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Breugel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565

Protestant

• Love of everyday life/ earthy/ secular with a note of spirituality

• Oil painting (is forgiving because it stays wet for a long time/ First used by Flemish; )



Bernini, David , 1623-4

Baroque

• Dynamism rather than reposeful balance

It is Baroque Art because

• He is in the moment; climatic moment; height of the story; his whole body becomes involved inthe action; creating tension in body and face

• Involves the viewer



Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew , 1599-1600

Baroque

• Oil on canvas

• Baroque drama and well as Baroque use of light (tenebrism and chiascuro)

• Image of Counter Reformation. Counter Reformation; movement by the Catholic Church makesto regain followers. Strategy used baroque drama and new style to change imagery tocontemporary.

• Contemporary dressed



Germain Boffrand,

Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise (Interior), Paris

c1732

(Rococo)

• Interior design, luxury, sense of high culture

• Extension of the French Baroque

• Curved linearity and ornaments

• Boisorie and floral and shaped paintings

• Colors become light, poetic, Overtly ornate furnishings• Subject Matter: Lavish lifestyle



Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Marriage Contract , 1761

Enlightenment

• Subject Matter: About middle class, family values, human emotion

• Form is different; less luxurious

• Greys and browns, the setting is different

• More of a sense of structure; different ideal

• Family value; does not make it look less real



David, Death of Socrates, 1787

French Revolution, NeoClassicism

• Socrates is referred to an Example of Virtue

• Political system changes and so does art; push towards secularization

• Resembles classical past and renaissance but with Baroque use of light

• Intense grid of horizontals and verticals

• Color pattern is hardened, crisp and clear; not hazy

• Looking to Greek and Roman sculpture; emphasis on drawing.

• Why is subject matter changing: the enlightenment values; no one is above the law; call to civicview/ what it means to have a democracy/republic



Horatio Greenough, George Washington, 1840

Late American NeoClassicism

A type of neoclassicm which did not work because

• He is on a throne; looks like a king

• He is nude from the waist

NB. Neoclassicm = Classical + Baroque + Renaissance





Hosteen Klah, Whirling Log Ceremony blanket,, c1925

Native North American / Navajo

• Products used are natural

• Sense of extreme abstraction

• Weaved in intentional errors to not resemble sand painting

• Navajo; sand painter

• Style of blanket comes from sand painting



Gelede mask installed at the AMNH,

Yoruba, Nigeria, 19th century, African

• Themes; gender, life cycles, power; was for post menopausal women

• Abstraction distillation and accumulation; abstraction in the form of exaggerated forms but stillthe idea of syntax which leads to symbolism

• Symbolism

• Utility and use; is not a craft but is a prop in the bigger artwork

• How is it displayed ; just the object itself, is in a case by itself does not show context is how it isused in the masquerade.



Trigo Piula, Ta Tele, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1988

West African

• Contemporary Art

• Subject matter: still reflects traditional art with the inclusion of political and social issues

• Oil on canvas



Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19

Romanticism

• Baroque element: climatic moment (they are about to be saved)with

• Renaissance attention to anatomy and renaissance idealism

• There is always a grand gesture in Romanticism

• Great diagonals

• Painted based on a real event(boat crashes and they are all on a small raft) o emphasize larger

view of human struggle• NB. Romantism = Baroque and Neoclasssical Elements



Goya, Third of May, 1808 , 1814

Romanticism / Realism

• Romanticism makes us view deeper into the event

• Strong use of diagonals

• Subject Matter: On May 1808 Spanish rose briefly against Napoleon

• Baroque use of light

• Climatic Moment: people are about to die

• Human struggle



Daumier, Third Class Carriage, 1862

Realism

• Movement of journalism; illustrated journalism; engraving

• Idea of spreading information

• Heroic portrayal of lower class

• Political movement of communism and socialism

• Based on contemporary event



Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 1876

Impressionism

Subject Matter: because of regimented hours middle class started having leisure places,modern life , light, picture is about middle class because middle class were the peoplenow buying the painting

Why is it an impressionist painting• Sense of fleeting moment; motion all over but still the use of viewer involvement• Cropping: giving a snapshot quality(Intentional use of cropping strategy)• Art starts to take apart the elements used to make art• Intention is not to trick you



Degas, Absinthe Drinker , 1877

Impressionism

• Obsession with light• Cropping(like she is trapped with the box)• Effects of light and shadow• Loose and visible brushwork



Seurat, Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grand Jatte, 1884

Pointilism / Post-Impressionism

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• Idiosyncratic; things taken from impressionism and each artist does their own thing• Subject matter is taken from impressionism; leisure activity of the middle class• Like impressionism it is interested in optics and• Seurat has taken the brushwork and hardens it by using point/dots



Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902-4

Post-Impressionism

• Similar to Seurat takes his own spin on impressionism .• Analytic brushwork• Awareness of color theory• Architectural brushwork as well as structural brush work• “Makes the viewer feel like it can be snapped forward of the landscape“ •

Cezanne wants us to look at a picture and get different points of view• NB. This is the branch of Post Impressionism which leads to Cubism





Boccioni, States of Mind: Farewells, 1911

Futurism

• Futurist are all Italians; youth , energy speed, and violence• Subject Matter: Political, about warfare• Very abstract with fierce colors• Uses a vocabulary from cubism but uses pointillism• Use of technology• Use of signs (like Picasso)• Obsessed with portraying movement vs. still life of Picasso in cubism• Impulse at the time was to captivate time because of the invention of TV(versus the

invention of photograph which influences photograph)



Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

Dada

• Dada seeks to make new beginning and wants to deviate completely from all typesof previous art- did not want the idea of paint on a canvas

• Duchamp created the idea of “ready made” and plants the eternal seed thatanything is art

• With Duchamp’s “ready made” he revolutionizes artwork and leads this toconceptual art

• Dada : nonsense word and is a reactionary movement without a unified style that

occurs in several places at once (Hanover, Berlin, Paris, NY)- occurs after WW1



Masson, Battle of the Fishes, 1926

Surrealism

• Surrealism ; seeks to call out meaning to the madness /bizarre ofdreams , eroticisms through means of psycho-analysis.(Surreal-abovereality)

• Surrealism coincides with automatism whose goal is to revel ourunconscious desires and thoughts when we just say/sketch things asthey come

• Started by just taking paper to pen, complete abstract motion with handin automatism then completes it by calling out the images

•No preconceived thought to what is drawn



Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1950

Abstract Expressionism

• Total Abstraction• Art world at this time shifts to New York from Paris• Abstract Expressionism personal expressive line, a signature style• Came from surrealism and automatism and is a statement of existence; in the

moment• Is an action painting ; transparency process ; the viewer can see hoe I was made;

painting is being honest about painting; is not about illusion(anti-illusion makes itmodern)

• Expresses the artists state of mind with the goal of striking an emotional chord with

the viewer.• Reaction of post WW2



Wesselman,

Still Life #20

1962

Pop Art

• Pop art celebrates the commodity/ domestic• Subject matter; Art as a commodity• Ambiguity is always in pop art (difficult to formulate explanation)• Use of collage; reproduced image• Pop Art is a reaction to abstract expressionism

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Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962

Pop Art

• Unmatched ambiguity• Takes popular images• Uses the technique of de-skilling the artist by using silk screens technique

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Tony Smith, American

Die

1962

Minimalism

• The goal of minimalism is to make the viewer aware of their own experience withinthe space

• Industrially produced or built by skilled workers• Minimalism is contemporary with Pop Art• Minimalism focusses on the raw industrial commodity vs. the domestic commodity

of Pop Art• Removes any trace of emotion or intuitive or ration decision making; because of the

fact that it can only be viewed in a limited number of ways

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Smithson, Robert

Spiral Jetty

1970

Earthworks

• Interest of entropy; decaying into evenness• Sense of time/ breaking down• Interest in the fact that it is going to decay• Interest in geologic time, a prehistoric past• Non-commodity art• Photographic documentation; art relies heavily on photography as photography and

film become important• Interested in the sublime / sci-fi

• The beginning of art that is not for sale

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