Unit 5 Pieces

Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876 ESSAY!!!

Oil on canvas, Musee d’ Orsay, Paris

discreet brushwork to capture the effects of sunlight

wanted to capture the new leisure activities of Paris

a new famous dance bar and park

beautifully dressed young couples in the sun, dancing, conversing, drinking

sunlight through pieces of light and blue shadows

portraits of his friends

capture movement of dance and of harmony in the enjoyment of society and company

a contrast from Manet’s isolating bartender

Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vire (The Joy of Life), 1905-1906

oil on canvas, Barnes Foundation, Merion

genre painting

landscape with non-landscape colors

framing elements of trees, very stylyzed

pasteroural ground of nude figures

Georgia O’Keeffe, Red Poppy, 1927

famous painter of flowers making them abstract and orgainc

grasp the personality and story of the flower as a portrait

bright colors

Monet, Saint-Lazare Train Station, 1877

oil on canvas, in the Musee d’ Orsay, Paris

one of a series of train stations

impressed by these new features of industrialism of the train the train stations

capture the impressions made by the smoke/steam

blur the edges of famous buildings

train station = industrialized cathedral (acts as archeological frame for painting of trains)

Berthe Morisot, Summer Day, 1879

oil on canvas, National Gallery of London (Lane Bequest, 1917)

two women, one looking at the ducks, one looking at the viewer very worried

water is a bit more cloudy and reflective colors

figures are less defined

added sense of concern and anxiety

Morisot - liked to paint pictures of mothers and children, discreet brush work, influenced by Monet, nature pictures

Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1888

oil on canvas, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

tree in forefront influenced by Japanese prints with flatness and that type of tree

a “throwback” to woman in very modest culture

characters are flattened and but off

Jacob Wrestling with the angel is what the sermon was on

landscape is red

!use elements from nature but re make them in your mind to have symbolic and psychological meaning, believed the same of the human form being flattened

Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of the Grand Jatte,1884-1886 ESSAY!!!!

artist: revived mathematical perspective and structure, interested in color theory and combining science and art, made pointillism or divisionism

medium: oil on canvas

@: Art Institute of Chicago

subject: where wealthy people went on a Sunday to show off their wealth to each other, fish, converse, relax, sail

couple in foreground is upper middle class, walking but slightly static

everyone appears to be still, except the man laying down in the front in the working class who appears very relaxed and girl in the back who is running, dogs, and butterflies = people are isolated in their own little worlds

each person is laid out in linear perspective all receding into the distance

all made by dots made of contrasting color next to each other

Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889

oil on canvas, MET

very emotional

sky is turbid, turbulent

his vision of the sky with an intense radiating energy

not a calm night, but a violent burst of light and energy

below a small town is sleeping peacefully

cypress tree in foreground and seen in cemeteries

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893

tempura and pastels on cardboard, National Gallery, Oslo

Munch from Norway

more abstract, flattened figure, using color to express psychology

based on an experience he had as an experience of horror as everything around his is swirling

figures behind him don’t understand what is happening because it is all in his head

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902-1904

oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Cezanne started breaking landscapes into Cubes and how to break it down into different spaces and perspectives

a redo of a painting he did in 1885 in a clearer format

Rodin, The Kiss, 1901-1904

Rodin: french sculpture with focus on human body and psychological suffering

marble, Tate Gallery, London

very powerful male and female figures

classical influence, michelango influence

erotic embrace

Picasso, Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 ESSAY!!!

media: oil on canvas

@: MET

subject: women in brothel facing us in very confrontational way, fractured space and different angles of their bodies in geometrical angles, simplified faical features with mask like figures. jagged forms and confrontation face is threatening

subdued color, women pinkish in form, can’t read the space, still life in foreground

announced Picasso’s cubism

Marcel Duchamp, The Fountain, 1917

photo of original version, 1917 (done in the midst of WWI)

readymade glazed sanitary china with black paint

male urinal (mass produced) not high culture, making it his own art

challenged art = Dada

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1907-1909

Wright was influential in American architecture (wanted houses to fit into nature and be organic)

Chicago, Illinois

Prairie Style

Chicago was flat, so the house would be flat, very horizontal

house is several levels, lapping asymmetrically

long halls/ rooms

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929, Paris

steel and concrete with iron bars to make open design

domestic building - on human scale

people need sun, light, space, views of nature

interior and exterior blend together

no defined entrance or traditional facade

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930

oil on canvas

all life forms are gone, still

works are meant to be contemplated with different' line thickness and pure color

flat mathematical forms with movement of the lines

cut off on sides, extending into space

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939 ESSAY!!!

subject: autobiography and identiy of having a german dad and mexican mother

one heart is giving blood to the other, one european and one mexican

one of the arteries is cut, nod toward her multiple surgeries she had throughout her life

barren landscape, neutral

abstract clouds, slightly stormy

she studied anatomy/slighlty abstract

Jacob Lawrence, The Great Migration Series, no. 49, 1940-1941

urban enviroment (New York, New Jersey)

opportunities to develop their own cultural in the arts

still encountered segregation, express segregation through partition of ropes

separating whites an blacks

abstract plane

Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (lavender Mist), 1950

oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas

abstract expressionism

deep works that have intense deep patterns, portray deep emotional psychology

meant to convey this abstraction, nothing do to with reality

Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless, 1963

oil on canvas

enlarged image from comic strip based on melodramatic romance

Benday printing technique of adjacent dots replicated in painting

emitted style of comic book

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

Great Salt Lake, Utah

an earth-work sculpture made of mud, sea crystals, and basalt rock

very large, used red color of water for aesthetic impact

periodic drought, and shallow

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979 ESSAY!!!

feminist work

multimedia, ceramics and embroidery

@ Brooklyn Museum

have a seat for influential women, a female last supper

39 unique table settings for different accomplished women

ex: artemisia Gentilischi:

only women worked on

The Guerrilla Girls, Untitled, 1985-1990

billboard

Gorilla mask on Ingres, Grande Oldalisque

using it to reveal plight against women in museum world

Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005

oil on canvas (@ Brooklyn Museum)

wanted to take on art in which African Americans were excluded

completely alter the meaning by replacing Napoleon with a Black man

horse and foreground are the same

red based wallpaper instead of alps

reinterpretaion of the past