AP Art History 250

102. Monticello

Form:

-classical and enlightenment ideals (neoclassical) combining Italian Renaissance and French Classical architecture

-domestic

-symmetrical

-brick, glass, stone, wood

Content:

-expresses American virtue of a Republic through architecture

-two column deep extended portico that support triangular pediment decorated by a semicircular window (doric columns)

-shallow dome

Function:

-plantation house for Jefferson

Context:

-Virginia, USA 1768-1809

-Romanticism/Classicism on the rise

103. The Oath of the Horatii

Form:

-neoclassical (physicality and intense emotions)

-dramatic, rhetorical gestures

-geometric forms with the contrasting curvy formed women

-single light shined upon them at the heightened drama of the scene

Content:

-"what are you willing to die for?"

-3 brothers saluting towards the swords which are held by their father (take oath to defend Rome)

-woman grieving in back ground because they have to deal with consequences of war (either lose husband or their bro)

-sacrifice oneself for good

Function:

-challenge aristocracy

Context:

-Jacques-Louis David 1784 (before the revolution)

-commissioned by King of France

106. Y no hai remedio (And There's Nothing To Be Done)

Form:

-style: romanticism (challenging power and oppression)

-etching, drypoint

Content:

-part of series of 82 called Disasters of War

-what human beings capable of

-government misuse of power on helpless victims

-man is blindfolded with head down tied to wooden pole (christ-like)

-recently deceased corpse with extreme detail of his grotesque face (behind body on pole is a dead body on pole)

Function:

-pictures the atrocities of war

-visual indictment and protest against French occupation of Spain

Context:

-publish 1863, made 1810-1823 CE

-artist: Francisco Goya (trained by Rococo)

108. Liberty Leading the People

Form:

-romanticism

-seems as though it is overpowered by chaos but filled with subtle order

-oil on canvas

Content:

-people of both the working class and middle class join in the fight against the government

-lady carrying the French flag meant to serve as an allegory, in this case a moral or political idea of Liberty (looking back to make sure people are following, represents an idea)

-background: Notre Dame

Function:

-allow us to believe anyone can be a revolutionary

Context:

-artist: Eugen Delacroix

-1830 CE

109. The Oxbow

Form:

-romanticism

-Manifest Destiny

-not based of a real place

-oil on canvas

Content:

-reverence for nature

-filled with life

-based on real life area

-divides the painting into two unequal sections

-one shows sublime view of land untouched by man (wild, untamed)

-other side shows land humankind has taken over (overtaken by agriculture)

-self portrait of himself wandering

Function:

-landscape painting

-shows respect for nature

Context:

-Northampton, Massachusetts

-artist: Thomas Cole (leader of Hudson River School)

-1836 CE (19th century)

115. Olympia

Form:

-realism (genre scene)

-flatness of body

-rejection of use of space

-angle of body

-heavy paint application

-features not perfect or idealized

-woman makes eye contact with the viewer

Content:

-naked modern woman

-unidealistic features

-prostitute

-cat (wealth)

Function:

-looks like a real woman

-Olympia=prostitute (cortisone)

-genre scene

-sexual interest

-scandy

Context:

-Edowuard Manet 1863

-based on his favorite model

117. Horse in Motion

Form:

-impressionism

-Albumen print

-still photos/filmmaking

-take pics of horse using trip wire on cameras set up that could take pics at 25th of a second

-cut up and put on cylinders

Content:

-chronophotography

-motion

-horse with jockey

Function:

-photography on rise

Context:

-Eadweard Muybridge

1878 CE

125. Mont Sainte-Victoire

Form:

-3 sections

-warm and cool contrast

-multiple vantage points

-shatters one point perspective

-faceted brushwork

-relationship of forms

Content:

-orange: rooftops

-green: trees

-mountain

Function:

-landscape painting

-paints how things relate to eachother

Context:

-Paul Cezanne

-1902-04

-Southern France, post impressionism

129. The Kiss

Form:

-modern abstraction, little detail

-symmetrical

-stone

Function:

-version of The Kiss by Klimt

Content:

-two bodies becoming one, interlocked with each other

-one thin line separating the two

Context:

-artist: Constantin Brancusi

130. The Portugese

Form:

-Analytic Cubism (no color, plain, simplified, cubes)

-text as art with images

-resembling broken glass, fragmented

Content:

-guitar player on a dock?

-stenciled text

Function:

-transitional piece into the new form of Cubism

Context:

-artist: George Braque

-1911 CE

135. Villa Savoye

Form:

-Domino House: concrete slabs

-Reinforced concrete

-Open floor plan

-Natural lighting

-Simplistic white

Content:

-Garage (green) that is very big and can fit limo cars in it for their chauffeurs

-Slender columns

-Non-load bearing walls

-Horizontal windows

-Roof garden

-Spiral staircase or ramps to go up

-Ribbon fenestration (windows wrap around house)

Function:

-Weekend home for the Savoye Family

Context:

-artist: Le Corbusier (architect)

-Poissy-sur-Seine, France

-Designed the furniture too

139. Fallingwater

Form:

-Ribbon fenestration

-Organic plan/space

-Horizontality

-Irregularity and complexity of design

Content:

-Hearth in center of house

-Cantilevered porches extending over waterfall

-Living room with glass curtain wall around 3 of the 4 sides

Function:

-Weekend house for the Kauffman family (owned a department store in Pittsburgh)

-Harmony with nature

Context:

-architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936-39 CE140

-Site specific

-Designed furniture as well

141. Migration of the Negro, panel no. 49

Form:

-Synthetic cubism (flat, angular)

-60 panels in series

-Tempera paint on hardboard

-Unmodulated colors

Content:

-Anonymous faces

-Split down the middle

-Public restaurant in city segregated

Function:

-Historical narrative series that depicts the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North after WWI

-Segregation emphasized by yellow poles that zigzag down the center

Context:

-artist: Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41

-Parents migrated North so he lived during this period of migration

149. The Bay

Form:

-Abstract expressionism

-Use of acrylic (had just been invented)

-Soak-Stain method: pouring wet paint onto a canvas and moving it around

-Paint seeps and flows and interacts with the fiber

Content:

-Prominent blue section shifting from violet to indigo then into navy

-Blurring of the colors, blues blend together

Function;

-Color as the subject of the painting

-Subject could also be a landform of some sort?

Context:

-Helen Frankenthaler, 1963 CE

151. Spiral Jetty

Form:

- earthwork: mud, salt crystals, rocks, water coil

- arranged in counterclockwise motion

Content:

- a pathway that goes out in the Great Salt Lake

Function:

- this work of art is ever-changing because of the water levels

- supposed to be a pilgrimage to get there

Context:

- Great Salt Lake, Utah

-site-specific

- made by Robert Smithson in 1970