Test 3 Flashcards
William Blake
Elohim Creating Adam
1800
Was driven by his own emotions
Was a poet and created images to go with his poems
Wanted to work without being help back by standards
Characters in his art are a mix of Christianity and Greek myology
Painting of the first man
Relates to Micholangelo’s piece of god reaching out to the people
There is a snake around the leg of adam symbolizing temptation
The body of adam looks lifeless
Was supposed to be a celebration of the creation of man but looks like a sad scene
Background looks flat
Franciso Goya
The Family of Charles IV
1800
Goya was the court painter for Charles IV
Charles IV was a kind ruler but wasn’t effective
His wife was much more powerful then him
Shows them as family oriented
Everyone seems like they are important
Queen is in the middle to show power
Goya wanted to show their wealth
Goya included himself with a large canvas in front
Goya made himself less important in the painting
Didn’t flatter the faces at all
Woman behind the princess doesn’t have a face yet because the prince didn’t pick a wife yet
Doesn’t look like a formal royal portrait
Francisco Goya
The Third of May
1820
Charles IV stepped down
Napolien and the army occupied Portucal
Spanish civilians stoop up and tried to get the French out
The french lashed out and killed the Spanish civilians
Civilians killed on the top of a hill as an example
Isn’t a fair and equal fight
You feel bad for the spanish people since they have no wea[pns
The darkness verses the light
Doesn’t look peaceful
The figure in the middle reminds you of christ and being sacrificed
Can see a churh far in the background
Theodore Gericault
Raft of the Medusa
1820
Things are happening in the moment
Things that are being driven by emotion
400 people aboard the boat when it sank
150 people without lifeboats
People were found on a boat two weeks later
Caption was given his job because of who he knew not because he deserved it
Painting of lower class people
Showing the end of the second week
Showed the bodies decaded after two weeks
See a lack of dignity in the people
Eugene Delacroix
Scenes from the Massacre at Chios
1820
Taken place on the Greek island of Kios
Attempt to break free was unsuccessful for the odimens
Odimens burned most of the island of Kios.
Painting of a dramatic moment
Shows some of the monstrosities that are happening in the world
Big dramatic gestures and people who look suffering
A lot of emotion
Painted weak bodies
Painting was criticized harshly in the salon
Can see the town burning in the background
Two triangular figures of people
A lot of colorful pattern on the woman looking up with hope
Learned pattern from his travel
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Grand Odalisque
1820
Was said it didn’t make sense
Was inspired by mannerism
Her personal astetic of the body
Became the great neoclassist
Not the character that should be promoting the neoclassism style
Gustave Courbet
Stonebreakers
1850
Inspired by the people he saw in his hometown
People breaking stones so the road can be built
Figures are unidealised
The world is becoming modern
Was meant to show the challenges of an everyday guy
Doesn’t show the faces to make them inanimate objects, which is how their boss saw them
Courbet had a social adgenda with his paintings
Gustave Courbet
Burial at Ornans
1850
This painting is of some of the people from his home town
This is not of an actual event
Displayed in the salon in 1850
Got harsh criticism
Has a lack of focal point
Dominated by blacks and whites
There is no real movement
Figures lack realism
Would use a paint brush and a palette knife to apply the paint
Jean-Francois Millet
The Gleaners
1850
The artist grew up knowing about farm life
Wanted to celebrate pesent life style
Painting shows very specific experiences in farm life
Artist had a large social agenda
Has a distinct style
The figures are against the land so they are united
The clothing color and nature color go together
Shows people doing backbreaking work
Honore Daumier
Gargantua
1830
Did cartooning in the beginning and then started painting
Got a lot of negative attention and was in prison when it was published and the magazine that it was in was banished
Current king of France was Louie Fulipe
Louie was always showned witha pear shapped head
People delievering gold up to the kings mouth
King on the toilet
Expelling documents
Showing the king being payed off by the people
Edourard Manet
Olympia
1870
African american woman caused controversy
Woman was a prostitute
Found the nudity inappropriate
The flower suggest that she is a prostitute and may be a present from a man
The bed is unmade
She looks confident
African American woman symbolizes erotic woman
Olympia was one of the most common names given to prostitutes
Making the viewer the client
Edouard Manet
The Luncheon on the Grass
1870
Eyes go directly to the nude woman
Its in a secluded environment
Painting is flat and the nude woman comes foward
Artist always looked for sources from the past
Alexandre Cabanel
The Birth of Venus
1870
Uses nudity in a historical context
Won first prize at the salon in 1863
Claude Monet
Impression, Sunrise
1870
Painted outside and captured what he saw right in front of him
It wasnt what he knew but what he saw
Was said to have a very good eye
Painted with dabs and strocks and dashes of color to give an uneven finsh
Very aware of the physical texture
Gives you not only a place but the feeling of the light and atmosphere of the place
Claude Monet
Boulevard des Capucines
1870
Painted from a friends studio of a street scene
Was interested in doing series
Painted the same spot numerous times to see the changes through out the seasons
Liked to capture modern scene in Paris
Fast brush strokes to show the movement of the people
Berthe Morisot
Summer’s Day
1870
One of several woman artist
Used dabs and dashes
The only way to tell the difference in people is the different brush strokes
Was an upper-class woman
Was restricted to be out on her own
Painted what she was restricted to see
Husband is rarely in her paintings
No interactions between the woman
Mary Cassatt
Woman in a Loge
1870
Was interested in old master artists like Valaskez
Liked subjects inspired by old modern life
Was restricted to the subject matter she had access to
Often painted woman
Painted domestic scenes
In a Paris opera house
People went there to be a part of society
Mirror was used to see you and the people around you
Interested in capturing a spontaneous moment
Mary Cassatt
Maternal Caress
1900
Is a printmaking piece
Helps create texture in the piece
Liked to create the colored prints
Takes a religious subject of mother and child and puts it in a modern context
Male artist would never attempt this in the 19th century
Prints influenced by japenese prints
Edgar Degas
The Rehearsal of the Ballet on Stage
1870
Facial features are smudged, cant see the full features
Captured a moment in time
Hands thrown in gestures
Not a moment in history that you would need to remember
Postition where the painting was done makes it seem everyday
Postitioned on the stage with the dancers
Is done in pastels
Worked indoors
Auguste Renoir
Ball at the Moulin de la Galette
1870
Loved figures
Looked at a crowd of figures and painted the colors and light and shapes
Was intersted in modern life
Painting of outside bar, cafe
Would have stuck out to an average French viewer
Worked in a quick loose brush stroke
Auguste Renior
Luncheon of the Boating Party
1890
Paul Cezanne
Mont Sainte-Victoire
1890
The father of modern art
Was a rebellion against the salon and traditional painting
Was badly critiqued
Often did landscapes and sometimes did portraits
Painted this landscape many times
Branches of the tree echo the shapes of the mountain
Interested in exploring the ambiguities of the painting
Has a clear focus point
Georges Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
1890
Was fascinated by color
People enjoyed a picnic on a popular island in Paris
Dressed and posed people who wouldnt be in the same area together
Imposed his own ideas
Very geometric
Everyone is placed very spcifically
His technique lacked the spontaneous
Painted completely with dots
Has a monkey in this painting
Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night
1890
Only sold one painting
Was in a mental institution
What he did was not a form of therapy
Seen as an artist who was different from other artist
Painted from his window from the mental institution
Didn’t paint what he saw, invented some
The twisting and turning clouds are supposed to be the universe
The village is suppose to be quiet
Things are painted opposite of what they are
Paul Gauguin
Mahana no atua
1890
Went to Tahiti and was modernized
Painted what he imagined of Tahiti not what he saw
Named the work Tahitian but it was wrong (used a translation dictionary)
People on the beach worshipping the god
Based on what gauguin read about eastern island
In the middle shows birth,life and death
