Gustave Klimt
The Kiss (Lovers) Gustave Klimt
Gold in the background always represents eternity
Mom is a opera singer, dad is a goldsmith.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
Oprah owns the painting and sells it for 150 million
George Seurat
Young Woman Powdering Herself-George Seurat
Pointillism
Madeleine Knobloch
He loved her but parents HATED her. Seurat was and upper class family and
she was a lower class. Shame Shame.
Sunday Afternoon on the Island La Grande Jatte-Seurat-1884-1886
Important because it was one of the first times people had a day off. 7 day weeks
were common
Monkey?
Is this lady a mistress? Only a sunday afternoon lady?
Bathers on Asnieres (1884)
Parallels Sunday Afternoon
Working men and boys, no women. The poor side of the river.
Early painting of pollution
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Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Fauve
Only paints pleasure
The Joy of Life
Emotions
La Sardana circle dance in the back
Portrait of Madame Matisse
Green stripe? Not a bad thing.
The Chapel of the Rosary (Vence Chapel, Matisse Chapel)
Look at other pics for the midterm. Hes not using the stock photo
Irony of him creating this.
Spirituality. Joy in acknowledging a womans choice.
Madly in love with the nun. Poor guy. (But was actually honorable toward her. )
TDC: Total design concept. Such is my gratitude for how you restored me.
Picasso was pissed about this. Why didnt you design a brothel? Nobody asked.
Exterior not intriguing, but emphasizes the beauty on the interior (metaphor)
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Advertising champagne
Allusion to sainthood, but not?
Work meant to make you purchase a product
F. Champenois (1898)
Flowers!
The whiplash curves are very art nouveau
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She models for her until 1915 and marries someone else.
Self- Portrait, Standing (1910)
Tortured, Pessimistic view of himself
Looks flayed himself
Even face looks like hes in pain
Klimt influences him
Cardinal and Nun (Caress) (1912)
Scandalous
Very influenced by Klimts The Kiss
2/20/2017
**Midterm. Maybe explain in the Joy of Life whether it is sensuous or sensual
Paul Klee
Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delight:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/El_jard%C3%ADn_de_las_De
licias,_de_El_Bosco.jpg/550px-El_jard%C3%ADn_de_las_Delicias,_de_El_Bosco.jpg
Maybe if we want to survive as a nation we need to recover our childhood
Child-like, not childish
Need to get rid of our filters to appreciate it.
Pixels precursor
Fish Magic (1925)
Death & Fire (1940)
Child-like
May Picture
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Inspired by the cubists, picasso.
Show us all sides of the fox!
Giacomo Balla
Futurist
Dynamism of a dog on a leash (1912)
Umberto Boccioni
Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913
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Marcel Duchamp
Dadaist, Surrealist, Conceptualist
Granddaddy of all weirdness
L.H.O.O.Q. (know it for MIDTERM)
Postcard he picks up at Louvre
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912
Showing us how we move. One woman walking down the steps.
Ideas of her moving.
Fountain, 1917
Doesnt even sign his real name.
Replica, original thrown out
READY MADE
Hannah Hoch
Dadaists (collagist)
Cutting magazines and creating a woman
Untitled (Large Hand Over a Womans Head) (1930)
Note the edges
Untitled (From an Ethnographic Museum,) (1930)
Challenging Notions of Beauty
Dompteuse (fr. Lion Tamer) (1930)
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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Dadaist (Collagist)
Murdering Airplane (1920)
War (bombs)
9/11
The Immaculate Conception (Marys conception)
Did this to strike a nerve. Didnt like the Catholic Church
1854: dogma
What do you believe in?
The Blessed Virgin, Chastising the Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul
Eluard and the Artist, 1926
She knocks his halo off
Quiz Wednesday
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African American women that is so white, that she was often mistaken for being
white.
All about essential identity
Golden Lion 2015
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Anish Kapoor
Born in India
Ai Weiwei
8 Mile walk for compassion and solidarity with refugees across the globe (2015)
London
We are demanding creativity of others, recognizing that those who leave their country and go
on a journey across the water full of danger or who walk hundreds of miles across land are
also making a creative act
The blankets are a symbol of the need that faces 60 million people
Subway Train
Jared Nied, No1. Subway Train, 4 Feb 2017.
Train covered in anti-semitic graffiti: Jews belong in the Oven (Swastika)
Hand sanitizer got rid of it w/i 2 minutes
Whos an artist? He or she that jumps in and does what we cant do ourselves.
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
Buchenwald, April 1945 (concentration camp)
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Four minutes of eye contacts brings people closer to each other better than
everything else
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Vincent Van Gogh P2
The Bedroom, 1889
Walls are actually purple
Three versions of the painting
James Mollison
Where Children Sleep, 2010 (book)
What type of space is it? How does it affect you?
What can you tell about a person by what is in it?
Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1828-1909), 1890
Sold for 82.5 Million
Foxglove, from which the heart medication for digitalis is derived.
The Church at Auvers, 1890
Looks warped
There's a soul in here. Its alive
He doesnt give up on the church, even though it gives up on him
The Starry Night, June 1889
Dreamscape
Vincent painted this while he was in asylum/hospital
Checked himself into a space he felt safe and secure
Color shape and texture to influence (today color therapy)
Tree in front
Cyprus tree. Often found in cemeteries. Symbol of death.
Death is closest to us.
How do any of us reach the stars? Death.
Poignant yet powerful.
East meets west with VVG
Swirls are japanese
Mt. fuji in japan wave painting inspires him
The Great Wave, c 1883 AIC
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
What inspires VVG? The art of Japan
Committed himself to Saint-Paul-de-Mausol and ASYLUM at St. Remy in May, 1889 for
one year and 8 days
I wish to remain shut up, as much for my own piece of mind, as for other peoples
Painted 150 canvases at St. Remy
Liza Lou
Beads as her medium
Swirls are VVG swirls
Kitchen, 1991-1995 (168 square feet), Whitney
Ultimately the artist wants to delight you.
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Many different renditions of this painting
Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888 (VVG)
Fantasy. Two people at the bottom.
Joseph Cornell
Box constructions and collages
La Mousme, 1888 (NGA, DC)
Jessica Chastin
VVG was named after his still-born brother
Im just a replacement
Haunts him
Born one year later on the same date
Without his pain he could never have created the work the world loves
His anguish was inextricably linked to his talent
Stay weird, stay different, Graham Moore
Unmarried, no children, unsuccessful in love
Loved by the girl next door, but he rejected her.
Fell in love with a cousin: self-injury because love isnt returned
1880 became an artist
Would beat himself with sticks to make himself study harder
This world was never meant for someone as beautiful
The Potato Eaters, 1885
My intention was that it was (my work) should make people think of a way of life
entirely different from that of our refined society.
Theyre poor, so its all theyve gt
Considers it the best thing hes ever done
Detail in back
Crucifixion of Jesus painting in the back.
Faith never leave vincent
Eat Dem Taters, 1975- Robert Colescott
Red Vineyard Near Arles, 1888 (moscow)
The one someone actually purchases!
For $1000
Purchases by the painter Anna Rosalie Boch in 1890
Midterm Review
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