Images Flashcards
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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (1942) Reaction to Pearl Harbor. Lighting.
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Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830) Upward pyramid shape. Self-portrait
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Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper (1968) Color Linocut. Lived in Cuernavaca Mexico
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Gianlorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (1622–1624). Marble. 7’6”. Implied motion, diagonal lines.
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Polykleitos, Doryphoros (c. 450-440 BCE) Balance emphasis
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Marisol, Baby Girl, 1963 Distortion of Scale sexism and racism
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Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss (c. 1912) Cubism Deconstruction
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Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930) Realism. artist’s sister and dentist
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Jan Van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride (1434) Iconography – shoes, mirror,
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Claudio Bravo. Package (1969). charcoal and pastel.
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Michelangelo, Studies for The Libyan Sybil, 1510-11. Red Chalk
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Giotto, Lamentation The Mourning of Christ (c. 1305) Fresco (In the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua) Fresco. wet plaster surface
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Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (1796) $1 bill.
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Hiroshige, Rain Shower at Ohashi Bridge (1857) Japanese Color Woodblock. On rice paper.
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Rembrandt, Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves (1653). Drypoint.
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Käthe Kollwitz, The Mothers, (1919). Lithograph. Many of her works depict the grief and suffering of mothers and children
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (1936) Gelatin-silver print.
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled # 138 (1984). Photograph. Feminist Artist
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Michelangelo, The Crossed-Legged Captive (1530-34). Marble. Carving.
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Pablo Picasso. Mandolin and Clarinet (1913). Wood construction and paint. Made from found pieces of scrap, which would have a link or a memory for the artist.
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt lake, Utah (1970) Earthwork. Also a film on it. Sometimes submerged.
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Maya Lin, Vietnam Memorial, Washington (1982). Granite. Age 21 when she won the competition to design the wall. Harrased because of her ethnicity.
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Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, Saint Louis (1890). Art Nouveau. Steel-Cage Architecture.
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House (“Fallingwater”), Bear Run, PA (1936). Reinforced Concrete Architecture. This house is the paradigm of organic architecture, where a building becomes an integral part of its natural setting
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Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach (1988) Acrylic, quilt, canvas.
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Venus of Willendorf (Upper Paleolithic c. 25,000BCE). Associated with fertility.
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Egypt, Palette of King Narmer(Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.3200 BCE). depicts Narmer as a leader, and as a warrior.
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Tutankhamen’s Innermost Coffin, 1370-13522CE. made of gold and weighing almost 250 pounds.
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The Three Goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon (c.438-431 BCE) Phidian style
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France, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France (Begun 1134 CE, rebuilt after 1194 CE) Gothic
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Pantheon, Rome (Early Empire, 117-125CE). a huge temple dedicated to all the gods now a church.
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Colossal Head of Constantine (Roman, Late Empire, c. early 4th Century CE). Marble. New Rome – Constantinople. Christianity
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Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, (526-547CE) Byzantine
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Justinian and Attendants (c.547) Byzantine. Mosaic. In the Church of San Vitale.
