Red, Yellow, Blue

2-D

eliminate representational forms

Elements=color, line, & shape

pure color separated by thin black lines

geometric shape= solid & stable feel

Embrace IV

3-D

color, value, shape, line, & texture

mainly red/orange, darker base

warm color= feel happy/excited

lines move upward=uplifting feel

rough/bumpy texture

Starry Night

contrast, emphasis, balance, & movement

values used throughout

warm & cool colors

visually balanced

movement leads the eyes throughout

The Screwarch

balance, pattern, contrast, & movement

asymmetrically balanced

repeating spiraling pattern

shows movement w/ its attached form

The Penitent

hatching= create shading & tones

lines emphasize forms= volume

crosshatching= darker values

Sunflowers

Chrome yellow pigment turned brown over time

object scattered on a wood surface=trompe l'oeil

realistic colors, proportions, & shadows

3-D

illusion/meant to deceive the eye

Wheatfield with Crows

sense of movement

sky=stormy & turbulent weather

leaning wheat field=wind & storms

The Last Supper

1 point perspective

focus= central figure

David

Marble

object scattered on a wood surface=trompe l'oeil

realistic colors, proportions, & shadows

3-D

illusion/meant to deceive the eye

David

The Last Supper

Large bronze doors

beginning of sculpture for this movement

The Dinner Party

incorporated fiber arts & celebrated the position that. needlework & fabric has had in the history of women

set a place at the table for 39 impt women

1st major female artwork

Migrant Mother

Migrant Mother

early photography

record events of war

document events during the Great Depression

America persisted

worry/fear

raising children during a time of extreme poverty

The Spiral Jetty

permanently damaged the land it was created on (criticized)

The Spiral Jetty

The Artist is Present

The Artist is Present

Cut Piece

sat on stage while viewers took turns cutting her clothing off

objectifying women

Cut Piece

Shoot

Rope Piece

tied by an 8 foot rope for an entire year but did not touch

people's struggle to connect socially & physically

Rope Piece

wrap of the oldest bridge in France

sand colored fabric

+ another islands in bright pink fabric

The Grain Sifters

mundane scene of workers sifting grain

challenged history paintings w/ posed scenes

dark/serious tones

serious-looking people

present day struggle of the common man

Gustave Courbet: The Grain Sifters

Pablo Picasso: Guernica

The Meaning of Social Security

Guernica

best-known antiwar painting

depict violence, chaos, & suffering from war

how war effected innocent civilians

inflicted by the Spanish Civil War

woman holding a dead child, wounded horse, arms raised in horror

symbol of devastation

Ben Shahn: The Meaning of Social Security

depict FDRs speech on upcoming social security legislation & the ambitions of the New Deal programs

Thomas Hart: Prodigal Son

desolate wasted land as well as the farmer mourning it

represent all farmers affected by this tragic event

ruined land/animal carcass/move on from own land

Prodigal Son

School of Athens

Ancient Greek philosophers

mastery of perspective

natural poses & lighting

Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper

Raphael: School of Athens

Ancient Greek philosophers

mastery of perspective

natural poses & lighting

The Last Supper

technique: sfumato (subtle gradations to create a smoky look)

+Mona Lisa

Oedipus & the Spinx

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Oedipus & the Sphinx

scene from Greek myth of Oedipus

when Oedipus was guessing the riddle of the Sphinx

Ingres won prestigious Prix de Rome

Thomas Cole: The Course of Empire: Destruction

The Course of Empire: Destruction

embodies the focus on nature

disaster

divine wrath, & natural catastrophe

vast spaces dwarf people, nature's triumph over man

In Liberty Leading the People

In Liberty Leading the People

female figure of liberty leading the French Revolution of 1830

violent dramatic, catastrophic scene

The Raft of the Medusa

larger than life size

aftermath of the wreck of a French naval frigate

people escaping on a makeshift raft

men dying

struggling to survive against nature

The Raft of Medusa

Gustave Courbet: The Stonebreakers

The Oxbow

American wilderness

bend in the Connecticut River after a thunderstorm

broken trees, violent cliffs, dark rain clouds

blue sky & tranquil bend in the river

Gustave Courbet: Max Schmitt in a Single Scull from 1871

Gustave Courbet: The Gross Clinic

The Stonebreakers

1849- ordinary workers in his native region of France

natural color & lighting to portray his subjects

The Gross Clinic

scene from a surgical operation

Claude Monet: Haystack

Edgar Degas: The Dance Class

Mary Cassatt

domestic scenes w/ child & mother

Haystack

The Dance Class

Portrait of Dr. Cachet

expresses emotion through pose, facial expression, & colors

brushstrokes & heavy outlines

Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of Dr. Gachet

bold & unusual colors

flat planes & flattened spaces

paintings of landscapes & people of French Polynesia

father of post impressionism

geometric shapes

bold colors

reduce nature to geometric shapes

new ways of modeling space & volume

The Scream

strong colors, distorted forms to express their feelings

artwork came from within

swirling/exaggerated brushstrokes

sought to evoke emotional response

Edvard Munch: The Scream

Henri Matisse: Woman with Hat

Woman with Hat

Large, flat areas of colors

convey emotions

unusual colors, green in face

Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2

Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending on a Staircase No. 2

geometric forms of a nude descending from left to right

movement & rhythm

Vladimir Tatlin: Monument to the 3rd International

3-D counter relief of wood & metal

? the traditions of art

technology + aesthetics of machines

criticized for combo of functional items + art

Monument to the Third International

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

feet of a women + leash + walking dog

repetition of feet, leash, tail

dynamic movement of the woman + dog

blur of movement, conveying speed & direction

new abstract form of art

modern

geometric shapes & primary colors

black lines

The Persistence of Memory

Surrealism

melted pocket watches on a dreamlike landscape

The Treachery of Images

Surrealism

pipe w/ words in French "This is not a pipe"

Campbell's Soup Cans

portraits of many celebrities in bright & vivd colors

Drowning Girl

comic image of a drowning girl & her boyfriends in a boat w/ text

Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Time

Rene Magritte: The Treachery of Images

Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans

Roy Lichtenstein: Drowning Girl

Shepard Fairey: Andre the Giant

Jean Michel Basquiat

Keith Harin

Aaron Douglas: Aspiration

murals on buildings

illustrations on covers of black publications

slavery--> freedom

Jacob Lawerence: Migration Series

Migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North

Albert Bierstadt: A River Landscape, Westphalia

accord of man w/ the beauty of greatness of nature