Visual Analysis Flashcards
Dejeuner sur L’Herbe
Eduoard Manet 1863
Testimony to refusal to conform, not traditional subjects, mash up of different, perpective off, departure point for modern art? 1863 salon refused it, Whistler Symphony in White similar, choice between women?, women staring at viewer,
The Surprised Nymph inspiration?
Music in the Tuileries
Eduoard Manet 1862
Representation of Modern Life, painterly style, impressionistic, Baudelaire, Gautier, borther, flaneurs, linking people and nature
God Creating Adam
Michelangelo c.1512
Suggested reference in Dejeuner sur L’Herbe with the arm movement, Manet as God?
The Artist’s Studio: A Real Allegory
Gustave Courbet 1855 (Before Manet)
The children perhaps suggest the untrained eye is favourable, haters on one side, supporters on the other, outdoor painting in the studio, staged/dramatized, naked woman behind him unnaturally
The Bathers
Gustave Courbet 1953
Dark similar to Dejeuner, similar composution
Westminster
Augustus Welby Pugin & Sir Charles Barry 1840-52
1834 Westminster burned down, competition for architects, Pugin main figure, William Dyce murals, competition for murals, Dyce not entered but picked.
Daniel Maclise mural
Pointed arch windows, GRAND scale, symmetry, spikey, assertion of power,
Religion
William Dyce 1851
Royal Robing Room, westminster could not cope with frescoes, wanted to make grand ones like the Germans
The Spirit of Justice & The Spirit of Chivalry
Daniel Maclise 1847/49
Opposite ends, and from the historical murals, Romanesque architecture within Gothic, stepping back? Depiction of slave being freed
University of Glasgow
Sir George Gilbert Scott 1870
Gothic Revival,
Spring
Hans Makart 1881-84
The Vision of the Sermon
Paul Gauguin 1888
Division between real and imaginary? originally for a mural, celtic myths, red buckwheat, French exploring importance of decorative arts, looking to the past to revive the past
The Talisman/Celtic Tale
Paul Serusier 1888
Influenced by Gauguin, vivid colours, emphasized/exaggerated, a celtic tale
The Druids - Bringing in the Mistletoe
George Henry & EA Hornel 1890
Revivng religion/myths of the past
Mistletoe important in pagan rituals, Japanese influences (trade opened 1853), influence from Klimt?, dream-like, bright colours, liner perpective, not tradtion, Glasgow Boys
Bacchus and Silenus, The Evergreen, Orpheus and Euridice, Joan of Arc and her Scottish Guard
John Duncan Murals, or sketches for murals, late 1800’s. Scottish Celtic Revival (Ramsay Gardens Edinburgh, Dunfermline)
The Glasgow Four and date
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret macdonald Mackintosh, Frances MacDonald McNair, Herbert McNair 1900ish
The May Queen/The Wassail
1900 Charles and Margaret McDonald
Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach an Necker Germany
David Chipperfield 2002-6
Taking traditional themes and creating new outlook, very minimal, fresh, airy approach
Democracy meaning a questioning of historicism
AEG Turbine Factory
Peter Behrens 1908-9 Berlin
revolutionary and controversial, very industrial and practical, some use of traditional forms, rustication, pillars, entablature
The Robie House
Frank Lloyd Wright 1908-10
‘The Prairie Style’ cantilevers, open planes, supporting walls, overhanging roofs, always fireplace focus of the room, ‘regionalism’ small places
Cloud Hanger
El Lissizky 1924
Suggestion for Moscow, never built, trying to create new modern environment
Cathedral of Socialism
Walter Gropius 1919
Founder of the Bauhaus, signifying social and political change (after the wars) very distinct style, ‘Wassily Chair’new materials, very functional attitude,
Barcelona Pavillion
van der Rohe 1929
no function, more flexibility for living in and subjects, use of light and water, ‘move from quantity to quality’, not ornamented, fine structure/delicate
Le Corbusier
Points towards a new architecture: 1. Pilotis 2. Roof Garden 3. Free Plan 4. Ribbon window 5. Free facade Free up space by raising the house/building, ideal for housing schemes, roof gardens to utilise optimum space
The Royal Academicians
Johann Zoffany 1771-2
Woman founders only in portraits on the wall, Angelica Kaufman and Mary Moser (nude models) ecorche model, life models, head busts, joshua reynolds and zoffany self portrait
Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet 1872
New view point, impressionistic, playing with light and atmosphere, colours faded and pastel.
Terrace at Sainte Adresse
Claude Monet 1867 (Earlier, with Boudin)
Empress Eugenie on the Beach at Trouville
Eugene Boudin 1863
Sketched outside and brought to studio, edging towards ‘en plein air’
Huge influence on Monet
But here is where I live
Honore Daumier 1882
Paris reconstructed by Napoleon III, tranforming environments and homes
The anatomy class at Ecole des Beaux-arts
Francois Salle 1888 Shows the anatomy class with life model, rare due to expenses, only best students, ecorche and plaster casts as well
Ellen Day Hale self Portrait
1885
Takes a forensic approach, focusing the viewer on her face and expression with a horizontal composition (unusual), early strong woman portrait
Portrait of Eva Gonzales & Eva Gonzales Self Portrait
Eduoard Manet 1870
Portrait of his pupil, dressed in very inappropriate clothing for painting, portrays her as an amateur.
Self Portrait shows her authority as an artist, dressed more appropriately, asking to be respected.
Hesitating between the arts of music and painting
Angelica Kaufmann 1791
Portrait of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Emily Osborn 1860
Barbara Bodichon a female activist, leading to increased employment for females in the industry, helped the female artist seem more normal
Milly Childers & Sabine Lepsius Self Portraits
1885&1889
Redefining the female self portrait, more abstract and contemplative, unique and showing of their authority and free will.
Corner of the Artists Room in Paris
Gwen John 1907-09
Model for Rodin, redefining space, and importance of space, like a portrait for a space, perhaps signifies the absence of her lover (Rodin)
The Artwork of the Future
Richard Wagner 1849
‘Gesamtkuntswerk’ total-work-of-art, ‘each is subservient to the whole’ wanted to integrate music dance and drama in opera to create a unified whole, (The Ring Cycle), distinction between fine arts and crafts blurred, United Workshops and Viennese Workshops
Room 27
International Art Exhibition Munich 1897
United Workshops wanted a fresh modern TWOA and was recieved very successfully,
Viennese Workshop
Founded by Joseph Hoffman, Kolo Moser in 1904
Came from British Medieval Revival (William Morris), no assembly lines, all artists marked with seals
Palais Stoclet
1906-11/18
Viennese Workshops, TWOA, no one allowed to enter the building, made out of marble, lighting and atmosphere very important, elongated and linear, african artifacts, Klimt frieze(cartoons in Vienna), emotional response part of the ‘Gesamtkuntswerk’
Horta House
Victor Horta 1898-1901 Brussels
many materials, cream tiles and wooden furniture compliment each other, everything unified, very expensive, staircase - light extremely important to create atmosphere
Adolf Loos
1870-1933
Wrote criticisms on the TWOA and unified interior (Poor Little Rich Man) claiming it was unpractical and unlivable, not enjoyable
The Interpretation of Dreams (Painting)
Rene Magritte 1935
Commenting on semantics, the link between objects and language, where language comes into art, if language can describe art in any way, bouncing off of Einstein revelations and Freudian theories
Here everything is still floating
Max Ernst 1920
Dadaism, disorientating, collage, dream-like, reaction to the war and the violence, turning upside down of morals, alienating. Refusal to be part of art that is subservient to a self-destructive society
The Chinese Nightingale
Max Ernst 1920
The Song of Love
Giorgio de Chirico 1914
Surrealism, although did not like the surrealists attempting to analyse his work in Freudian terms, scale very contradictory, unsure if it had a meaning, dream-like
Of This Men Shall Know Nothing
Max Ernst 1923
sexual? alchemical imagery, obsesion in the early 1900’s, could be likned to a Freudian case study of a man who was temporarily insane, thought he was man and woman, his limbs were tied to a planetary system, complete rejection of reality, acult
The Tilled Field
Miro 1920’s
Pictography, not collage more symbols and signs, said to be based on a poem about merlin, rejection of reality, nature, exercising the imagination
The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali 1931
Joined the surrealist movement late, using realist technique to escape reality, strange imagination (biting a dead rat) memory goes off like soft Camembert cheese
Fur Covered Cup and Saucer
Meret Oppenheim 1936
Combining nature and manmade, sexual connotations? Rejection of taboos in surrealism, giving life to an inanimate object
Large Glass & Dust Breeding
Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray 1920
Man Ray takes close up photograph of Duchamp’s piece and looks like battlefield, reestablishing photography as not a purely realist medium.
Rayographs & Solarisations
Man Ray 1920’s
Rayographs: photograms, light sensitive emulsion into the dark room and objects placed on the papaer to create unlit spaces
Solarisations: assistant Lee Miller turned the light on briefly in the dark room and created a halo effect, redefining photography, much more artistically accepted and respected.
Admonitions
Gu Kaizhi, 4th Century
Scroll Painting
Tells a moral story, episodic, Calligraphy punctuates it, text the dominant feature, personal approach to painting, about etiquette
The Night Revels of Han Xizai
10th Century, Gu Hongzhong
Story-telling, record of his night entertainment, man with top hat appears in every section, literal screen separates sections
Early Spring
Guo Xi 1001-1009
perspective, atmosphere, space and density, more intricate nearer the front
Zeusix Selecting his models for helen of troy
Angelica Kauffman 1764
Strawberry Hill
William Marlow 1776-80
The Meeting of Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo
Daniel Maclise
1861 and restored in 2015
The Baptism of Ethelbert
William Dyce 1846
In the House of Lords Chamber, Westminster, the first English King to convert to Christianity
View of Matavai Bay, Otaheite
William Hodges 1776
On voyage to new lands, idealistic, following enlightenment theory of adam smith etc, imperialist
Gauguin Self Portrait
1889
Represented as both christ and demon, mural-like, celtic revival
The Awakening of Cuchullin
John Duncan Mural 1895-7
Common Room, Ramsay Lodge Edinburgh, influenced by French style (Gauguin), has an aura of naturalism, using modern subjects and materials to bring nature back into art, celts were known for having an affinity with nature
House for an Art Lover
Glasgow, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1989
Entered competition, Gesamkunstwerk
