Campbe11's Soup Cans Flashcards
“777 Tower in LA”
Cesar Pelli
Argentina-American
Architecture
(also called the Pelli Tower)
“An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump”
Joseph Wright of Derby
English
Portraiture
(A glass bowl containing a frantic white cockatoo)
(Empty cage)
(A man who stretches one hand towards the viewer while his other hand rests the title device)
(A man comforting his daughters who are frightened by the central action)
(A glass bowl with a skull in it is placed in front of this painting’s central light source)
(Right side shows the moon out of a window and a boy holding open a small metal door of the cage)
(A young couple standing on the left seems to be ignoring the central action)
(A man holds a pocket watch in his hand but does not look at it)
(Man holds his glasses in his hands and rests his chin on a walking stick)
“And the Home of the Brave”
Charles Demuth
American
Precionism
(shows watertower in silhouette and traffic light at bottom right)
“Aqueducts in the Roman Compagna”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
(Large slabs of color)
(Uses a limited palette to depict a decayed expanse)
“Anxiety and Despair”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
(Paired with The Scream)
(Shows red sky and Oslo bridge)
“Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, NC”
Cesar Pelli
Argentina-American
Architecture
“Bacchante with a Panther”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
(Child riding panther)
(Accompanies this)
“Bacchante by the Sea”
“Ashes”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
“Bathers aat Moritzburg”
Ernst Kirchner
German
Expressionism / The Bridge
“Blue and Green Music”
Georgia O’Keeffe
American
American
Modernism
“Buildings, Lancaster”
Charles Demuth
American
Precionism
“Cain in the United States”
David Alfero Siqueros
Mexican
Muralist
“CCTV Building in Beijing”
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch
Architecture
(nicknamed “big boxer shorts”)
(prominent empty space in the middle)
“Court of Neptune Fountain in Washington DC”
Roland Hinton Perry
American
Sculpture
(Directly in front of the Library of Congress)
“Constructed Head No. 2”
Naum Gabo
Russian
Constructivism
“Cupric Nitrate”
Damien Hirst
English
Young British Artists
(part of his ‘spot paintings’)
“Dance Around the Golden Calf”
Emil Nolde
German
Expressionism / The Bridge
“Cruel Tales”
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
“Death in the Sickroom”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Surrealism
(shows death of artist’s sister Sophie)
(Bearded man prays with wife)
“Divje Babe flute”
Neanderthals
Ancient Slovenia
Hunter-gatherers
(Ivan Turk discovered it in 1995)
(made from a cave bear’s femur)
(43,000 years old)
“Dona i Ocell in Barcelona”
Joan Miro
Spanish
Surrealism
(It’s supposed to look like a penis)
“Echo of a Scream”
David Alfreo Siquieros
Mexican
Muralist
“Europe After the Rain”
Max Ernst
German
Dada
“Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
“Evil Genius of a King”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
(features brightly colored toys)
“Exploding Plastic Inevitable exhibitions”
Andy Warhol
American
Pop Art
(Held between 1966-1967)
(Featured bands like Nico and the Velvet Underground, as well as showings of his movies)
“Eye Balloon”
Odilon Redon
French
Symbolism
“From Porfiriato to the Revolution”
David Alfero Siquieros
Mexican
Muralist
“Eye to Eye”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
(Mouthless lovers staring at each other separated by tree)
“From Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism”
(I couldn’t find the cover to the book, but here is his “Women at the Well”)
Paul Signac
French
Pointilism
“Gas Tanks at Clichy”
Paul Signac
French
Pointilism
“Girl Running on the Balcony”
Giacomo Balla
Italian
Futurism
“Hebdomeros, the Metaphysician”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
(about a lonely wanderer)
“Girl Under Japanese Umbrella”
Ernst Kirchner
German
Expressionism / The Bridge
“Homer and the Shepherds”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
“Interrogation of the Prisoner”
Eduard Vuillard
French
Post-Impressionism / Nabis
What action did David Alfaro Siqueiros famously do, for which he got exiled for?
Attempt to kill Trotsky
He was a Stalinist, and will be the last line of any tossup about him, right before “a Mexican muralist”
“Joyousness”
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
(Dog sniffs foreground, woman in purple dress plays flute)
“L’Origine du monde”
“The Origin of the World”
Gustave Courbet
French
Realism
(Sorry you made it this far in studying and discovered this. If it wasn’t the fact that this is a Gustave Courbet piece, and is one of his most famous pieces, then I wouldn’t include it)
“L’Enseigne de Gersaint”
Antoine Watteau
French
Rococo
“La Orana Maria”
“Hail Mary”
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
(Woman with yellow angel wings in background)
(Two villagers approach Tahitian versions of Mary)
“La Revue Blanche”
Pierre Bonnard
French
Post-impressionism / Nabis
“Lake Nemi”
John Robert Cozens
English
Landscape
(watercolors)
“Legend of St. Maria Aegyptica”
Emil Nolde
German
Expressionism / The Bridge
“Lemminkainen’s Mother”
Akseli Gallen Kallela
Finnish
Romantic Nationalism / The Bridge
“Les Arbres dans la Montagne”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
(Thick, diagonal lines characterize his cliche-verres)
“London Underground Map”
Harry Beck
British
Engineering draftsman
(made in his spare time)
“Lyons Munitions Factory”
Eduard Vuillard
French
Post-Impressionism / Nabis
“Madonna of Humility with Donor”
Jacopo Bellini
Italian
Renaissance
(includes the words “Hail Mother, Queen of the World” on Mary’s halo)
“Marsh Landscape”
Emil Nolde
German
Expressionism / The Bridge
“Manao Tupapau”
“The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch”
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
(Naked Tahitian woman lies face down on yellow couch)
(
“Men Shall Know Nothing of This”
Max Ernst
German
Dada
“Michelangelo in his Studio”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
(head on shoulder)
“Minneapolis Central Library”
Cesar Pelli
Argentina-American
Architecture
“Montparnasse Station”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
(Bananas dominate lower right of this painting)
“Murals for the Konigstein Sanatorium”
Ernst Kirchner
German
Expressionism / The Bridge
“Mysterious Bathers”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
(shows lots of dudes bathing)
“National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing”
Paul Andreu
French
Architecture
(egg-shaped)
“Night of the Poor”
Diego Rivera
Mexican
Muralist
(shows man teaching people to read by lantern light)
“Orgy: Night of the Rich”
Diego Rivera
Mexican
Muralist
(Shows decadent banquet)
(In background, man with belt of bullets hands shotgun to a compatriot)
(Woman with no pupils is fed champagne)
“Pacific Design Center in LA”
“The Blue Whale”
Cesar Pelli
Argentina-American
Architecture
“Center Green and central fountain”
(has a building encased in red glass)
“Pacific Science Center in Seattle”
Minoru Yamasaki
American
Architecture
(Contains four arches that light up in different colors above reflecting pools)
“Dr. Syntax series”
“Dr. Syntax Sketching the Lake”
Thomas Rowlandson
English
Satirical
(watercolors)
“Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan”
Giovanni Bellini
Venetian
Renaissance
“Public Gardens series”
Eduard Vuillard
French
Post-Impressionism / Nabis
“Recollection of Mortefontaine”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
(Three girls stripping fruit from a tree)
“Rice University’s Herring Hall”
Cesar Pelli
Argentina-America
Architecture
(light-colored concete bricks to create a criss-cross pattern across the redbrick wall)
“Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier”
Paul Cezanne
French
Post-Impressionism
“Rosie the Riveter”
Norman Rockwell
American
Realism
(eating a sandwich)
(foot on Mein Kampf)
“Saint Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold”
Master of the Osservanza
Sienese
Anonymous
(St. Anthony recoling in the midst of a bunch of dead trees)
“San Giobbe Altarpiece”
Giovanni Bellini
Venetian
Renaissance
“Saint Francis in Ecstasy”
Giovanni Bellini
Venetian
Renaissance
(now in the Frick collection in New York)
(Donkey, skull, heron, hare)
“San Marco Altarpiece”
Fra Angelico
Florentine
Early Renaissance
(in the Church of San Marco)
(infant Jesus holds a black orb)
(small image of the Crucifixion)
“Self Portrait with Cigarette”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Surrealism
“Smiling Spider”
Odilon Redon
French
Symbolism
“Soothsayer’s Recompense”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
(Two palm trees underneath an arch)
“St. Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church”
Fra Angelico
Florentine
Early Renaissance
(St. Lawrence in a flame pattern cloak)
“St. Peter of Verona Triptych”
Fra Angelico
Florentine
Early Renaissance
(in the Church of San Marco)
“Still Life with Silverware”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
“Stonehenge”
John Constable
English
Romanticism
(watercolor)
“Street Scene in Dresden”
Ernst Kirchner
German
Expressionism / The Bridge
“Tabernacle of the Linaioli”
Fra Angelico
Florentine
Early Renaissance
(in the Church of San Marco in Florence)
“The Aino Triptych”
Akseli Gallen Kallela
Finnish
Romantic Nationalist / The Bridge
“The Boat Ride from Sorrento”
Charles Demuth
American
Precionism
(rowing from a smoldering volcano)
(illustration of Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle”)
“The Croquet Game”
Pierre Bonnard
French
Post-Impressionism / Nabis
“The Defense of the Sampo”
Akseli Gallen Kallela
Finnish
Romantic Nationalism / The Bridge
“The Discovery”
Norman Rockwell
American
Realism
(Shows a kid discovering who Santa Claus)
“The Double Dream of Spring”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
(features blueprint, sculpture, and dummy’s head)
“The Flagellation of Christ”
Jacopo Bellini
Venetian
Renaissance
(Christ hidden between arches of the building)
(Rendered in stark Albertian perspective)
“The Ghost of a Flea”
William Blake
English
Romanticism (but that’s his literary movement)
(That’s real gold on real mahogany)
“The Golden Rule”
Norman Rockwell
American
Realist
(Was on the cover of my comparative religion class)
“The Law Student”
Norman Rockwell
American
Realism
(depicts Abraham Lincoln)
“The March of Humanity”
David Alfero Siqieros
Mexican
Muralist
(Bodies burn trying to go across wall of the Parque de Lama)
“The Model Home in Orange County”
Bluth Company
American
Land development
(Similarly built houses in both Cabo and Iraq)
(Attic has ‘Pop-Pop’)
CJK
“Self-Portait as St. Sebastian”
Egon Schiele
Austrian
Expressionism
“The Models”
Georges Seurat
French
Pointilism
(That’s his ‘A Sunday Afternoon’ on the wall)
(Model puts on green sock)
“The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins”
William Blake
English
Romanticism (but that’s his literary movement)
(He painted watercolor scenes from the Bible)
“The Pathetic Song”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
“The Plum Blossoms”
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
“The Predestined Child”
Odilon Redon
French
Symbolism
(Depicts Ophelia)
(Has red hair and eyes)
“The Problem We All Live With”
Norman Rockwell
American
Realism
(Shows Ruby Bridges, who is the first black girl to join a school in the South, in Louisiana)
(Thrown tomato)
(Federal marshalls)
“The Prophet”
Emil Nolde
German
Expressionism / The Bridge
(woodcut)
“The Seed of the Areoi”
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
(Part of his Tahitian paintings, while he was living on Tahiti)
“The Shining poster”
Saul Bass
American
Graphic designer
(designed movie posters like this one for ‘Vertigo’)
“The Torment of Saint Anthony”
Michelangelo
Italian
Renaissance
(earliest known work by Michelangelo)
(Vasari said when he was 13)
(Anthony floating above ships on the sea)
(Copy of a Martin Schongauer woodcut that shows him staring at the viewer despite being clubbed)
“The White Album”
Richard Hamilton
American
Pop Art
“The Abbey in the Oakwood”
Caspar David Friedrich
German
Romantic
“This is art. You will hear a buzzer. When you hear the buzzer, stare at the art. [BUZZER]”
Aperture Science Labrotories
American
Quantum Tunneling
(“You should now feel mentally reinvigorated. If you suspect staring at art has not provided the required intellectual sustenance, reflect briefly on this classical music. [MUSIC INTERRUPTED BY BUZZER]”)
CJK
“Transformed Dream”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
(one of his fruit paintings)
“Tres Personajes”
Rufino Tamayo
Mexican
Muralist
“Triple Self-Portrait”
Norman Rockwell
American
Realism
“Two Characters Attacked by Dogs”
Rufino Tamayo
Mexican
Muralist
“Uncertainty of the Poet”
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian
Surrealism
(Shows headless armless statue next to bananas)
“Ville d’Avray”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
(Spindly, shimmering trees before a silver lakefront)
“Wells Fargo Center in Mnneapolis”
Cesar Pelli
Argentina-American
Architecture
(art-deco inspired)
“What, Are You Jealous?”
Paul Gauguin
French
Post-Impressionism
(Nude woman slyly looks at viewer and another nude lies on beach)
“William Rush and His Model”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
“Woman with a Hat”
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
“Young Woman with a Mandolin”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French
Realism
(Melancholy woman sits next to an easel)
