Midterm 2 Paintings Flashcards
(10 cards)
Title: Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi
Year: 1620
Italian Baroque
Subject
Artemisia was trained by her dad, raped at 17, son died, etc.
Story from Apocrapha (not canonized bible) Judith sneaks into the syrian army and gets holofernes drunk and cuts his head off. Saves her people. Very vengeful against men.
Title: Olympia
Artist: Manet
Year: 1865
Realism
Subject
Nude woman is staring straight at us. She was a prostitute. People are confronted by her. They know her, but not by a good way.
Black servant giving gift. Black cat looking at viewer and hissing (agressive)
Title: Embarkation to Cythera
Artist: Wattaeu
Year: 1720
Rococo
Window into an immoral fantasy
Wattaeu was during Rocco Movement, King Louie.
Happy party scene, feathering brush strokes, pastel colors, Lovely and happy, but ontop of something dark and immoral
Cythera: Love island owned by Venus, People packing up to go to the island, without their spouses
Window into a world we don’t want to be in, not realistic place, Rocco is very organic, not everyday people
Title: Oath of the Horatii
Artist: David
Year: 1785
Neoclassicism
Window onto the world we’re aspiring to, time when people
Rome: Brothers are promising to protect Rome, 9 years before the french revolution, France needs to be like the romans, loyal and brave, etc. Patriotic duty
3 women = 3 muses/graces = Women are weaping for their sons who are leaving, but allowing their sons to go protect Rome.
Classical composition, single point,
Window on the world we’re trying to aspire to. Remember when times were better or “perfect”
Title: The Grande Odalisque
Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Year: 1815
Romanticism
Object
Romantic piece, Neploantic east, romanticise Asia, Brush strokes are very luxurious, texture.
Arm-chair painters, sat and theorized what was going on in Turkey, the east, etc. No real subjects
Odalisque = Sex worker
Woman - Very elongated spine and arm, very stylized body, sex object. Lots of textiles, even skin is luminenstant and velvet texture. She’s not really doing anything
Window into the world of exocitistm
Title: Stonebreakers
Artist: Courbet
Year: 1850
Realism,
Perfect window into the world
Rural parts of Courbet’s childhood in france. Dry color palette, dusty, brown, No faces, people could be anyone, Old man and young man, this young man will eventually be like his father the old man. We see time pass as we look from left to right
Title: The Swing
Artist: Fragonard
Year: 1765
Rococo
Girl is the Object
Escapism
Escapist: Love garden, unrealistic affairs
Donor Portrait
Pink on black
Flipping her shoe off to show her carelessness and lasciviousness
Title: Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Artist: Bierstadt
Year: 1870
Romanticism
Escapism
Window into the world of adventure
Escapist
German artist that moves to the USA
Paintings are about the light. Landscape that has the feeling of awe. Massive painting!
Not reality, romantic view of the western frontier. Go west and escape deary lives
Title: The Lacemaker
Artist: Vermeer
Year: 1670
realistic
Woman doing her job
Harvest of Death
Artist: O’Sullivan
Year: 1865
Propaganda about the Civil War
Personally arranged
Escapist
Photo