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  • Tulsi Kalan and others
  • Akbar Inspecting Construction of Fatehpur Sikri
  • 1590
  • Watercolor on paper
  • See evidence borrowing from Iran
  • Beginning of narritives (tells story of history from the empire)
  • Mughal Empire capital
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  • Abu’l Hasan
  • Jahangir and Shah Abbas
  • 1618
  • Opaque water color, gold and ink on paper
  • Shows Mughal Jahangir embracing the emperor from Iran
  • Shows friendly alliance b.w the two, but Jahangir is obviously overpowering Shah Abbas
  • Sun halo demonstrates Jahangir’s centrality
  • Jahangir standing on lion while Shah Abbas standing on a goat
  • Both take over most of the globe
  • Putti suggest cosmic power of these individuals
  • Strict profile of Jahangir sticks to old traditional Indian style
    • Shows both styles= global
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  • Bichitr
  • Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Sheikh to Kings
  • 1618
  • Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper
  • Jahangir authority shown by his postion in the painting
  • Obviously prefers Sufi to eng. King James the 1st
  • King James image copied from a famous portrait
  • Self Portrait of artist= lowliest figure in the composition
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  • Ustad Ahmad Lahori
  • Taj Mahal
  • 1632-1648
  • Tomb of Mumtaz Mahal (favorite wife of emperor Shah Jahan)
  • Agra, India
  • Meant to be a holy paradise for visitors
  • Inlaid with jewels, covered in flroal arabesque, made of marble, and inscriptions from the Koran
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  • Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • St. Teresa of Ávila in Ecstasy
  • 1645-1652
  • Conceived the whole thing – entire chapel
  • Most dramatic artist
  • Rome
  • Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
  • Center piece
  • Marble sculpture
  • Angle preparing to stab St. Teresa with an arrow
  • Members of the Comaro family are like spectators in a theatre watching a miracle take place (gold lines, emphasized with light)
  • Erotic
  • Dark crevices in saint’s gown
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Annibale Carracci, Ceiling of Gallery, Palazzo Farnese (Farnese Gallery), 1597-1601

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Annibale Carracci, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1603-1604

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Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600

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Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1620

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Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656

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Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701

King of france

Shown “strutting hi stuff”

dsiplays rich possesions

Symbol of france

Theatrical- curtain opens as if on a stage

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Jean-Antoine Watteau, The Signboard of Gersant, 1721

Watteau was asked to paint a shop sign for a commercial art dealership

Commercial art dealerships beginning

Shows Louis XIV’s painting being put away

Straw on ground- shows that we are all mortal

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François Boucher, Girl Reclining: Louise O’Murphy, 1751

Girl who found her way into the King’s bedroom

Commisioned by the King

Meant to be sensual

Before or after lovemaking

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Jean-Siméon Chardin, Soap Bubbles, 1733-34

Boy blowing bubbles of soap

Does not look very serious- but is

Bubble will eventually burst

Need to spend less time on superfluous actions and more time with serious matters

subdued but bright color

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William Hogarth, The Marriage Contract, 1743-1745

Story of upper middle class business man and a poor aristocrat settleing a marriage argreement b/w their children

Meant to be a saitre

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Thomas Gainsborough, Robert Andrews and Frances Carter Andrews (Mr. and Mrs. Andrews), c. 1748-1750

Unfinished painting of newly weds

Man is active and proprietor- shown as active character

She is below him- shows that she is less powerful- but is in line with the tree- shows motherly nature

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Henry Flitcroft and Henry Hoare, The Park at Stourhead, Wiltshire, England, 1743-1765

Landscape designed by professional landscapers

Natural but planned

Important development in the landscape of England

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Canaletto, The Doge’s Palace and the Riva degli Schiavoni, c. 1735-1740

Venice is his hometown- all he did was paint Venice

Typical venetian painting

Type of landscape popular to paint during time by many artists

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Richard Boyle (Third Earl of Burlington), Chiswick House and Gardens, West London, England, 1724-1740

Neoclassical symmetry

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Polynesian artist, The War God Kukailimoku, c. 1779

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Ogata Korin, Lacquer Box for Writing Implements, c. 1700

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Toshusai Sharaku, The Actor Onoe Matsusuke, late 18th century

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Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770

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Johann Zoffany, Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771-1772

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Paul Revere, The Bloody Massacre, 1770
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John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
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Josiah Wedgwood, Am I Not a Man and a Brother? 1787
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Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, 1788-1792
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Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, 1793 Member Jacobins- wanted to detroy aristocray through terror Painting of assaination Shown as amyraty Shadowing is like carvaggios antonement and the position is like christ in the pieta No references to heavan radical atheist maytrydom
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Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Jean-Baptiste Belley, 1797 Girodet studunt of David Former slave who rose to gentleman status- became a gentleman after the Haitian Revolution leans against bust of philosohper who didnt like slavery Meant to be shocking Has a name- most slaves not named
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Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa, 1804 SOme of ANpoleaons soldiers caught PLague NApolean is bravely touvhing scars of afflicted- like christ helaing Artist had to study Muslim art to depict architecture
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Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (from Los Caprichos), 1796-1798 The man represents reason- produced imaginative monsters with his nightmares etching and aquitant
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Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the “Medusa,” 1818-1819 Louvre French sea captain gets run aground off the coast of S. Africa- uses lifeboat to save himself and other important friends 150 others had to use a makeshift raft- only 15 survive Painting depicts horror of situtation- huge scandal in france Pyrimid on far right ship- black man on top Art now form of social criticism Bold statemnet
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Eugène Delacroix, Women of Algiers, 1834 France in process of obtaining Algeria Depicts form of nude ladies
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, 1812
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836
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Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave (from Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji), c. 1831 From a 36 vies of Mt. Fugi painting series The wave is bigger than the mt, but we know that it is really not- plays with perspective the wave cannot destory the mt. but it can destroy the world of man
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Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, The Artist’s Studio, 1837
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Édouard Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
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Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
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Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872
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Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party, 1893-94
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling Rocket), 1875
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Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889
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Paul Gauguin, Manao Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching), 1892
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Fang artist (Gabon), Reliquary Guardian, late 19th century
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Kongo artist (Congo), Power Figure (Nkisi Nkonde), 19th century
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Mayombe artist (Zaire), Power Figure, c. 1893
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Ashanti artist (Ghana), Kente Cloth, 20th century
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 Begins to register his converstaion with the art of africa THings we see in nature as soft adn round are painted sharp and contrasting Saw african masks and understood they went against everything he also goes against everything so he uses them in his art sugests that afrian artifacts are art faces look like african masks painting of brothel in avingnon red light district drew from earlier european paintings, too (like manet) Poses Stare is menacing, jaded about love Blasting apart european linear perspective- just flatt and hectically colored
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Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-1906 Extremely bright, contrasting neon, dazzling colors scene of female nudes in paradise member of the fauves
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Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912 Seems to be sort of a mixture of sculpture and painting- he shows how multiple layers of illusion can be created broken glass layered wickered chair wallpaper all illusions "Jou" like news paper (Jou-rnal) but also means play he plays on fragmentation, words, and meaning shows art's power to have multiple meanings
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Franz Marc, The Large Blue Horses, 1911
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Vassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (Second Version), 1912
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Georgia O’Keeffe, Evening Star, No. IV, 1917
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Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
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Hugo Ball, Reciting the Sound Poem ‘Karawane,’ 1916
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917 WOrk was rejected and destoryed He purchased it, signed it, turned it on its side, adn called it art Directly challenged the def. of art Claimed it was art b/c he chose the object adn created a new thought for it- does not matter if he made it himself made it signed it "R.Mutt 1917"- verbal ambiguity, like in cubism hates modern american, loves industrialization
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Piet Mondrian, Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue, 1927 extreme case of abstraction takes the abstract in cubism to a whole new level he saw this as the purest form of art: the absoulte abstract
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Fernand Léger, Three Women, 1921 sort of abstract, but also sort of legible everyhting has a tubular smoothness women's figures almost looks like machinery return of the machine as the example of ideal rationality
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Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Building, 1925-1926 factory of design Wanted to reimagine artistic production
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Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry, 1932
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Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, 1935-39
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936
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Meret Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur), 1936
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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950
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Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, 1955
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Shozo Shimamoto, Hurling Colors, 1956
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Richard Hamilton, Just What is it That Makes Today’s Homes so Different, So Appealing, 1956
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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, UT, 1970
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-79
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Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972

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