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Title : Stature of Khafre from the Valley Temple of Khafre Artist : Unknown Date : c. 2,520-2,494 BCE Medium : Diorite Current Location : Egyptian Museum, Cairo Description: Statute of pharoah, not meant to be dispayed, trapped soul, in pyramids, not art TERM 2 DEFINITION 2 Title : Les Demoiselles dAvignon Artist : Pablo Picasso Date : 1907 Medium : Oil on Canvas Location : Museum of Modern Art, New York Description: Meant to look at art from different perspectives, table is represented not at eye level, seeing objects and people at different angles. TERM 3 DEFINITION 3 Title: Fountain Artist: Marcel Duchamp Date: 1917 Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art Description: Piece of plumbing, Urinal, Artist signed their name, considered art because it was used in everyday life. TERM 4 DEFINITION 4 Title: Woman from Willendorf Artist: Unknown Medium: limestone Date: 24,000 BCE Location: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna Description: Breast, fertility,Was not art and had a specific purpose, Extra tiny TERM 5 DEFINITION 5 Title :The Great Pyramids Artist: Unknown Medium : limestone and granite Date :c. 2,575-2,450 BCE Location : Giza, Egypt Description: Large scale, known for craftsmanship, Not art but a burial ground, For the pharaohs which are the kings of Egypt.
Title : Place of Versailles Artist : Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Louis Le Vau, and Andre Le Notre Date : 1661- Location : Versailles, France Description: Symbolized the power and authority of Louis the XIV,A palace, home of loui the 14th, Not art (someone's home) TERM 7 DEFINITION 7 Title : Mona Lisa Artist : Leonardo da Vinci Date : 1503- Medium : Oil on painting Location : The Louvre Museum, France Description : A portrait commissioned, possibly, as a marriage contract, very detailed TERM 8
The Natural Category
DEFINITION 8 Title: Still Life with Brazilian Fruits Artist: Albert Eckhout Date: 1644 Medium: oil on canvas Location: The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen Description: Alternatively, exotic plants such as corn, tomatoes, pineapple, bananas, potatoes also counted as marvels. TERM 9
The Natural Category
DEFINITION 9 Title : Tapuya Woman Holding a Severed Hand and Carrying a Basket Containing a Severed Foot Artist : Albert Eckhout, Date : 1641, Medium : oil on canvas Location : The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen Descrption :Meant to show cannibalism, weirdos of nature, dwarfs. TERM 10
The Artificial Category
DEFINITION 10 Title Apollo and Daphne Artist : Gianlorenzo Bernini Date 1622-25 Medium marble Location: Galleria Borghese, Rome Descrption: Daphne saved by the sun god.Mythological, son of the god, Dafini turned into a tree. Movement and stillness at the same time.
Title: The King of Frances Many-Headed Hydra Artist: Anonymous Article: Conrad Gessners Nomenclator aquatilium animantium, Date: 1560, Stanford University Description: Collected by the King of france because it was rare, had a numerous amount of heads of all different animals, people thought the hyrdra was real. Compare to Reading: Paula Findlind TERM 17 DEFINITION 17 Title: Romans during the Decadence Artist : Thomas Couture, Date : 1847 Medium : oil on canvas Location : Muse dOrsay, Paris Description : Commentary of high class comparing them to the romans, it was very large, history painting. TERM 18 DEFINITION 18 Title: Oath of the Horatii Artist : Jacques-Louis David, Date : 1784 Medium : Oil on canvas Location : Muse du Louvre, Paris Description: Three defenders of Rome with father in the middle and wives. Good looking men about to go to war, shows courage, historical clothes. TERM 19 DEFINITION 19 Title: After Dinner at Ornans Artist :Gustave Courbet Date: 1848-49 Medium : oil on canvas Location : Muse des Beaux- Arts, Lille Description : Realistic painting, Courbet is in the painting, no one is looking and represents everyday life. TERM 20 DEFINITION 20 Title : Le Boulevard du Temple at Eight OClock in the Morning Artist : Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre, Date :1838- 39 Medium : daguerreotype Location : Fotomuseum, Munich Description : Photograph, cant pick up no movement on still scenes, two people shoeshining.
Title : The Stonebreakers Artist : Gustave Courbet Date : 1849-50, Medium : oil on canvas, Location : Gemldegalerie, Dresden (now destroyed) Description : The stone-painting with their backs turned towards us representing the working class, born into poverty, very large painting. Realism painting, TERM 22 DEFINITION 22 Title : A Burial at Ornans Artist : Gustave Courbet, Date : 1849-50 Medium : oil on canvas Location : Muse d'Orsay, Paris Description: Offended critics, no one is paying attention to priest, Realism painting. Cant see the body, represents a funeral TERM 23 DEFINITION 23 Title : The Sower Artist : Jean-Franois Millet Date : 1850 Medium: oil on canvas Location : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Description : Guy planting seeds, in the background there is the landscape, realism painting, made work look easy. TERM 24 DEFINITION 24 Title : The Third-Class Carriage Artist : Honor Daumier Date : ca 1862-64 Medium : oil on canvas Location : Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Description: Train for lower class, barely any room, mother and grandmother, mother is feeding child. TERM 25 DEFINITION 25 Title: The Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine Summer Artist : Gustave Courbet Medium : oil on canvas Date : 1856-57 Location : Muse du Petit Palasi, Paris Article : Chus Bisexuality, p. 121) Description : Also, this painting should first class women and the scenic background. Mens clothing on the boat. Male critics were more mad about this, girl is in underwear, shows more skin
Artist : douard Manet Title : Bar at the Folies-Bergre, Date : 1882 Medium : oil on canvas Location : The Courtauld Institute of Art Description: Working women, Reflection, Man in the mirror represents the type of audience Manet wanted to attract or man buying drinks, Prostitute for sale, reflects that men can only paint things like these. TERM 32 DEFINITION 32 Artist : Mary Cassatt, Title : Portrait of a Little Girl Impressionist paints, light brush strokes. Date : 1878 Medium : oil on canvas Location : National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. Description: Interior decorating by a women, only place they could paint, TERM 33 DEFINITION 33 Artist : Claude Monet Title : Impression, Sunrise, Date : Medium : oil on canvas Location : Muse Marmottan, Paris Description: Impressionist paints(light brush strokes), Catpures nature in its light, also captures the water and reflection of the sun setting. TERM 34 DEFINITION 34 Artist : Claude Monet Title : Haystacks (Sunset; Snow Effect) Date : 1890-91 Medium : oil on canvas Location : The Art Institute of Chicago Description: Impressionist paint(Light brush strokes) Captures nature and snow, Sunlight,Villages and shops. TERM 35 DEFINITION 35 Artist : Claude Monet Title : Le Boulevard des Capucines Date : 1873 Medium : oil on canvas Location : The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Description : Very small, represents everyday life, people are tiny and looks crowded.
Artist : Berthe Morisot Title : On the Balcony Date : 1871- Medium : oil on canvas Location : Private Collection (source: Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity, p. 61) Description : Represents how mother and daughter are trapped because they cant go into the city. The balcony separates them from the city, impressionist painting because short brush strokes. TERM 37 DEFINITION 37 Artist : Mary Cassatt, Title : Lydia at a Tapestry Frame, Date : 1881, Medium : oil on canvas, Location : Flint Institute of Arts (source: Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity, p. 58) Description : Frame is tight, and she is separated from the frame, her sister TERM 38 DEFINITION 38 Artist : Mary Cassatt Title : At the Opera Date : Medium : oil on canvas Location : Boston Museum of Fine Arts (source: Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity, p. 77) Description - painting by a women, guy looking at her, she is ignoring the guy staring at her, cant go beyond the lodge. TERM 39 DEFINITION 39 Artist : Joseph Paxton Title : Crystal Palace Medium : glass and steel Date : 1851 Location : Hyde Park, London (destroyed) Description : the first world fair, made of all glass and steal beams. Reading : Wax displays, themed environment, Commercial window design, TERM 40 DEFINITION 40 Artist : Unknown, Title : The Cairo Street, Medium : themed environment, Date : 1889, Location : Universal Exhibition, Paris Description : display, a themed environment, everyday life in Cairo Reading: Everyone dressed up to enhance the environment.
Artist : P. Brunet Title : Japanese Interior, Article : illustration from The Upholsterer Decorator of Paris Date : 1879 Location : Forney Library, Paris Description - Themed interior design, japanese bedroom, meant to sell furniture, TERM 47 DEFINITION 47 Artist :Jules Verchre Title :Interior of a Room in the Gothic Style, Article : illustration from Ancient and Modern Furniture, Date : 1880 Location : Forney Library, Paris Description : selling furniture through art, TERM 48 DEFINITION 48 Artist : Frank L. Carr, Title : A Furniture Exhibit, [Interior of a Physicians Office], Medium : window design, possibly executed for Wechsler Bros. & Co., Brooklyn, New York, ca. Date : 1894 Description - window display, depicting in everyday life scene with real people, TERM 49 DEFINITION 49 Artist : Shrader, Title : [Window] For High-Class Costumes, Medium : window design, executed for Wanamakers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Date :1894-95 Descrption - Window display and selling clothing through paintings and using real people/ TERM 50 DEFINITION 50 Artist : Henry Roltair Title : Creation Medium : themed environment Date : 1904 Location : Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, St. Louis (source: Progress and Evolution at U.S. Worlds Fairs) Description - Take a boat ride, represented gods of rome life venus.
Artist : Karl Bitter Title : Earth Uncontrolled Medium : staff Date : 1893 Location : Worlds Columbian Exhibition, Chicago Article : (source: Progress and Evolution at U.S. Worlds Fairs) Description - Showed the power of earth over man, progressed from a raw state to bettr state. TERM 52 DEFINITION 52 Artist : Karl Bitter Title : Earth Controlled Medium : staff Date :1893 Location : Worlds Columbian Exhibition, Chicago (source: Progress and Evolution at U.S. Worlds Fairs)
