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The stone Breakers
Date: 1849
Location: France
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Gustav Courbet
Context: destroyed in WW2/ judges the harsh labor force during the time/ cramped space and dark background
Nadar raising photography to the height of art
Date:1862
Location: France
Material: Lithiograph
Artist: Honre Daumier
Context: Satirizing the claim that photography was high art, shows artists fear of Art losing its value due to photography
Olympia
Date: 1863
Location: France
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Edoard Manet
Context: modern commentary on idealized female nudity / Olympia was a common name for a prostitute / the female is not Venus, but modeled after a woman named Victoria who was an artist and dancer / Inspired by Titian’s Venus of Urbino
The Valley of Mexico
Date: 1882
Location: Mexico City
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Jose Valesco
Context: emphasizes the bleary of Mexican countryside / dramatic perspective, romanticized landscape / Basilica of Guadalupe and 2 volcanos depicted in the distance
The Horse in Motion
Date: 1878
Location: England
Material:Photograph
Artist: Edward Muybridge
Context: first ever “film” ever made from a collection of photographs
Saint Lazard Station
Date: 1877
Location: France
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Claude Monet
Context: urban setting but uses light brush strokes and pastel colors to focus on the affect of light / example of Plein - Air (outdoor paintings) / influenced by Japanese art
The Coiffure
Date: 1890
Location: France
Material: Drypoint and Aquatint
Artist: Mary Cassat
Context: Part of a series of Genre paintings that are inspired by Japanese Art / solid blocks of color and patterning, pastel colors/ also depicts independence of the woman
Starry Night
Date: 1889
Location: France
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Vincent Van Goh
Context: Plein-air, worked by staring directly at the landscape/ wavy and illusion patterns, extended attention to the sky
Where do we come from?
Date: 1897
Location: France
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Paul Gauguin
Context: Gaugin travels to Tahiti and learns of his fathers death, this painting is his last will and testament/ narrative story of life read from right to left / Egyptian figures, Japanese prints, Tahitian imagery
Mont Saint Victore
Date:1902
Location: France
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Paul Cezanne
Context: cezanne was known for still life and landscape / Pointalism (blocky blending of colors)
The Scream
Date: 1893
Location: Norway
Material: Pastel and Cartboard
Artist: Edward Munch
Context: Munch was inspired by dreams for his art / The figure is inspired by a Peruvian Mummy / evokes emotion for the viewer, emphasizes chaos
The kiss
Date: 1907
Location: Vienna
Material: oil and gold leaf on canvas
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Context: Vienna Secession (breaking away from academic traditional schools) Gold Mosaic similar to Byzantine / floral patterns, males represented by squares and females represented with circles / represents all consuming love
The Scott Building
Date: 1904
Location: Chicago
Material: iron, steel, glass
Artist: Louis Sullivan
Context: Acts as a department store in Chicago / exaggeration historical round arches and cornices and cast iron decoration
The Burghers of Calais
Date: 1884
Location: France
Material: Bronze
Artist: Auguste Rodin
Context: depicts 100 year war when English took over Calais / displays individual emotion of doom over perfection of figure