The Wedding Dance, Bruegel the Elder, c. 1566 Slide 1 The Wedding Dance, Bruegel the Elder, c. 1566
Slide 2 Describe the colours in Bruegel’s painting? Why do you think Bruegel used these colours? What do these colours express to you? How do they make you feel? Look at the faces and expressions of the dancers? What feelings do you think are being expressed in this painting? What emotions do you think they are feeling?
Slide 3 Dance, Matisse, c. 1909–1910
Slide 4 The Dancers IV, Hockney, 2014
Slide 5 The painting shows a scene from The Decameron, where young men and women who have fled the plague epidemic tell each other stories. Manuscript of The Decameron, fol. 5r (c. 1476), Illustration from The Decameron, Crivelli, c. 1476
The Fall of Phaeton, Rubens, 1604 Slide 6 The Fall of Phaeton, Rubens, 1604
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, Monet. c. 1875 Slide 7 Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, Monet. c. 1875
Slide 8 The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Commonly known as the Houses of Parliament after its occupants, the Palace lies on the bank of the River Thames in central London.
The Houses of Parliament, Monet 1899-1904 Slide 9 The Houses of Parliament, Monet 1899-1904
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Slide 14 Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-1517
Slide 15 Have emotions associated with colours changed over time? Why do we now associate blue with peace, red with anger, etc? What do you associate with certain colours?
Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Slide Image credits 1 GDJ. Artist’s Palette and Brush, 02/09/2015. Digital image. Openclipart. 2 Spiral rainbow background. Digital image. Used by permission. Backgroundsy. 3 Henri Matisse. Dance, c. 1909–1910. Oil on canvas. © Courtesy of the Hermitage Museum. 4 David Hockney, The Dancers IV, 2019. Courtesy of https://curiator.com/art/david-hockney/thedancers- iv. 5 Manuscript of The Decameron, fol. 5r (c. 1476), Taddeo Crivelli, Illustration from The Decameron, c. 1476. Courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 6 Peter Paul Rubens. The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1604–1605. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 7 Claude Monet. Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 8 DaniKauf. Westminster Palace in London, 15-2-2005. Photograph. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 9 Claude Monet. The Houses of Parliament series, 1899–1904. Oil on canvas. See citations below: 10 Claude Monet. Houses of Parliament, London, 1900–1903. Oil on canvas. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 11 Claude Monet. Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904. Oil on canvas. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich. 12 Claude Monet. The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 13 Claude Monet. Houses of Parliament, Stormy Sky, 1904. Oil on canvas. Lille Palace of Fine Arts, Lille. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 14 Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa, c. 1503–1517. Oil on poplar panel. The Louvre, Paris. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 15 Kaz. Crayons. Digital image. Pixabay. Margaret Esaak. Mona Lisa, 2008. Drawing. Used by permission of artist, Margaret Esaak.