Art Slides: Painting

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Art Slides Painting
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Oath of the Horatii

• Artist Jacques Louis David
• Date 1784
• Historical Period Romantic
• Medium Oil on canvas
• Description - depicts 3 Roman brothers swearing
  an oath to save fatherland/perish
  
• - before French Revolution, regarded as attack on
  upper classes
  
• - spare , classical architectural framework
• - figures inspired by classical sculpture
• - movement parallel to picture plane in shallow
  space
  

Submitted by Timea, May 16
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The Third of May, 1808

• Artist Francisco Goya
• Date 1814-15
• Historical Period Neo-Baroque
• Medium Oil on canvas
• Description -commemorates the execution of a
  group of Madrid citizens by Bonapartes troops
  
• - intense neutral colour
• - broad brushwork
• - dramatic use of light and use of chiaroscuro
• - composition based on triangles and strong
  diagonals
  

Submitted by Timea, May 16
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Raft Of Medusa

• ArtistTheodore Gericault
• Date1819
• Historical Period Romanticism
• Description
• - immigrants to Africa were shipwrecked
• and only a few were rescued after many
• days on a makeshift raft became a
• political scandal
• - Gericault aimed for complete authenticity
• and realism of detail in his composition
• - dramatic use of classical nude figures
• and theatrical lighting
• - pyramidal composition

Submitted by Duck-hee Kim
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Liberty Leading the People

• Artist Eugène Delacroix
• Date 1830
• Historical Period Realism and epic vision
• description
  -This painting, which is a sort of
  political poster, is meant to
  celebrate the day of 28 July 1830, when the
  people rose and dethroned the Bourbon king.
  -The allegorical figure of Liberty waves
  the tricolour flag and storms the
  corpse-ridden barricades with a young combatant
  at her side. -
  Realism and epic vision work together. -Liberty
  is not a woman she is an abstract force.

Submitted by Duck-hee Kim
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The Fifer

• Artist Edouard Manet
• Date 1866
• Historical Period impressionism
• Medium Oil on canvas
• Description - uses realist foreshortening,
  defies tradition in painting by not depicting
  depth behind figure, color contrast suggests 3D
  quality

Submitted by Olga Koposova, May 16, 2003
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Nocturne in Black and Gold The Fallen Rocket

• Artist James Whistler
• Date 1874
• Historical Period American Impressionism
• MediumOil on Canvas
• Description - almost non- representational
  more an arrangement of line, form, and color
  (Whistler), purely formal harmony

Submitted by Olga Koposova, May 16, 2003
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The Side Show

• Gorges Seurat
• 1887-88
• Impressionism
• Oil on Canvas
• Small dots of colour which merge as a distance to
  create the impression of forms
  

Submitted by Lucy Liu, May 16, 2003
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The Side Show

• Gorges Seurat
• 1887-88
• Impressionism
• Oil on Canvas
• Small dots of colour which merge as a distance to
  create the impression of forms
  

Submitted by Lucy Liu, May 16, 2003
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Jacob Wrestling With the Angel

• Paul Gauguin
• 1880
• Post-impressionist
• Oil on canvas
• Flat simplified shapes outlined in black
  influenced by folk and mediaeval art
  

Submitted by Lucy Liu, May 16, 2003
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Woman 1

• Artist Willem de Kooning
• Date 1952
• Historical Period Abstract
• Medium Oil on Canvas
• Description superimposition of layers of
  pigment, has satirical values, authentic
  portrayal of the inner and outer conditions of a
  sizeable body of older women in our cluture

Hannalee Pervan, May 20, 2003
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The Listening Chamber

• Artist Rene Magritte
• Date 1953
• Historical Period Surrealism
• MediumOil on Canvas
• Description one of the foremost exponents of
  surrealism, clearly painted canvases probe
  questions of reality and illusion
  

Hannalee Pervan, May 20, 2003
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Earthen Room

• Artist Mark Rothko
• Date 1955
• Historical Period Abstract
• Medium Oil on Canvas
• Description thin washes of paint shows texture
  of canvas, delicate equilibrium of two shapes
  

Hannalee Pervan, May 20, 2003
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Hiraqla 1

• Artist Frank Stella
• Date 1968
• Historical Period
• Medium Metallic Powder in Polymer Emulsion
• Description shape of canvas integral part of
  design, one in series, geometric style marked by
  severity of form and sensuousness of color
  

Hannalee Pervan, May 20, 2003
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Louis Bertin

• Artist Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
• Date 1832
• Historical Period 19th century
• Medium Oil on canvas
• Description Interprets character of the sitter
  drawing is quick, sure, precise, and shows
  detached observation shows psychological depth
  as well as physical accuracy

Submitted by David Ko, May 20th 2003
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Les Demoiselles dAvignon

• Artist Pablo Picasso
• Date
• Historical Period 1906-1907
• Medium Oil on canvas
• DescriptionDifferent from Abstract Expressionism
  which explores feeling and imagination. Influence
  of Cezane in Cubism by depiction of facets of
  objects composition flat and serve, almost no
  depiction of depth three figures on the left
  suggest Byzantine Romanesque art but the two on
  the right influenced by African sculpture
  Violent distorted figures Suggestion of more
  than one viewpoint.

Erin Murray, May 16,2003
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The Red Room Henri

• Artist Henri Matisse
• Historical Period 1908- 1909
• Medium Oil on Canvas
• Description The Hermitage, Leningrad. Rythnic
  arrangement of line and colour on a flat plane
  no real indication of depth supremacy of colour
  fat blue-on-red pattern on the tablecloth and
  wall contrast on horizontal and vertical planes
  surface ornament is important reduces number of
  tints to a minimum simplification of form.
• By Erin Murray

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The Dream

• Artist Henri Rouseau
• Historical Period 1910
• Medium Oil on Canvas
• Description Naïve painter but his naivete is
  more a matter of style than of vision folk art
  genius painted things that existed but also
  imaginary landscapes as in The Dream mystery
  and enchantment in his work precise drawing,
  monumental forms and clearness of atmosphere
  forerunner of 29th century styles of painting.
• By Erin Murray