1. AP Art History’s Greatest Hits: Part Two

2. 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

3. Northern Renaissance Knight, Death, and Devil by Albrecht Durer 1513
Characteristics:
Knight = Christian
Display strength, movement, and proportions of Renn equestrian statue
Employed lines to evoke
                      

4. Mannerism Madonna With the Long Neck by Parmigianino 1535
Characteristics:
Small oval head, long slender neck, long fingers
Exaggeration
Contains religious meaning
Un-natural coloring

5. Baroque in Italy Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio 1597-1601
Characteristics
Jesus’ arm reminiscent of Michelangelo
Piercing ray of light
Realist and dramatic
Theatrical lighting (tenebrism)
Counter-reformation
Baroque in Italy

6. 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
Royal Family included in the work

7. 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
Secular subject of Protestant Reformation

8. Baroque in France/England
Burial of Phocion by Poussin
1648
Characteristics:
Figures: Solitary relief
Light: Even and revealing
Landscape is nature subordinated to a rational plan of classicism

9. 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

10. Later China Dwelling in the Fu Chun Mountains by Gongwang 1347-1350
Characteristics:
Richly layered with brush strokes a
At times interweaving dry brush strokes and at other times placing dry strokes over wet ones

11. Later Japan Cuckoo Flying Over New Verdure by Yosa Busan
Late 18th Century
Characteristics:
Fully Mature Style
Chinese and Japanese literati style by rounding the landscape forms

12. Later Oceania Bisj Poles Early to Mid 20th Century Characteristics:
Served as a pledge to avenge a relative’s death
Head-hunting raid
Decorated with figures of individuals who have already died

13. Later North America Kachina Figurine by Otto Pentewa 1959
Characteristics:
Rain bringing deity who wears a mask painted in geometric patterns symbolic of water and agriculture fertility

14. Later Mesoamerica Illuminated page from Borgia Codex 1400-1500
Characteristics:
Two vividly gesticulating gods
Ritual subjects
God of life = black Quetzalcoatl

15. Later South America Machu Piechu 15th Century Characteristics:
One of the world’s most awe-inspiring sights
Inka City

16. Later Africa Mbulu-nbulu Reliquary Guardian Figure
19th Century or Early 20th Century
Characteristic:
Severely stylized body said to have repelled evil
Heads simplified
Geometric ridges borders

17. Neoclassicism Oath of the Horatii by David 1784 Characteristics:
Conflicts between heart and patriotism
Statuesque figures- men: Rigid, Angular

18. Romanticism (Spanish)
The Third of May 1808 by Goya
1808
Characteristics:
Encouraged empathy of the Spanish by portraying horrified expressions and enhanced drama through stark use of darks and lights

19. Romanticism Raft of the Medusa by Gericault 1818-1819 Characteristics:
Actual historical event
Subdued palette and prominent shadow lend ominous pall to the scene
Emotionally charged
Comments on slavery Apathy

20. Realism Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) by Manet 1863
Characteristics:
Figures in soft focus
Broadly painted the landscape
Black is a prominent color
Allusions to many paintings of genres

21. Impressionism Ballet Rehearsal by Degas 1874 Characteristics:
Figures randomly placed, not centered
Degas was interested in reproducing single moments
Composition inspired by photography and Japanese prints.

22. 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
Emotion takes precedence over natural depiction of landscape

23. Symbolism The Cry (Scream) by Munch 1893 Characteristics:
Grounded in the real world
Departs significantly from a visual reality

24. Art Nouveau Casa Milá by Gaudi 1907 Characteristics: Free-form mass
Organic lines not geometric

25. 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

26. German Expressionism Fate of the Animals by Franz Marc 1913
Characteristics:
Entire scene is distorted- Shattered into fragments
Colors of severity and brutality of war’s anguish and tragedy

27. Futurism Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Boccioni 1913
Characteristics:
Italian movement during WWI
Formal and spatial effects on motion
Figure is expanded, interruption, and broken in plane and contour
Futurist thought war had “cleansing power”

28. Precisionism My Egypt by Charles Demuth 1927 Characteristics:
Grain elevators which he reduced to simple geometric forms
Fragmented

29. Dada
Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar by Hannah Hoch
Characteristics:
Juxtaposed the head of German military leaders with exotic dancers
Aware of the power that women and Dada had on society

30. Cubism Still Life With Chair- Canning by Picasso 1912 Characteristics:
Chair seems real
Synthetic Cubism uses actual items collaged in work
Painted and abstract areas don’t refer to tangible objects of the real world

31. Surrealism The Persistence of Memory by Dali 1931 Characteristics:
Allegory of empty space: Where time has ended
Attempt to make it convincingly real

32. American Realism Haymarket by John Sloan 1907 Characteristics:
Ashcan school painters injected realism into American art by taking ordinary people as their subjects.

33. Abstract Expressionism
No. 1 by Pollack
1950
Characteristics:
Abandoned the paintbrush altogether sloshing, pouring, and dripping abandoned easel

34. Color Field Blue, Orange, and Red by Rothko 1961 Characteristics:
                                                                                                     
Blue, Orange, and Red by Rothko
1961
Characteristics:
Interested in the relation between one color and another
No evidence of brushstrokes

35. Pop Art 100 Cans of Campbell Soup by Andy Warhol 1962 Characteristics:
Brought art to the masses by making art into everyday life

36. POP Art Three Flags by Jasper Johns 1958 Characteristics:
One of the first to rebel against abstract Expressionism by returning recognizable imagery to art

37. Photo Realism Self Portrait by Close 1968 Characteristics:
Return of the portrait after it was deconstructed through Cubism
Airbrushed self portrait to mimic the look of a photo not looking at someone in person.

38. Neo Expressionism Heath of the Brandenburg March by Keifer 1974
Characteristics:
Thick, dark paint to represent earth
Evokes the horror of the holocaust

39. 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
Post Modernism

40. Minimalism Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin
Simple and solemn geometric black granite with chronological order of names of Vietnam War dead
Earth on top of memorial expresses the heaviness of the war at its height
Lin won the commission as 21 art student at Yale University
Intensely controversial, had to also create figurative memorial after public outrage.

41. Environmental or Site-Specific Art
Spiral Jetty, by Robert Smithson
1970
Characteristics:
the vast coil to symbolize the reality of time, on a monumental scale
Coil is 1500 ft. in length
Hard to get to area of the Great Salt Lake in Utah

42. Deconstructionist Architecture
Guggenheim Bilbao Museo by FRANK GEHRY, Bilbao, Spain, 1997
Characteristics:
limestone and titanium
Gehry trained as a sculptor
Its disorder and seeming randomness of design epitomize Deconstructivist architectural principles