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Question 1

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Breughel the Younger

Question 2

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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez

‘Pope Innocents’

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Sandro Botticelli
‘The Birth of Venus’ 1484-1486

• first full length, non religouse nude since antiquity
• made for Lorenzo de Midici

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Leonardo Da Vinci
‘Mona Lisa’ 1503-1519

-who is the subject and why is she smiling? Leonardo’s mother? Self portrait in drag?

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Johannes Vermeer
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ 1665

• speculation it is Vermeers maid
• very photorealistic, creating the idea that Vermeer owned a pre-photographic device ( camera obscura)

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Vincent Van Gogh
‘The Starry Night’ 1889

-created at the asylum in Saint-Rémy where he committed himself

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Gustav Klimt
‘The Kiss’ 1905-1908

• Art Nouveau
• highpoint of the artists Golden Phase 1899-1910 where he uses gold leaf

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
‘Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1’ 1871

• Whistler’s mother (Anne)
• an arangement of right angles
• symbol of motherhood ironically because the woman has a very severe expression

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Jan van Eyck,
‘The Arnolfini Portrait’ 1434

• Northern Renaissance
• first painting executed in oil
• Erwin Panofsky proposed it is a wedding contract
• first depiction of interrior space using orthognal perspective to create a sense of space. ( a painting you could step into)

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Hieronymus Bosch,
‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’
1503-1515

• triptych
• forerunner to Surrealism

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Georges Seurat
‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ 1884-1886

• impressionist
• Timeless permanence found in greek sculpture
• Classic landscape in modern form

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Pablo Picasso,
‘Les Demoiselles d’avignon’ 1907

• Broke the representational tradition of western painting
• incorperating allusions of the african masks

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
‘The Harvesters’ 1565

• it was extraordinary for a time when landscapes served mostly as backdrops for religious paintings

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Édouard Manet,
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863

• caused a scandal when it deuted at the Salon des Refusés
• mash - up of classical nude figuration and modern life

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Piet Mondrian,
‘Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930

• radical distillation of form, color and composition to thei basic components.
• minimalism

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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velàzquez
‘The Family of King Philip IV’

• a painting of a painting within a painting
• a self portrait ( art equivelent of braking the forth wall)
• are the Las Meninas looking at us or the painter?

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Pablo Picasso,
Guernica, 1937

• antiwar cris de coeur
• depiction of bombing of the eponymous Basque city during the Spanish Civil War by German and Italian aircraft allied with Fascist leader Francisco Franco.
• comissioned for the spanish pacillion

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes,
The Naked Maja 1797-1800

• staring unashamed at the viewer
• first depictions of public hair in the west

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,
‘Grande Odalisque’ 1814

• commissioned by napoleon’s sister

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Eugène Delacroix
‘Liberty Leading the People’ 1830

• revolution
• Romatic style

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Claude Monet,

‘Impression Sunrise’ 1874

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Casper David Friedrich ,
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1819

-Romatic style

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Théodore Géricault,

‘The Raft of the Medusa’ 1818-1819

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Edward Hopper,
‘Nighthawks’ 1942

• a study of alienation as the fogures studiously ignore each other while losing themselves in a state of reverie or exhaustion.

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Marcel Duchamp
‘Nude Descending a Staircase No 2’
1912

• cubism and futurism