Art V01 Midterm Images Part II

Colossal Head of Constantine (Roman, Late Empire, c. early 4th Century CE)

~ First Roman emperor to accept Christianity

Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, (526-547CE) Byzantine

Justinian and Attendants (c.547) Byzantine. Mosaic

~ gold/jewels equate to heaven

France, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France (Begun 1134 CE, rebuilt after 1194 CE) Gothic

Cindy Sherman, Untitled # 138 (1984).

~ feminism

Michelangelo, The Crossed-Legged Captive (1530-34)

Picasso, Bull’s Head (1943) Bronze cast of bicycle parts.

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt lake, Utah (1970)

~ transitory

Maya Lin (American, 1959-), Vietnam Memorial, Washington (1982)

• ~ transitory
• ~ minimalizism

Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, Saint Louis (1890)

~ first modern skyscraper

• Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House (“Fallingwater”), Bear Run, PA
• (1936)

Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach (1988) Acrylic, quilt, canvas.

~ harlem

Venus of Willendorf (Upper Paleolithic c. 25,000BCE)

• ~ fertility
• ~ identity - hairstyle
• ~ procreation

Egypt, Narmer Palette (Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.3200 BCE).

• ~ cosmetics
• ~ soldiers
• ~ farming
• ~ domestication animals

Egypt, Great Pyramids, Giza. (Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.2570-2500 BCE).

The Three Goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon (c.438-431 BCE) Classical

Pantheon, Rome (Early Empire, 117-125CE)

• ~ temple to the gods
• ~ high renaissance artist buried