20 art works that every art 1 student should know

20 Art Works that every

Art 1 student should know.

Egyptian

King Tut’s Death Mask, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1323 BCE Cairo, EgyptGold, semi preciousstones, glass

Ancient Greek Architecture The Parthenon, Acropolis,

Athens, Greece. 447-432 BCE

Roman Architecture, the Colosseum, Rome, Italy, 70-80 AD

Anglo Saxon, Sutton Hoo Purse Lid, Great Britain, circa 625 AD, British Museum, London, England  

Gothic Architecture, Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France 1163- 1345 AD, Paris, France

Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Le Musee de Louvre,Paris, France 1503-1507

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel’s ceiling and altar wall frescoes (1508-1541), Rome, Italy

Matthias Grünewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515) Cologne, France

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson,(1632) The Hague, Netherlands

John Singleton Copley, Brook Watson and the Shark, (1778) The National Gallery, Washington, DC

Original version of an 1849 shark attack on 14 year old Watson in Havana Harbor, Cuba. He survived.

Third version much smaller than original and more with gruesome details.

Impressionnism paintings, Claude Monet,

• 1905 Le Musee de l’organerie,Paris France

1886

Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889) Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

Munch, The Scream (1893), National Gallery, Oslo, Norway

Klimt, Gustav, The Kiss (1909) The Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, (1931) Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

 Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937), Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid. Spain

Jackson Pollock, Convergence (1952) Albright/Knox ART Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

Chuck Close, Mark, photo realism (1979Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

Maggie Taylor, The girl in the Bee Dress, computer collage, A Gallery, New Orleans, LA