AP Art Historys Greatest Hits: Part Two

Mannerism

Madonna With the Long Neck by Parmigianino 1535 Characteristics:

Small oval head, long slender neck, long fingers

Exaggeration

Contains religious meaning

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

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

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 Velzquez 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

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

Rococo
The Swing by Frangonard 1766 Characteristics: Intrigue picture

Landscape setting is out of Watteau

Glowing pastel colors and soft light Convey the scenes sensuality

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

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

Later Oceania
Bisj Poles

Early to Mid 20th Century

Characteristics: Served as a pledge to avenge a relatives death Head-hunting raid Decorated with figures of individuals who have already died

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

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

Later South America

Machu Piechu 15th Century

Characteristics:
One of the worlds most awe-inspiring sights Inka City

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

Neoclassicism

Oath of the Horatii by David 1784

Characteristics:
Conflicts between heart and patriotism Statuesque figures- men: Rigid, Angular

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

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

Realism
Le Dejeuner Sur LHerbe 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 Mil 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

Fate of the Animals by Marc 1913 Characteristics: Entire scene is distorted- Shattered into fragments Colors of severity and brutality of wars anguish and tragedy

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

Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimer by Hoch 1919-1920 Characteristics:

Futurism

Juxtaposed the head of German military leaders with exotic dancers Aware of the power that women and Dada had on society

Still Life With Chair- Canning by Picasso

Cubism

1912
Characteristics: Chair seems real Painted and abstract areas dont 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 its a spitting image of a person, the next its 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 OKeefe, Virginia Wolfe, Sacagawea, Susan B. Anthony