PrimaveraPrimavera – Botticelli, – Botticelli, 14821482

Depicted classical gods as Depicted classical gods as almost naked and life-size.almost naked and life-size.

A Portrait of SavonarolaA Portrait of Savonarola� By Fra Bartolomeo, By Fra Bartolomeo,

1498.1498.

� Dominican friar who Dominican friar who decried money and decried money and power.power.

� Anti-humanistAnti-humanist he saw he saw humanism as too humanism as too secular, hedonistic, and secular, hedonistic, and corrupting.corrupting.

� The The “Bonfire of the “Bonfire of the Vanities,”Vanities,” 1497. 1497.

/ Burned books, artwork, Burned books, artwork, jewelry, and other jewelry, and other luxury goods in public.luxury goods in public.

/ Even Botticelli put Even Botticelli put some of his paintings some of his paintings on the fire!!on the fire!!

Venus of Urbino Venus of Urbino – Titian, – Titian, 15581558

The Penitent Mary The Penitent Mary Magdalene Magdalene by Titian, 1533by Titian, 1533

� By the mid-16c, By the mid-16c, High High Renaissance Renaissance art was art was declining.declining.

� Mannerism Mannerism became more became more popular.popular.

� This painting is This painting is a good example a good example of this new of this new artistic style.artistic style.

“The Last Supper,” 1498 fresco

Leonardo da Vinci;

Painted in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

MichelangeloMichelangelo

“David,” St. Peter’s, Rome “The Pieta,” St. Peter’s Rome

Details of panels from Michelangelo’s painting of

the Sistine Chapel showing the Creation of

Adam (top) and Eve (right).

Rembrandt van RijnRembrandt van Rijn

“The Jewish Bride,” 1667

“The Return of the Prodigal,” 1669The greatest of “The Dutch Masters,” Rembrandt perfected art as realism and the use of chiaroscura.

GoyaGoya

“The Shootings of May Third,” 1814

“The Puppet,” 1791

Goya represents an early turning in art from realism (as likeness), to art as alteration. Many of his works were expressive of an inner vision and commentary about the times in which he lived.

The Advent of Photography and the The Advent of Photography and the end of the dominance of realismend of the dominance of realism

Above: 31st PA Regiment Soldier’s Family visits on the battlefield (1861-65);

Upper Right: Abraham Lincoln c. 1860;

Lower Right: Union Dead at Gettysburg, July 1863

ImpressionismImpressionism

“The Waitress,” 1877

Eduard Manet“Madame Monet and her Son,”

1875

Claude Monet

Sought to focus on the way light is perceived by the human eye. This period inaugurates art as alteration. Imitation in art is within the painter.

“The Child’s Bath,” 1893

Mary Cassatt

Post-ImpressionismPost-ImpressionismVincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh

“Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear,” 1889“Fifteen Sunflowers in a

Vase,” 1888

PointilismPointilism

“Le Pont de Courbevoie,” 1886-1887, by Georges Seurat

The 1913 69The 1913 69thth Regiment Armory Regiment Armory ExhibitionExhibition

• Named for the building in New York City where this art Named for the building in New York City where this art exhibition took place.exhibition took place.

• Brought to the U.S. many of the new modern artists who Brought to the U.S. many of the new modern artists who were launching into art as alteration with boldness and were launching into art as alteration with boldness and intensity.intensity.

• This art exhibition found few admirers at the time due to This art exhibition found few admirers at the time due to its radical departures from traditional painting.its radical departures from traditional painting.

• Unlike Van Gogh (and others in Post-impressionist Unlike Van Gogh (and others in Post-impressionist alteration) who began with the natural world and painted alteration) who began with the natural world and painted it as they saw it, alteration for these modern artists it as they saw it, alteration for these modern artists sought to impose something new on the world, sought to impose something new on the world, something inside themselves.something inside themselves.

AbstractionismAbstractionism

“Composition VIII,” 1923, Vasiliy Kandinsky

“Arearea” (Joyousness), 1892, by Paul Gauguin

CubismCubism

“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” 1902,

By Pablo Picasso

“Guitar and Violin,” c. 1912

By Pablo Picasso

“Guernica,” 1937; By Pablo Picasso

“Bottle and Fishes,” 1910; By Georges Braque

SurrealismSurrealism

“The Persistence of Memory,” 1931 By Salvador Dali

A style of painting that has recognizable figures and shapes but these things are related to each other as objects in dreamlike state.

“The Last Supper,” 1955, By Salvador Dali

Georgia O’KeefeGeorgia O’Keefe

“Series 1, Number 8,” 1919

“Iris,” 1929

“Red and Orange Hills,” 1938-1939

Modern RealismModern Realism

“Nighthawks,” 1942, By Edward Hopper

“Cape Cod Afternoon,” 1936 (Carnegie Museum of Art)

“A Woman in the Sun,” 1961, The Whitney

“Into Bondage,” 1936, Aaron Douglas

“Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery through Reconstruction,” 1934

“Ugly Americans,”

by Duane Hanson

Abstract ExpressionismAbstract Expressionism

“Greyed Rainbow,” 1953, By Jackson Pollock

Study for “Woman Number 1,” 1952, By Willem de Kooning