Paintings Flashcards
What is this painting?
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck 1434
Oil on oak
Talking points:
- an Italian merchant living in Belgium commissioned the painting, Flemish painting -Flemish painters introduced oil to Italy
- Renaissance period, body has unrealistic look, drawn out.
- way he paints, we have a sense of space. Use of shadow and polish to make look like a polish. New idea.
- Very delicately painted, small brush, Very tiny painting, yet the detail in the mirror represents the space accurately.
- Van Eyck was intensely interested in the effects of light: oil paint allowed him to depict it with great subtlety in this picture, notably on the gleaming brass chandelier. Van Eyck was intensely interested in the effects of light: oil paint allowed him to depict it with great subtlety in this picture, notably on the gleaming brass chandelier.
What is this painting?
The Coronation of the Virgin:
Jacopo di Cione and workshop
1371
Egg tempera on wood
Talking points:
Gothic art because of arches
St. Peter-attributes- church and key
What is the painting?
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the infant John the Baptist (The Burlington House Cartoon)
about 1500
Leonardo da Vinci
Charcoal (and wash?) heightened with white chalk on paper, mounted on canvas
Talking Points:
What is this painting?
David
Michelangelo
1501
original: marble, cast is plaster
Talking Points:
nicknamed Giant, yet its about a boy who killed a giant
free standing because we can walk around it
In this, David is more mature, and Goliath’s head is missing, meaning its before the battle, looking in anticipation. This is a different approach to the story than most artists.
What is this painting?
Sketch Model for Young Slave
Michaelanglo
1516
Material: Wax Model
sketch model for the unfinished slave in Florence
Made of wax so he could keep redoing it
What is this painting?
Cartoon for Draught of Fishes
Raphael
1515
Designed for tapestries
body color on paper laid onto canvas
Commissioned from Raphael for Pope Leo the 10th
illustrates Peter’s role of fishers of men
tapestries to hang in Sistine Chapel
What is this painting?
Bacchus Ariadne
Titian
1523
Oil on Canvas
Titian got commission because Raphael had died
Mythological, Conversation Starter
Figure Composition, Narrative
movement and scale in a space that is believable
What is this painting?
The Ambassadors
Holbein
1533
Oil on Oak
Renissance
Construction of human mind reminded of that with skull
Double Portrait and Still Life
Man on left more important, known through pose
anamorphic perspective
What is this painting?
Supper at Emmaus
Carrivagio
1601
Oil and Tempra on Canvas
Beyond the Renissance
Religious Subject
Contemporary Clothes
Baroque
What is the painting?
The Laughing Cavalier
Frans Hals
1624
Baroque
Expression Unnormal for time period
Includes much detail
What is this painting?
The Rising of the Sun
Francois Boucher
1753
oil on canvas
Rococco
Use of pink and blue
decorative
made to flatter french king
aristocrats enjoy
What is this painting?
The Swing
Fragonard
1767
Oil on Canvas
Rococco
triangular composition
color scheme leading to romantic
What is this painting?
Perdita
Gainsborough
1782
Oil on Canvas
Rococoo
What is this painting?
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Gainsborough
1750
Oil on Canvas
Half Landscape, Half Couple and Dog
What is this painting?
The Shipwreck
Turner
1805
Oil on Canvas
Realism and Horror
What is this painting?
Straford Mill
Constable
1820
Oil on Canvas
Romantic
Feeling of wanting to go back to his place
What is this painting?
Haywain
Constable
1821
Oil on Canvas
Created in Studio, Sketches in Summer
What is this painting?
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Paul Delaroche
1833
Oil on Canvas
Academic, almost like a photograph
Romanticising the scene
What is this painting?
The Fighting Temeraire
Turner
1839
Oil on Canvas
What is this painting?
Ophelia
Millias
1851
Oil paint on Canvas
What is this painting?
La Loge
Renoir
1874
Oil on Canvas
What is this painting?
The Musee
Rodin
1896
Bronze
Amputated the arms
Broken up and Fragmented, yet called it complete
Resemble inner emotion
What is this painting?
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Manet
1881
Oil on Canvas
What is this painting?
The Water Lilly Pond
Monet
1899
Oil on Canvas
What is this painting?
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Van Gogh
1889
Oil on Canvas
what is this painting?
Eve
Brock
1900
first plaster cast, then marble
combination of naturalism and spiritualism
expression of feeling and modelling
what is this painting?
Seated Nude
Picasso
1910
oil paint on canvas
early years of cubism
geometric planes
aiming to represent reality in new almost scientific manner
uses technique for expressive ends, woman stripped of her humanity and appears mechanistic also demonstrates tradition in her pose and in the play of light
what is this painting?
Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a mantle piece
Barque
1911
Analytical cubism
greyer and happened earlier
multiple view points
complete break with past
what is this painting?
Rock Drill
Epstein
1913-1915
After WWI cut hands off
Vortasis art group (power to concentrate in a moving, whirling world)
American artist interested in mechanics
what is this painting?
The Man Child
Dobson
1921
uses stone with a return to carving
celebrating secular subject
cubistic has modernist feel
what is this painting?
Celebes
Max Ernst
1921
oil on canvas
considered first surrealist painting
related to his experience in the German army during WWI
what is this painting?
Fish
Brancusi
1926
bronze, metal, wood
what is this painting?
The Seagrum Murals
Rothko
1958
originally commissoned for a restaurant in manhattan, doesn’t carry out the commission
negotiates present with tate because of his intereset in Turner
inspired by God of Wine and unreason
what is this painting?
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck
1434
oil on oak
Reinessance (early) unrealistic look of body
painting to show gold
true feeling for natural light
painting commissioned by the “chap” on the left
