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25,000 BCE
Venus of Willendorf
Austria. represents power of female fertility -
15,000 BCE
Hall of Bison
Altamira Caves, Spain- closed to visitors for preservation -
447 BCE
Herakles or Dionysus
Athens, Greece. removed from Greece by Great Britain in early 19th century-- greek gov wants it back -
437 BCE
The Temple of Athena Nike
BY MNESICLES. -
250 BCE
Great Mosque of Cordoba
The arches are a vast network of pattern, and the color banding adds to the intensity of the pattern -
210 BCE
Army of the First Emperor of Qin
restoring ancient damaged art requires research and careful handling, as well as same guessowkr -
175
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome
By: Musei Capitolini. Reinforces ruler's power -
447
Parthenon
crazy mathematical ingenuity -
Period: 500 to 1400
Middle Ages
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520
Women at the Fountain House
Greek hydria. -
Period: 1150 to 1400
Gothic
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1200
Six Persimmons
MU-QI. simplicity reflects philosophy of Zen Buddhism -
1312
Baule Seated Female Figure
Baule artist are not associated with their works but the commissioners are-- they perform rituals that give the works meaning -
Period: 1400 to 1550
Renaissance
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1434
Wedding Portrait
JAN VAN EYCK. full of symbolism -
1454
Gutenberg Bible
ALBERTI. first mass printed book -
1482
The Birth of Venus
BY: SANDRO BOTTICELLI. Celebrates ancient Greek myth and glorifies the beauty of the human body -
1492
Proportions of the Human Figure (Vitruvian Man)
LEONARDO DA VINCI. genius -
1495
The Last Supper
LEONARDO DA VINCI. ritual meal is also a religious ceremony -
1501
David
MICHELANGELO. big head and tiny penis -
1508
The Libyan Sibyl
MICHELANGELO. years of grime and soot darkened paint on Sistine Ceiling -
1509
School of Athens
RAPHAEL. amazing perspective -
1513
Knight, Death, and the Devil
BY ALBRECHT DURER. engraving -
1519
Feathered Headdress of Moctezuma
Aztec. Conquearing armies often plunder and take art of subjugated peoples -
1538
Venus of Urbino
BY TITIAN. sexualizing women -
1555
Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed
Moscow, original function to glorify Russian Orthodox church-- now secularized world heritage site -
1570
Studiolo of Fancesco I
GIORGIO VASARI. private collections of art objects were often housed in special rooms in palaces- precursors to museums -
Scribe and Painter at Work
HAKIM SANA'I. kitab khana -
Period: to
Baroque
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Judith and Holofernes
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI. beautiful work ignored because woman painted it -
Table of Desserts
JAN DAVIDSZ DE HEEM. glorious display of food has a subtheme about the impermanence of earthy life -
The Night Watch
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN. product of protestant middle-class culture -
Period: to
Neoclassical
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Portrait of Louis XIV holding the plan for the Royal House at Saint-Cyr
NICOLAS RENE JOLLAIN THE ELDER. King Lous XIV instituted Royal Academy to set standards for artistic production in France -
Cathedral of Dubrovnik
BY ANDREA BUFFALINI. -
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
BY THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH. uses local colors -
Period: to
Realism
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Period: to
Romanticism
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A Pair of Lovers
KITAGAWA UTAMARO -
Basket Fairy
ANDO OR UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE. collab of artist, block carver, papermaker, and printer -
The Raft of the Medusa
BY THEODORE GERICAULT. Critics thought it wasn't art for stupid reasons I don't understand. -
The British Museum
SIR ROBERT SIDNEY SMIRKE. facade reflects attitudes of era -
First known photograph
JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS. -
Shoki the Demon Queller
BY UTAGAWA KUNISADA. -
Ophelia
JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS. romantic image of death -
Period: to
Modern
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Olympia
EDWARD MANET. scandalized the public because it was not presented as a historical reference -
Period: to
Impressionism
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At the Milliner's
BY EDGAR DEGAS. pastels create intense colors -
Period: to
Post Impressionism
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Woman in a coffeehouse, Madame Ginoux in the Cafe de la Gare in Arles
BY PAUL GAUGUIN. Note similarities between Vincent's -
Portrait of Mme Ginoux
BY VINCENT VAN GOGH. -
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
VINCENT VAN GOGH. portraits are visual record of inner emotional states -
Almond Blossom
VINCENT VAN GOGH. one of my favs -
Mother and Child
BY MAR CASSATT. Representation in style -
Royal Linguist's Staff
Acts as line in space -
Landscape at Aix, Mount Sainte- Victoire
BY PAUL CEZANNE. broke traditional ways of depicting space and form -
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
BY PABLO PICASSO. Began cubism -
Period: to
Cubism
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Period: to
Futurism
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Jungster Tag (Last Judgment)
BY WASSILY KANDINSKY. Expresssionistic in style-- bold colors -
The Morning Anxiety
BY GIORGIO DE CHIRICO. uses multipoint perspective -
Nude Descending a Staircase
BY MARCEL DUCHAMP. Motion is implied by the repeating shapes a downward direction -
They're Biting
BY PAUL KLEE -
Marcel Duchamp
BY JOSEPH STELLA. Silverpoint drawings= delicacy -
Period: to
Surrealism
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Yellow Calla
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE. Lots of disagreement on whether work is sexual or not -
Genesis
BY JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH. References old symbolism while using new painting techniques -
Object (Le Dejeuner en fourrure)
BY MERET OPPENHEIM. -
Guernica
PABLO PICASSO. war -
Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian Figure
By: Olowe of Ise
In Nigeria in Africa- meant to reinforce power of local king -
The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers
JOAN MIRO. imagery and title suggests dreamlike quality -
Nighthawks
EDWARD HOPPER. studies loneliness of city life -
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly
JAMES HAMPTON. untrained artist -
Period: to
Popart
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Blue Veil
MORRIS LOUIS. formalist critics dream -
IKB
YVES KLEIN. patented a color -
Panel of Independence
JUAN O'GORMAN. commemorated the struggle for Mexican independance -
St. Louis Gateway Arch
EERO SAARINEN AND ASSOCIATES. Federal, state, and local taxes were used to pay for this -
Pie Counter
WAYNE THIEBAUD. reflecting modern cafeterias/ mass production of food -
Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup
ANDY WARHOL. blurs distinction between art and commercial packaging -
A Bigger Splash
BY DAVID HOCKNEY. acrylic used to create large areas of flat color -
Abra III
BY FRANK STELLA -
Mirror Image I
BY LOUISE NEVELSON. Notice dimensionality of the all black sculpture produced by different light angles -
The Pack (das Rudel)
JOSEPH BEUYS. artist is spiritual leader -
Crinkly
BY ALEXANDER CALDER. kinetic artwork -
Bent Propeller
ALEXANDER CALDER -
Running Fence
BY CHRISTO AND JEANNE CLAUDE. transforms landscape -
Olympic Stadium, Munich
BY GUNTER BEHNISCH. Suspended steel cables hold up the roof mesh, efficiently providing shade over a large area -
TV Buddha
NAM JUNE PAIK. comments on technology and iconography -
Cube and Four Panels
BY RONALD W DAVIS. Two- point perspective creates illusion of enormous, cavern- like interior space -
Las Tres Marias
BY JUDITH BACA -
Witchetty Grub Dreaming
PATTY CARROLL TJUNGURRAYI. patterns and symbols are part of the Aboriginal belief system of the origin of life and the sustenance of everyday living -
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
MAYA YING LIN. the white old men stepped all over a masterpiece -
Human/Need/Desire
BY BRUCE TRUMAN. Suggests the fluctuating motivations for human behavior -
There is No Escape
SUE COE. stark black-and-white is a critique of food industries -
AIDS Memorial Quilt
ordinary people contributed to the making of this work and to funding of AIDS research -
The Morgue (Hacked to Death II)
ANDRES SERRANO. intimate look at violent death -
Electronic Superhighway
NAM JUNE PAIK. comments on commercial america and all of it's technologies -
Speechless
SHIRIN NESHAT -
Guggenheim Bilbao
FRANK O CEHRY. modern abstract sculpture -
That Profile
BY MARTIN PURYEAR. large volume but little mass -
99 Cent
BY ANDREAS GURSKY. very large durable print -
Tan Tan Bo
BY TAKASHI MURAKAMI. example of blurring between fine arts and popular culture -
Easy to Remember
BY LORNA SIMPSON. uses new technologies combining imagery and sound -
Junk
BY TONY OURSLER. -
Kuba
KUTLUG ATAMAN. brings to western audiences stories of poor groups in Turkey -
Bear
BY TIME HAWKINSON. Cross between a toy and monumental art -
Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia
BY CAI GUO-QIANG. moves and changes with time -
The Matter of Time
BY RICHARD SERRA. site specific -
For the Love of God
BY DAMIEN HIRST. materials add sensationalism -
Aqueous
BY MARGARET LAZZARI. Uses many different techniques of acrylic -
New York City Water Falls
OLAFUR ELIASSON. derives meaning from location -
Giant Puppet Parade
Street carnival in Brazil. associates popular culture and art making
