Arts: Time Trans-six Flashcards
“36 Views of Mount Fuji”
“#9: Fuji View Field in Owari Province”
Hokusai
Japanese
Ukiyo-e
“#10: Ejiri in Suruga Province”
“A Young Girl Reading”
Jean-Honore Fragonard
French
Rococo
“Abraham’s Sacrific of Isaac”
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Florentine
Goldsmith
(Beat Brunelleschi for it)
“Adoration of the Magi in the Arena Chapel”
Giotto
Florentine
Late Gothic
(for the Scrovegni family, like most of his other works)
“Allegory of Gluttany and Lust”
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(man rides barrel wearing funnel)
“Allegory of the Planets and Continents”
Tiepolo
Italian
Baroque
(Depicts the four continents in a massive fresco above the grand staircase of the Wurzburg Residence)
“American Embassy in Athens”
athens #greece
Walter Gropius
German
Bauhaus
(inspired by the Parthenon)
“American-Type Painting”
Clement Greenburg
American
(attributed Jackson Pollack’s style to Janet Sobel)
“Anatomical Pieces”
Theodore Gericault
French
Romanticism
(severed limbs)
“Aphrodite of Cnidus”
Praxiteles
Greek
Sculpture
“Baby Flat Top”
Alexander Calder
American
Mobiles
(standing)
“Backgrounds for the ballet ‘Aleko’”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
(worked with Léonide Massine to create large, colorful backdrops)
“Baker House at MIT”
MIT #boston #mass
Alvar Aalto
Finnish-American
Architecture
(Included the “moon garden” in its dining hall)
(Also made all the furniture for it)
“Balloon Girl”
Banksy
British
Graffiti
(On the West Bank Barrier)
“Banqueting House at Whitehall”
Inigo Jones
British
Architecture
(Rubens painted The Apotheosis of James I on ceiling)
“Bardi Altarpiece”
Parmigianino
Italian
Mannerism
(John the Evangelist holds a chalice full of snakes as he witnesses the mystical marriage of St. Catherine)
“Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers”
Balthasar Neumann
German
Architecture
“Bent Pyramid in Dahshur”
(Also, he constructed the Medium and Red Pyramids)
egypt
Sneferu
Egyptian
Pyramidian
(pharaoh of the fourth dynasty)
“Red Pyramid”
“Big Electric Chair”
Andy Warhol
American
Pop Art
(Sing Sing prison)
“Boy with a Squirrel”
John Singleton Copley
American
Portraiture
“Bust of Bindo Altoviti”
Cellini
Italian
Mannerism
“Calumny of Apelles”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
(Two women pull on the hair of an unjust judge while a naked representation of truth points to heaven)
“Camoflage Self-Portrait”
Andy Warhol
American
Pop Art
(hair sticks up)
“Campbell’s Soup Can”
Claude Monet
Argentinian
Blue Rider
(middle part of a triptych featuring Adam, Moses, and Jesus)
(currently in St. Peter’s Basilica)
(adapted from a lost da Vinci work)
(called ‘degenerate’ by Nazis, mostly because they don’t like soup)
(the above information is trolling at its best)
“Castelfranco Altarpiece”
Giorgione
Italian
High Renaissance
(depicted Madonna between St. Francis and St. Nicasius)
“Ceiling of the Paris Opera House”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
(Also, people made it into a watch, and it looks pretty cool if you ask the author of this card)
“Central Library in Seattle”
seattle #washington
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch
Architecture
(Inside of that library is the Scandiuzzi Writers’ Room designed by Deborah Jones)
(also has a ‘book spiral’, where the entire library is a huge spiral categorized by Dewey Decimal)
“Chandelier in Victoria and Albert Museum in London”
Dale Chihuly
American
Glass sculpture
(wears eyepatch)
“Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Mass.”
mass
Henry Bacon and Daniel Chester French
American
Sculpture / Architecture
(French’s summer home)
(These two essentially built the Lincoln Memorial)
“Children Below Hole”
Banksy
British
Graffiti
(on Palestinian side of West Bank Barrier)
“Christmas Homecoming”
Norman Rockwell
American
Realism
(Old woman on left is Grandma Moses)
“Colossal Head #1”
The Olmecs
Mexican
Sculpture
(The one true Olmec)
“Constellation”
Alexander Calder
American
Mobile
(Marcel Duchamp nickname them ‘constellations’)
(maybe named ‘mobiles’)
“Conversion of Saint Paul”
Tintoretto
Italian
Renaissance
(white horses, the one on bridge being pushed by man in pink)
“Conversion of Saint Paul”
Bellini
Italian
Baroque
“Conversion of Saint Paul”
Luca Giordano
Italian
Renaissance
(Cloudy sky)
“Crossing the Styx in the Divine Comedy”
Gustave Dore
French
Illustration
(Did the rest of the Divine Comedy)
“Cubisme”
Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger
French
Cubist
(Cubism movement was defend in this book)
“Cupid Carving His Bow”
Parmigianino
Italian
Mannerism
“Danzantes”
The Zapotecs
Mexican
Sculpture
(caputed opponents)
“Death and Diaster series”
“Green Car Crash”
Andy Warhol
American
Pop Art
“Red Car Crash”
“Derby at Epsom”
Theodore Gericault
French
Romanticism
“Diana and Actaeon”
Titian
Italian
High Renaissance
“Don Quixote in his Library”
Gustave Dore
French
Illustration
(did the rest of Don Quixote as well)
“Dying Slave”
Michelangelo
Italian
Sculpture
(for tomb of Julius II, now in Louvre)
“Ecce Homo”
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(Sees Jesus standing above the words “Salve nos Christe redemptor” and two translucent patrons
“Education of the Princess”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
(Part of the Marie de’ Medici cycle)
(shows Hermes rushing in to give caduceus)
(Central female is being tutored by the 3 graces)
“Eight Elvises”
Andy Warhol
American
Pop Art
“Elective Affinities”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
(egg within a cage)
“Et in Arcadia ego”
“Arcadian Shepherds”
Nicolas Poussin
French
Classicism
(group of shepherds examining a tomb in this title region)
“Ex Nihilo on the National Cathedral”
Frederick Hart
American
Sculpture
“Fagus Factory in Germany”
Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer
German
Bauhaus
(shoe factory, early work for Gropius)
“FDR Memorial”
dc
Lawrence Haplin
American
Landscape Architecture
(Features sculpture by Leonard Baskin and George Segal)
“Fountain Courtyard at Hampton Court”
Sir Christopher Wren
British
Architecture
(London)
(huge lamp on column)
“Fourth of July”
Grandma Moses
American
Folk Art
(Hangs in White House)
(Baseball game in center)
“Girl at Sewing Machine”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
“Harvard Graduate Center”
harvard #boston #mass
Walter Gropius
German
Bauhaus
“Hermes and the Infant Dionysus”
Praxiteles
Greek
Sculpture
(the broken hand once held grapes)
“Homage to Mack Sennett”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
“Homesickness”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
(man is winged)
Name of town that Louis J. Caldor drove through and discovered the paintings of Grandma Moses for $3-$5 in the drug store window
Hoosick Falls, New York
“Horse Frightened by Lightning”
Theodore Gericault
French
Romanticism
“Horse Thief”
George Caleb Bingham
American
Luminism
(lost painting, rediscovered in 1999)
(painted 5 years before he traveled to Dusseldorf)
“Indiana Murals”
Thomas Hart Benton
American
Muralist
(for the 1933 Century of Progress show in Chicago)
“Irony of Negro Policeman”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American
Graffiti
“La belle ferronnière”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
Renaissance
“Leconfield Head”
Praxiteles
Greek
Sculpture
(like the Aphrodite of Cnidus)
“Les mobiles de Calder”
Jean-Paul Sartre
(called mobiles “small, local festivals”)
“Lily of Force”
Alexander Calder
American
Mobile
(standing version)
“Sculpture of This Bearded Guy Sitting Down On a Throne of Marble Like He’s the King of the Universe or Something”
Daniel Chester French
American
Sculpture
“London: A PIlgrimmage”
Gustave Dore
French
Illustration
“LOVE”
Robert Indiana
American
Pop Art
(for a Christmas Card for the MOMA)
“Madonna of Chancellor Rolin”
Jan van Eyck
Flemish
(man on left kneels and prays over a Bible)
(angel with multi-colored wings holds up an ornate crown)
(under central arch, a man in black holding a walking stick stands next to a man who is leaning over a wall)
(reflectograms revealed that a gold purse was originally to hang from the figure on the left of this work)
(small table with blue table cloth)
(the parish church depicted in the background may be a celebration of the recently signed Treaty of Arras)
(May be a confessional comes from the capitaldepicting the drunkenness of Noah above patron’s head)
“Madonna of the Foligno”
Raphael
Italian
Renaissance
(during his Roman period)
“Madonna of the Goldfinch”
Raphael
Italian
Renaissance
(St. John holds a goldfinch)
“Madonna of the Harpies”
Andrea del Sarto
Italian
Mannerism
(two title winged figures grip the legs of Madonna, who is standing on a pedestal decorated with sphinxes)
“MECCA Arena in Milwaukee”
milwaukee #wisconsin
Robert Indiana
American
Pop Art
(Home of the Bucks)
“Merode Altarpiece”
Robert Campin
Early Netherlandish
Triptychist
(features a right panel where Joseph can be seen working with his carpentry tools.)
(The Holy Ghost literally flies in from a window in its center panel)
Technique using grayscale printmaking method, made paintings like Watson and the Shark viral, like this one by Valentine Greene
Mezzotint
“Milwaukee Art Museum”
milwaukee #wisconsin
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish
Architecture
(The building that looks like a ship)
(Building is Windhover Hall)
(Contains wing-like sunscreens called the Burke Brise Soleil)
(Art museum includes the Kahler Building and the Eero Saarinen’s War Memorial Center)
“MLK Memorial”
dc
Lei Yixin
Chinse
Architecture
(This is a picture of the ‘Stone of Hope’ which is what MLK is carved on between the ‘Mountain of Despair’)
“Monument to Balzac”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
(The final sculpture, where this writer’s eyes were “lost in a dream”, was ultimately rejected and ridiculed.)
(Boulevard du Montparnasse)
“Monument to the March Dead”
Walter Gropius
German
Bauhaus
(based on lightning bolt)
(dedicated to the memory of nine workers who died in Weimar resisting the Kapp Putsch)
“Moonlight Scene: Castle on the Rhine”
George Caleb Bingham
American
Luminism
(painted in Dusseldorf)
“Moses”
Michelangelo
Italian
Sculpture
(tomb of Julius II)
“Nadar Elevating Photography to Art”
Honore Daumier
French
Printmaking
“Namesake House in Lincoln, Mass.”
mass
Walter Gropius
German
Bauhaus
“Narcissus”
Cellini
Italian
Mannerism
(An effete nude touches his left hand to his curly hair as he looks down and to his right)
“Nymph of Fontainebleau”
Cellini
Italian
Mannerism
(nude female reclining amidst boars and dogs, with her arm around a stag)
(found in Palace of Fontainebleau in Paris)
(made after fleeing Italy in the Sack of Rome)
“Opening of the Doors of the Spanish Inquisition”
Theodore Gericault
French
Romanticism
(only completed the preparatory sketches for the epic)
(does not look like this)
“Pallas and the Centaur”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
(A woman holds a giant axe and grabs the hair of the other title figure)
“Peace Bridge in Calgary”
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish
Architect
“Peace Paintings”
Robert Indiana
American
Pop Art
(commemorates the 9/11 attacks)
“Perseus with the Head of Medusa”
Cellini
Italian
Mannerism
(in the Loggia dei Lanzi)
(curved sword in one hand and an object spewing blood from its severed neck in the other)
Pest Control represents this artist
Banksy
British
Graffiti
“Pictoral Quilt”
Harriet Powers
American
Quilt
(One of two. Other is Bible Quilt)
“Point and Line to Plane”
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian
Blue Rider
“Pope Paul III and his Grandsons”
Titian
Italian
High Renaissance
(Ottavio bowing towards red shoe of Pope)
“Portrait of Innocent X”
Diego Velazquez
Spanish
Baroque
“Portrait of Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
(physician of Charles I)
(Did while in England)
“Portrait of Bindo Altoviti”
Raphael
Italian
Renaissance
“Rebellious Slave”
Michelangelo
Italian
Scultpure
(for tomb of Julius II, now in Louvre)
“Salt Cellar”
Cellini
Italian
Mannerism
(A miniature triumphal arch is next to Ceres, who lies across from Neptune)
SAMO was his earlier signature
Also nicknamed ‘The Radiant Child’
(same old shit)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American
Graffiti
“Self-portrait of Gaspard-Felix Tournachon”
Nadar
French
Photographer
“Seven Deadly Sins”
Hieronymous Bosch
Dutch
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(image of a flat landscape encased in a glass sphere, and set God’s all-seeing eye at the center)
“Simultaneous Windows on the City”
Robert Delaunay
French
Orphism
(Broke away from Cubism)
“Spring Shower”
John Steuart Curry
American
Regionalism
“St Jerome in his Study”
Jan van Eyck
Flemish
(red robe, red hat, reading book)
“St. Jerome Writing”
Caravaggio
Italian
Baroque
(red robe)
“St. John the Baptist (preaching)”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
(Walking Man but with head)
“Stefaneschi Triptych”
Giotto
Florentine
Late Gothic
(Back depicts the executions of St. Peter and Paul and whose front shows its donor offering it to Peter)
“Street Crossing”
George Segal
American
Pop Art / Sculpture
(most of his works looks like things)
“Street, Berlin”
Ernst Kirchner
German
Expressionism
(Die Brucke movement)
“Study of a Portrait of Innocent X”
Francis Bacon
British
Modernism
(based on Velazquez work)
“Suckling Madonna Enthroned”
“The Madonna in Her Chamber”
“Lucca Madonna”
Jan van Eyck
Flemish
(four lions on throne)
(Jesus at the tit)
“Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay”
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish
Architecture
“The Age of Bronze”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
(title nude figure places his right hand on the top of his head in this work by Auguste Rodin. The central figure also bends his right knee forward, producing a sense of mental awakening.)
“The Apotheosis of James I”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
(On ceiling of Banqueting House at Whitehall)
“The Banjo Lesson”
Henry Ossawa Tanner
American
Realism
“The Bolt”
Jean-Honore Fragonard
French
Rococo
(depicts a woman who tries to stop a man from locking a door)
“The Burghers of Calais”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
(France)
(Edward offered to spare the people of the city if any six of its top leaders would surrender themselves to him, presumably to be executed. Edward demanded that they walk out wearing nooses around their necks, and carrying the keys to the city and castle. One of the wealthiest of the town leaders, Eustache de Saint Pierre, volunteered first, and five other burghers joined with him.[1] Saint Pierre led this envoy of volunteers to the city gates. It was this moment, and this poignant mix of defeat, heroic self-sacrifice, and willingness to face imminent death that Rodin captured in his sculpture, scaled somewhat larger than life.)
“The Concealed Enemy”
George Caleb Bingham
American
Luminism
(Native American with a gun hiding behind tree stump)
“The Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine”
Jacques Louis David
Dutch
Neoclassicism
(depicts himself in the stands)
(two large vaults with green curtains)
(Josephine on a pillow)
“The County Election”
George Caleb Bingham
American
Luminism
“The Death of Chatham”
John Singleton Copley
American
Portraiture
(showed a member of the House of Lords suffering a stroke)
“The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar”
John Singleton Copley
American
Portraiture
“The Dying Gaul”
Attributed to Epigonus
Greek
Sculpture
(a Roman copy of the original Hellenistic piece, depicts a fallen Celtic warrior on his shield with his sword fallen beside him)
“The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba”
Claude Lorrain
French
Baroque
(inspired JMW Turner)
“The Genius of Victory”
Michelangelo
Italian
Sculpture
(For the tomb of Julius II)
“The Hay Harvest”
Pieter Bruegel to Elder
Flemish
Renaissance
(Part of the months series with Hunters in the Snow)
“The Haywain Triptych”
Hieronymous Bosch
Dutch
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(People getting crushed by the Haywain)
“The Honeysuckle Bower”
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
(Wife Isabella Brant and him seated in title thing)
“The Kiss of Judas”
Giotto
Florentine
Late Gothic
(Judas kissing Jesus while another man cuts off the ear of Malchus)
“The Lime Kiln”
Theodore Gericault
French
Romanticism
(showed a cart stopped next to a gray building emitting white smoke)
“The Love Letter”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Baroque
(The content of the title object in this painting is revealed through symbols like the lute the woman in yellow is holding and the seascape hanging on the wall in the background)
(1669 painting where a curtain is pulled back to reveal a black-and-white tiled interior where two women discuss the titular correspondence.)
“The Lovers”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
(two figures kiss with white sheets over their faces)
“The Marriage on the Eiffel Tower”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
(A man plays a violin while sitting on a large chicken as two people float by)
“The Minute Man”
Daniel Chester French
American
Sculpture
(Old North Bridge in Concord)
“The Monument”
london
Sir Christopher Wren
British
Architecture
(full name Monument to the Great Fire of London)
(311 steps spiral)
“The Morse Dial covers”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
(The Morse Dry Dock Dial was an in-house periodical for employees of the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company of New York City. The company was a leading shipbuilder and refit facilities during the early 20th century.)
“The Musical Contest”
Jean-Honore Fragonard
French
Rococo
(the central woman holds a yellow parasol in her left hand and a wreath in her right hand)
“The Mystical Nativity”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
(in reaction to Savonarola)
(twelve angels in circle, dropping crowns)
(three pairs of people and angels hugging)
(demon in bottom right)
“The Plague at Ashdod”
Nicolas Poussin
French
Classicism
“The Polish Rider”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(H. W. Janson et al described how the title figure’s horse was being “urged on … by the light from the left” in this artist’s The Polish Rider.)
“The Raising of Theophilus’ Son”
Masaccio
Italian
Fresco
(Right below ‘Tribute Money’)
(In the Brancacci Chapel)
“The Return of the Prodigal Son”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(a bearded man wearing a red jacket comforts the title character, who is depicted kneeling and wearing tattered clothes with his back to the viewer)
“The Storm on the Sea of Galilee”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
(His only water work I think)
“The Three Philosophers”
Giorgione
Italian
Renaissance
(town in background)
(man holds sheet of paper)
‘The Tomb of Pope Clement XIII”
Antonio Canova
Italian
Sculpture
(contains a relief sculpture of a pyramid, into which statues enter a doorway while a cherub and lion look on)
“The Tribe of Levi”
Marc Chagall
Russian
Surrealism
“The Verdict of the People”
George Caleb Bingham
American
Luminism
(politician sits dejected in the foreground)
(black man pushes wheelbarrow)
“The Walking Man”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
“Three Stages of Women”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
“Time Saving Truth from Envy and Discord”
Nicolas Poussin
French
Classicism
(shows a sickle-wielding putto and an orange-robed man with a dagger on either side of the title characters)
“Tragic Prelude”
John Steuart Curry
American
Regionalism
(Showing John Brown’s arrival in the state in the 1850s)
“Viipuri Library in Vyborg Library”
Alvar Aalto
Finnish-American
Architecture
“Vision of Saint Jerome”
Parmigianino
Italian
Mannerism
(John the Baptist pointing upward and standing by the sleeping title saint)
“Wurzburg Residence in Germany”
germany
Balthasar Neumann
German
Architecture
