Arts: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Seven Flashcards by Chris King

“A wrapped Reichstag”

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Bulgaria / Morocco

Environmental art

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“Abstract Speed + Sound”

Giacomo Balla

Italian

Futurism

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“Ad Parnassum”

Paul Klee

German/Swiss

Expressionism / Pointillism

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“Alhambra”

spain

Authorized by Muhammad al-Ghalib

Architecture

(Granada, Spain)

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“Autumn Rhythm”

Jackson Pollack

American

Abstract Expressionism

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“At the Piano”

James Whistler

American

Tonalism

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“Beer Street”

William Hogarth

English

Realism

(Paired with ‘Gin Lane’, saying beer is a happy drink)

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“Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets”

Edouard Manet

French

Realism

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“Black on Maroon”

Mark Rothko

American

Color Field

(Is off and on being put sideways by the Tate)

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“Boccioni’s Fist”

Giacomo Balla

Italian

Futurism

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“Boy on the Rocks”

Henri Rousseau

French

Post-Impressionism

(portrait nicknamed “Dwarf with the Enormous Head” at the 1889 Salon des Independents)

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“Butterflies Series”

“Long Grass with Butterflies”

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch

Post-Impressionism

(Was hung upside down in the National Gallery in 1965)

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“Charing Cross Bridge”

Claude Monet

French

Impressionism

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“Cardinal”

Franz Kline

American

Abstract Expressionism

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“Charioteer of Delphi”

Anonymous

Greek

Sculpture

(Dat face)

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“Charles I Insulted by Cromwell”

Paul Delaroche

French

Historical painting

(book and blown smoke)

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“Chicago [artist name]”

Pablo Picasso

Spanish

Cubism

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“Christ Healing the Sick”

Benjamin West

American

Historical painting

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“Chief”

Franz Kline

American

Abstract Expressionism

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The technique developed by Georges Seurat also called Divisionism defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically.

Chromoluminarism

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“Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles”

Philip Johnson

American

Architecture

(giant “prayer spire”)

(the church declared bankruptcy and sold their Catholic Diocese of Orange)

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“Cross in the Mountains”

“The Tetschen Altar”

Caspar David Friedrich

German

Romanticism

(crucifixion scene)

(Five rays from the setting sun illuminate the orange sky)

(Comissioned by the Countess of Thun for a Bohemian chapel)

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“Daniel in the Lion’s Dens”

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish

Baroque

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“David Garrick as Richard III”

William Hogarth

English

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"Death and Fire"

Paul Klee German/Swiss Expressionism

"Death of Marat"

Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubism

"Declaration of Independence"

John Trumbull American Neoclassical

"Design of the city of Washington D.C."

Charles L'Enfant French-American Surveyor

- Technique sometimes known as prospettiva melozziana, after its pioneer Melozzo da Forli. - Trompe-l'oeil technique used on ceiling frescoes - "from below, upward" - "Ceiling painting in the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua"

Di sotto in su

"Dropped Cone in Cologne, Germany"

Claes Oldenburg American Pop Art

"Dymaxion House"

Buckminster Fuller American Architect

"Early Snow at Louveciennes"

Alfred Sisley French Impressionism

Man who helped revitalize Japanese art in the late 19th century, through collection and exhibitions

Ernest Fenollosa American Teaching

"Flood at Port-Marly"

Alfred Sisley English Impressionism

Founder of Gallery 291

Alfred Stieglitz American Photographer

"Fountain"

Marcel Duchamp French Surrealism (R Mutt)

"Four Crowned Martyrs"

Nanni di Banco Florentine Sculpture

"Four Fisherman's Wives at Cadaques"

Salvador Dali Spanish Surrealism (It was kept in Dali's collection until his death, but in 1994, it was discovered that the people in London hung it upside down)

"Funeral of the Anarchist Galli"

Carlo Carra Italian Futurism

"Gattamelata"

Donatello Italian Renaissance (looks like a tomb underneath) (trap doors

"George Washington"

John Trumball American Historical painting (Shows Washington's valet William Lee)

"Gin Lane"

William Hogarth English Realism (Paired with Beer Street, saying gin causes societal problems) (House falling apart, hanging man, deadly skinny man, man and dog sharing bone)

"Gramieous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses"

Max Ernst German Surrealism

"Graphic Novel 'La Femme 100 Tetes'"

Max Ernst German Surreal (translates to 'Woman with 100 Heads') (Did other novels like 'Une Semaine de Bonte)

"Hagia Sophia"

Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles Authorized by Justinian I Finished in 537 (Wouldn't hurt just to read whole WIkipedia article) #istanbul #turkey

"Harbor in Normandy"

Georges Braque French Cubism

"Interior of the Hagia Sophia"

John Singer Sargent American Portraiture

"Kritios Boy"

Anonymous Greek Sculpture (Named after Atheniain sculptor who taught Myron) (Kenneth Clark called it "the first beautiful nude in art") (Most famous kouros state) (First surviving example of contrapposto)

"La Bateau"

Henri Matisse French Fauvism (paper-cut artform) (Discovered in 1961 that it was upside down by a 5 year old. The artist's son had not noticed an error) (Inspiration of a NYT crossword)

"Lamentation over the Dead Christ"

Andrea Mantegna Italian Renaissance

"Lansdowne Portrait"

Gilbert Stuart American Historial painting (table with column-shaped golden chair leg) (books under table that could be misspelled) (black hat and silver dog ink well)

"Lion of Belfort"

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi French Sculpture (Red sandstone) (Was supposed to face east/Prussia, but was turned the other way due to German protests)

"Laurentian Library"

Michelangelo Italian Renaissance (in the Basilica di San Lorenzo) (Tuscan columns) (triple staircase leading to its reading room)

"Lives of the Artists"

Giorgio Vasari Italian Literature (First published in 1550) (Commissioned by Cardinal Franese)

"Luncheon on the Grass"

Max Ernst German Dada/Surrealism (fish lying next to vegetable)

"Loplop Introduces Loplop"

Max Ernst German Surrealism (birdman - found in Ernst's work, like the Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightengale)

"Madame Charpentier and her Children"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir French Impressionism

"Madonna of the Carnation"

Leonardo da Vinci Italian High Renaissance (shadowy carnation) (only painting in Germany)

"Madonna of the Yarnwinder"

Leonardo da Vinci Italian High Renaissance

"Maiastra"

Constantin Brancusi Romanian-French Modernism

"Mama, Papa is Wounded!"

Yves Tanguy French Surrealism

Max Ernst used dead birds in paintings. Why?

His sister was born the day his pet bird died

"Murdering Airplane"

Max Ernst German Surrealism (plane with human arms) (three soldiers)

"Night and Day"

MC Escher Dutch Math-art

"Night, Day, Dusk, and Dawn"

Michelangelo Italian Sculpture (For the sides of the Medici Chapel)

"Nijinsky"

Franz Kline American Abstract Expressionism (based on a Nijinsky photograph) (Denied his black and white paintings were imitations of Japanese calligraphy)

"One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" "Night Rain in the Paulownia Garden at Akasaka"

Hiroshige Japanese Ukiyo-e (travelers on bridge caught in a sudden rain)

"Novel 'Beyond Painting'"

Max Ernst German Surrealism

"Parthenon"

Ictinus and Callicrates Greek Architecture #athens #greece

"Partially Buried Woodshed"

Robert Smithson American Land Art (Found at Kent State, later would be demolished) (Symbolism of geological time)

"Petronus Towers in Kuala Lumpur"

Cesar Pelli Argentine-American Architecture (in the shape of a Muslim Rub el Hizb) (Added a double-decker skybridge between the two) (Above the KLCC park) (Surpassed in height by Taipei 101) #kualalumpur #malaysia

"Pieta"

Michelangelo Italian Renaissance (only he worked he signed)

"Prisoners from the Front"

Winslow Homer American Realism

"Promontory Palace"

Yves Tanguy French Surrealism

"Pygmalion and Galeta"

Auguste Rodin French Sculpture

- "opening up" - Trompe-l'oeil technique that has vaulted architecture painted to make it look bigger

Quadratura

"Satire on False Perspective"

William Hogarth English Printmaking (Probably the coolest damn thing ever) (There are 22 persepctive errors, but the main errors include the man fishing a mile away, and the sign is behind the trees)

"Sears Tower"

Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill firm Fazlur Khan & Bruce Graham Architecture #chicago

"Snap the Whip"

Winslow Homer American Tonalism

"Spiral Jetty in Utah"

Robert Smithson American Land Art (Rozel Point in Great Salt Lake)

"Spirit of Haida Gwaii"

Bill Reid Canada Indigenous art (Found in Vancouever and in Canadian Embassy in DC)

"Spring Day in Karl Johan Street"

Edvard Munch Norwegian Surrealism

"St. Mark in the Orsanmichele"

Donatello Italian High Renaissance

"St. Sebastian"

Titian Italian High Renaissance

"Stained glass window at Cedar Rapid Veterans' Memorial"

Grant Wood American Regionalism (Had German glass in it) (Afterwards, Wood painted Daughters of Revolution)

"Stormy Sea at Etretat"

Claude Monet French Impressionism (at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon)

"Supper at Emmaus"

Caravaggio Italian Baroque (hands different sizes) (fruit bowl hanging off the edge)

"Taj Mahal in Agra"

Ustad Ahmad Persian Mughal Architecture (commissioned by Shah Jahan) #india

"The Abbey Theatre in Dublin"

Michael Scott (architect) Annie Horniman (patron) (original theater built in 1904) (burned down 1951) (new theather built 1966) (riot for the Playboy of the Western World play) (co-founded by Yeats) #dublin #ireland

"The Analysis of Beauty"

William Hogarth English Realist

"The Awakening"

J. Seward Johnson American Sculpture (Originally in Washington DC)

"The Blinding of Samson"

Rembrandt Dutch Baroque (Delilah in background with shears)

"The Blue Nude"

Henri Matisse French Fauvism (Inspired Damoiselles by PIcasso and Blue Nude II by Matisee)

"The Boating Party"

Mary Cassatt American Impressionism

"The Boulevard Montmarte at Night"

Camille Pissaro French Impressionism (Painted several depictions of Boulevard Montmarte) "The Boulevard Montmarte

"The Channel of Gravelines"

George Seurat French Pontilism (Indianapolis Museum of Art) (lighthouse in upper left)

"The Cradle"

Mary Cassatt American Impressionism

"The Dinner Table"

Henri Matisse French Fauvism

"The Disasters of War series" "Plate 3: The Same"

Francisco Goya Spanish Print (Series of 82 prints) (visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising, the subsequent Peninsular War of 1808–14 and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814)

"The Feast of the Gods"

Giovanni Bellini Italian Renaissance (Pan man holding bowls)

"The Football Players"

Henri Rousseau French Post-Impressionism (blue striped)

"The Furniture of Time"

Yves Tanguy French Surrealism

"The Gates in Central Park"

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Javacheff Bulgaria / Morocco Environmental art

"The Glass of Absinthe"

Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubism

"The Hand of God"

Auguste Rodin French Sculpture

"The Hat Makes the Man"

Max Ernst German Surrealism (Hats linked to form phallic pillars)

"The Hermitage in St. Petersburg"

Commissioned by Catherine the Great Russian #stpetersburg #russia

"The Lamentation"

Giotto Italian Late Gothic

"The Legislative Belly"

Honore Daumier French Printmaking

"The Little Mermaid"

Edvard Eriksen Danish-Icelandic Sculpture (Copenhagen, Denmark)

"The Magpie"

Claude Monet French Impressionism

"The Man with the Broken Nose"

Auguste Rodin French Sculpture

"The Old King"

Georges Rouault French Fauvism

"The Prayer at Valley Forge"

Arnold Friberg American Historial sculpture

"The Rehearsal"

Edgar Degas French Impressionism

"The Return of the Bucentaur to the Molo on Ascension Day"

Canaletto Venetian Landscape

"The Rokeby Venus"

Diego Velazquez Spanish Baroque

"The Satin Tuning Fork"

Yves Tanguy French Surrealism

"The Sistine Madonna"

Raphael Italian High Renaissance (Two cherubs at bottom)

"The Sleeping Gypsy"

Henri Rousseau French Post-Impressionism

"The Sleeping Muse"

Constantin Brancusi Romanian-French Modernism

"The Snake Charmer"

Henri Rousseau French Post-Impressionism

"The Surrealist Manifesto"

Andre Breton French Surrealism (founder of Surrealism)

"The Two Fridas"

Frida Kahlo Mexican Portraiture (One has white European dress, the other has green Indian dress) (One in green holds portrait of Diego Rivera in left hand) (Painted during divorce proceedings) (Surgical scissors cuts artery of exposed hearts)

"The Upper Room"

Chris Ofili English Young British Artist (Won 1998 Turner Prize) (Tate purchase caused protest by Stuckists) (depict rhesus monkeys)

"The Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses"

Max Ernst German Dada (Depicts Paul Eluard and Andre Breton)

"The Women of Algiers"

Eugene Delacroix French Neoclassic (Mirror at top-left hangs next to a niche above a door) (Mirror reveals an inaccessible corner of the room) (Best-known work of author Assia Djebar is entitle after painting) (Inspired Picasso to interpretations in 1950s) (Delacroix showed smaller version at the 1845 Salon) (A black slave draws a curtain to reveal the three titular people to viewer) (Based upon an actual visit to an Arab household during 1832 trip to North Africa)

"Threatening Weather"

Rene Magritte Belgium Surrealism (a torso, a tuba, and a chair)

"Tiger in a Tropical Storm" "Surprised!"

Henri Rousseau French Post-Impressionism

"Tilted Arc"

Richard Serra American Minimialism sculpture (Complained "To remove the work is to destroy it!" after controversey to move the structure of the New York plaza)

"Trevi Fountain in Rome"

Giuseppe Pannini Italian Sculpture

"Typewriter Eraser, Scale X"

Claes Oldenburg American Sculpture (in DC)

"Ubu Imperator"

Max Ernst German Surrealism (cylinder body - green hair - top - barren wasteland)

"Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"

Umberto Boccioni Italian Futurism (On the Italian 20-cent Euro)

"Venus de Milo"

Believed to be Alexandors of Antioch Hellenistic Sculpture (Many artists like it, not Renoir) (At the Louvre today)

"Venus Victrix"

Antonio Canova Italian Sculpture (influenced heavily from the 'Capitoline Agrippina') (depicts Pauline Bonaparte) (wooden base originally rotated) (could only be viewed via torchlight with the special permissions of her husband Prince Camillo)

"Viva la Vida"