early modern review

Review:

Late 19th Century

Early 20th Century

William V. Ganis, PhD

Mark Tansey

A Short History of Modernist Painting

1982oil on canvasthree panels, each 4 ft. 10 in. x 3 ft. 4 in.

Titian

Venus of Urbino

1538oil on canvas4 ft. x 5 ft. 6 in.

Édouard Manet

Olympia

1863oil on canvas51 x 74 3/4 in.

Yasumasa Morimura

Portrait (Futago)

1988Cibachrome6 ft. 10 3/4 x 9 ft. 10 in.

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Academic Art

Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii

1784oil on canvas11 x 14 ft.

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Pygmalion and Galatea

1890oil on canvas

Realism

Gustave Courbet

Burial at Ornans

1849oil on canvas10 x 22 ft.

Impressionism

Édouard Manet

The Fifer

1866oil on canvas160 x 97 cm

Édouard Manet

Déjuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

1863oil on canvas6 ft. 9 1/8 in. x 8 ft. 10 1/4 in.

Édouard Manet

Olympia

1863oil on canvas51 x 74 3/4 in.

Claude Monet

Gare St. Lazare

1877oil on canvas30 x 40 in.

Camille Pissarro

Snow Effect at Eragny, Road to Gisors

1885oil on canvas

33 x 41cm

Edgar Degas

L’absinthe

1876oil on canvas

36 1/4 x 26 3/4 in.

Photography

Félix Nadar

Sarah Barnhardt

1865gelatin-silver print

Eadweard Muybridge

Walking and Throwing a Handkerchief

1884-85gelatin-silver print

Etienne Jules Marey

Chronophotograph

1883gelatin-silver print

Gertrude Käsebier

Blessed Art Thou among Women

ca. 1900platinum print on Japanese tissue9 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.

Fin de Sieclé Sculpture

Auguste Rodin

Walking Man

1900bronze

Auguste Rodin

Burghers of Calais

1884-1889bronze6 ft. 10 in. high

Henri Matisse

Back I, Back II, Back III

1909, 1913, 1916-17bronze reliefeach 74 in. high

Post-Impressionism

Paul Gauguin

The Vision after the Sermon

1888oil on canvas2 ft. 4 3/4 in. x 3 ft. 1/2 in.

Vincent van Gogh

The Night Café

1888oil on canvas2 ft. 4 1/2 in. x 3 ft.

Paul Cézanne

Mount Sainte Victoire

1885oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne

Mount Sainte Victoire

1897oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne

Mount Sainte-Victoire

1902-1904oil on canvas2 ft. 3 1/2 in. x 2 ft. 11 1/4 in.

Cubism

Georges Braque

Houses of L’Estaque

1908oil on canvas

28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.

Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

1907oil on canvas

96 x 92 in.

Georges Braque

L’Affiche de Kubelick (Le Violon)

1912oil on canvas18 1/8 x 24 in.

Pablo Picasso

Still Life with Chair Caning

1912oil and oilcloth on canvas with rope frame

10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.

Symbolism

Arnold Böcklin

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Violin

1872oil on canvas

Gustav Moreau

The Apparition

1876oil on canvas

Edvard Munch

The Scream

1893oil, pastel and casein on cardboard2 ft. 11 3/4 in. x 2 ft. 5 in.

Edvard Munch

The Dance of Life

1900oil on canvas

49 1/2 x 75 1/2 in.

Gustav Klimt

Death and Life

1908-11oil on canvas

70 1/8 x 78 in.

Fauvism

Henri Matisse

Woman in the Hat

1905oil on canvas

32 x 23 3/4 in.

André Derain

Waterloo Bridge

1906oil on canvas80.5 x 101 cm

André Derain

Turning Road, L’Estaque

1906oil on canvas

51 x 76 3/4 in.

Henri Matisse

Harmony in Red

1908oil on canvas

70 7/8 x 86 5/8 in.

Henri Matisse

Dance II

1909-10oil on canvas

8 ft. 5 5/8 in. x 12 ft. 9 1/2 in.

German Expressionism

Die Brücke

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Nudes in the Forest

1908oil on canvas

Otto Müller

Couple in a Landscape

1909lithograph on paper

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Street, Berlin

1913oil on canvas47 1/2 x 35 7/8 in.

German Expressionism

Der Blaue Reiter

Franz Marc

The Large Blue Horses

1911oil on canvas40 3/4 x 70 7/8 in.

Gabriele Münter

Jawlensky and Werefkin

1908-09oil on canvas

Vasily Kandinsky

Blue Mountain No. 84

1908-09oil on canvas41 3/8 x 37 7/8 in.

Vassily Kandinsky

Sketch for Composition Number 2

1910oil on canvas38 x 52 in.

Vassily Kandinsky

Improvisation 28

1912oil on canvas3 ft. 7 7/8 in. x 5 ft. 3 7/8 in.