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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (1942)
~ bombing of pearl harbor
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Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)
- ~ self portrait of artist during romanticism
- ~ trojan woman / liberty
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Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper (1968) Color Linocut
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Vincent Van Gogh, The Night Café (1888)
- ~ post impressionism, epilepsy, committed suicide in 1890
- ~ impasto
- ~ expressionism
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Polykleitos, Doryphoros (c. 450-440 BCE)
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Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss (c. 1912)
~ medium: limestone
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Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930)
- ~ regionalism
- ~picture of artist's sister; dentist
- ~Mid-West
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Jan Van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride (1434)
- ~first artist to use oil paint
- ~worldly domestic
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Michelangelo, Studies for The Libyan Sybil, 1510-11
~ muse
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Edgar Degas, Woman at Her Toilette (1903)
~ Japanese wood-cutting
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Giotto, Lamentation (c. 1305) Fresco (In the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua)
~ brought in the naturalism in his work
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Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (1796)
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Hiroshige, Rain Shower at Ohashi Bridge (1857)
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Rembrandt, Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves (1653)
~ Protestant
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Käthe Kollwitz, The Mothers, (1919)
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (1936) Gelatin-silver print.
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled # 138 (1984).
~ feminism
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Michelangelo, The Crossed-Legged Captive (1530-34)
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Picasso, Bull’s Head (1943) Bronze cast of bicycle parts.
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt lake, Utah (1970)
~ transitory
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Maya Lin (American, 1959-), Vietnam Memorial, Washington (1982)
- ~ transitory
- ~ minimalizism
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Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, Saint Louis (1890)
~ first modern skyscraper
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House (“Fallingwater”), Bear Run, PA (1936)
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Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach (1988) Acrylic, quilt, canvas.
~ harlem
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Venus of Willendorf (Upper Paleolithic c. 25,000BCE)
- ~ fertility
- ~ identity - hairstyle
- ~ procreation
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left (back); right (front)
Egypt, Narmer Palette (Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.3200 BCE).
- ~ cosmetics
- ~ soldiers
- ~ farming
- ~ domestication animals
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Egypt, Great Pyramids, Giza. (Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.2570-2500 BCE).
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The Three Goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon (c.438-431 BCE) Classical
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Pantheon, Rome (Early Empire, 117-125CE)
- ~ temple to the gods
- ~ high renaissance artist buried
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