Art History 2

Tenebrism

elevated chiaroscuro-more dramatic use of illuminated dark and light areas in painting

Allegory

representation in a work of art of an abstract concept or idea using specific objects or human figures

Vanitas

mainly 17th C.-work of art where ALL of the object symbolize the transience of life (genre/still life)

Fete galante

subject in art depicting elaborate dressed figures in a park or country setting (Rococo)

Boffrand-Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise, Paris 1740

Antoine Watteau
Gilles, undated
Oil on canvas
18th C. French Rococco
Louvre, Paris

Pilgrimage to Cythera
(Embarcation from Cythera)

Creator : Antoine Watteau

A celebrated oil painting created in 1717, symbolizing love and longing, featuring figures embarking on a mythical journey to the island of Cythera.

Francois Boucher
Venus Consoling Love, 1751
Oil on canvas
18th C. French Rococco
National Gallery, D.C.

The Progress of Love (The Meeting)

Creator: Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Year: 1771-1773, a series of paintings exploring romantic themes and intimate moments, exemplifying the French Rococo style.

The Swing

Creator: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Year: 1767

Location: Wallace Collection, London.

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

Creator: Joseph Wright of Derby
Year: 1768

Measurements
183 x 244 cm

The Marriage Contract

Creator:

Year: about 1743

Measurements
69.9 x 90.8 cm

William Hogarth
Time Smoking a Picture,
1761
Etching
18th. C. British Satire
Guildhall, London

Angelica Kauffman-Cornelia Pointing to Her Children, 1785, oil on canvas 18th C. History Painting,
Virginia Museum of Fine Art

Cupid and Psyche

Creator: Antonio Canova

Year: 1793

Material
marble
Measurements
155 x 168 cm

Fuseli-The Nightmare, 1781. Oil on canvas, 18th C. Romaticism, Detroit Inst. Of Art

Caspar David Friedrich-Moonrise over the Sea, 1822. Oil on canvas, 18th. C. Romanticism,
Berlin

Caspar David Friedrich-Monk by the Sea, 1809, oil on canvas, 19th C. Romanticism, National Gallery, Berlin

Linear

outline or contour define the forms, shadow is used to ground objects in space
and to suggest their almost 3-D qualities (David/Ingres)

Painterly

blending of individual forms into the larger composition through the use of
color. (Delacroix/ Goya)

Odalisque

came to refer specifically to a concubine in a harem. were very popular subjects in European Orientalist art of the 19th century. Typically, the scantily and exotically dressed odalisque poses as if on display for the (assumed) male viewer.

History Painting

term used to denote those paintings which include figures of any kind
of historical, mythological, or biblical narrative

Sublime

loosely based on philosopher Edmund Burke's theoretical system of "irrational"
attraction to fear, pain, loss, hatred, death, etc.

Chardin- Basket of Wild Strawberries-c.1760, oil on canvas, 18th C. Academies, Private Collection

The Oath of the Horatii

Creator: Jacques-Louis David

Year: 1784

Measurements
3.26 x 4.27 m

Jacques -Louis David
Death of Marat-1793
Oil on canvas
18th C. French Neoclassic
Beaux Arts-Belgium

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres-Napoleon Enthroned-1806, oil on canvas, 19th C.
French Neoclassicism, Museum l'Armee, Paris

The Grand Odalisque

Creator: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Year: 1814

Measurements
91 x 182 cm

John Singleton Copley-Watson and the Shark, 1778, oil on canvas, 18th C. Romanticism, Nat'l
Gallery, Washington D.C.

Caspar David Friedrich, Two Men Contemplating the Moon, 1819, oil on canvas, Romanticism,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Daguerreotype

positive print made on a light sensitive copperplate

Calotype- Greek for "beautiful image"

one of the first photographic processes utilizing negative paper
positives

Avant-garde-French for "before the group"

denotes those artists or concepts that are, strikingly new,
experimental or radical for the time

Still Life in the Artist's Studio

Creator:Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande, French
Year:1837
Location: Societe Francaise de Photographie, Paris
Measurements

16.5x21.6cm.
16.5x21.6cm.

Creator
William Henry Fox Talbot, British, 1800 - 1877
Title
The Open Door.
Date
late April 1844
Material
Salted paper print from a Calotype negative
Measurements
Image: 14.9 x 16.8 cm (5 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.)

Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the
Cañon de Chelle, 1873,
photographic albumen print,
19th C. American Photography
27.5 x 20.2 cm (The J.Paul Getty
Museum)

Excavation
Willem de Kooning
Date: 1950
Style: Abstract
Expressionism
Genre: abstract
Location: Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL, US

Muybridge-Horse in Motion, 1878, albumen print, 19th C. Photo

Eakins-The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (A May Morning in the Park), 1879-80. Oil on canvas.
19th C. American Realism- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.

Courbet
The Stone Breakers. 1849
Oil on canvas
19th C. French Realism
Destroyed in WWII

Creator: Gustave Courbet
Title: A Burial at Ornans
Work Type: painting
Date: 1849-50
Material
oil on canvas
Measurements
315 x 668 cm; framed: 371 x 724 cm

Creator: El Greco
Title: Burial of the Count of
Orgaz
Work Type: painting
Date: 1586-88
Location
Santo Tomé de Toledo
Material
oil on canvas
Measurements
460 x 360 cm (188.5 x
141.75 inches)

Creator: Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877
Title: Painter's studio (L'Aterlier du peintre)
Date: 1855
Material
oil on canvas
Measurements
359x598

Manet
Olympia, 1863
Oil on canvas
19th C. Realism
Musee D'Orsay, Paris

Manet
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere,
1881-1882
Oil on canvas
19th C. French Realism
Courtauld Inst. , London

Creator: Jean-François Millet
Title: The Gleaners
Date: 1857
Material
oil on canvas
Measurements
83.7 x 111 cm

Creator: Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916.
Title: Gross clinic
Work Type: Oil paintings
Date: 1875.
Measurements
96 x 78 inches.

Creator: Joseph Wright 'of Derby', 1734 - 1797
Title: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Date: 1768
Measurements
183 x 244 cm

Winslow Homer-The Life Line, 1884, oil on canvas, 19th C. American Realism, Philadelphia
Museum of Art

Creator: Winslow Homer, 1836-1910
Title: Snap the Whip
Date:1872
Measurements
12 x 20 in.

creator: Edouard Manet
Title:Dejeuner sur l'herbe
(Luncheon on the Grass)
Date:1863
Measurements
82 x 104 in.