AP Art History

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AP Art Historys Greatest HitsPart Two
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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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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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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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Neoclassicism

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

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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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Dada

• 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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Precisionism or Regionalism

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

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Futurism

• 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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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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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 Part 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