Selected Paintings and Artists Flashcards
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
Born near Florence, Died in Italy as well
Worked in Italy / France after it took over Milan
Notable Works
Last Supper
Mona Lisa
Lady with Ermine
He was called a “Polymath” and was left handed
Boulevard Monmarte on a Winter Morning
Camille Pissarro
1897
The Card Players
Paul Cezanne
1894
Musee D’Orsay
No. 5
Jackson Pollock
1948
Abstract Expressionism
Private Collection, NYC
American Gothic
Grant Wood
1930
Art Institute of Chicago
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre August Renois
1880
Washington, DC
View of Toledo
El Greco
1596
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Rembrandt
1633
Dutch Golden Age
Was in Boston…
The Night Cafe
Vincent Van Gogh
1888
Yale University Art Gallery
Rembrandt Van Rijn
1606-1669
Born and worked in the Netherlands
Dutch Golden Age/Baroque
Notable
Night watch
Storm on the sea of Galilee
The Anatomy Lesson
One of the greatest visual painters of all time.
Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
1512
Sistine Chapel
Watson and the Shark
John Singleton Copley
1778
National Gallery of Art, DC
American Painter. Based on a shark attack in Cuba.
The School of Athens
Raphael
1509
Vatican
Clear indication of a key theme of the renaissance - throw back to ancient Athens
Pilgrimage to Cythera
Jean-Antoine Watteau
1717
Rococo
Louvre
(also called the Embarkation for Cythera)
Carles I in Three Positions
Anthony Van Dyck
Baroque
1635
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Casper Friederich
1818
Romanticism
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Thomas Gainsborough
1750
National Gallery in London
British, not American
Christina’s World
Andrew Wyeth
1948
MOMA
Lady with an Ermin
Leonardo da Vinci
1489
Krakow, Poland
The Nightwatch
Rembrandt Van Rijn
1642
Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
Born in Spain, worked in France most of his life
Cubist, Surrealist
Notable works
Guernica
Don Quixote
Three Musicians
He was inspired by Matisse
The Flower Carrier
Diego Riviera
1935
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Las Meninas
Diego Velazquez
1656
Baroque
Prado, Madrid
The Grand Canal Venice Painting
JMW Turner
1835
Whistler’s Mother
James Abbott McNeil Whisler
1871
Realism
Museum D’Orsay
First American painting purchased outside the USA.
The Ninth Wave
Ivan Aivazovsky
1850
St Petersburg, Russia
Happy Accident of the Swing
Jean-Honore Fragonard
1767
Rococo
London
The Ladies Waldegrave
Joshua Reynolds
1780
Rococo
Scotland
Et in Arcadia Ego
Nicolas Poissin
1639
Baroque
Louvre
The Two Fridas
Frida Kahlo
1939
Naive Art
Painted shortly before her divorce from Diego Rivera
The Sleeping Gypsy
Henri Rousseau
1897
MOMA
Example of Naive Art - seems almost childish
Rousseau never travelled out of France, but depicted scenese in exotic locales.
Received very little recognition during his life for his work- it came after.
Breezing Up
Winslow Homer
1837
National Gallery of Art, Washington
American Realism
The Kiss
Gustav Klimt
1907
Symbolism
Austria
Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890
Born in Netherlands, died in France
Worked in France
Notable:
Starry Night
Cafe Terrace at Night
The Potato Eaters
Notable that he did over 2100 works
Johannes Vermeer
1632-1675
Born and worked in Netherlands
Baroque/Dutch Golden Age
Notable:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Astronomer
The Milkmaid
Known for his use of light.
The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins
1875
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Charles I in Three Positions
Anthony van Dyck
Baroque
1635
Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh
1889
MOMA
Painting from the asylum in Saint Remy de Provence
The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
1533
National Gallery, London
Meant to celebrate the two men but also remind viewers of the mortality and imporance of religion (Cross and Skull)