Art History Final Exam

Memorize these works of art and their meaning!!

Thomas Moran, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,1872

(connect to Shannon: Introduction to How and why to look at art in the time of climate change)

Gabriela Salazar, Matters in Shelter (and place, Puerto Rico), 2018

(connect to Shannon Intro how and why)

Anastasia Samoylova, Blue Courtyard, Hollywood, 2019

(connect to Romm, climate change what eveyrone needs to know OR Andrews, astonished beyond expression)

Georgia O’Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree, 1929

(Connect to Shannon: thinking beyond the human)

Ana Mendieta, Tree of Life, 1976

(connect to braddock and kusserow: intro to natures nation)

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, 1940-41 (four of the sixty panels)

(Connect to Sarah Jaquette Ray: a field guide to climate anxiety OR Frazier: thinking red, wounds, and fungi)

Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1889 (detail)

(Connect to Shannon: thinking beyond the human OR braddock and kusserow)

Daniel Mason, North Woods, 2023

(connect to braddock and kusserow: intro to nature’s nation)

Irene Sola, When I Sing, Mountains Dance, 2019

(connect to braddock and kusserow OR cronon trouble with wilderness OR frazier)

Chuang Che, Clear Skies After The Rain, 1992

(connect to shannon thinking beyond the human)

Huang Zhiyang, Lover’s Library Oliver + Subine, 1999

(connect to frazier: thinking red, wounds, and fungi)

Ansel Adams, The Tetons and The Snake River, 1942

(connect to cronon: trouble with wilderness)

Elliot Porter, Skunk Cabbage, 1957

(connect to cronon)

William Anders, Earthrise, 1968

(connect to cronon)

Lee Friedlander, Mt. Rushmore, 1969

(connect to cronon OR shannon on stephen shore)

Robert Adams, Longmont Colorado, 1977

(connect to cronon or stephen shore)

Stephen Shore, South on Klamath Falls, 1973

(cronon or stephen shore)

Stephen Shore, Bandlands National Monument, 1973

(cronon or stephen shore)

Michael Heizer, Double Negative, 1970

(connect to shannon on nancy holt OR maybe sarah jaquette ray)

Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1973-76

(connect to shannon on nancy holt)

Andy Goldsworthy, Sycamore Leaves Edging the Roots of a Sycamore Tree, 2013

(connect to shannon: thinking beyond the human)

Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara, 1857

(Connect to andrews: astonished beyond expression)

Caspar David Friedrich, Monk By the Sea, 1809

(connect to andrews)

Alec Soth, Falls #26, 2005

(connect to andrews)

Alec Soth, A-1 Motel, 2005

(connect to andrews OR cronon)

Wangechi Mutu, Your Story, My Curse, 2006

(connect to frazier: thinking red, wounds, and fungi)

Wangechi Mutu, Sentinel IV, 2020

(connect to sarah jaquette ray OR frazier)

What are the concepts of the sublime?

• magnificence

• power

• obscurity

• vastness

• infinity

• difficulty

• privation (denial of oreientation)