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