Choose a Time Period and one painting* in that time period from the list below for the MONOTYPE PROJECT. You must work with the entire composition NOT a detail. Print out a good quality color copy of this painting (size: 8x10) to bring to class.
GROUP 1:
FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Jan Van Eyck 1395 painting: Arnolfini Wedding (1434)
Fra Angelico (1387-1455) paintings: Annunciation, or Decapitation of Saint Cosmos and Damian
FIFTEENTH - SIXTEENTH CENTURY (Italian Renaissance)
Sandro Botticelli 1445 paintings: La Primavera or The Birth of Venus
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 paintings: Annunciation or The Virgin of the Rocks
Raphael 1483 painting: St George Fighting the Dragon
GROUP 2:
SIXTEENTH - SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Caravaggio 1573 paintings: Crucifixtion of Peter or Calling of St Matthew , Judith Beheading Holofernes, Entombment of Christ, The Incredulity of St Thomas
Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) paitings: Las Meninas, Vieja Fiendo Huevos, The Concert,
Jan Vermeer 1632 paintings: Milkmaid, The Music Lesson, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, Young Woman with Water Pitcher
GROUP 3:
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE (up to the French Revolution)
Francisco de Goya 1746 paintings: The Third of May, The Family of Charles IV,
Jacques-Louis David 1748 paintings: Oath of Horatii, Death of Socrates, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons,
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780, painting: La Grande Odalisque,
NINETEENTH CENTURY FRANCE
Theodore Gericault 1791 painting: The Raft of the Medusa,
Jean-Francois Millet 1814 painting: The Gleaners,
Gustave Courbet 1819, A Burial at Ornans, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
Edouard Manet 1832, paintings: The Luncheon on the Grass, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Dead Matador, The Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (for this painting see also MOMA exhibit and this review.
Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) painting: Family Reunion, Studio in the rue de Furstenberg
Georges Seurat 1859 paintings: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Bathers at Asnières, The Models
GROUP 4:
NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA
Winslow Homer 1836 painting: Snap the Whip
Mary Cassatt, paintings: Cup of Tea, The Bath
John Singer Sargent, painting: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Thomas Eakins, paintings: The Swimming Hole, The biglin brothers turning the stake-boat, The Biglin Brothers Racing
Henry Osawa Tanner, paintings: The Banjo Lesson, The Annunciation
Edward Hopper 1882, paintings: Nighthawks, Chop Suey
* For this project I have chosen painters from Western Art History working in the figurative tradition as sources to be abstracted