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RENAISSANCE: 3WELCOME

BAROQUE: 7ROMANTICISM: 9IMPRESSIONISM: 13POINTILLISM: 17POST-IMPRESSIONISM: 19CUBISM: 23FUTURISM: 25EXPRESSIONSIM: 29FAUVISM: 33SURREALISM: 37

RENAISSANCETHE ART: C. 1300-1550

THE QUOTES: THE POWER OF WORDS

“Renaissance art was produced during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Europe under the combined influences of an increased awareness of nature, a revival of classical learning, and a more individualistic view of man. Renais-sance art marks the transition of Europe from the medieval period to the Early modern age.”

- “Renaissance Art,” Encyclopaedia Britannica

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SANDRO BOTICELLI, THE BIRTH OF VENUS. C. 1485.“Words are in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.”

– Albus Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

LEONARDO DA VINCI, THE LAST SUPPER. 1495-1497. “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.”

- Ernest Hemingway“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”

- Jorge Luis Borges.

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“A commitment to the enduring importance of certain ideas, thinkers and challenges that every educated person needs to engage with seriously at some point in their lives.”

– Colgate University Brochure, “The Value of the Liberal Arts”

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.” – Victor Hugo

“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”

– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

RAPHAEL, THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS. 1509-1511.

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MICHELANGELO, THE CREATION OF ADAM. 1511.

“So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that

my earth is somebody’s ceiling.” – Sara Bareilles, “Chasing the Sun”

“I will not cease from mental fight,Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,

Till we have built JerusalemIn England’s green and pleasant land.”

– William Blake, “Jerusalem”

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BAROQUETHE ART: C. 1600-1750

THE QUOTES: EXTERNAL CHILL CAUSES

“A term meaning extravagant, complex; applied to a style in art and architec-ture developed in Europe from the early seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century, emphasizing dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold, curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall balance of disparate parts.”

- “Glossary of Art Terms,” Museum of Modern Art

INTERNAL WARMTH

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JAN VERMEER, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING. 1665-1667.“In the midst of winter I found that there was, within me, an invincible summer.”

- Albert Camus“Through the windowpanes, The snow warms us. Inside fires rageand hands thaw. As icicles drip they tug at our hearts and our minds, drawing golden spirals at our core.”

GEORGES DE LATOUR, THE PENITENT MAGDALENE. 1604.“Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain storms in the spring or fall, soothed by their cease-less roar and pelting; when an early twilight ushered in a long evening in which many thoughts had time to take root and unfold themselves.”

– Henry David Thoreau, Walden “Winter, a lingering season is a time to gather golden moments, embark on a sentimental journey and enjoy every idle hour”

– John Boswell

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THE ART: 1780-1850

THE QUOTES: REASONS TO LOVE OCTOBER

“In Romantic art, nature—with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought. The violent and terrifying images of nature conjured by Romantic artists recall the eighteenth-century aesthetic of the Sublime.”

- “Romanticism,” Metropolitan Museum of Art

ROMANTICISM

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THOMAS COLE, DISTANT VIEW OF NIAGARA FALLS. 1830.“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”

– Hal Borland “Whoever has made a voyage up the Hud-son must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some changes in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains.”

– Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle

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JOSEPH WRIGHT, DOVEDALE BY MOONLIGHT. 1785. “The place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie…The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole nine fold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.”

– Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow “Listen! The wind is rising and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings: now for October eves!”

– Humbert Wolfe

“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”

– Nova S. Blair “The days may not be so bright and balmy—yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over everything con-nected with autumn there lingers some golden spell—some unseen influence that penetrates the soul with its mysterious power.”

– Northern Advocate

JOHN HOPPNER. LADY ELIZABETH HOWARD. 1798.

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THE ART: 1865-1885

THE QUOTES: SIMPLICITY & SERENDIPITY

“The Impressionists were a group of painters who, in general, departed from the traditional pursuit of reproducing an illusion of real space in paintings of academic subjects, choosing instead to exploit the possibilities of paint to explore the fleeting effects of nature and the vagaries of visual sensation in, for the most part, rapidly executed works.”

- “Impressionism,” The Guggenheim Museum

IMPRESSIONISM

CHILDE HASSAM. CHURCH AT OLD LYME. 1903.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential

facts of life. And see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,

discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world. Not so the world can see you.”

– David McCullough Jr.

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CLAUDE MONET, MEADOW WITH POPLARS. 1875.“I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”

- Henry David Thoreau“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

- Margaret Atwood“Are you suggesting we dance our troubles away?”

– Chandler Bing, Friends

AUGUSTE RENOIR. DANCE AT BOUGIVAL. 1883.“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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CLAUDE MONET, WATER LILIES. 1916-1919.“A little magic can take you a long way.”

– Roald Dahl“Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.”

- Henry David Thoreau “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination”

– Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

EDGAR DEGAS. PRIMA BALLERINA. 1876.“There is no beauty without some strangeness.”

- Edgar Allen Poe “Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

– Vincent Van Gogh “ Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined”

– Henry David Thoreau

POINTILLISMTHE ART: 1880S

THE QUOTES: MEMORY LANE

“Pointillism originated in descriptions of George Seurat’s painting technique, in which paint was applied to the canvas in dots of contrasting pigment. A calcu-lated arrangement of coloured dots, based on optical science, was intended to be perceived by the retina as a single hue. The entire canvas was covered with these dots, which defined form without the use of lines and bathed all objects in an intense, vibrating light.”

- “Neo-Impressionism,” Encyclopaedia Britannica

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GERARDO DOTTORI, GIL AMANTI. 1907.

“There are some moments that I know I will long for even as I live them.”

- Anonymous “Hot summer nights, mid-July when you

and I were forever wild.” – Lana Del Rey, “Young and Beautiful”

“Nostalgia is a dirty liar that insists things were better than they

seemed.” - Anonymous

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it

becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

GEORGES SEURAT, SAILBOAT. 1884.

CAMILLE PISSARRO, SETTING SUN AND FOG, ERAGNY. 1891.

“But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing’s changed at all?”

– Bastille, “Pompeii”“I saw myself in summer nights

and stars lit up like candle lights. Just yellow lines, and tire marks,

and sun-kissed skin and handlebars.” – Sara Bareilles, “Once Upon Another Time”

POST-IMPRESSIONISMTHE ART: 1885-1910

THE QUOTES: THE STARS

“The Post-Impressionists were seen as being less interested than the Impres-sionists in recording the shifting patterns of nature, placing fresh emphasis on the “subjective” effects of objects rather than the scientific reproduction of visible phenomena. The artists were thought to embrace the idea of art as a process of formal design with purely expressive aims.”

- “Post-Impressionism,” The Guggenheim Museum

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COLLECTION: NOCTURNALITY

VINCENT VAN GOGH, CAFE TERRACE, PLACE DU FORUM, ARLES. 1888. “It is not in the stars to hold our des-tiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson “There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.”

– Frances Clark

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PAUL GAUGUIN, HAYSTACKS IN

BRITTANY. 1890.“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the

night.” – Sarah Williams

“Let’s sleep under the stars.”

- Anonymous

“Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”

- William Shakespeare, Macbeth “A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”

– Osho VINCENT VAN GOGH, WHEAT-FIELD WITH CROWS. 1890.

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CEZANNE. MONT SAINTVICTOIRE SEEN FROM LES LAUVES. 1902-6.“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson“Oh big uncomplicated moon.”

- A. Andrews

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VINCENT VAN GOGH, THE STARRY NIGHT. 1889.

“I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

– Anais Nin “I know nothing with any certainty but the sight

of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Super nova grew up to be stardust.” – Sara Bareilles, “Cassiopeia”

“Go out and paint the stars.” - Vincent Van Gogh

CUBISMTHE ART: 1907-1930s

THE QUOTES: THE DARK

An artistic movement begun in 1907, when artists Pablo Picasso and Georg-es Braque together developed a visual language whose geometric planes and compressed space challenged the conventions of representation in painting. Traditional subjects—nudes, landscapes, and still lifes—were reinvented as increasingly fragmented compositions.

- “Gossary of Art Terms,” Museum of Modern Art

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COLLECTION: NOCTURNALITY

EMILY CARR, OLD TREES AT DUSK. 1936.“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

– Victor Hugo “The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

– Robert Frost

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PABLO PICASSO, FIGURE DANS UN FAUTEUIL. 1909-1910.

“Men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung.”

– Henry David Thoreau, Walden “The long winter evenings, when the

snow falls fast and the wind howls in the wood”

– Henry David Thoreau, Walden

FUTURISMTHE ART: 1910-1930

THE QUOTES: LATE-NIGHT ENCHANTMENT

“The Futurists glorified the energy and speed of modern life together with the dyna-mism and violence of the new technological society...The Futurists sought to repre-sent the experience of the modern metropolis—namely, the overstimulation of the individual’s sensorium—by portraying multiple phases of motion simultaneously and by showing the interpenetration of objects and their environment through the super-imposition of different chromatic planes.”

- “Futurism,” The Guggenheim Museum

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COLLECTION: NOCTURNALITY

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JOSEPH STELLA, BROOKLYN BRIDGE. C. 1919.

“Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At

night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new

and deeper meaning.” – Elie Wiesel

“I had too much to dream last night.” - Anonymous

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GIACOMO BALLA. PLANET MERCURY PASSING IN FRONT OF THE SUN. 1914.“I often think that the night is more alive and richly colored than the day.”

– Vincent Van Gogh “Every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excit-ed imagination.”

- Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

JOSEPH STELLA, NEW YORK INTERPRETED, V THE BRIDGE. C. 192O. “Legend says when you can’t sleep at night it’s because you’re awake in someone else’s dream.”

- Anonymous“Sometimes I wonder why I spendThe lonely nights dreaming of a songThe melody haunts my reverie.”

- Nat King Cole, “Stardust”

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GIACOMO BALLA. SCIENCE AGAINST OBSCURANTISM. 1920.

“I’m always more creative right before I fall asleep.” - Anonymous

“To sleep, perchance to dream.” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I had too much to dream last night.” - Anonymous

EXPRESSIONISMTHE ART: 1900-1920

THE QUOTES: PASSIONATE LOVE

“The very elastic concept of Expressionism refers to art that emphasizes the ex-treme expressive properties of pictorial form in order to explore subjective emotions and inner psychological truths.”

- “Expressionism,” Encyclopeadia Britannica

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COLLECTION: LOVE’S MANY FACES

EMILE NOLDE, EVENING LANDSCAPE NORTH FRISIA. C.1930.

“Que se quede el infinito sin estrellas Y que pierda el ancho mar su inmensidad

Pero el negro de tus ojos que no muera Y el aroma de tu piel se quede igual. Aunque pierda el arcoiris su belleza

Y las flores su perfume y su color No sería tan inmensa mi tristeza

Como aquella de quedarme sin tu amor.” – Bobby Capo, “Piel Canela”

“Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never

doubt I love.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

FRANZ MARC, STABLES. 1912. “Whatever you do, do it with all your heart.” - Colossians 3:23“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent Van Gogh “She burned too bright for this world.”

– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights “What if I told you I’m incapable of tolerating my own heart?”

- Virginia Woolf

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EDVARD MUNCH, COMMITMENT (ATTRACTION). 1896.“You have bewitched me, body and soul.”

– Mr. Darcy, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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EDVARD MUNCH, THE KISS. 1896.“I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die; till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.”

- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”

– Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

– Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

FAUVISMTHE ART: 1900-1935

THE QUOTES: DREAMLIKE LOVE

“Fauve artists used pure, brilliant colour aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas. The Fauves painted directly from nature, as the Impressionists had before them, but Fauvist works were invest-ed with a strong expressive reaction to the subjects portrayed.”

- “Fauvism,” Encyclopeadia Britannica

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COLLECTION: LOVE’S MANY FACES

HENRI MATISSE, THE LYING NUDE. 1906.“If I go alone, I’ll lie in the wildflowers and dream of you.”

- Rod Wilmot “Like a river flows so surely to the sea, darling so it goes, some things are meant to be.”

- Elvis Presley, “Can’t Help Falling in Love”

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PIET MONDRIAN, SUN. C.1910.“You have witchcraft in your lips.”

- William Shakespeare, Henry V “Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones.”

- Coldplay, “Fix You”

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CUNO AMIET, WINTER AUF DER OSCHWAND. 1908.

“She acts like summer and walks like rain.” - Train, “Drops of Jupiter”

“I can see you there with the city lightsfourteenth flour, pale blue eyes

I can breathe you in.” - Parachute, “Kiss Me Slowly”

“I belong with you, you belong with me, you’re my sweetheart.”

- The Lumineers, “Ho Hey”

SURREALISMTHE ART: 1920s-1950s

THE QUOTES: TORTURED LOVE

“Advocating an art of pure imagination, Surrealists deployed the imagery of hysteria, primitive art, hallucinatory experiences, and phenomena associated with the radi-cally other to effect a revolution in everyday consciousness based on a critique of rationalist thought. This critique...took the form of disturbing images and juxtaposi-tions to disrupt stable, conventional notions of form.”

- “Surrealism,” The Guggenheim Museum

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COLLECTION: LOVE’S MANY FACES

RENE MAGRITTE, THE LOVERS. 1928.“We are never so vulnerable as when we love.”

- Sigmund Freud “Have you no idea that you’re in deep?

I dreamt about you nearly every night this week…‘Cause there’s this tune I found

that makes me think of you somehow And I play it on repeat until I fall asleep.”

– The Arctic Monkeys, “Do I Wanna Know”

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ANDRE MASSON, AUTOMATIC DRAWING. 1924.

“I kept trying to make it go away, but how do you kill a feeling?”

- Dan Humphrey, Gossip Girl“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.”

- William Shakespeare, Macbeth “Callar y quemarse es el castigo más grande que

que nos podemos echar encima.” - Federico García Lorca, Bodas de Sangre

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.” - Anonymous

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“You hold me without touch, keep me without chains, never wanted anything so much, then to drown in your love, and not feel your rain.”

- Sara Bareilles, “Gravity” “I have blisterson my feet from dancingalone with yourghost.”

– Tyler Knott Gregson“Courage, dear heart.”

- C.S. LewisSALVADOR DALÍ, TRISTAN AND ISOLDE. 1944.

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“He had beautiful eyesThe kind you could get lost in

And I guess I did.” – SB

“I used to build dreams about you.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

MAX ERNST, GALA EULARD. 1924.

SALVADOR DALÍ, THE BURNING GIRAFFE. 1937.“And my heart caves in when I look at you.”

- Anonymous “It’s better to feel pain, than nothing at all.”

– The Lumineers, “Stubborn Love”