AP Art History’s Greatest Hits:Part Two

Late Gothic

•Arnolfini and His Bride by Jan Van Eyck

•1434

•Characteristics:

•Almost every object portrayed sanctity

•Symbolism

•Purpose: Record and sanctify marriage

•Dog: Fidelity, Shoe: Holy Ground

Baroque in Italy

•Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio

•1597-1601

•Characteristics

•Jesus’ arm reminiscent of Michelangelo

•Piercing ray of light

•Realist and dramatic

Baroque in Spain

•Las Meninas by Velázquez

•1656

•Characteristics:

•Painter represented himself

•Visual and narrative complexity

•Represented form and shadow

•Tonal graduations: dark to light

Baroque in Flanders/Holland

•The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp by Rembrandt Van Rijn

•1632•Characteristics:

•Evenly placed subjects

•Corpse: Diagonally placed and foreshortened

•Student poses and expressions show personality

Rococo•The Swing by Frangonard

•1766

•Characteristics:

•“Intrigue” picture

•Landscape setting is out of Watteau

•Glowing pastel colors and soft light

•Convey the scene’s sensuality

Neoclassicism

•Oath of the Horatii by David

•1784

•Characteristics:

•Conflicts between heart and patriotism

•Statuesque figures- men: Rigid, Angular

Romanticism

•Characteristics:

•Actual historical event

•Subdued palette and prominent shadow lend ominous pall to the scene

•Emotionally charged

•Comments on slavery Apathy

• Raft of the Medusa by Gericault

•1818-1819

Realism

•Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe by Manet

•1863

•Characteristics:

•Figures in soft focus

•Broadly painted the landscape

•Black is a prominent color

•Allusions to many paintings of genres

Impressionism•Ballet Rehearsal by Degas

•1874

•Characteristics:

•Figures randomly placed, not centered

•Degas was interested in reproducing single moments

Post Impressionism•Starry Night by Van Gough

•1889

•Characteristics:

•Communicated the vastness of the universe

•Uses color to express himself

•With the turbulent brush strokes, the color suggests a quiet but persuasive depiction

Symbolism

•The Cry (Scream) by Munch

•1893

•Characteristics:

•Grounded in the real world

•Departs significantly from a visual reality

Art Nouveau

•Casa Milá by Gaudi

•1907

•Characteristics:

•Free-form mass

•Organic lines not geometric

Fauvism

•Red Room by Matisse

•1908-1909

•Characteristics:

•Color = Warmth

•Colors contrast richly and intensely

•Depicts objects in simplified and schematized fashion and flattening out form

German Expressionism

•Entire scene is distorted- Shattered into fragments

•Colors of severity and brutality of war’s anguish and tragedy

• Fate of the Animals by Marc

•1913

•Characteristics:

Dada•Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Boccioni

•1913

•Characteristics:

•Formal and spatial effects on motion

•Figure is expanded, interruption, and broken in plane and contour

Precisionism or Regionalism

•My Egypt by Charles Demuth

•1927

•Characteristics:

•Grain elevators which he reduced to simple geometric forms

•Fragmented

Futurism•Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimer by Hoch

•1919-1920

•Characteristics:

•Juxtaposed the head of German military leaders with exotic dancers

•Aware of the power that women and Dada had on society

Cubism•Still Life With Chair- Canning by Picasso

•1912

•Characteristics:

•Chair seems real

•Painted and abstract areas don’t refer to tangible objects of the real world

Fantasy and Surrealism•The Persistence of Memory by Dali

•1931

•Characteristics:

•Allegory of empty space: Where time has ended

•Attempt to make it convincingly real

American Realism

•Haymarket by John Sloan

•1907

•Characteristics:

•Ashcan school painters injected realism into American art by taking ordinary people as their subjects.

Abstract Expressionism•No. 1 by Pollack

•1950

•Characteristics:

•Abandoned the paintbrush altogether sloshing, pouring, and dripping abandoned easel

Color Field

                                                                    

                                 

•Blue, Orange, and Red by Rothko

•1961

•Characteristics:

•Interested in the relation between one color and another

•No evidence of brushstrokes

OP Art

•Three Flags by Jasper Johns

•1958

•Characteristics:

•One of the first to rebel against abstract Expressionism by returning recognizable imagery to art

Pop Art

•100 Cans of Campbell Soup by Andy Warhol

•1962

•Characteristics:

•Brought art to the masses by making art into everyday life

Photo Realism

•Fanny Finger Painting by Close

•1985

•Characteristics:

•One moment it’s a spitting image of a person, the next it’s an animated pattern of spots

Neo Expressionism

•To The Unknown Painter by Keifer

•1983

•Characteristics:

•Thick, dark paint to represent earth

•Evokes the horror of the holocaust

Post Modernism•The Dinner Part by Judy Chicago

•1979

•Characteristics:

•A feminist Last Supper

•Intended to interest worship of the female

•Triangle symbolizes both ‘woman’ and goddess

•Invited: Georgia O’Keefe, Virginia Wolfe, Sacagawea, Susan B. Anthony