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1470
Sabina von Steinbach
Sculptures at Notre Dame
Steinbach was a sculpture of the 13th-century whose existence in question. She learned from her father and worked on many sculptures at Notre Dame.
I see a woman in a robe with a mask over her eyes. This may signify how in religion you must blindly have faith in God, and he will lead you to a happy and full life.
This is a beautiful example of how intricate the Notre Dame is. More information in Blackboard -
Period: 1476 to 1492
Week 1 - The Middle Ages
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1480
Hildegard von Bingen
Title: Liber Divinorum Operum I.1: Theophany of Devine Love
Born in 1098. She grew up in a fairly wealthy family of lower nobility. She was documented to have experienced visions from an early age. I imagine that this gave her a lot of inspiration for her paintings later in life. She became tied to the church at a very young age, around 8, and began her life’s work of studying religion.
Date: 1400s
The colors she chose to use are very complimentary of each other. More information in Blackboard -
Period: 1490 to 1527
Week 2 - The Renaissance
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1560
Levina Teerlinc
Levina Teerlinc was born around 1510 in Bruges, Flanders (Belgium). Her father was a popular miniaturist which was a popular art form of the renaissance time.
1560-1565
You can see all the fine detail even though it was a small painting. She can get the detail of all the gold jewelry and the detail of the beading on Elizabeth’s dress
Teerlinc did a great job capturing how adorned royalty is, especially with the tight collar around Elizabeth’s neck. More information in Blackboard -
1560
Plautilla Nelli
Born in 1524 to a very wealthy family in Florence where her father was a successful fabric merchant. Nelli became a nun at the very young age of 14
1560
The colors she used were very dark and vivid. She makes the colors pop by using different colors for each of the men depicted.
she put a lot of effort into her paintings and took her time. The detail is very well done and to me, it feels like this should be in a church hung in the great room or the main hall.
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Period: to
Week 3 - 17th Century
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Clara Peeters
Clara Peeters was born in 1594 in Belgium. Most of her paintings were of inanimate objects life food, fruit, and pies.
1613
This is thought to be her self-portrait. She was very detail-oriented, and you can see that in the gold collar around her neck. My favorite part of this painting is the bubble in the top middle.
I believe she painted this to show her life. This would have been a good way to capture a moment in time and what she really loves to do. More info in Blackboard -
Judith Leyster
Born in 1609 to a mother that was a weaver and a father who was a brewer. It is believed that she started her art at an early age.
1633
her paintings of people depict them happy together playing music and enjoying each other’s company. In this painting, there are three people sitting around playing music.
Leyster used dark colors and was able to get pretty good detail. The focus is on the people and not much else is drawing you away from themselves and their instruments. More info in Blackboard -
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Week 4 - 18th Century
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Rose-Adelaide Ducreaux
Born in 1761 and live a relatively short life until she passed away from yellow fever in 1802.
Could not identify an exact date
This self-portrait is of her at a desk penning a letter. There is immense detail in the way she painted from the floor to the background. Her dress is of high fashion of the time and was able to afford nice things because of the success of her father.
Her proportions are spot on and give the illusion this is an actual photo.
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun
Vigee Le Brun was born in 1755 and began teaching herself art. She was completely self-taught.
1782
Her use of colors from bright to dull hues make this whole portrait pop. There is a good use of complementary, primary, and secondary colors here. She blends her paint so well and makes it look very realistic.
I think it is a wonderful example of her talents and she is beautiful. Everything about this self-portrait is perfect. More info in Blackboard -
Period: to
Week 5 - 19th Century
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Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff was a Ukrainian artist born in 1858 and only lived to the young age of 25. She had many dreams and hopes of becoming a singer, but she had contracted tuberculosis which prevented her from chasing her dreams as a singer.
1884
woman sitting next to a beautiful flowering tree. The woman in the painting looks relaxed, although a bit tired. She seems like she is thinking about life and enjoying being secluded in the forest.
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Mina Carlson-Bredberg
Born in 1857 who also studied at the Academy Julian in the 1880s. She explored many kinds of painting including landscapes, people, interiors, and religious scenes.
1884
The colors that she uses are bright and jump right off the page. The red scarlet dress to the deep green table and the aqua-colored walls really make this painting come alive. Even though the overall painting is dark, the colors she uses make it intriguing.
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Period: to
Week 6 - 20th Century Europe & America
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Pablo Picasso
Picasso lived most of his life growing up in France but was born in Spain. He was raised by an artist who impressed upon him at an early age the value of art.
1907
This painting shows nude women in a disjointed manner, their bodies are very extended and in sprawled out positions. Picasso used very even tones throughout with minimal shading.
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Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold was an American painter born in Harlem New York in 1930. She was raised in a very artistic home where she got a lot of exposure to art via her mother. Her mother was a fashion designer and quilter. Ringgold did not grow up poor or oppressed, her family provided her a safe space and a good quality of life.
1971
It is almost like its 8 paintings in one reflecting women in prison.
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Betye Saar
Betye Sarr was born in 1926 in Los Angeles, California, and was an artist and teacher. She utilized a lot of different mediums to portray her experiences such as printmaking, sculptures, and paintings.
1972
The painting shows Aunt Jemima with stereotypical things like a broom and cotton hinting back at all the things people of color were forced to do. The painting is done in a way that shows how ridiculous it is for a company to utilize Aunt Jemima to sell more products. -
Isa Genzken
Genzken, a German artist who born in 1948. She was a very abstract artist that focused on modernism and sculptures. She is very intriguing to me because you never knew what she was going to come out with next and all her work was very refined and beautiful.
1987
resembling relics of the past, in this case, stereo receivers. I believe she is calling out how much the world wastes and how fast items go into the hands of consumers and then just as fast into landfills.
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Week 8 - 21st Century
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Cecily Brown
Cecily Brown is an artist from today that has found amazing success in her artist career. She is considered a modern artist focusing on abstract paintings. She does a lot of work with oil paints and has become a very well know artist.
2016
The title of this piece “Blood Thicker Than Mud”, I believe, means that women are the strongest when they stick together and have each other’s backs -
Hieu Nguyen
This week I was excited to write about one of my favorite current artists. His work is beautiful and dynamic and has so much emotion and fluidity. His name is Hieu Nguyen and goes by the alias Kelogsloops
2019
In this piece, Nguyen depicts a woman and a fox in beautiful cool watercolor tones. The overall painting looks dark and full of emotion at first glance. The woman is curled up in almost the fetal position resting with strings wrapped all around her body