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    The Beginning of Art (Prehistoric Art)

    v Cave of Lascaux 15000 BCE France

    v Altamira 15000 BCE Spain

    v Chauvet 30000 BCE France

    v Paleolithic Carvings:

    o Bison from La Madeleine 10000 BCE

    o Venus of Willendorf 25000 BCE

    v Mesolithic many rock painting, pottery, early hieroglyphics

    o Stonehenge made of big stones (dolmens)

    o Cromlech made of many huge dolmens

    Many buildings were built with post and lintel structures

    Romans created the arch which was used after the post and lintels

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    Art Elements

    v Form:

    o 3-D

    o Has length, width, and height

    v Shapes:

    o Flat

    o 2-D

    o Irregular geometric

    o Organic (such as humans)

    v Line:

    o Curve, dash, zigzag, diagonal, etc

    o Shapes are made by joint lines

    o Lines make texture

    Crosshatching

    Light and dark shadows

    Ex. Edvard Munch The Scream (1920)

    Uses line texture

    Perspective of boardwalk and gate going back to horizon

    point

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    Response to nuclear explosion from Norway

    v Texture:

    o Illusion texture (implied) in paintings by artists

    o Rough, smooth, bumpy, etc

    v Space:

    o An empty place surrounding an artwork (2-D or 3-D)

    o There are negative space

    Background in black = emphasis on the background

    o There are positive space

    The object itself is being emphasized

    v Value:

    o The change of color, not price

    o Black Pure White

    v Color:

    o Light waves of everything around us can be broken apart by prisms

    o A rainbow is a white light but changes colors reflected by surroundings

    o White light consists of all colors

    o If object absorbs all wavelengths becomes black

    o If object rejects all wavelengths becomes white

    o If object absorbs everything but red becomes red

    o Complementary colors:

    Blue

    Yellow

    Red

    o Secondary colors (composed of primary color mixture):

    Green

    Orange

    Purple

    o Tertiary colors: mixture of primary and secondary colors

    o Warm colors:

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    Red

    Orange

    Yellow

    o Cool colors:

    Green (depending on shade)

    Blue

    Purple

    o Neutral colors:

    Black

    Gray

    White

    Brown

    Beige

    o Tints: light value of a color

    o Shades: dark mix of a color and black

    Principles of Artv Balance: describes how artists uses lines, shapes, colors

    o Symmetrical balance: both sides are symmetrical

    o Asymmetrical balance: visual weight of one side is same as other side, not

    symmetrical

    o Radius balance: lines all come out from the middle

    v Contrast:

    o Complementary colors make high or low contrast make things stand out

    o Orange and yellow high contrast

    o White with slight hints of color low contrast

    v Emphasis:

    o Uses to make a center piece stand out

    o Pulls your eyes to the item alone

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    v Proportion:

    o Golden ratio

    2x thumb = 1x wrist

    Arm span = height of person

    o Da Vinci uses the golden ratio to proportionalize man

    v Pattern:

    o Repetition of lines and shades

    o Linear = same repetition

    o Natural ex. repeating lilies

    v Rhythm:

    o Visual, patterns

    o Rhythm leads eyes through a landscape

    o Texture = bumpy or smooth

    v Unity:

    o The feeling that everything in the art is together and united

    o Everything fits

    o Patterns and rhythm makes wholesomeness

    v Variety:

    o Makes artwork more interesting

    o Adding something that stands out from the rest

    Mesopotamian ArtAim: Who were the Mesopotamians?Topic: Ancient Art, Near East

    o 1st Civilization: Sumer 3500 3000 BCE

    o Architecture: Ziggurats, Cella (rituals) performed in the center room of the ziggurat

    o Sculptures:

    Human figures

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    Cylinder/cone statues

    Pottery

    Steles, low reliefs

    Cylinder seals

    Cuneiform writing

    Inlays ( ex. musical instruments)

    o The Sumerians: Akkadians Gudea of Lagash, ruler, Head (2144-2124 BCE)

    o Babylonians: Stele of Hammurabi (Hammurabis Code)

    o Hitties/Kassites

    o Assyrians: palaces, reliefs

    o Neo-Babylonians: Ishtar Gates

    o Persians: palace at Persepolis, reliefs, sculpture, metalwork

    o Sassanian Art: coins (Asian Society)

    o Alexander the Great conquers the area

    Ancient Egyptian Art

    Aim: Where were the ancient Egyptians?

    Topic: Egyptian Art, 3150 BC 350 BC

    o Cradle of Western Civilization

    o Three Major Kingdoms: their history is divided into dynasties

    Old

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    Middle

    New

    o Pharaohs royal and bloodlines remained pure

    o Religion dominated by multiple deities; strong belief in afterlife

    o Writing hieroglyphics; picture based

    o Architecture:

    Mastabas

    Step pyramids

    Pyramids

    o *** King Zoser Step Pyramid 2780 2720 BCE

    o *** Pyramids ex. Giza, Cheops

    o *** Great Sphinx

    o *** Temples: Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri Colonnades

    o Amun at Karnak (Laxor)

    o *** Ramses II at Abu Simbel

    o Amarna Period: realistic

    v Art Rules:

    o Hieroglyphics: picture based, 600 characters

    o Strive for clarity, not illusion, practical, communication

    o Religious purposes tombs/temples

    o Figures always young, idealized and nature is always lush and perfect

    o Stylized with lines and borders/registers, bonded lines (complete message)

    o Symbolic meaning

    o Size matters hierarchal proportions, descriptive perspective

    o Frontality (max. exposure) most familiar

    o Painting full figure, mix of profile and frontal pose

    Eyes/shoulders = frontal

    Head/feet = profile

    o Men: painted color reddish brown

    o Women: painted lighter

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    o Earth tones: yellow-brown-green

    o Little shading

    o Book of Dead (ex. Greenfield Papyrus)

    v Sculpture:

    o Contra-posto pose, to be viewed from the front and sides

    *** Bust of Queen Nefertiti (Amarna period, Akenhaten ruler)

    *** King Tuts Sarcophagus

    *** Palette of King Narmer oldest unification of Egypt

    *** Menkaure and his wife a.k.a. Mycerinus and his Queen

    *** Prince Rahotep and his wife

    o Jewelry cortouche, necklaces, bracelets (ex. Sacred Animals)

    o King Zoser built 1st pyramid

    o Imhotep 1st designer names, 1st architecture

    o 1st pyramid built around 2600 BCE step pyramid

    o Longest built for Cheops 13 acres, 911 ft on each site

    Built during 4th Dynasty at Giza

    o Other 2 pyramids were constructed for Chefren (2500 BCE0 and Mycerinus (2470

    BCE)

    o Great pyramids were guarded by the Great Sphinx (60 ft tall)

    v Middle Kingdom:

    o funerary temples were built near Thebes designed to hold mummies

    o the temple by Queen Hatshepsut was done in the Middle Kingdom style

    o The Temple of Ramses II:

    Made out of the earth 4 statues of Ramses II as guards

    Ramses II was buried there

    v Amarna Period:

    o Akhenaton ruled

    Stresses realism in art

    v The Greenfield Papyrus:

    o The Book of the Dead a book of charms and magic to allow

    spirits to move onto afterlife

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    v Drawing:

    o Registers horizontal bands in layers

    o Descriptive perspective: the more important figures are larger

    than the less important figures

    v Queen Nefertiti:

    o Bust sculpture from shoulders up

    v King Tuts Tomb:

    o Nothing was stolen from his tomb

    v Palette of King Narmer:

    o Oldest historic artwork that depicts a real event (the conquest of the eastern part of

    Lower Egypt a slate

    v Old Kingdom:

    o Frontal pose both figures are facing forward and looking straight ahead

    o Stylized they have idealized bodies; not accurate depictions

    o Jewelry:

    Heart scarab

    Scared animals

    o The Rosetta Stone:

    Found by Napoleon armies

    Top is Ancient Egyptian writing

    Middle is Demotic Hieroglyphics

    Bottom is Greek Hieroglyphics

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    Aim: Who were the Aegean?

    Topic: Greek Art

    Time: 2800 1800 BCE

    *** Egyptian influence

    v Aegean were made of:

    o Minoans (Crete) King Minos

    Luxury Life Style

    Trade/Sailors

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    No Temples Sacred

    No Fortifications, no weapons

    Artworks:

    Palace of Knossos

    Dolphin Fresco

    Bull Dance

    Snake Goddess

    Bull Head

    Pottery

    Jewelry (sea and animal themes)

    Cycladic Islands neighboring islands

    Cycladic Statues buried with them

    Harp players

    Jewelry

    Murals

    Pottery

    o Mycenae

    *** Art: possible imported by Minoans

    Mainland Greece

    Warriors

    Metalworks

    Large stoneworks

    Fortification

    Monuments

    Burial Tombs (beehives, citadels) Lions Gate

    Pottery Harvester Vase

    Greek Art

    Topic: Greece

    The Major Periods: Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic

    o Archaic: (600 480 BCE)

    Free standing figures

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    Archaic smimle

    Stiff, rigid pose

    Artworks:

    Kouros (male)/ kore (female)

    Ex. Kroises/ The Maiden

    Charioteer of Delphi

    Calf Bearer

    o Classical: (480 323 BCE)

    Artists and Architects are well known

    Artworks/Sculptures:

    *** Kritios Boy

    Riace Warriors (A and B)

    Zeus

    *** The Discus Thrower

    [Venus de Milo]

    o Hellenistic: (323 150 BCE)

    Movement and pathos (feeling pity and/or compassion)

    *** Rise of the Roman Empire

    Artworks/Sculptures:

    Three Goddesses

    *** Nike of Samothrace (Winged Goddess)

    *** Dying Gaul

    Laocoon Group

    Old Market Woman

    The human figures, especially the male, was place at the center of Greek

    culture

    [Beauty + Math = Gods/Goddesses]

    Artists: Myron, Polykleitos, Phidias

    o Architecture:

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    *** Acropolis Parthenon, Erechtheum (Porch of the Maidens), Temple

    of Nike

    *** Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

    Colossus of Rhodes

    Temple of Zeus at Olympia

    Temple of Artemis

    Architect Phidias

    Temples, 3 Orders:

    Doric

    Ionic

    Corinthian

    Vases:

    Hydria water; principle vessel for water

    Amphora wine

    Kraters 2 handles 2 handle vase that holds wine

    *** Key design

    Checker board patterns

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    Roman Art

    Topic: Roman ArtAim: Who were the Etruscans?

    c. 700 300 BCE

    o Descendents from Villanova early Iron Age

    o *** Influenced by the Greeks, Mesopotamians (Phoenicians), and Egyptians

    o Believed in the hereafter multi-deities (Greek Gods) very superstitious

    o Sailors (large fleets)

    o *** Architectural engineers and town planners

    Art:

    Pottery

    Sculpture tomb decorations

    Ex. ***She-Wolf (Capitaline Wolf)

    Bronze

    Paintings murals, frescos

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    Architecture stone bases, grid system, bridges, fortifications,

    drainage systems

    Ex. Porta Augusta gate house in Perugia

    Topic: Roman Art/Architecture

    c. 476 300 BCE

    o *** Borrowed from Greeks and Etruscans

    o *** Rise in Greek Hellenistic era

    o *** Discovery of quick drying cement for sculpture and architecture

    o Realistic portrayals including busts

    Ex. Constantine head is 8 ft long

    o Paintings mostly found in Pompeii, frescos, wall panels, still life, landscapes,

    portrait

    o Decorative use of solid colors RED

    o *** Mosaics must be durable, useful, and beautiful

    Architecture:

    *** Vitruvius master builder

    Arch with keystone and Voussoirs

    Vaults barrel, groin

    Aqueducts - ***Pont du Gard

    Roads, Bridges, Stadiums - ***Coliseum and Forum,

    ampitheatres

    Bath Houses - *** Caracalla

    Vast interior spaces

    *** Pantheon oculus, dome, gilded, coffered ceiling

    *** War Monuments civtory arches, columns

    Ex. Trajans Column 130 ft of reliefs

    *** Basillicas

    Apartment houses, atriums

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    The Middle (Dark) Ages

    Europe 480 980 ADTopic: Early Christian, Byzantine and Islam

    o 308 Ad The Roman Empire splits in two:

    Western Empire declines

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    Eastern Empire (orthodox) rises

    Constantinople Moscow

    Fall of Rome

    The church becomes the center of life

    Christianity rejects all previous accomplishments in art, wants

    symbolic representation

    Art is used for propaganda, for the church

    Depicts the life of Christ (Old and New Testament)

    Art is symbolic and emotional lacks realism is flat and

    distorted

    *** Art is portable illuminated manuscripts, icons, diptychs,

    triptychs, crucifixes

    Mosaics, tapestries, sculpture, painting, and church serviceornaments

    1. Celtic Germanic other

    Animals, interlacing lines, abstract motifs

    2. Carolingians very ornate, Byzantine influence (King

    Charlemagne)

    o Ottonian:

    Spiritual action

    Pastels

    Out of proper proportion

    o Architecture:

    Basilicas 1st churches

    *** St. Basil in Moscow onion domes

    *** Hagia Sofia starts out Byzantine

    The Archangel Michael a triptych portable

    o Religion is practiced in a catacomb

    o Dead is also buried in the catacomb

    o Christianity becomes legal

    Churches are built

    Churches are rectangular shapes

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    o Teserae glass mosaic

    o Rotunda circular shape

    o Minerets a mosaic to a mosk

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    RomanesqueTopic: Romanesque

    c. 1000 1150

    o Influenced by Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine

    o Church increased in power, influence, and money

    o *** Architecture is the #1 form (sculpture and paintings are used as ornaments and

    decoration)

    o *** Church Construction:

    Vaulting, including ribbed and fan vaults

    Thick walls

    Small windows

    Round arches

    Interiors do not match exteriors

    A tympanum at entrance

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    Gothic 1100 1400

    o Gothic churches become taller (cathedrals), building higher means getting closer to

    god

    o Tin walls supported by flying buttresses

    o Tall windows stained glass, clerestory

    o Rose windows large, round window on south transept

    o Interior and exterior matches

    o Pointed arches

    o Gargoyles on the outside

    Ex. St Patrick New York

    Ex. St. Johns New York

    Ex. Riverside New York

    Ex. Notre Dame France

    Chartes France

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    Renaissance

    v Part I Early Renaissance (1420 AD)

    o Inspired by Greeks and Romans

    o *** Art centers - Florence, Siena, Venice

    De Medict family were patrons of the art

    o Baptistery Door Competition:

    Humanism

    Powerful guilds

    o *** Invention of Perspective:

    1. Atmospheric Perspective Masaccio

    2. Linear Perspective Brunelleschi

    o *** Four Breakthroughs:

    1. Perspective

    2. Use of light and shadow

    3. Pyramid configuration

    4. Oil paint and stretched canvas

    o Artists:

    Giotto: Lamentation

    Ghiberti: sculpture Gates of Paradise

    Brunelleschi: architect, sculpture, dome

    Donatello: sculpture - ***David, Feast of Herod

    Masaccio: painter - ***Tribute Money, Holy Trinity

    Botticelli: painter - *** Birth of Venus, Primavera

    Bellini: painter, Venice Saint Francis in Ecstasy

    v Part II High Renaissance (1500s AD)

    o Age of Giants

    o Artists as genius

    o Oil paint

    o *** Aerial Perspective atmospheric haze to add depth

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    o *** Sfumato gray haze

    o *** Chiaroscuro contrast between light and dark

    o Artists:

    Leonardo Da Vinci: painter, inventor, engineer, poet

    Aerial perspective - *** Mona Lisa, *** Last Supper

    Michelangelo: sculptor, painter, architect, poet

    *** Pieta, *** David, *** Sistine Chapel, St. Peters Dome

    Raphael: painter - *** School of Athens

    Titian: painter, leader in Venice, color, mood, layers of paint, and glaze

    v Part III: Mannerism (1525 1600 AD)

    o *** Period between the end of High Renaissance and Baroque

    o Crisp and frozen shapes

    o Elongated bodies

    o Distorted forms

    o Peculiar perspective views

    o Artists:

    Parmigianino: elongated forms - *** Madonna with the Long Neck

    El Greco: distorted forms - *** Burial of Count Orgaz

    v Part IV: Northern Renaissance (1325 1600 AD)

    o Flanders (Bruges) is the art capital, Belgium (Flanders), Holland

    o *** Use of oil paint

    o Rise of universities and printed books (invention of the printing press), guilds

    o Centralized power nations

    o Protestant Reformation weakening of the Catholic Church

    o Decline of Feudalism rise for cultural, social, and economic change

    o The north continued making Gothic art/arch

    o Burgundy Dukes were patrons of the arts furniture, tapestries, illuminated

    manuscripts

    o Artists:

    THE NETHERLANDS/FLANDERS

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    Jan Van Eyck: *** Arnolfini Wedding, The Ghent Altarpiece

    Robert Campin: Merode Altarpiece

    Hieronymus Bosch: *** Garden of Earthly Delights (triptych,

    heaven earthhell depiction)

    Pieter Bruegel: ***Peasant Wedding, Tower of Babel, parables,*** Return of the Hunters, everyday activities

    GERMANY

    Albert Durer (International Artist): woodcut prints, self portraits

    Hans Holbein (Court Painter): Ambassadors, portraits realistic

    Hans Memling

    Lucas Cranach

    Matthias Grunewald: altarpieces

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    v ITALY AND SPAIN

    o Starts in Rome spreads throughout Europe

    o Church and aristocracy continue to patronize art and commission artists

    o Lots of motion, ornate, grandiose, emotional

    o Use of tenebrism a violent contrast of light and dark, a heightened form of

    chiaroscuro

    o Tromp loeil trick of the eye, used in Baroque ceilings and Berninis *** Ecstasyof St. Theresa

    o Artists:

    ITALY:

    Caravaggio: chiaroscuro, tenebrism, natural light streaming in -

    *** Calling of St. Matthew

    Bernini: sculptor - ***David, ***Ecstasy of St. Theresa

    Borromini: architect

    Artemisia Gentileschi: Judith and the Head of Holofernes

    SPAIN:

    Diego Velasquez: *** Maids of Honor a.k.a. Las Meninas

    Riberia

    Murillo

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    FRANCE:

    France is the most powerful nation in Europe

    Louis XIV, the Sun King

    Paris becomes the art capital until WWII

    The French Academy rules art

    Artists:

    *** Nicolas Poussin: classical painter Rape of the

    Sabine Women

    Claude Lorrain

    George de la Tour

    Architecture:

    *** Palace of Versailles a chateau built by Louis theXIV, a symbol of glory

    *** Hall of Mirrors

    ENGLAND:

    Christopher Wren: architect

    GERMANY:

    Chateaus

    DUTCH AND FLEMISH:

    Flanders (Belgium): catholic, religious iconology

    Holland: Protestants, free market, still life

    Landscapes, portraits

    Flemish Artists:

    *** Peter Paul Rubens: swirling action, color,

    Rubenesque women, Rococo style Raising of the Cross,Garden of Love, Lion Hunt

    Anthony Van Dyck

    Judith Leyster

    Dutch Artists:

    *** Rembrandt van Rijn: painter, printmaker, self

    portraits, portraits, landscapes The Night Watch

    *** Jan Vermeer: family portraits, used a camera

    obscura Girl with a Pearl Earring

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    Frans Hals: master of the moment

    Ruisdael: landscapes

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    Rococo c. 1700 1760 AD

    v FRANCE:

    o Rise of the middle class

    o Louis the XIV XVI

    o High Fashion

    o Stresses beauty over depth

    o *** developed 1st in the Decorative Arts (Interior and Exterior)

    o Use of asymmetrical designs

    o More feminine

    o Rediscovery of Chinese porcelain (Meissen from Germany)

    o Paintings:

    *** Fetes Galantes: picnic scenes (elegant entertainment)

    Theme: love

    Mood: playful, superficial, alive with energy

    Style: light, graceful, delicate

    Colors: pale white, silver, gold, light pink, blues, greens

    o Artists:

    Jean Watteau: *** Pilgrimage to Cythera a.k.a. The Embarkation for

    Cythera, Mezzetin

    Francois Boucher

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    Neo-Classicism c. 1750 1820

    o Roman Fever a reaction against Rococo

    o Age of Reason (logic, enlightenment) order, ennobling virtues

    o Rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum

    o Rise of Napoleon 1st museum

    o Portraits of heroes (noble gestures/expressions)

    o Art stress:

    Balance of composition

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    Emphasis on drawing and line, NOT ON COLOR

    o Artists:

    Painters:

    Jacques Louis David: no visible brushstrokes, promoted by

    Napoleon - *** Death of Socrates, *** Death of Marat

    Jean August Ingres: bathers, portraits, Davids pupil

    Elizabeth Vigee: Le Brun portraits

    Sculptors:

    Antonio Canova: nude, marble sculptures, considered the Best of

    the 18th Century

    Jean Houdin: busts

    Decorative Arts:

    Josiah Wedgewood: ceramics/ dinnerware

    Architecture:

    Thomas Jefferson: Monicello, University of Virginia

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    Romanticism c. mid 18th century

    o A reaction against Neo-Classicism

    o Emphasis: adventure, war, emotion, imagination, historical, nationalism, nature

    o Ignites excitement throughout Europe

    o Influence by the French Revolution, Gothic (horror), nature, violence, exotica

    o Painting Styles:

    Quick brushstrokes

    Strong contrast

    Use of diagonals

    o Artists:

    Theodore Gericault: leader of the movement - *** Raft of Medusa

    Eugene Delacroix: becomes the leader after Gericault dies, paints subjects

    of the Revolution - *** Lion Hunt (influenced by Rubens), *** Liberty Leading

    the People

    Francisco Goya: at first he is Rococo, after seeing a murder, he turns to

    Romanticism, paints horrors of war - *** 3 rd of May

    JMW Turner: seascapes, landscapes, color

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    John Constable: landscapes, line, black/white, Romantic and Realist

    William Black: illustrator and poet

    William Fuseli

    Caspar Friedrich

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    Realism c. mid 18th century 19th century

    o Realists are against Neo-classical and Romanticism

    o Subjects: common people, objects, landscapes

    o Colors: realistic tones, no bright colors, muted tones

    o Watercolors become popular

    o Photography is born

    o Artists:

    BARBIZON SCHOOL FRANCE

    Gustave Courbet: Father of Realism

    Camille Corot

    Jean Millet: The Gleaners

    Rosa Bonheur: The Horse Fair

    Honore Daumier: cartoonist

    HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL USA

    Thomas Cole: landscapes

    Winslow Homer: watercolors (self-taught)

    John Singer Sargent: famous for portraits

    James Whistler: uses black, white, and gray Whistlers Mother

    Geroge Inness

    Thomas Eakins: landscapes

    Albert Bierstadt: landscapes

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    Impressionism c. mid 19th Century

    o Realism dominated

    o Discovery of photography

    o New paints:

    In tubes

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    New colors

    o Academic des Beaux Art, the Salon

    o Impressionist Style:

    Breaks away from historical and religious subject matter

    Embraces landscapes, portraits, still-life

    Spontaneous painting, short brushstrokes, patches of color, little blending,

    complimentary colors

    Concerned with sunlight and atmosphere

    En plein air: painting outdoors

    *** All Impressionists start as Realist painters

    o Artists:

    Edouard Manet: Father of Impressionism - *** Luncheon on the Grass,*** Olympia

    Claude Monet: Rouen Cathedral, series, water lilies

    Camille Pissaro: landscapes

    Pierre Auguste Renoir: happy scenes, young girls - *** Dance at Le

    Moulin de la Galette, *** Luncheon of the Boating Party

    Edgar Degas: ballerinas, horse races, bathing series

    Frederic Bazille

    Mary Cassatt: American mother and child scenes, feminine world, indoors

    Berthe Morisot

    Alfred Sisley: landscapes

    Gustave Callebotte

    Rodin: sculptor - *** The Thinker, Kiss, Balzac

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    o French academy (Bougereau/Gerome)

    o Japanese Woodcuts

    o Portraits, landscapes, still life

    o Post Impressionist were dissatisfied with the Impressionists

    o They break into two camps:

    Scientific Design:

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    Dots, places of color

    Ex. George Seurat, Paul Cezanne

    Emotional:

    Attention to light, color, and line

    Ex. Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

    o Artists:

    Vincent Van Gogh: line, warm/cool, impasto - *** Starry Night

    Paul Gauguin: Tahiti series

    Paul Cezanne: The Father of Modern Art - *** Mt. Saint Victoire

    Henri Toulouse-Lautrex: burlesque posters, bar scenes, Moulin Rouge

    George Seurat: pointillism - *** Sunday on La Grande Jatte

    Georges Rousseau: Sleeping Gypsy

    Edvard Munch: Expressionist - *** The Scream

    Gustav Klimt: symbolist, Vienna Art Nouveau