Unit Five Flashcards
1
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Chiswick House
A
- Neoclassical architecture
- Lord Burlington & William Kent
- completed: 1729
- UK
- house & grounds: 65.1 acres
- visual elements from Parthenon & Pantheon
- influenced by the sixteenth-century designs of Andrea Palladio
2
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The Death of Socrates
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- Neoclassical Art
- Jacques Louis-David
- 1787
- France
- oil, canvas
- 51” x 77.2”
- from Plato’s Phaedo
- contextualism
3
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Watson and the Shark
A
- American Romanticism
- John Singleton Copley
- 1778
- US
- oil, canvas
- 71.7” x 90.43”
- commissioned by Brook Watson
- biographical
4
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Arrangement in Grey and Black #1
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- American Realism
- James Abbot MacNeill Whistle
- 1871
- US
- oil, canvas
- 56.8” x 64”
- autobiographical/biographical
- contextualism
- psychoanalysis
5
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Ophelia
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- Pre-Raphaelite Art
- John Everett Millais
- 1852
- UK
- oil, canvas
- 30” x 44”
- poetic death scene from Hamlet: Claudius & Gertrude, Polonius & Ophelia
- Psychoanalysis
- Contextualism
- Feminism
6
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Impression, Sunrise
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- Claude Monet
- France
- 1872
- oil, canvas
- 18.9” x 24.8”
7
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
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- Neo-Impressionism
- Georges Seurat
- France
- 1886
- oil, canvas
- 81.7” x 121.3”
- Contextualism
8
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The Scream
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- Post Impressionism: Symbolism
- Edvard Munch
- Norway
- 1893
- oil, tempera, pastel, crayon, cardboard
- 36” x 28.9”
- Psychoanalytical
9
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Starry Night
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- Cloisonnism/Japanaiserie
- Vincent van Gogh
- Netherlands
- 1889
- oil, canvas
- 29.01” x 36.26”
- Traditional
- Psychoanalytical
10
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The Kiss
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- Post Impressionism: Vienna Secession
- Gustav Klimt
- Austria
- 1908
- oil, gold, silver, platinum, canvas
- 71” x 71”
- Traditional subject
- Vienna secession with art nouveau/arts and crafts influence
