History of art

Maya & Tara's History of Art & Design

  • Venus of Willendorf
    25,000 BCE

    Venus of Willendorf

    Austria. represents power of female fertility
  • Hall of Bison
    15,000 BCE

    Hall of Bison

    Altamira Caves, Spain- closed to visitors for preservation
  • Herakles or Dionysus
    447 BCE

    Herakles or Dionysus

    Athens, Greece. removed from Greece by Great Britain in early 19th century-- greek gov wants it back
  • The Temple of Athena Nike
    437 BCE

    The Temple of Athena Nike

    BY MNESICLES.
  • Great Mosque of Cordoba
    250 BCE

    Great Mosque of Cordoba

    The arches are a vast network of pattern, and the color banding adds to the intensity of the pattern
  • Army of the First Emperor of Qin
    210 BCE

    Army of the First Emperor of Qin

    restoring ancient damaged art requires research and careful handling, as well as same guessowkr
  • Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome
    175

    Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome

    By: Musei Capitolini. Reinforces ruler's power
  • Parthenon
    447

    Parthenon

    crazy mathematical ingenuity
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • Women at the Fountain House
    520

    Women at the Fountain House

    Greek hydria.
  • Period: 1150 to 1400

    Gothic

  • Six Persimmons
    1200

    Six Persimmons

    MU-QI. simplicity reflects philosophy of Zen Buddhism
  • Baule Seated Female Figure
    1312

    Baule Seated Female Figure

    Baule artist are not associated with their works but the commissioners are-- they perform rituals that give the works meaning
  • Period: 1400 to 1550

    Renaissance

  • Wedding Portrait
    1434

    Wedding Portrait

    JAN VAN EYCK. full of symbolism
  • Gutenberg Bible
    1454

    Gutenberg Bible

    ALBERTI. first mass printed book
  • The Birth of Venus
    1482

    The Birth of Venus

    BY: SANDRO BOTTICELLI. Celebrates ancient Greek myth and glorifies the beauty of the human body
  • Proportions of the Human Figure (Vitruvian Man)
    1492

    Proportions of the Human Figure (Vitruvian Man)

    LEONARDO DA VINCI. genius
  • The Last Supper
    1495

    The Last Supper

    LEONARDO DA VINCI. ritual meal is also a religious ceremony
  • David
    1501

    David

    MICHELANGELO. big head and tiny penis
  • The Libyan Sibyl
    1508

    The Libyan Sibyl

    MICHELANGELO. years of grime and soot darkened paint on Sistine Ceiling
  • School of Athens
    1509

    School of Athens

    RAPHAEL. amazing perspective
  • Knight, Death, and the Devil
    1513

    Knight, Death, and the Devil

    BY ALBRECHT DURER. engraving
  • Feathered Headdress of Moctezuma
    1519

    Feathered Headdress of Moctezuma

    Aztec. Conquearing armies often plunder and take art of subjugated peoples
  • Venus of Urbino
    1538

    Venus of Urbino

    BY TITIAN. sexualizing women
  • 1555

    Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed

    Moscow, original function to glorify Russian Orthodox church-- now secularized world heritage site
  • Studiolo of Fancesco I
    1570

    Studiolo of Fancesco I

    GIORGIO VASARI. private collections of art objects were often housed in special rooms in palaces- precursors to museums
  • Scribe and Painter at Work

    Scribe and Painter at Work

    HAKIM SANA'I. kitab khana
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Judith and Holofernes

    Judith and Holofernes

    ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI. beautiful work ignored because woman painted it
  • Table of Desserts

    Table of Desserts

    JAN DAVIDSZ DE HEEM. glorious display of food has a subtheme about the impermanence of earthy life
  • The Night Watch

    The Night Watch

    REMBRANDT VAN RIJN. product of protestant middle-class culture
  • Period: to

    Neoclassical

  • Portrait of Louis XIV holding the plan for the Royal House at Saint-Cyr

    Portrait of Louis XIV holding the plan for the Royal House at Saint-Cyr

    NICOLAS RENE JOLLAIN THE ELDER. King Lous XIV instituted Royal Academy to set standards for artistic production in France
  • Cathedral of Dubrovnik

    Cathedral of Dubrovnik

    BY ANDREA BUFFALINI.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

    Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

    BY THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH. uses local colors
  • Period: to

    Realism

  • Period: to

    Romanticism

  • A Pair of Lovers

    A Pair of Lovers

    KITAGAWA UTAMARO
  • Basket Fairy

    Basket Fairy

    ANDO OR UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE. collab of artist, block carver, papermaker, and printer
  • The Raft of the Medusa

    The Raft of the Medusa

    BY THEODORE GERICAULT. Critics thought it wasn't art for stupid reasons I don't understand.
  • The British Museum

    The British Museum

    SIR ROBERT SIDNEY SMIRKE. facade reflects attitudes of era
  • First known photograph

    First known photograph

    JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS.
  • Shoki the Demon Queller

    Shoki the Demon Queller

    BY UTAGAWA KUNISADA.
  • Ophelia

    Ophelia

    JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS. romantic image of death
  • Period: to

    Modern

  • Olympia

    Olympia

    EDWARD MANET. scandalized the public because it was not presented as a historical reference
  • Period: to

    Impressionism

  • At the Milliner's

    At the Milliner's

    BY EDGAR DEGAS. pastels create intense colors
  • Period: to

    Post Impressionism

  • Woman in a coffeehouse, Madame Ginoux in the Cafe de la Gare in Arles

    Woman in a coffeehouse, Madame Ginoux in the Cafe de la Gare in Arles

    BY PAUL GAUGUIN. Note similarities between Vincent's
  • Portrait of Mme Ginoux

    Portrait of Mme Ginoux

    BY VINCENT VAN GOGH.
  • Portrait of Dr. Gachet

    Portrait of Dr. Gachet

    VINCENT VAN GOGH. portraits are visual record of inner emotional states
  • Almond Blossom

    Almond Blossom

    VINCENT VAN GOGH. one of my favs
  • Mother and Child

    Mother and Child

    BY MAR CASSATT. Representation in style
  • Royal Linguist's Staff

    Royal Linguist's Staff

    Acts as line in space
  • Landscape at Aix, Mount Sainte- Victoire

    Landscape at Aix, Mount Sainte- Victoire

    BY PAUL CEZANNE. broke traditional ways of depicting space and form
  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

    Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

    BY PABLO PICASSO. Began cubism
  • Period: to

    Cubism

  • Period: to

    Futurism

  • Jungster Tag (Last Judgment)

    Jungster Tag (Last Judgment)

    BY WASSILY KANDINSKY. Expresssionistic in style-- bold colors
  • The Morning Anxiety

    The Morning Anxiety

    BY GIORGIO DE CHIRICO. uses multipoint perspective
  • Nude Descending a Staircase

    Nude Descending a Staircase

    BY MARCEL DUCHAMP. Motion is implied by the repeating shapes a downward direction
  • They're Biting

    They're Biting

    BY PAUL KLEE
  • Marcel Duchamp

    Marcel Duchamp

    BY JOSEPH STELLA. Silverpoint drawings= delicacy
  • Period: to

    Surrealism

  • Yellow Calla

    Yellow Calla

    GEORGIA O'KEEFFE. Lots of disagreement on whether work is sexual or not
  • Genesis

    Genesis

    BY JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH. References old symbolism while using new painting techniques
  • Object (Le Dejeuner en fourrure)

    Object (Le Dejeuner en fourrure)

    BY MERET OPPENHEIM.
  • Guernica

    Guernica

    PABLO PICASSO. war
  • Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian Figure

    Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian Figure

    By: Olowe of Ise
    In Nigeria in Africa- meant to reinforce power of local king
  • The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers

    The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers

    JOAN MIRO. imagery and title suggests dreamlike quality
  • Nighthawks

    Nighthawks

    EDWARD HOPPER. studies loneliness of city life
  • The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly

    The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly

    JAMES HAMPTON. untrained artist
  • Period: to

    Popart

  • Blue Veil

    Blue Veil

    MORRIS LOUIS. formalist critics dream
  • IKB

    IKB

    YVES KLEIN. patented a color
  • Panel of Independence

    Panel of Independence

    JUAN O'GORMAN. commemorated the struggle for Mexican independance
  • St. Louis Gateway Arch

    St. Louis Gateway Arch

    EERO SAARINEN AND ASSOCIATES. Federal, state, and local taxes were used to pay for this
  • Pie Counter

    Pie Counter

    WAYNE THIEBAUD. reflecting modern cafeterias/ mass production of food
  • Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup

    Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup

    ANDY WARHOL. blurs distinction between art and commercial packaging
  • A Bigger Splash

    A Bigger Splash

    BY DAVID HOCKNEY. acrylic used to create large areas of flat color
  • Abra III

    Abra III

    BY FRANK STELLA
  • Mirror Image I

    Mirror Image I

    BY LOUISE NEVELSON. Notice dimensionality of the all black sculpture produced by different light angles
  • The Pack (das Rudel)

    The Pack (das Rudel)

    JOSEPH BEUYS. artist is spiritual leader
  • Crinkly

    Crinkly

    BY ALEXANDER CALDER. kinetic artwork
  • Bent Propeller

    Bent Propeller

    ALEXANDER CALDER
  • Running Fence

    Running Fence

    BY CHRISTO AND JEANNE CLAUDE. transforms landscape
  • Olympic Stadium, Munich

    Olympic Stadium, Munich

    BY GUNTER BEHNISCH. Suspended steel cables hold up the roof mesh, efficiently providing shade over a large area
  • TV Buddha

    TV Buddha

    NAM JUNE PAIK. comments on technology and iconography
  • Cube and Four Panels

    Cube and Four Panels

    BY RONALD W DAVIS. Two- point perspective creates illusion of enormous, cavern- like interior space
  • Las Tres Marias

    Las Tres Marias

    BY JUDITH BACA
  • Witchetty Grub Dreaming

    Witchetty Grub Dreaming

    PATTY CARROLL TJUNGURRAYI. patterns and symbols are part of the Aboriginal belief system of the origin of life and the sustenance of everyday living
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial

    Vietnam Veterans Memorial

    MAYA YING LIN. the white old men stepped all over a masterpiece
  • Human/Need/Desire

    Human/Need/Desire

    BY BRUCE TRUMAN. Suggests the fluctuating motivations for human behavior
  • There is No Escape

    There is No Escape

    SUE COE. stark black-and-white is a critique of food industries
  • AIDS Memorial Quilt

    AIDS Memorial Quilt

    ordinary people contributed to the making of this work and to funding of AIDS research
  • The Morgue (Hacked to Death II)

    The Morgue (Hacked to Death II)

    ANDRES SERRANO. intimate look at violent death
  • Electronic Superhighway

    Electronic Superhighway

    NAM JUNE PAIK. comments on commercial america and all of it's technologies
  • Speechless

    Speechless

    SHIRIN NESHAT
  • Guggenheim Bilbao

    Guggenheim Bilbao

    FRANK O CEHRY. modern abstract sculpture
  • That Profile

    That Profile

    BY MARTIN PURYEAR. large volume but little mass
  • 99 Cent

    99 Cent

    BY ANDREAS GURSKY. very large durable print
  • Tan Tan Bo

    Tan Tan Bo

    BY TAKASHI MURAKAMI. example of blurring between fine arts and popular culture
  • Easy to Remember

    Easy to Remember

    BY LORNA SIMPSON. uses new technologies combining imagery and sound
  • Junk

    Junk

    BY TONY OURSLER.
  • Kuba

    Kuba

    KUTLUG ATAMAN. brings to western audiences stories of poor groups in Turkey
  • Bear

    Bear

    BY TIME HAWKINSON. Cross between a toy and monumental art
  • Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia

    Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia

    BY CAI GUO-QIANG. moves and changes with time
  • The Matter of Time

    The Matter of Time

    BY RICHARD SERRA. site specific
  • For the Love of God

    For the Love of God

    BY DAMIEN HIRST. materials add sensationalism
  • Aqueous

    Aqueous

    BY MARGARET LAZZARI. Uses many different techniques of acrylic
  • New York City Water Falls

    New York City Water Falls

    OLAFUR ELIASSON. derives meaning from location
  • Giant Puppet Parade

    Giant Puppet Parade

    Street carnival in Brazil. associates popular culture and art making