European Art

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Italian philosopher of the Renaissance

Writer of the Oration on the Dignity of Man 

The manifesto of the Italian Renaissance and thus humanism, placing all things with the human at its center

"Man is the measure of all things"

Albrecht Durer: Self-Portrait at 28 1500 AD

"Greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance"

Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow by Piet Mondrian

Early Abstract Art

A bit of a tangent from usual posts

During WWI and WWII boats used this pattern known as "razzle dazzle" to hide in what direction they were moving.

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Boccioni

Houses at L'estaque by Braque

Founder of Cubism along with Picasso

Example of Analytical Cubism- Geometrical forms using subdued colors

NOT abstract art (because of recognizable form and structure) 

Woman with a Hat by Henri Matisse

Fauvism- Art of the "wild beasts"

Christ's Entry in Brussels in 1889 by James Ensor

Bedroom in Arles by Van Gogh

Tahitian Women on a Beach by Gauguin

Post-Impressionism:

To break from Greco-Roman/Renaissance tradition, this early form of modern art turned to Africa, Asia (primarily Japan), Oceania, and anything they considered Primitive, in both subject form and execution such as the flatness

The Circus Sideshow by Seurat

Post-Impressionism

Allegory for Modern Society on Trial

Still Life with Apples by Cezanne, the father of modern art

Pictured are:

The Destruction of forms and point of view

The flattening out of all planes, where past and present occur simultaneously (Shouldn't the apples be falling, and I'm pretty sure that fabric could not realistically stay like that with the other objects)

A sort of Binocular Vision, where the left and right eye do not record identical visual representations, so the brain  creates art usually produced through a single lens and not two

The Racetrack by Degas, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Example of Impressionism, where:   1. With greater scientific knowledge: synthetic paints were made to allow painters to paint outside

"The Stone Breakers" by Courbet is an example of Realism, especially in its tents of social justice since it was shown at the Paris Commune.

Pictured instead of lavish kings are real workers, and a concentration on the colors inherent in the working class- dull greys and browns.