Inside KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Art History
Art in the Old Stone Age
Lascaux, France. Altimira, Spain. Cave painting.
Stonehenge.
“Primitive art.”
Egypt burial chambers,forerunners of the pyramids. Mestabas.
Pyramid of Zoser, Imhotep.
Fourth Dynastypyramids at Giza.
The Great Sphinx.
Sumerians, Ziggurats.
The Tower of Babel, Nebuchadnezzar.
The Greeks
The Geometric.
Greek “Archaic” style, vase painters. Black-figure scenes. Red.
Foreshortening.
The Classical Period, Alexander the Great.
“Architectural order” Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian.
The entablature. The capital. Frieze.
The Parthenon.
Athena Nike.
Kouros.
Post-Classical style, Hellenistic.
The Nike of Samothrace.
The Romans
The Etruscans.
The true arch.
The Colosseum, built around 80 A.D.
The Pantheon.
Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii.
Fresco.
Middle Ages
Parchment paper. Vellum.
Codex.
Hagia Sophia.
Basilica, Charlemagne’s capital of Aachen, nave, transept.
The apse.
Round-arched, solid, heavy architecture, Romanesque.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Flying buttresses, Notre Dame.
Florence, Italy, Palazzo Vecchio.
230-feet strip of cloth, William the Conqueror’s Battle of Hastings. The Bayeaux Tapestry.
The Renaissance
Petrarch, humanists, “rebirth” of the intellect, “Renaissance.”
Florence.
Donatello.
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Baptistery doors. Scientific perspective.
Sandro Botticelli,The Birth of Venus, Lorenzo the Magnificent, The Medici.
The “late Gothic.” Flanders.
Master of Flémalle, Impasto.
Jan van Eyck. Atmospheric perspective.
The Garden of Delights. Hieronymous Bosch.
Development of printing, Germany.
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Bramante. The High Renaissance.
“Renaissance Man,” Leonardo da Vinci.
Chiaroscuro.
Leonardo’s The Last Supper, Milan. The Mona Lisa.
Michelangelo’s David, Palazzo Vecchio. Pope Julius II. The Sistine Chapel. The Creation of Adam. The Last Judgement.
Donato Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo, St. Peter’s Basilica.
Bellinis, Assumption of the Virgin, Rape of Europa, Sacred and Profane Love, and Christ Crowned With Thorns, Titian.
Tintoretto and El Greco. Mannerism.
Giovanni Bologna.
Albrecht Dürer.
Peter Bruegel the Elder.
Court painter of Henry VIII, Hans Holbein the Younger.
The Baroque
Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (creator of Peasant Dance)
Anthony van Dyck.
Diego Velasquez.
The Dutch masters. Franz Hals, The Jolly Toper. Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, The Polish Rider, and
The Night Watch.
Nicholas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabine Women.
Louis XIV’s Louvre.The Palace of Versailles.
Enigo Jones.
Rococo
Antoine Watteau.
Jean Honoré Fragonard.
Great Fire, St. Paul’s, Sir Christopher Wren.
The Rake’s Progress. William Hogarth.
Thomas Gainesborough, Mrs. Siddons and Blue Boy.
Discourses. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Art in the Modern World
Neoclassicism, revival of Greek style. Karl Langhans. The Brandenburg Gate.
The Death of Socrates and The Death of Marat. Jacques Louis David.
Benjamin West.
Romanticism.
Neo-Baroque, such as the design of the Paris Opera House.
Francisco Goya.
Honoré Daumier.
Francois Millet, The Barbizon School.
John Constable.
Camille Corot.
Realism and Impressionism
Gustave Courbet, “I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one. Realism.
Edouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass.
Edgar Degas.
Auguste Renoir.
“Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”.
The Impressionists.
Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro.
Berthe Morisot.
Mary Cassatt.
Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist’s Mother.
The Thinker, Auguste Rodin.
The Ash-Can School.
The Revolt Against Realism— Post-Impressionism and The Fauves
Expressionism.
Paul Cézanne.
Tahiti, Paul Gauguin, Symbolist.
Henri Rousseau.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He painted At the Moulin Rouge in 1892.
Edvard Munch.
Post-Impressionists. Aristide Maillol, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, and Ernest Barlach.
Edward Hicks.
Grandma Moses.
Georges Seurat.
Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Georges Braque, and Raoul Dufy. “Cage aux fauves”— the cage of the wild beasts. The Fauves.
Pablo Picasso.
Fernand Léger.
Georges Rouault.
Other Schools and Styles
The Bridge.
Oskar Kokoschka.
Max Beckmann.
Marc Chagall.
Wassily Kandinsky.
Piet Mondrian, De Stijl.
Paul Klee.
“Dada,” French for “hobby horse,” Marcel Duchamp.
T Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró (Dog Barking at the Moon, 1926), Surrealism.
Alfred Stieglitz.
José Clemente Orozco.
Arshile Gorky.
IAction Painter Jackson Pollock (dubbed “Jack the Dripper”).
Lee Krasner.
William de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Mark Rothko.
Victor Vasarely, Josef Albers, and Richard Anuszkiewicz, Op Art.
Pop Art, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein.
Photo Realism, Audrey Flack, Don Eddy.
Modern Architecture
“Form follows function.” Louis Sullivan.
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Walter Gropius, “International Style of the 1920s.” The Bauhaus.
Charles Édouard Le Corbusier.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Frederick Law.
Eero Saarinen.
A I. M. Pei.
Arch. Gargoyles. A dome. A minaret. Romanesque. Doric.
The Taj Mahal.
The U.S. Capitol.
Zaha Hadid.
Maya Lin.
Photography: Art through Technology
Joseph Niepce, Louis Daguerre.
William Henry Fox Talbot.
Nadar (real name Gaspard Tournachon).
Alexander Gardner, Matthew Brady.
Oscar Rejlander.
Alfred Stieglitz.
Edward Steichen.
Eadweard Muybridge. Motion photography.
Louis Lumiére.
Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Edward Weston.
Margaret Bourke-White.
Dorothea Lange.
Man Ray.
David Hockney.
Artists in Books and Movies
Andy Warhol.
Vincent Van Gogh.
Michelangelo.
Paul Gauguin.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
A Question of Technique
Primary colors of pigmentation, of light.
Watercolor.
Pastels.
Tessarae.
Worcester, Spode, or Wedgewood.
Dresden.
Delft.
Majolica pottery.
Papier-mâché.
Pre-Columbian.
Kinetic art.
Sfumato.
Chiaroscuro.
Artists and Their Works
Gilbert Stuart’s most famous portrait subject.
Frederick Remington.
Wyeth - N.C., Andrew, Jamie. “Helga” paintings.
John Singer Sargent.
John James Audubon.
Jacques-Louis David.
Georgia O’Keefe.
Number One, Lavender Mist, and Autumn Rhythm, “Jack the Dripper.”
Andy Warhol.
Norman Rockwell.
Rockwell Kent, Art deco.
American Gothic, Grant Wood.
David Hockney.
Archibald MacNeal Willard.
Mary Cassatt.
Winslow Homer.
John Constable.
James Whistler.
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Nighthawks, Edward Hopper.
Amedeo Modigliani.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Adoration of the Magi.
Michelangelo.
Francesco Guardi.
Goya.
Vincent van Gogh.
Pablo Picasso.
Paloma Picasso.
Georges Braque.
Salvador Dali.
Diego Rivera.
Edvard Munch.
Swiss painter, Paul Klee.
“Soft” sculpture, Claes Oldenberg.
Albert Namatjira, Australian aborigine.
Art Nouveau. Aubrey Beardsley.
Romain de Tirtoff , Arty.
Manet.
Claude Monet.
Pointillist technique, Seurat.
Marc Chagall.
Degas.
Sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcell Duchamp.
Henri Rousseau.
Domenico Theotokopoulos, El Greco.
Tintoretto
Hans Holbein the Younger.
Hieronymous Bosch.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Rococo, Jean-Honoré Fraginard, Frago.
Rembrandt.
Museums and Galleries
El Prado, Madrid.
Tate Gallery.
Galleria Dellaccademia.
Pitti Palace.
Doge’s Palace.
The Uffizi.
The Louvre.
Richelieu wing of the Louvre.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale.
Butler Institute of American Art.
The Cadillac Ranch.
J. Paul Getty.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Freer Gallery.
Victoria and Albert
Museum of Modern Art
Imperial Palace Museum
Sumo Museum
Napoleonic Museum
Red Cross Museum
Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum
The Smithsonian, National Gallery of Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Museum Island.
The National Gallery of Canada.
The Norsk Folk Museum.
The Whitney Museum of American Art.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
The Hermitage.
St. Peter’s Basilica.
Sculptors
Donatello.
Lord Elgin, the Elgin Marbles, The Parthenon.
The Venus de Milo.
The Quadriga of Victory, Brandenburg Gate. Chariot. Johann Gottfried Schadow.
Auguste Rodin.
Daniel Chester French.
Frederick Remington.
James Earle Fraser.
Henry Moore.
George Segal.
Constantin Brancusi.
Julio Gonzales.
Alexander Calder.
“Primary structures,” Mathias Goeritz.
David Smith.
Robert Smithson.
Claes Oldenberg.
Gutzon Borglum
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Colossus of Rhodes.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
The Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) in Egypt.
The Hanging Gardens.
The Temple of Artemis (the Artemision) at Ephesis.
The Statue of Zeus.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria.