VISUAL ART
AND
REPRESENTATION

  Look up other paintings by any painter who interests you in
   the web museums.   Links are listed at the bottom of this page.

(F) = French

Non-perspective vs. perspective (Commentary)
  1. Bayeux Tapestry (1092) (F)
  2. Da Vinci, "Last Supper" (1494-97)

  Ideal Real (Commentary: Classical Sculpture;  French Classical
  Painting, Neoclassical painting)
  3. Greek Statue, "Discobolos" (5th C. B.C.)
  4. Poussin, "Orpheus and Eurydice" (1650-51) (F)
  5. David, "Mme Récamier" (1800) (F)

  Realism (click for more realist paintings)
  Realist vs. Non-Realist Attributes
  6. Courbet, "The Ladies of the Village Giving Alms" (19th C.) (F)
  7. Corot, "Interrupted Reading" (19th C.) (F)
  7a. Corot, "Bridge on the Saône River at Maôcon"
  8. Rodin, "La Belle Heaulmière," ("The Old Courtesan") (1885) (F)
  8a. Brazilian woman (photograph)

Oriental Art                                                                                                                                                         
9. Kuo Hsi , "Early Spring," Hanging Scroll  (1000-1090)  

 
   Self-Aware Art (Commentary)
    10. Velasquez, "Las Meninas" (1656)
    11.  Daguerrotype

  
   Creating the Subjective by deforming the Real (Commentary)
   19. Courbet, "The Stormy Sea" (1869) (F)
   20. Manet, "A Bar at the Folies Bergères" (1881-82) (F)
   21. Hopper, "House by the Railroad," (1925)
   22. Modigliani, "La Belle Romaine" (19th C)
   23. Delacroix, "The Death of Sardanapale" (1827) (F)
   23.b. Delacroix, "Liberty Guiding the People" (1830) (F)
   24. Munch, "The Scream" (1893)
   25. Dali, "The Persistence of Memory" (1931)
   26. Picasso, "Guernica" (20th C)

  Questioning Realistic Representation (Commentary)
   11. Courbet, "The Stormy Sea" (19th C) (F)
   12. Cezanne, "Bibemus Quarry" (19th C) (F)
   13. Seurat, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande      Jatte" (19th C) (F)
   14. Escher, "Bond of Union" (20th C)
   15. Escher, "Writing Hands" (20th C)
   16. Escher, "Waterfall" (20th C)
   17. Escher, "Ascending and Descending" (20th C)
   18. Escher, "Relativity" (20th C)
   19. Magritte, "La Condition humaine" (20th C) (F)

Constructing the Real (Abstract,
Non-Representational Art) (Commentary)
27. Mondrian, "Composition in Red, Yellow, and Black"
(20th C)
28. Klee, "Insula" (20th C)

  Art as cultural expression/commentary (commentary)
   29. Goya, "Que Sacrificio," ("What a sacrifice") (19th C)
   30. Goya, "A caza des dientes," ("Out Hunting for Teeth")
   31. Goya, "Que se la llevaron," ("They carried her off")
   32. Goya, "No hubo remedio," ("There could be done about it")
   33. Manet, "Olympia" (19th C) (F)
   34. Picasso, "Guernica" (20th C)
   35. Rivera, "Detroit Industry, South Wall" (1932-33)
   36. Lichtenstein, "In the Car" (20th C)

Outline of a course, "Representation"

General Links:
1. Mark Hardin's Art Museum
2. Goya, "Caprichos" (a selection of his etchings)
3. Etretat Museum
4. World of Escher
5. Web Museum
6. Artcyclopedia