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AP ART REVIEW

AP ART REVIEW. From Renaissance to Abstract 1400 – 1960. 1400-1500s ITALIAN RENAISSANCE : The Beginning of Modern Painting. Early 1400s Florence, Italy

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AP ART REVIEW

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  1. AP ART REVIEW From Renaissance to Abstract 1400 – 1960

  2. 1400-1500s ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: The Beginning of Modern Painting • Early 1400s Florence, Italy • Rebirth of culture spread to Rome, Venice then 1500 to the rest of Europe( known as the Northern Renaissance): the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain and England. • Realism, perspective, backgrounds, emotions • Still religious but beginning of secular scenes • Portraits, landscapes

  3. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

  4. Michelangelo's Sistine ChapelCreation with God and man at the center

  5. Raphael’s “School of Athens”Secularism and classical knowledge

  6. Free standing statues Donatello’s David Michelangelo's David

  7. 1550s Northern Renaissance: Looked to nature; painted in exacting detail • Trademark of northern artist was incredible ability to portray nature realistically, down to the most minute detail. • Oil as medium invented by Flemish painter, Jan Van Eyck • Still religious but also landscapes, peasants and portraits

  8. Arnolfini Wedding by Van Eyck

  9. Pieter Brugel the Elder Census to Bethlehem The Blind Leading the Blind

  10. German Artists Hans Holbein, The French Ambassadors Albrecht Durer’s woodcuts and engravings

  11. 1580s Mannerism • Influenced by religious turmoil of Protestant versus Catholic • Painted subjectively • Distorted figures • Harsh colors • Displays strong religious feelings

  12. El Greco-

  13. 1590-1880: Baroque • The art of Absolute Monarchs, Constitutional Monarchies and the Dutch Renaissance • Catholic Reformation • Religious, grand, elaborate, formal and emotional

  14. Velazquez: Spanish court artist “Las Meninas” (The Maids of Honor)

  15. Caravaggio’s “The Supper at Emmaus”

  16. Palace at Versailles

  17. Rococo Art 1660-1715Period of Louis XIV • Playful, superficial, alive with energy • Interiors; gilded woodwork, painted panels, enormous wall mirrors • Smaller scale than baroque • Cherubs, angels, curves, shells, twisted columns, gardens • Unfashionable after death of Louis XIV 1715

  18. Painting by Watteau; carefree rich

  19. 1780-1820 Neo-classism “Roman Fever” • Return to simplicity, balance, • Subjects- patriotism, duty, sacrifice (Think French Revolution) • Created by Jacques-Louis David

  20. Jean-Louis David Death of Marat Napoleon the Conqueror

  21. 1800-1850 - RomanticismPower of Passion • Inspired by Medieval and Baroque eras, Middle and Far East • Subjects: legends, exotica, nature, violence

  22. Goya’s Third of May

  23. Gericault, “Raft of the Medusa” 1818

  24. Delacroix, “Death of Sardanapalus”1872

  25. J.M.W. Turner, “Slave Ship”

  26. 1850-1900 Realism • “New” realism (Renaissance began realism) • Precise imitation of visual reality without alteration • Subjects; modern world experienced by the artist (no gods, goddesses, heroes of antiquity OUT) • Peasants and urban working class IN

  27. Francois Millet, “The Gleaners”1850

  28. Gustave Courbet, “The Stonebreakers”1849

  29. Ford Madox Brown “The Last of England”1855

  30. Architecture for the Industrial AgePaxton,” Crystal Palace” 1850

  31. Impressionism 1860- 1886“Let there be color and light” • Born in France • Rejects perspective and realism (Camera invented 1840s) • Representations of visual sensations through color and light

  32. Similar But Not the Same:Manet : Contemporary scenes but with hard edge, dark patches of colorMonet: Landscapes, waterfront scenes, water lilies,; sunny hues, light reflections Manet, “Bar at the Folies-Bergere” Monet,”Water Lilies ”

  33. How to tell them apartDegas : Pastel portraits of human figures in stop action poses; ballerinas, horse races, cafes, nudes bathingRenoir : Rich reds, primary colors; voluptuous, peach-skinned female nudes, café society, children, flowers Degas, “Prima Ballerina” Renoir, “Le Moulin de la Galette”

  34. Post Impressionism 1880-1905 • French phenomenon • Wanted art more substantial than “impression” • 1st group – Seurat and Cézanne; focus on near scientific design • 2nd group – Gauguin, van Gogh, and Lautrec; emotion, and sensations through light and color

  35. Focus on near-scientific design Georges Seurat, “Bathers” Quasi-scientific style is pointillism Paul Czanne, “Large Bathers”

  36. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”Color and emotion

  37. Paul Gauguin, Post-impressionist1891 moved to French Polynesia and did a series of native paintings

  38. Expressionism 1860-1940 • Norwegian artist, Eduard Munch was inspiration Expressionist movement • Painting that reflects extreme emotions, like jealously, loneliness, joy • Express emotion through distorting forms and color

  39. Expressionism Munch, “The Scream” Henri Matisse, “The Joy of Life”

  40. Cubism 1908-1914 • “Art consists of inventing not copying” • Looks like objects broken down into little pieces and glued back together Piscasso, “Les Demoiselles D’Avignon”

  41. Piscasso, “Guernica”German bombing of Spanish town 1936

  42. Let’s look at the Sunbathers again.Can you identify the styles and artists?

  43. Dada and Surrealism: Art Between the Wars 1919-1930s • Surrealism • Influenced by Freudian psychology to portray fantasies and dreams of the unconscious Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory”

  44. Dadaism: Protest madness of war

  45. Abstract Expressionism 1940-1950s • Shift to American art after World War II • Action painting • Give free reign to impulse • Impassioned act of painting as expression

  46. Jackson Pollack“A man paints with his brains not his hands”

  47. Arshile Gorky “Water of the Flowery Mill”

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