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ASII Artists + Works
Artists, Claim to Fames + Their Works
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
05/19/2015

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Term

 

Sir Christopher Wren

(Neoclassicism) 

Definition

England's most renowned architect.

St. Pauls Cathedral, 1710. 

Term

 

Robert Adam

(Neoclassicism)

Definition

Employed "Pompeian" style. 

Etruscan Room in Osterley Park House, 1761.

Term

 

Jacques-Louis David 

(Neoclassicism)

Definition

Painter-ideologist for French Revolution.

Oath of the Horatii, 1784.

Term

 

Jean-Auguste Ingres

(Neoclassicism)

Definition

Used combination of classical form + Romantic themes.

Grand Odalisque, 1814.

Term

 

Angelika Kauffman

(Neoclassicism)

Definition

Founding member of British Royal Academy of Art. 

Mother of the Gracchi, 1785. 

Term

 

Horatio Greenough

(Neoclassicism)

Definition

Known for his godlike statues. 

George Washington, 1840. 

Term

 

Eugene Delacroix

(Romanticism)

Definition

"Leader" of French Romantic painting.

Death of Sardanapalus, 1827. 

Term

 

Henry Fuseli

(Romanticism) 

Definition

Used distinctive manner to express vivid fantasies of his imagination.

The Nightmare, 1781.

Term

 

Theodore Gericault

(Romanticism)

Definition

"Father" of French Romantic painting.

Raft of the Medusa, 1818

Term

 

Francisco Goya

(Romanticism)

Definition

Known for his Black Paintings.

Third of May, 1808, 1814.

Term

 

Caspar Friedrich

(Romanticism)

Definition

First to depict transcendental landscapes.

Wanderer above a Sea of Mist, 1817.

Term

 

John Constable 

(Romanticism)

Definition

Addressed agrarian crisis in "authentic" landscape paintings.

The Haywain, 1821. 

Term

 

Joseph (J.M.W) Turner

(Romanticism)

Definition

His works featured turblent swirls of frothy pigment. 

The Slave Ship, 1840. 

 

 

Term

 

Albert Bierstadt

(Romanticism)

Definition

Used landscape genre to address moral + spiritual concerns.

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868.

Term

 

Louis Daguerre 

(Realism) 

Definition

Created first practical photographic process, Daguerreotype. 

Still Life in Studio, 1837.

Term

 

Eadweard Muybridge

(Realism)

Definition

Invented the zoopraxiscope. 

Horse Galloping, 1878.

Term

 

Rosa Bonheur

(Realism)

Definition

Most celebrated woman artist of 19th century.

The Horse Fair, 1855. 

Term

 

Gustave Courbet

(Realism)

Definition

Leading figure of Realist art movement. 

The Stone Breakers, 1849.

Term

 

Edouard Manet 

(Realism)

Definition

Father of Impressionism. 

Olympia, 1863.

Term

 

Adolphe-William Bouguereau

(Realism)

Definition

Forgotten artist that used academic style in paintings. 

Nymphs and a Satyr, 1873.

Term


Thomas Eakins

(Realism) 

 

Definition

Depicted realities of human inexpeirence the way he saw them, not how the public wished he'd portray them.

The Gross Clinic, 1875. 

Term

 

Henry Tanner

(Realism) 

Definition

Depicted everyday lives of African Americans.

The Thankful Poor, 1894.

Term

 

John A. + Washington A. Roebling

(Modernism)

Definition

Combined latest steel technology with motifs of Gothic + Egyptian architecture.

Brooklyn Bridge, 1883.

Term

 

Louis Sullivan

(Modernism)

Definition

First "truly modern" architect. 

Prudential Building, 1894. 

Term

 

Auguste Rodin

(Impressionism)

Definition

Leading French sculptor.

Walking Man, 1905.

Term

 

Mary Cassatt

(Impressionism) 

 

Definition

Subjects were primarily woman + children.

The Bath, 1892. 

Term

 

Edgar Degas

(Impressionism)

Definition

Depicted formal leisure activitys that often included patterns of motion. 

The Tub, 1886.

Term

 

 Claude Monet

(Impresisonism)

Definition

"Head" of Impressionism.

Impression: Sunrise, 1872.

Term

 

Auguste Renoir

(Impressionism)

Definition

Claimed to follow no rules / methods in painting.

Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876. 

Term

 

Vincent Van Gogh

(Post Impressionism)

Definition

Used expressive line; foregrounds Expressionism.

Starry Night, 1889.

Term

 

Paul Gauguin

(Post Impressionism)

 

Definition

Freed up color + shape from the literal; relocated to Tahiti to get away from Industrialization of Europe.

Vision after the Sermon, 1888. 

Term

 

Georges Seurat 

(Post Impressionism)

Definition

Employed pointillism; asserted art's intellectual self-government. 

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1886.

Term

 

Paul Cezanne

(Post Impressionism)

 

Definition

Asserted art's intellectual substance.

Mont Saint-Victoire, 1902.

Term

 

 Henri Matisse

(Fauvism)

Definition

Dominant figure of the Fauve movement.

Woman with the Hat, 1905.

Term

 

Kathe Kollwitz

(Expressionism)

Definition

Her prints expressed protest + satirical bitterness for the poor.

Woman with Dead Child, 1903.

Term

 

Emil Nolde

(Expressionism)

Definition

Content of his work contained religiously deep-rooted, forceful imagery.

St. Mary of Egypt among Sinners, 1912.

Term

 

Pablo Picasso

(Cubism)

Definition

Created Analytic Cubism.

Guernica, 1937.

Term

 

Umberto Boccioni

(Futurism)

Definition

Is able to represent motion in sculptures.

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1931.

Term

 

Marcel Duchamp

(Dada)

Definition

Most influential Dadaist, created readymade sculptures.

Fountain, 1917. 

 

Term

 

Kurt Schwitters

(Dada)

Definition

Created nonobjective photomontages called Merz. 

The Large Glass, 1915. 

Term

 

Charles Demuth 

(Precisionism)

Definition

Rejected pure abstraction + favored American subjects.

My Egypt, 1927.

Term

 

Salvador Dali

(Surrealism)

Definition

Employed the paranoiac critical method to create his paintings.

The Persistance of Memory, 1931.

Term

 

Meret Oppenheim

(Surrealism)

Definition

Captured Surrealist characterisitcs of humor, visual appeal + eroticism in her works. 

Object, 1936. 

Term

 

Dorothea Lange

(Regionalism)

Definition

Was chosen to document the living conditions of the rural poor.

Migrant Mother, 1935.

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