Chapter One ExamplesLearning About Art

Art timeline images for study and discussion.

Slide One

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning,1930. Oil on Canvas35 inches by 59 3/4 inchesThe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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Exekias, Dionysus in a Boat, c. 540 BCE. Interior of an Attic black-figured Kylix. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich

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Anonymous, Storage jarSouthwest Aboriginal: Western Apache or Navajo19th century or 20th century. Willow, devil's claw or martynia5 inches by 7 inchesMcCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec

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Anonymous (possibly by the scribe, Folchard), Lindau Gospels (upper cover), c. 870. Abbey of St. Gall, Switzerland13.75 inches by 10.5 inchesThe Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NYhttp://www.themorgan.org/collections/collections.asp?id=70

Chapter Two ExamplesVisual Communication

Art timeline images for study and discussion.

Slide One

Harriet Powers ( 1837 - 1911 ), Bible Quilt, 1895 – 1898.American. Appliqued cotton with metallic yarns, 69 inches by 105 inches. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432. Netherlands.Oil on panel, Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent, Belgium.

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Pieter Brueghel, Peasant Wedding, 1566. Netherlandish.Oil on Panel, 44.5 inches by 63.5 inches.Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf, 1503.German. Watercolor and tempera on paper, 15.75 inches by 12.25 inches.Albertina, Vienna.

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Maize God, from Temple 22, Maya, Copan, Honduras,c. 775. Limestone, 35.3 inches by 21.3 inches.British Museum, London.

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Hsia Kuei, Remote View of Streams and Hills (Part)(fl. 1195-1224), Song DynastyHandscroll, ink on paper, 18.3 inches by 350 inches.Museum of the University of Ottawa, Canada.

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Jean Baptiste-Camile Corot, View of Venice, 1834.French. Oil on canvas, 18.5 inches by 27.25 inches.Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA.

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Myron, Discus Thrower (Discoblos), Roman copy of Greek bronze. c. 450 BCE, life-size.Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.

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Hans Holbein, Edward VI as a Child, 1538.German. Oil on panel, 22.5 inches by 17.25 inches.The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self-Portrait, 1895.American. Photograph. Library of Congress,Washington, DC.

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Hale Woodruff, From the Amistad Mutiny Series, c.1940.American. Oil on canvas.

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John F. Peto, The Poor Man's Store, 1885.Oil on canvas, 36 inches by 25.5 inches.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846. Oil on canvas, 38 inches by 48.5 inches.The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.Oil on canvas, 137.4 inches by 305.5 inches.Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

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Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950.Oil on canvas, 87 inches by 118 inches.The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC