Leonardo da Vinci,an Italian Renaissance artist

The Mona Lisa-Oil on Wood Panel

1503-1505?---Florence, Italy

Girl Portrayed was Lisa Giocondo the wife of a wealthy Florence merchant

Was da vinci’s most famous piece of art held in “Louver Museum” in Paris
da Vinci used sfumato lighting to give Mona Lisa’s the features and look that she was famous for.
da Vinci kept painting, the only one he ever kept, till he died and made modifications till then.

Marcel Duchamp, a French Modern Era artist

Was submitted under R mutt because Marcel was actually very famous at this time and he wanted to prove a point that even art by the Marcel Duchamp can be looked over.

This is a replica as the real one was lost after it was submitted to the 1917 New York Society of independent artists
Da da movement from 1917-1923
Duchamp said he chose ready-made object but society thought it was bad taste for women to see a urinal    

from Court of Benin, Beni culture, Nigeria

Portrait of a Queen Mother(aka Pendant Mask)

Ivory and Iron Inlays

Royal art commissioned by king.
Is an example of symbolism/iconography.

Best documented on its personal, ceremonial uses

Mask represents King Esigie of Benin's Mother Queen Idia.

"Queen Mother" was most powerful women in court of Benin

Example of motif with pattern around neck and head

Matthias Grunewald, a German Artist

The Isenheim Altarpiece--Polyptych- Oil on panels

1510-1515 at Isenheim, Germany
Created for monastery church of the order of St. Anthony Monastery

Monks there were noted for their treatment of sufferers of skin disease, such as ergotism, symptoms of which are displayed by figures including the crucified Christ in the altarpiece.

3 positions
    -Closed-predella scene
    -Middle-angelic scene
    -Third-shrine
The altarpiece shows elements of iconography

Victor Horta- Art Nouveau Style Architect

Built in 1892-1893 in Brussels Germany

House built for Emile Tassel

Designed nearly everything in the house and most know for staircases

Mr. Tassel was professor of geometry and loved to use the house to entertain

This house is considered to be the first true Art Nouveau building

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in Bauhaus style

29" high, steel and leather

Created exclusively for Germanys entrance into the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.

Located in the German Pavilion, International Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain

Example of the Bauhaus style which strives to be geometric, economic, respect for good materials

Revamped to be aesthetic competitive with industrialization mass production and technology

Paul Cezanne, Post Impressionist artist

Mont Sainte-Victoire-----Oil on canvas

1902-1904 in France

So obsessed with the mountain he painted it 75 times

Obsessed with searching for a solidity and unity of form

Looked for geometric solids in nature

The work would come to be seen as the precursor to antecedent to cubism

Grant Wood, a Modern American artist

American Gothic---Oil on beaverboard

1930 Iowa

Models for painting were his sister and his dentist.

While traveling noticed the house for its Gothic Revival and decided to paint it with "the types of people he saw living there."

Proud to paint what he knows and where hes from

Li Cheng

A Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks

Ink and color on rice paper

China during Northern Song Dynasty c. 950-960

Emphasizes non-conformity, individualism, and a return to nature.

It was/is a kind a nature mysticism

The mountain is monumental and shows that people are tiny and insignificant compared to nature

Audrey Flack, A contemporary(alive)American Artist

Wheel of Fortune--Oil over acrylic on canvas

1977-78

Photorealism

Worked as still life artist- arranged objects how she wanted them then took a picture

The skull in the painting symbolizes the passing of life- thus the futility of greed and vanity.

Duane Hanson, a Modern American artist

life-size sculpture, cast of fiberglass and polyester resin, and mixed media

1973 south Florida

Casts people- uses middle aged, middle class, ordinary people.

Very realistic---Realism

Henri Matisse, a French Modern Era artisrt

The Red Studio---Oil on canvas

1911, Museum of Modern Art, New York

had an innovative and enduring influence on Modern art

Pablo Picasso, a Modern Era artist

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon---oil on canvas

Painted in 1907 in Paris

Acquired by the Museum of Modern art in New York in 1939

A landmark Cubistic painting as well as Modern Art

"set the stage for Cubism."

Edward Kienholz, Modern Era American artist

The State Hospital---Mixed media sculpture Made from life size casts

First displayed in 1966 in Los Angeles County Museum

Depicts patients in an insane asylum.

Cosidered depictive, expressionistic, and abstractive Modern Era art

Edvard Munch, a Norwegion Modern Era artist

The Scream---Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard

1893 National Gallery- Oslo, Norway

Worlds most recognizable image like the Mona Lisa

Munch created several versions of The Scream in different media.

Emile Nolde, a German Expressionist artist

The Last Supper--Oil on canvas

1909

One of his Expressionist religious paintings.

Nold wanted to creatde pictures that would be "so sharp and genuine that they couldnt be hung in scented drawing rooms"

Emile Nolde, German Expressionist artist

The Prophet-small woodcut print

1912

Richard Serra, a Modern American artist

Tilted Arc-large sculpture made of Cor-Ten steel

1981 Federal Plaza, New York City

commissioned by the United States General Services Administration's Arts-in-Architecture program

example of Minimalist Artwork

Raised discussion government supported arts and artists rights

Moved out of Federal Plaza after much debate in 1989

Prehistoric Sculpture

Venus of Willendorf

Made of Limestone--4&3/8 inches tall

c. 22,000-24,000 BCE

Named Venus after Roman Godess of Love

Some believe her features represent what women of that time were to look like or to represent the feeling of being pregnant

Maya Ying Lin, an American Architect

Vietnam Veterans Memorial--large sculpture of black granite

1981-1983 in Washington, D.C.

Its construction and related issues have been the source of controversies