AP Art History Meanings of Art Study Guide

Beauty
Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci)
His students painted and he put the final touches
Lisa la Gioconda—his neighbor’s wife
Not attractive, shy
Da Vinci hires a six piece orchestra to play for her—she started opening up
Mona Lisa is a composite of 6-7 women
Had an affair with da Vinci

Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci)
She is nude
Owned by the French King
Leo flees there
He dies in France
The perfect Italian Ren. Woman
Leo put his self portrait in Lisa

Mary Magdalene (Donatello)
Beautiful white girl until this sculpture
Italian Ren. Artist
Jesus washes his feet and dries them with her hair
Not called a disciple
The last person to see Jesus
Maybe married to him
Women left out of the Bible (meeting in Nicen)
Mary Magdalene a prostitute?
Looks like a street person with no hope
Ugliest sculpture but most beautiful
Captures a loss
May have gone to France to have a baby
Truth
Stag at Sharkey’s (George Bellows)
Girls don’t go boxing
There’s a woman in the painting—a stag

The Raft of Medusa (Gericault)
A French ship
The captain gathers the crew in the Atlantic—sinking
Build two rafts
Crew dies—one raft left
Results in cannibalism
Crew welcomed back
A crew member tells and all of them go to jail
Gericault was obsessed-accurate
Elevation of the commonplace
Pedestrians (George Segal)
Made out of plaster
Plastered ordinary people
Ron Boozer
Plastered piece by piece

Three Flags (Jasper Johns)
Most famous modern artist in the world
From Allendale SC
1959
Pop-Art—about everyday things turned into art
Made of wood with encaustic wax on it—slick and shiny
People got upset because they felt it was a protest against Vietnam
Became Pandora’s Box

Coca Cola Bottles (Andy Warhol)

Expressing Something Universal
Country School (Winslow Homer)
One room school
Mr. G’s American Hero
Realism

Twilight in the Wilderness (Frederick E. Church)
Dirt particles determine how beautiful
Meaning as beauty as well

Bar at Folies Bergere (Eduard Manet)
G’s favorite painting
Reflection
In Paris
Beginning of impressionism
Man flirting with the woman

June 3, 1962
Plane crash Atlanta to Paris

The Shades (Rodin)
French gave to Atlanta
Reflection of the Social and Cultural context
The Third Class Carriage (Honore Daumier)
People in a crowded train
Two ladies and a boy that should be in the third class carriage
Rosa Parks—bus black people
Started the Civil Rights Movement
High Museum in Atlanta

Steerage (Alfred Steiglitz)
The immigration boat
People on the Titanic coming to the USA
Ellis island
Men and women divided and tested
One of the greatest American photographers
Georgia O’Keeffe –art teacher from Columbia SC
Works for Stieglitz and marries him
The first family of American Art
Immortalization
Napoleon in His Study (Jacques Louis David)
Very short
The Napoleon pose

George Washington (Gilbert Stuart)
The father of America
Offered to be king
Stuart is the most popular portrait painter in America
Not finished because the image we on the $1
George had teeth problems
Mouth painted 30 times
George could not get through the painting

Talladega Amistad Murals (Hale Woodruff)
One of the first black artist
Charleston
Slaves stood trial for mutiny
Slaves won their freedom

The Washington Monument (Robert Mills)
The stone changes because they ran out of money
Robert Mills from SC

Christina’s World (Andrew Wyeth)
American artist
Collection in G-ville
The most famous realistic artist in the world
Lived in Penn and have a summer house in Maine
Saw Christina from his summer house
Christina Olsen
Art as Beauty
Andy keeps going to her every day for weeks—very beautiful but paralyzed from the waist down
She and her brother Alvaro live on the farm
Face marked from polio
Order and Harmony
Sunday Afternoon (George Seurat)
Girlfriend Dorothy
Loves science
Paints with dots (atoms)
Post-impressionist
Prism light—makes own paint

The Bathers (Paul Cezanne)
Post-impressionist
Dark outlines around everything
Geometric shapes
Product of the Hand, the Mind, and the Heart
The Pieta (Michelangelo Buonnaroti)
G’s world hero and idol
Italian
Top3: Sistine Chapel, the David, the Pieta
Jesus as a grown up man
8ft tall wide 6ft deep marble
St. Peters Vatican City
Michelangelo was 24
Dissected bodies illegally
Did everything in secret because of da Vinci
Did it for the Medici family
Jullius II orders the Pieta to Rome
Michelangelo goes to Rome but people think the Pieta is da vinci’s
The only time Michelangelo has signed his work
Mary’s hands exaggerated
Michelangelo immortalized

The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)
Painting for a church in Milan
Students finish it and mix oil and water paint
Paint started dripping
A door cut through the painting
French army through Milan
Horses in the dining room—poop
The Allies bombed Milan—only wall left standing
Fresco-a giant wall painting of wet plaster
Jesus tells his 12 disciples that one is betraying him
90 degree angle between Judas and Jesus
One of the men looks like a woman
Da Vinci couldn’t find a model for Judas
A guy condemned to death in prison—same person who modeled for Jesus

The Last Supper (Salvador Dali)
Modern version of the painting
Intellectual Stimulation
Galloping Horse (Edward Muybridge)
Photographer in the late 1800’s
A drunk comes into the bar
Bets Muybridge $50
The horse gets completely of the ground
The father of the motion picture

The Parthenon (Ictinus and Callicrates)
Phi=1.618
Derived from the Fibonacci sequence
Building block of nature
The divine proportion
Phi given to us by the gods
The Vetruvian man—body proportions are phi

Woman II (Willem Dekooning)
A German artist escaped WWII
Hitler was an artist dropout
Black Mountain College—most famous abstract art school
Expressionism-you can recognize something
Abstract expressionism-you can’t recognize anything
Painted what music made him feel

Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (Salvador Dali)
Voltaire hidden
White Europeans and slaves
Two paintings in one

Modular Art
High Museum
The use of the same element or object over and over