1. ART AND THE AP EXAM

2. THE RENAISSANCE

3. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE Perspective Geometric structure Humanism Individualism –Individual artists –Portraits Private patrons Tension between religious and secular Landscapes Classic Themes in painting, sculpture, architecture –Influence of Greece and Rome Religious Themes (often painted in Renaissance time)

5. EXAMPLES

8. Massacio Note persepctive

12. DA VINCI ST ANNE

14. Arnolfini Marriage: Portrait—Marriage Contract—Signs he was a businessman Presence of artist in mirror—Dog=fidelity

15. THE BAROQUE The Renaissance continues Add: Art of Counter Reformation Art of Spain Passion Classic Themes Velasquez El Greco

16. ST PETERS BASILICA HOW DID IT LEAD TO LUTHER’S REFORMATION?

17. HOW DOES “THE CREATION” EMBODY HUMANISM, IDEAS OF FREE WILL AND RELIGIOUS THEMES?

18. EL ESCORIAL: HOW DOES IT REFLECT THE VALUES OF PHILLIP II?

19. EL GRECO VIEW FROM TOLEDO

21. WHO WAS THE SPANISH COURT FAVORITE? GRECO OR VELASQUEZ?

23. ART OF THE NETHERLANDS 17 th CENTURY Smaller houses=smaller pictures Scenes of everyday life with a message The fragility of life in the Netherlands (Low Lands Historical paintings, portraits Rembrandt, Vermeer Renaissance themes and values

24. THE NIGHT WATCH 1642REMBRANDT ON GUARD AGAINST THE ENEMY WHO WOULD THAT BE IN 1642

25. REMBRANDT: ARISTOTLE CONTEMPLATING THE BUST OF HOMER? WHAT RENAISSANCE-HUMANISTIC VALUES ARE REFLECTED HERE

26. VERMEER: DELFT WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT LIFE IN 17 th c. NETHERLANDS?

27. VERMEER: ASTRONOMER AND GEOGRAPHER WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT 17 th c. DUTCH?5

28. MEANWHILE—IN FRANCE AND ELSEWHERE PETER PAUL RUBENS GIVES THE “NEW MONARCHS” THE LOOK THEY LIKE

29. Rubens: THE LION HUNT

30. Caravaggio teaches us about light/dark and contrast SUPPER AT EMMANUS

31. AGE OF LOUIS XIV

32. VERSAILLES Compare to El Escorial

33. THE HALL OF MIRRORS REFLECTED WHOSE IMAGE HOW DOES THIS PLAY INTO ABSOLUTISM?

34. LOUIS XIV and the SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION SCIENCE and STATE BUILDING

35. Louis XIV as Sun King

36. ART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY GENRE PAINTINGS –Continuing the Dutch idea of painting everyday life –Art of the Enlightenment-the values of the Enlightenment –Return to classical (Greco-Roman) themes

37. Chardin What can you surmise about this individual?

38. Fragonard THE READER

39. DAVID: OATH OF THE HORATII How did this picture reflect the ideals and problems of France in 1784 Clue: Concept of dying for Republic

40. ROMANTICISM late 18 th and most f 19 th depending where you were Reaction to Age of Reason

41. 19 th C. ROMANTICISM Emotion rules over reason Fascination with middle ages Nature as “natural” Beginnings resistance to Renaissance rules of perspective Man in nature Fascination with “things oriental” (inspired by Napoleon in Egypt and later, especially when France takes over North Africa Mixes in with nationalism, realism

42. ARTISTS AND OTHERS Art: INGRES, DELACROIX, GERICAULT,COURBET (realistic), FRIEDRICH, TURNER, CONSTABLE

43. NINETEENTH CENTURY ART TO 1870ish

44. DELACOIX LIBERTY LEADING THE WAY (1830 Revolution)

45. Massacre at Chios Europeans Support the Revolution in Greece Shows weakness of Metternich system. HOW?

46. REALISM” COURBET FUNERAL AT ORNAIS REAL PEOPLE IN REAL TIME

47. IMPRESSIONISM Influence of photography—capturing a moment in time Light as a subject of art (long influential but perhaps never a subject on its own) Breakdown of traditional ideas of perspective Parallels the French Rev and Industrial Rev and breakdown of tradition structures as they are replaced by new ones

48. IMPRESSIONISM continued Subjects are “real” places/people in “real” time; Scenes are often in the countryside but more often than not are records of ‘city life” Short lived but influential; gives rise to many other movements and finally modern art Important artists: Manet, Monet,Morisot (woman); Degas, Lautrec

49. MONET Gare St. Lazare How did the steam engine and railways change European life in the late 19 th century (post 1860)

50. HOW DOES THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE? Painting by MONET

51. RENOIR: Moulin de la Galette What is Renoir telling us about the working class in this painting?

52. DEGAS: THE IRONERS Who are these women? How do they tell us about late 19 th century women?

53. CHANGING PERSPECTIVES BEGINNING OF MODERN ART CEZANNE

54. HOW DOES CEZANNE CHALLENGE RULES OF PERSPECTIVE?

55. CEZANNE: CARD PLAYERS HOW DOES CEZANNE CHALLENGE US VISUALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY HOW DOES HE FIT IN TO LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY REALITY?

56. MODERN ART HOW DO PICASSO AND BRAQUES BUILD ON TRADITION AND CHALLENGE IT HOW DO THEY REFLECT A BREAKDOWN OF TRADITIONAL FORMS IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY 20 th CENTURIES

57. CUBISM Pre WWI

58. Picasso: Demoiselle d”Avignon

59. Bracques Paintings/collage with Picasso CUBISM

60. PIERRE MATISSE

61. THIS IS BY NO MEANS DEFINITIVE BUT IT SHOULD GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ART AND THE TIMES