Art Works Flashcards
Death and Funeral of Cain
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Crowd of people worshipping a giant dead chicken
Mexican realism movement
Allusion to Cold War
The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault (in the Louvre now)
Romanticism movement painting
Wreck of a French frigate with
Triumph of Death
Unknown artist Gothic wall-sized painting Death attacking helpless people Arrows protrude from necks of victims -- lymphatic nature of bubonic plague Death comes from east -- Mongol Empire Painting is on the Black Death.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Victor Vasnetov
White- Conquest Red- War Black- Famine Pale- Death
Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken In Jaffa
Antoine-Jean Gros
Huge Neoclassical canvas painting
First masterpiece of Napoleonic painting
Painter implying that Napoleon’s virtues justifies the horrors of war. Napoleon’s likened to Jesus healing.
Victim of Fanaticism
Mykola Pymonenko
Theme of peasant labour
Punishment of a Jewish girl who converted to Christianity and dated an Orthodox boy
Critical of the injustice of life
Condemned autocratic Russian government
Emancipation movement of Russia (on empathy)
Unnamed mural at Supreme Court
Jose Clemente Orozco
Mexican Mural Renaissance
Depicts challenges in securing justice
Justice is not doing her job, judges served as servants of the state
The Seven Major Crimes are depicted (rape, homicide, torture etc)
The Music Lesson
Johannes Vermeer
Classical& baroque style
Depiction of Dutch culture (wealthy upper class)
Woman is playing the virginal in the painting- delicate sound
Depiction of an woman’s role in society
Slight Caravaggio involved
The Seven Acts of Mercy depicted in a painting in the room
The Cardsharps
Caravaggio Theatrical style (Baroque movement)
La Horde
Wolfgang Beltracci
Oil on linen
Forged painting in the style of Max Ernst
White paint containing titanium got him busted (Heinrich Campendonk’s time did not have titanium paint)
Max Ernst: Dada movement
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife
Jan Van Eyck
Flemish painter (Netherlandish Renaissance)
Photorealism(uses optical projection devices,
Record of the rank and social status of subjects
Arnolfini hold his wife’s hand in his left hand, symbolising left-handed marriage (marriage of unequals)
Possibly a painting of his Brother instead.
Hustler
Arthur Sarnoff
Drew dogs playing pool— inspiration from Dogs Playing Poker by Coolidge
Surrealism
Humans Of New York
Brandon Stanton
Syrian refugee crisis
Contemporary art
Dropping a Han Dynasty
Ai Wei Wei
Contemporary art (performance art)
Three photos of him showing his performance –dropping a Han Dynasty urn
Artistic consultant of Bird Nest
Politically dissendent person– detained for 11 months (house arrest)
Diary of an Empty City
Liu Xiaodong
Chinese Neo-Realism
Sense of magical realism
Ordos, Inner Mongolia– metropolis but only 20000 residents
One of the richest areas from one of the poorest
Paints spontaneously from pictures of people and everyday life
