Saturday, May 21, 2011

Class 9: Western Art: A Very Short Story

Cycladic Woman, ca 2700 BC

Ludovisi Gaul, 220 BC

Four Tetrarchs, 304 AD

Lindesfarne Gospels, 721


Vezelay Cathedral Tympanum, 1104

St. Chappelle, 1248

Cimabue, Madonna Enhroned with Angels and Prophets, 1280-90

Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Joachim and the Shepherds, 1305

Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, St Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow, 1426
Raphael, Pope Julius II, 1512


Caravaggio, The Calling of St Matthew, 1599-1600

Jan Van Eyck, Virgin of the Chancellor Rolin, 1434

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Corn Harvest, 1565

Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, 1610-11

Rembrandt, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1669

Vermeer, The Milkmaid, 1658

Velasquez, Waterseller of Seville, 1623

Poussin, Burial of Phocion, 1648

Fragonard, The Swing, 1767

David, The Death of Marat, 1793

Ingres, The Sphinx, 1808-25

Turner, Slave Ship, 1840

Monet, Gare St Lazare, 1877

Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81

VanGogh, Starry Night, 1889
Gauguin, Nevermore, 1897

Cezanne, The Card Players, 1895



Picasso, Three Musicians, 1921

Mondrian, Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow, 1937


Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1950

Anselm Kiefer, Icarus: Sand of the Brandenberg March, 1981

Brancusi, Sleeping Muse, 1910

Marion Perkins, Man of Sorrows, 1950


Tony Oursler, Man SheShe, 1997
Robert Longo, Black Palms, 1983

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Class 8: Ecstasy

Mantegna, Camera Picta, Mantua, 1465-74
Tiepolo, Apollo and the Four Continents, Africa
Tiepolo, Apollo and the Four Continents, Africa
Roman Sarcophagus, Indian Procession of Bacchus, Imperial Period

Roman Sarcophagus, Bacchic Procession, Imperial Period

Titian, Bacchanale of the Andrians, 1523

Poussin, Bacchanalian Revel, 1633

Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre, 1905

Matisse, La Danse, 1910-11

Picasso, The Dance, 1925

Paionios, Nike, 421 BC

Nike of Samothrace, 190 BC

Raphael, Vision of Ezekiel, 1518

Michelangelo, Dream of Human  Life, 1533

Michelangelo, 1520-25

Tiepolo, Apollo and the Four Continents, Wurzburg Palace, 1751

Apollo and the Four Continents

Apollo and the Four Continents, Asia

Apollo and the Four Continents, Americas

Apollo and the Four Continents, Asia

Wurzburg Palace, Staircase

Bernini, St Teresa in Ecstasy, 1647-52

St Teresa in Ecstasy

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St Teresa in Ecstasy

James Turrell, Skyspace, Henry Gallery, Seattle

Isamu Noguchi, Black Sun, Volunteer Park, Seattle

Fresco, Boscotrecase, Rome, late 1st c BC

Matisse, Red Studio, 1911

Rothko, Red Brown Black, 1958

James Turrell, Frontal Passage, contemporary

Persues and Andromeda, Boscotrecase, late 1st c BC

Monet, Imnpression: Sunrise, 1883

Monet, Water Lilies, 1920

Howard Hodgkin, Deja Vue, Deja Bleu, 2004

James Turrell, Spread, Contemporary