January 23
Introduction

 

Welcome to Renaissance through 20th Century Art

 

 

 

 

Map of the Early Renaissance World

 

 

 

 

 

 

An introduction to the material we will be considering...

 

 

Jan Van Eyck. Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (?) and His Wife, Giovanna Cenami (?). 1434.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus. c. 1484-86.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo. David. 1501-4.
Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leonardo. Mona Lisa. c. 1503.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gianlorenzo Bernini. Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy. 1645-52.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caravaggio. Entombment. 1603-4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun. Hall of Mirrors, Palais de Versailles. Begun 1678.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angelica Kauffmann. Cornelia Points to Her Children as Her Treasures. c. 1758.

 

 

 

 

 

Jacques-Louis David. Death of Marat. 1793.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theodore Gericault. Raft of the Medusa. 1818-19.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis-Jacques-Made Daguerre. The Artist's Studio. 1837.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gustave Courbet. The Stone Breakers. 1849.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edouard Manet. Le Dejeuner (The Luncheon on the Grass). 1863.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frank Llloyd Wright. Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago. 1906 - 09.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d'AVignon. 1907.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Umberto Boccioni. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. 1913.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walter Gropius. Bauhaus Building, Dessau. 1925 - 26.

 

 

 

 

 

John Heartfield. Have No Fear- He's A Vegetarian. 1936.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Hopper. Nighthawks. 1942.

 

 

 

 

 

Edvard Munch. The Scream. 1893.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it ART?

 

 

 

Leonardo. Mona Lisa. c. 1503.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donatello. Mary Magdalen. 1430s-50s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph Mallard William Turner. The Slave Ship. 1840.
Tansey, Richard C. and Fred S. Kleine. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Vol. 2. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. 2 vols.

 

 

 

 

 

Manet. Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe). 1863.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. Le Boulevard Du Temple. 1839. Daguerreotype.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pablo Picasso. Still Life with Chair Caning. 1911 - 12.
Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages. (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996) Tenth ed., 1049.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dictionary definition =	the quality, production or expression of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance
Art for Dummies definition =	art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement

 

 

 

 

 

What to consider when looking at art?

Chronology - When was it made?

Provenance - Where was it made?

Style - How does it look?

Iconography - What symbols are used?

Artist - Who made it?

Meaning, Cause and Context - What does it mean? Why was it made? Under what circumstances was it created?