HoA pt III

[summercomfort]

the last bit before I return this book ^^;;

The Modern World

Neoclassicism and Romanticism
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze (The Village Bride. The father reminds me of my father. so yeah)
- Jacques-Louis David (The Death of Marat, and the second famous Socrates picture (the first being Raphael's) that I don't really like)
- George Stubbs (Lion Attacking a Horse... awesome scary horse)
- Alexander Cozens (crumpled paper landscape!)
- Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (The Funeral of Atala. ::sniff:: I'm a sentimental fool)
- Antoine-Jean Gros (Napoleon at Arcole. rarr, hot guy)
- Theodore Gericault (Raft of Medusa, The Madman)
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Louis Bertin, which is awesome, and Odalisque, which is okay)
- Eugene Delacroix (Ingres' rival. His Odalisque is very different, but also decent)
- Honore Daumier (Third Class Carriage, Don Quixote Attacking the Windmills. finally! an artist with personality and originality! =oP Well, at least more so than others)
- Camille Corot (View of Rome, Morning: Dance of the Nymphs. hazy romantic landscapes. me sentimental)
- John Constable (Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows. he's all about sky, but I only like this one, b/c it's dealing w/ his wife's death)
- Joseph Mallord William Turner (Rain, Steam, and Speed--The Great Western Railway. "tinted steam" heehee. This one's cool, tho)
- Caspar David Friedrich (Abbey in an Oak Forest. all twisted and lonely)
Sculpture
- Jean-Antoine Houdon (Voltaire Seated, which is cool, and George Washington, which is not)
- Antonio Canova (tomb of Archduchess Maria Christina. I want a tomb like that... sad, but not really regal like Michelangelo's work)
Architecture
- John Nash (The Royal Pavilion. It's Goth, Indian, Chinese, and everything else! So funny!)
- Benjamin Latrobe (Baltimore Cathedral. It's cute! And the dome is so funky!)

Realism and Impressionism
- Edouard Manet (Fifer, Luncheon on the Grass, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere. I love him, so nifty, and so un-Monet)
- Auguste Renoir (Le Moulin de la Galette, and all those other "people at a passing glance" things.)
- Edgar Degas (pastel! The Glass of Absinthe (wormwood!), The Tub, Prima Ballerina. hoorah for slanted views)
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (taking canvas coloring to a new abstraction! Arrangement in Black and Gray: the Artist's Mother. Nocturne in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket, Harmony in Blue and Gold: the Peacock Room)
- Henry O. Tanner (The Banjo Lesson)
Sculpture
- Auguste Rodin (well, duh. But now I get the whole "sculpture in progress" thing. Thinker, Kiss, Balzac.)
- Edgar Degas (The Little Fourteen-year-Old Dancer. with real clothes!)

Post0Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau
::skips Cezanne:: hah!
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (aka "drunk dwarf". At the Moulin Rouge, La Goulue.)
- Georges Seurat (aka "dot-guy". A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. I used to not get it, but now I do.)
- Vincent van Gogh (aka "crazy swirly guy". Wheat Field and Cypress Trees, Self-Portrait, etc.)
::skips Gauguin::
- Gustave Moreau (The Apparition (Dance of Salome) eeee! scary! but in a cool way. John the Baptist sez: please ignore the dripping blood, thank you)
- Edvard Munch (The Scream. duh)
Sculpture
- Constantin Meunier (Bust of a Puddler. action! surprise! niftiness!)
- Ernst Barlach (Man Drawing a Sword. pro: a sword being drawn. con: man of wood)
Architecture (yay Art Nouveau! Rivendell!)
- Victor Horta (Tassel House stairwell)
- Antoni Gaudi (Casa Mila, etc. Gaudi sez: we like randomness!)
- Louis Sullivan (Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Dept. yay windows! yay Chicago!)
Photography
- Jacob Riis (Bandits' Roost. melikes docmentary photography)
- Gertrude Kasebier (The Magic Crystal. swirl!)
- Etienne-Jules Marey (Man in Black Suit with White Stripes Down Arms and Legs, Walking in Front of a Black Wall. coolest motion photography ever.)

Twentieth-Century Painting
- Henri Matisse (Joy of Life, Red Studio. He's just a cool guy. ::loves his paper cut-outs::)
- Oskar Kokoschka (Self-Portrait, Bride of the Wind)
::skips Kandinsky::
- Pablo Picasso (duh. Abstraction is good. Cubism is good.)
- Kazimir Malevich (Black Quadrilateral, White on White. suprematism. and I get them!)
::doesn't get Chagall::
- Marcell Duchamp (Nude Descending a Staircase No.2. "caused a scandal because it went against all traditional notions of what a nude should look like" hee.)
- George Bellows (ash can school. Stag at Sharkey's. boxers.)
- Charles Demuth (I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold. spiffiness that got its own LJ entry)
- Joseph Stella (Brooklyn Bridge. I finally get it, now that I've seen pictures of the actual Brooklyn Bridge... counterpart to Hart Crane's "To Brooklyn Bridge")
- Piet Mondrian (aka "cymk squares guy". Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow)
- Salvador Dali (duh)
- Rene Magritte (Les Promenades d'Euclid. painting within a painting!)
- Arthur G. Dove (Foghorns)
- I used to not get Georgia O'Keeffe, but now that I do, I don't like her anymore.
- Edward Hopper (Early Sunday Morning)
- Jackson Polluck (wee! action painting! Autumn Rhythm: Number 30)
- Lee Krasner (Celebration)
- Mark Rothko (Orange and Yellow. blurred color fields)
- Don Eddy (New Shoes for H. photorealism)
- Audrey Flack (Queen. this is disturbing... 2 photos of diff perspective superimposed and painted as 1)
- Kay WalkingStick (On the Edge. at first I thought they were 2 separate pictures, but in fact, they are one! o.O)

Twentieth-Century Sculpture
- Constantin Brancusi (The Kiss, the Newborn, Bird in Space)
- Alberto Giacometti (The Palace at 4 am)
- Julio Gonzalez (Head)
- Alexander Calder. (duh)
- Henry Moore (Recombent Figure)
- Joel Shapiro (Untitled)
- Claes Oldenburg (Ice Bag -- Scale B. heehee... it's Jabba! no! it's an ICE BAG!!)
- Barnett Newman (Broken Obelisk. whoa....)
- Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty)
- Edward and Nancy Kienholz (The State Hospital)
- Joseph Kosuth (One and Three Chairs. a real chair, a photo, and a dictionary definition)

Twentieth-Century Architecture
- Frank Lloyd Wright (duh)
- Gerrit Rietveld (Schröder House. eee! It's Mondrian in architecture! ::spasm::)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German Pavilion)
- Le Corbusier (Savoye House (box on stilts), Notre-Dame-du-Haut. curvy and slanted... like a cupcake!)
- Eero Saarinen (Trans World Airlines Terminal, JFKennedy Airport. look! I can fly!)
- Pier Luigi Nervi and Annibale Vitellozzi (Sports Palace, Rome. So frilly.)
- Richard Meier (The Atheneum)

Twentieth-Century Photography
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (Mexico)
- Robert Doisneau (Side Glance)
- Edward Weston (Pepper)
- Ansel Adams. (duh. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico)
- Edward Steichen (Greta Garbo)
- Josef Sudek (View from Studio Window in Winter)
- Herbert Bayer (lonely metropolitan)
- Berenice Abbott (Transformation of Energy. the *other* spiffiest motion pic ever. ::pendulum::)
- Robert Frank (Santa Fe, New Mexico. it's the attack of the gas pumps!)
- David Hockney (Gregory Watching the Snow Fall, Kyoto)

Postmodernism
Architecture/Sculpture
- Behnisch & Partner (Hysolar Research Institute)
- Bernard Tschumi Architects (Parc de La Villette)
- Nam Jun Paik (TV Buddha)
- Ilya Kabakov (Ten Characters)
- Mildred Howard (Tap: Investigation of Memory)
Painting/Photo
- Mark Tansey (Derrida Queries De Man. the cliffs are made of words!)
- Annette Lemieux (Truth)



That's all, folks! (namely, me)

This edition is from 1991. That's 10 years ago...

only 4 hours before we head for airport! And still have to review calc. >_