Art History #3

On lined paper put Art history #3, your name, order # and Period

1. What was Vermeer’ s Subject matter______________________________ 2. What was Vermeer’s most famous painting? ______________________ 3. Rococo was characterized by _____________themes. 4. Neo-Classicism was a reaction to _________________________ 5. Francisco Goya was the last of the ________________________and first of ____________. 6. Romanticism portrayed ______________rather than rationality. 7. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism and drama of

the ___________________movement.

8. Realism sought to portray_________________________________________________________.

9. Who painted the Gleaners? _______________________________

10. Who painted Whistlers mother? _________________________

11. Who painted American Gothic_______________________________

12. Who founded the Impressionist movement? __________________

13. How did Impressionism get its name? _______________________________________________

14. What is Plein Air painting? _______________________________

15. (RC video)Why did Monet paint so many versions of the Rouen Cathedral?

16. (RCVideo)What years did he spend painting the Rouen Cathedra l__________ and ________.

17. (RC Video)How many versions of the Cathedral did he paint? _________________

18. (RC Video)Why was he so interested in the Cathedral? ___________________________

19. (WL video) What was Monet’s lifelong desire? _____________________________________

20. (WL video)If you would run your hand over one of Monet’s water lilies, how would it feel?

Jan Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque painter.

He mainly painted people in daily life. He painted people in detail and used rich

colors. He kept the backgrounds simple. This contrast makes the viewer focus on the

main point. He used perspective technique to draw lines from one dot on the canvas.

He used this technique on his 17 paintings. Those paintings have a little dot which

may be used for perspective. Vermeer’s painted women often wear blue clothes.

Young Woman with a Water Jug Weighing Pearls (c1662-64)

Girl with a Pearl Earring,

Vermeer's most famous

painting.

Charles IV of Spain and His Family, 1800.

Francisco GOYA, last of the old masters first of Moderns

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, The 3nd of May, 1808 (1814)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, The 2nd of May, 1808 (Charge of the Marmalukes) (1814)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Saturn Devouring His Sons (c. 1820)

Géricault The Raft of the Medusa (1818–1819),

Romananticism

Realism 1848-900

was an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead it sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, and not avoiding unpleasant or sordid aspects of life. Realist works depicted people of all classes in situations that arise in ordinary life, and often reflected the changes brought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions.

Jean-François Millet--The Gleaners, 1857. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

The Sower, 1850.

Woman Baking Bread, 1854

The Angelus, 1857–59

Whistler - Portrait of the Painters mother 1871

Post realism, but similar – some say modernism? Almost 80 years later

Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth

(1948)

American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood (1930) in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood's inspiration came from what is now known as the American Gothic House, and his decision to paint the house along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house. The painting shows a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter. The figures were modeled by the artist's sister and their dentist. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man's pitchfork symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman's right shoulder suggesting domesticity.

It is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art,and has been widely parodied in American popular culture.

Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting,

and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's

philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as

applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is

derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant

(Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the

independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an

alternative to the Salon de Paris.

Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to

adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to

capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883

Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property, and

began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would

become the subjects of his best-known works. In 1899 he began painting

the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central

feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy

him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.

Impression at sunrise, soleil levant

Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867

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Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series

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Monet, Water Lilies