
Portraiture
(The Dulwich and Huntington versions reveal that she once had a blue dress)
(depicts a woman enthroned next to a mysterious figure holding a chalice)
“Seagram Building”
nyc
Philip Johnson
Miles Van Der Rohe
American
(comissioned by Phyllis Lambert)
(home of Four Seasons restaurant)
(shear trusses and shear walls of this building extend to the 29th and 17th floors of it respectively)
(has three specified positions for window blinds)
“Self Portrait with Seven Fingers”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
“Self Portrait”
Albrecht Durer
German
Renaissance
“Skull with a Burning Cigarette”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
“Sky Above Clouds IV”
Georgia O’Keeffe
American
Modernism
(husband Alfred Stieglitz)
“Starry Night”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
(The town in question is Saint-Remy-de-Provence)
(Cyprus trees)
(Ursa Major is now in the south)
“Sugaring-Off”
Grandma Moses
American
Folk Art
“Supper at Emmaus”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
“Thanksgiving Turkey”
Grandma Moses
American
Folk Art
“The Abduction of the Sabine Women”
Nicolas Poussin
French
Classicism/Baroque
“The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(corps of Aris Kindt)
“The Arnolfini Portrait”
Jan van Eyck
Flemish
Portraiture
When responding, you must have the word Arnolfini and then Portrait, Marriage, or Wedding
#1 Buzz: One candle in the chandelier
(Oranges in the window sill)
(Dog in lower part represents fidelity)
(She is NOT pregnant. She is wearing more cloth, indicating richer)
(Bedpost features carving of St. Margaret, and hangs a duster)
(The convex mirror features ten views of the life of Christ, shows a mysterious couple in the reflection, and has a chain next to it)
(Peter Schabacker has reasoned that the method by which they joined hand is an indication of unequal status in society)
“The Astronomer”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
“The Battle of Alexander at Issus”
Albrecht Altdorfer
German
Renaissance
“The Birth of Venus”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
The Black paintings
“Saturn Devouring His Children”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
Romanticism
“The Blinding of Samson”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
“The Blue Boy”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Portraiture
#1 Buzz: Depicts Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant
(located in California’s Huntington Library, where it hangs opposite of Thomas Lawrence’s Pinkie)
(he holds a hat in his right hand)
(Supposed to be Gainsborough’s tribute to van Dyck)
“The Blue Rider”
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian
Expressionism
(Also, started “Blue Rider” movement)
“The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even”
“The Large Glass”
Marcel Duchamp
French
Dada, Surrealism
“The White House”
dc
James Hoban
Irish-American
Architect
“The Burial of the Count of Orgaz”
El Greco
Spanish
Mannerism
#1 Buzz: St. Stephen (the one in gold wearing the miter) and St. Augustine (the one in gold not wearing miter) appear holding the Count
(Orgaz is a city in Spain, and Don Gonzalo Ruíz is the Count of Orgaz)
(Jesus, Madonna, and Phillip II appear in the sky)
(The boy holding the torch is Jorge Manuel, El Greco’s sun)
(El Greco is in the painting, above the head of Augustine)
“The Calling of St. Matthew”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
#1 Buzz: Mysterious light source from upper-right not coming from window. This clue will GUARANTEED come up
The black in this painting is called “Chiaroscuro”, an art technique Caravaggio used
Let’s indentify some people, shall we? L-R
1&2: (The two leftmost are ignoring what is going on. Sitted boy is wearing red, and older man is wearing glass and fur-lined coat. Joachim von Sandrart noted that they are derived from a Holbein woodcut depicting two card players)
3: (Matthew is said to be the one with the beard. He’s point to himself as if he is saying “Me?”. However, some critics think that the bearded man is pointing to the guy on our left who is looking down at the table, where the bearded guy is saying “Him?”)
4: (Boy in red and feathered cap pointing to himself. His arm is on the shoulder of Matthew)
5: (Only one of the three sitting at Levi’s money table noticing barefoot figures)
6: (St. Peter, barefoot)
7: (Jesus, pointing limply at Matthew)
- Window is covered with oilskin
- Located in the Contarelli Chapel, along with Caravaggio’s which depict the Martyrdom and Inspiration of St. Matthew
“The Child’s Bath”
Mary Cassatt
American
Impressionist
“The Course of Empire”
- The Savage State
- The Arcadian or Pastoral State
- The Consummation of Empire
- Destruction
- Desolation
Thomas Cole
American
Hudson River School
“The Creation of Man”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
“The Dance Class”
Edgar Degas
French
Impressionism
“The Dance”
“La Danse”
Henri Matisse
French
Post-Impressionism
“The Death of General Wolfe”
Benjamin West
Anglo-American
Historical painting
“The Death of Marat”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
#1 Buzz: Anything from the acutal historical event. Besides that, the wooden box.
(Borth Marat’s name and David’s name is on the wooden box)
(quill and inkwell)
(The letter in English has Charlotte Corday’s name and the message “Because I am unhappy, I have a right to your help”)
(knife on floor)
(Marat is in a bath, wearing a turban, and without skin disease)
(You should know that Marat was murdered by Charlotte Corday)
(There is also a variety of other Death of Marat paintings, so it wouldn’t hurt to learn those)
“The Elevation of the Cross”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
“The Embarkation for Cythera”
Antoine Watteau
French
Rococo
NOTE: So “Embarkation fo Cythera” is the closest name, but as you say a word that means ‘journey’, a direction pronoun like ‘to’ or ‘from’, and the word Cythera, that would be accepted
#1 Buzz: Bust of Venus on far right, with a quiver of arrows and some roses
(Cythera is a magical lan of love)
(At the far left, cherubs fly around a group of people standing near a gold boat, and they drape a pink cloth around a gold bust)
(Man wearing pink is holding two wooden staves)
(Grey and white dog)
(Child tugs on the blue dress of a woman in a pink shawl who holds a fan)
(A red robe is tied around a satchel at the feet of a woman who kneels and grasps the hands of her compaion)
“Different version of the same thing by Watteau”
(Shiny helmet and a large shield rest against a big marble in the bottom right)
“The Fall of the Damned”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
“The French Ambassadors”
“The Ambassadors”
Hans Holbein
German
Portraiture
(The people are Georges de Selve and Jean de Dinteville)
(Appears an anamorphic image of a skull)
(Green curtain)
(Silver crucifix appears at the top-left of painting)
(Names of the instruments in the painting: A globe, a celestial globe, a quadrant, a torquetum, a polyhedral sundial, a lute with broken string)
(Literature in this painting: the Ten Commandments, and Maritn Luther’s “Veni, Creator Spiritus” which had musical notes, and an open book that indicates the man on the right is 25 years old)
(Man on left wears a medallion of the Order of St. Michael attached to a gold chain around his neck)
(Man on right is holding a glove)
“The Geographer”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
“The Gleaners”
Jean-Francois Millet
French
Realism
“The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute”
(Canal)etto
Italian
Landscape “vedute”
“The Gross Clinic”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
“The Hanged Man’s House”
Paul Cezanne
French
Post-Impressionism
“The Hay Wain”
John Constable
English
Romanticism
(UK’s most loved work)
“The Human Condition”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“The Hurricane”
Winslow Homer
American
Landscapist
“The Joy of Life”
Henri Matisse
French
Post-Impressionism
“The Key of Dreams”
Rene Margritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“The Kiss”
Gustav Klimt
Austrian
Art Nouveau
“The Last Judgement”
Michelangelo
Italian
Renaissance
(flailed skin)
“The Last Supper”
Tintoretto
Italian
Renaissance
“The Laughing Cavalier”
Frans Hals
Dutch
Baroque
“The Massacre at Chios”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
(Shows Ottoman slaughter on the island Chios)
(Most prominent is a dark skinned man in a turban who appears ready to kill others)
(An infant in one corner of this work is shown face-down, grabbing his dead mother’s breast)
(Next to a man whose arm is tied to a horse)
(The left group is shorter and has a guy in red fez)
(A man holding a rifle in the center is shadowed by one of his companions and is behind an embracing couple)
(Delacroix prepared for this piece by completing “Head of a Woman” and “Orphan Girl at the Cemetery”)
“The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”
Grant Wood
American
Regionalism
(Mysterious light source)
“The Milkmaid”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
(Table has basket of bread)
(The back left wall has a lantern and a basket hanging from it)
(Central figure wears white headdress and stands next to a blue tablecloth)
(One object is a coal-containing foot warmer, which is a symbol of arousal, and is surrounded by tiles depicting Cupid)
(Originally contained a clothes hamper in the lower right-hand)
(A controversy of its purchase had a political cartoon depicting Uncle Sam in it)
(Wall behind figure shows nail holes surrounded by rust)
(X-rays show that the artist purposefully put a thin white line around the central figure)
“The Oath of the Horatti”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
(Three arches)
(A spear and a shield on the wall)
(Women on right crying)
“The Peasant Wedding”
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Flemish
Portraiture
“The Potato Eaters”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
“The Praying Jew”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
“The Raft of the Medusa”
Theodore Gericault (Jerricho)
French
Romanticism
“The Rape of Europa”
Titian
Italian
Renaissance
“The Reaper”
Winslow Homer
American
Landscapist
“The Scream”
Edvard Munch “Moonk”
Norwegian
Expressionism
“The Sick Child”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
“The Slave Ship”
JMW Turner
British
Romanticism
“The Son of Man”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
(I’m not sure I need to tell you that there is an APPLE ON THE MAN’S FACE)
(You can see his left eye and brow)
(Wall at the bottom, with water and clouds)
(Left elbow is bent oddly)
(Norman Rockwell made a parody for the United Vintners that features an red apple)
(Similar to his:)
“The Great War on Facades”
“The Stone Breakers”
Gustave Courbet
French
Realism
“The Strawberry Girl”
Joshua Reynolds
British
Portraiture
“The Swing”
Jean-Honore Fragonard
French
Rococo
“The Syndics of the Cloth Guild”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
“The Tempest”
Giorgione
Italian
Renaissance
“The Third of May, 1808”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
Romanticism
(subtitled “the Execution of the Defenders of Madrid”)
(Came after “The Second of May, 1808”, which usually gets discussed during tossups)
(Man with white and yellow pants has stigmata on hands)
(Lantern is a box)
(The people shooting have always been described as ‘faceless’ on tossups)
(The left foreground of this work shows a man dressed in brown, clasping hands in prayer, and the right background of this work depicts a large steeple and a group of rioters)
“The Third-Class Carriage”
Honore Daumier
French
On this painting, nothing, but everything else was cariacatures of French people.
“The Tower of Babel”
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Flemish
Landscape
“The Twittering Machine”
Paul Klee
German/Swiss
Expressionism
“The Voyage of Life”
- Childhood
- Youth
- Manhood
- Old Age
Thomas Cole
American
Hudson River School
“The Watering Place”
Thomas Gainsborough
British
Landscape
“The White Horse”
John Constable
British
Romanticism
“Three Candles”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
“Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixtion”
Francis Bacon
British
Modernism
“Time Transfixed”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“Tribute Money”
Masaccio
Italian
Renaissance
(On the left, St. Peter pulls the tribute money out of the mouth of a fish. This is where you should buzz in)
(The tax collector is the one in the short red tunic who looks away in the middle, and is getting the money on the right)
(The apostles stand around Jesus in a semicircle)
“TWA Flight Center at JFK”
nyc
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American
Architecture
“U.S. Capitol”
dc
Charles Bulfinch
American
Sculpture
“Venus of Urbino”
Titian
Italian
Renaissance
(Woman goes through chest in the background)
(Serious woman in red watches her)
(Dog at the foot of bed)
(She has hand on her lower half)
(She is laying on a divan)
“View of Delft”
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
“View of Toledo”
El Greco
Spain
Landscape
“Watson and the Shark”
John Singleton Copley
American
Portraiture
“Whaam!”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop art
“Yellow Christ”
Paul Gauguin
French
Symbolism
(Three blue-clothed women in white headdresses kneel with hands clasped before Jesus)
(Man stepping over a small wall)
(three blue-roofed houses against rolling hills and red trees)
(Inspired by a statue in the Tremalo Chapel)
(Is in the background of a Gauguin self portrait, along with his sculpture “Pot in the Form of a Grotesque Head”)
“Young Woman Sewing in a Garden”
Mary Cassatt
American
Impressionism
“Young Woman with a Water Jug”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
