AP Art History

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AP Art Historys Greatest HitsPart Two
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Mannerism

• Madonna With the Long Neck by Parmigianino
• 1535
• Characteristics
• Small oval head, long slender neck, long fingers
• Exaggeration
• Contains religious meaning

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Late Gothic

• Arnolfini and His Bride by Jan Van Eyck
• 1434
• Characteristics
• Almost every object portrayed sanctity
• Symbolism
• Purpose Record and sanctify marriage
• Dog Fidelity, Shoe Holy Ground

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Northern Renaissance

• Knight, Death, and Devil by Albrecht Durer
• 1513
• Characteristics
• Knight Christian
• Display strength, movement, and proportions of
  Renn equestrian statue
• Employed lines to evoke

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Baroque in Italy

• Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio
• 1597-1601
• Characteristics
• Jesus arm reminiscent of Michelangelo
• Piercing ray of light
• Realist and dramatic

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Baroque in Spain

• Las Meninas by Velázquez
• 1656
• Characteristics
• Painter represented himself
• Visual and narrative complexity
• Represented form and shadow
• Tonal graduations dark to light

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Baroque in Flanders/Holland

• The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp by Rembrandt Van
  Rijn
• 1632

• Characteristics
• Evenly placed subjects
• Corpse Diagonally placed and foreshortened
• Student poses and expressions show personality

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Baroque in France/England

• Burial of Phocion by Poussin
• 1648
• Characteristics
• Figures Solitary relief
• Light Even and revealing
• Landscape is nature subordinated to a rational
  plan

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Rococo

• The Swing by Frangonard
• 1766
• Characteristics
• Intrigue picture
• Landscape setting is out of Watteau
• Glowing pastel colors and soft light
• Convey the scenes sensuality

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Later China

• Dwelling in the Fu Chun Mountains by Gongwang
• 1347-1350
• Characteristics
• Richly layered with brush strokes a
• At times interweaving dry brush strokes and at
  other times placing dry strokes over wet ones

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Later Japan

• Cuckoo Flying Over New Verdure by Yosa Busan
• Late 18th Century
• Characteristics
• Fully Mature Style
• Chinese and Japanese literati style by rounding
  the landscape forms

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Later Oceania

• Bisj Poles
• Early to Mid 20th Century
• Characteristics
• Served as a pledge to avenge a relatives death
• Head-hunting raid
• Decorated with figures of individuals who have
  already died

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Later North America

• Kachina Figurine by Otto Pentewa
• 1959
• Characteristics
• Rain bringing deity who wears a mask painted in
  geometric patterns symbolic of water and
  agriculture fertility

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Later Mesoamerica

• Illuminated page from Borgia Codex
• 1400-1500
• Characteristics
• Two vividly gesticulating gods
• Ritual subjects
• God of life black Quetzalcoatl

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Later South America

• Machu Piechu
• 15th Century
• Characteristics
• One of the worlds most awe-inspiring sights
• Inka City

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Later Africa

• Mbulu-nbulu Reliquary Guardian Figure
• 19th Century or Early 20th Century
• Characteristic
• Severely stylized body said to have repelled evil
• Heads simplified
• Geometric ridges borders

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Neoclassicism

• Oath of the Horatii by David
• 1784
• Characteristics
• Conflicts between heart and patriotism
• Statuesque figures- men Rigid, Angular

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Romanticism (Spanish)

• The Third of May 1808 by Goya
• 1808
• Characteristics
• Encouraged empathy of the Spanish by portraying
  horrified expressions and enhanced drama through
  stark use of darks and lights

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Romanticism

• Raft of the Medusa by Gericault
• 1818-1819

• Characteristics
• Actual historical event
• Subdued palette and prominent shadow lend ominous
  pall to the scene
• Emotionally charged
• Comments on slavery? Apathy

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Realism

• Le Dejeuner Sur LHerbe by Manet
• 1863

• Characteristics
• Figures in soft focus
• Broadly painted the landscape
• Black is a prominent color
• Allusions to many paintings of genres

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Impressionism

• Ballet Rehearsal by Degas
• 1874

• Characteristics
• Figures randomly placed, not centered
• Degas was interested in reproducing single moments

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Post Impressionism

• Starry Night by Van Gough
• 1889

• Characteristics
• Communicated the vastness of the universe
• Uses color to express himself
• With the turbulent brush strokes, the color
  suggests a quiet but persuasive depiction

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Symbolism

• The Cry (Scream) by Munch
• 1893
• Characteristics
• Grounded in the real world
• Departs significantly from a visual reality

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Art Nouveau

• Casa Milá by Gaudi
• 1907
• Characteristics
• Free-form mass
• Organic lines not geometric

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Fauvism

• Red Room by Matisse
• 1908-1909

• Characteristics
• Color Warmth
• Colors contrast richly and intensely
• Depicts objects in simplified and schematized
  fashion and flattening out form

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German Expressionism

• Fate of the Animals by Marc
• 1913
• Characteristics

• Entire scene is distorted- Shattered into
  fragments
• Colors of severity and brutality of wars anguish
  and tragedy

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Precisionism or Regionalism

• My Egypt by Charles Demuth
• 1927
• Characteristics
• Grain elevators which he reduced to simple
  geometric forms
• Fragmented

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Cubism

• Still Life With Chair- Canning by Picasso
• 1912
• Characteristics
• Chair seems real
• Painted and abstract areas dont refer to
  tangible objects of the real world

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Futurism

• Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Boccioni
• 1913
• Characteristics
• Formal and spatial effects on motion
• Figure is expanded, interruption, and broken in
  plane and contour

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Dada

• Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last
  Weimer by Hoch
• 1919-1920
• Characteristics
• Juxtaposed the head of German military leaders
  with exotic dancers
• Aware of the power that women and Dada had on
  society

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Fantasy and Surrealism

• The Persistence of Memory by Dali
• 1931
• Characteristics
• Allegory of empty space Where time has ended
• Attempt to make it convincingly real

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American Realism

• Haymarket by John Sloan
• 1907
• Characteristics
• Ashcan school painters injected realism into
  American art by taking ordinary people as their
  subjects.

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Abstract Expressionism

• No. 1 by Pollack
• 1950
• Characteristics
• Abandoned the paintbrush altogether sloshing,
  pouring, and dripping abandoned easel

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Color Field

• Blue, Orange, and Red by Rothko
• 1961
• Characteristics
• Interested in the relation between one color and
  another
• No evidence of brushstrokes

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OP Art

• Three Flags by Jasper Johns
• 1958
• Characteristics
• One of the first to rebel against abstract
  Expressionism by returning recognizable imagery
  to art

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Pop Art

• 100 Cans of Campbell Soup by Andy Warhol
• 1962
• Characteristics
• Brought art to the masses by making art into
  everyday life

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Photo Realism

• Fanny Finger Painting by Close
• 1985
• Characteristics
• One moment its a spitting image of a person, the
  next its an animated pattern of spots

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Neo Expressionism

• To The Unknown Painter by Keifer
• 1983
• Characteristics
• Thick, dark paint to represent earth
• Evokes the horror of the holocaust

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Post Modernism

• The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago
• 1979
• Characteristics
• A feminist Last Supper
• Intended to interest worship of the female
• Triangle symbolizes both woman and goddess
• Invited Georgia OKeefe, Virginia Wolfe,
  Sacagawea, Susan B. Anthony