AP Art History Unit 8 Test

the swing

Jean-Honore Fragonard, Oil on canvas, 1766. Was made as a painting for a French elite.

têtê a têtê from marriage à la mode

William Hogarth, Oil on canvas, 1745. Was made in a series of paintings about making fun of the contemporary marriages at the time.

philosopher giving a lecture

Joseph Wright of Derby, Oil on canvas, 1763-1765. Was inspired by the scientific revolution.

the oath of the horatii

Jacques-Louis David, Oil on canvas, 1784-1785. Was made to depict historic events to relate to current events of their time.

self portrait

Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, Oil on canvas, 1790. Was made as a self portrait.

la grande odalisque

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Oil on canvas, 1814. Was made to show exotic beauty.

monticello

Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Virginia, Brick/glass/stone/wood, 1789-1809. Was made as a house for Thomas Jefferson.

george washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon, Marble, 1788-1792. Was made as a statue to honor George Washington.

liberty leading the people

Eugène Delacroix, Oil on canvas, 1830. Was made to depict the French revolution.

y no hay remedio

Fransisco de Goya, Etching/drypoint/burin/burnisher, 1810-1823. Was made to depict the Spanish war against France.

the slave ship

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Oil on canvas 1840. Was made as an abolitionist statement.

the oxbow

Thomas Cole, Oil on canvas, 1836. Was made in favor of manifest destiny.

houses of parliament

Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, London, UK, Limestone masonry and glass, 1836-1860. Was made as government buildings for the UK.

the stonebreakers

Gustave Courbet, Oil on canvas, 1849. Was made to show hard working people in France.

olympia

Édouard Manet, Oil on canvas, 1863. Was made to show contemporary French life.

the burghers of calais

Auguste Rodin, Bronze, 1884-1895. Was made to honor the Burghers of Calais.

nadar raises photography to the height of art

Honore Daumier, Lithograph, 1862. Was made as a political cartoon.

still life in studio

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Daguerrotype, 1837. Was made in a series of early photographs.

the horse in motion

Eadweard Muybridge, 1878. Was made as the first narrative film.

la gare saint-lazare

Claude Monet, Oil on canvas, 1877. Was made as an impressionist painting of a real life setting.

the coiffure

Mary Cassat, Drypoint and aquatint on paper, 1890-1891. Was made as a way to desexualize women in art.

the valley of mexico from santa isabel mountain range

José María Velasco, Oil on canvas, 1875. Was made as a landscape painting to honor the history of Mexico.

starry night

Vincent van Gogh, Oil on canvas, 1889. Was made as a painting to depict life and death.

where do we come from? wo are we? where are we going?

Paul Gauguin, Oil on canvas, 1897-1898. Was made as a piece to contemplate about life.

the scream

Edvard Munch, Tempera on board, 1910. Was made in a series of paintings of the same painting.