nzqa scholarship art history slideshow (quotes)

Art History Slides

Adoration of the Magi - Botticelli - 1475

Primavera - Botticelli - 1482

Birth of Venus - Botticelli - 1486

Ginevra de’Benci - Leonardo Da Vinci - 1476

Virgin of the Rocks - Leonardo Da Vinci - c1483 - Louvre

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” – Da Vinci

Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci - 1495

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” – Da Vinci

Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci - 1503-05

“A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.” – Da Vinci

Virgin and Child with St.Anne - Leonardo Da Vinci - 1510

Battle of the Centaurs - Michelangelo - c1492

“forza di levare”- Michelangelo (force of taking away)

Pieta - Michelangelo - 1499

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” - Michelangelo

David - Michelangelo - 1501-04

Doni Tondo - Michelangelo - 1503

“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.” - Michelangelo

Creation of Adam (Detail from Sistine Ceiling) - Michelangelo - 1508-12

The Last Judgement - Michelangelo - 1534-41 (Biagio de Cesena)

Marriage of the Virgin - Raphael - 1504

Agnolo/Maddalena Doni - Raphael - 1506

School of Athens - Raphael - 1510

Fire In The Borgo - Raphael/Giulio Romano - 1514

Baldassare Castiglione - Raphael - 1515

Leo X with two Cardinals - Raphael - 1518

The Transfiguration - Raphael - 1519

St. Marks Body Brought To Venice - Tintoretto - 1548

The Last Supper - Tintoretto - 1594

Deposition from the Cross/Entombment - Pontormo - c1525

Starry Night Over The Rhone - Van Gogh - 1888

Vision After The Sermon - Gauguin - 1888

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? - Gauguin - 1897

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Seurat - 1884

The Papal Palace, Avignon - Signac - 1900

Luxe, Calme et Volupte - Matisse - 1904

“I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.” – Henri Matisse

The Open Window - Matisse - 1905

“Whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions. All artists bear the imprint of their time, but the great artists are those in whom this is most profoundly marked.” – Henri Matisse

The Joy of Life - Matisse - 1905-06

“The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.” – Henri Matisse

Harmony In Red - Matisse - 1908

“I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation” – Henri Matisse

The Red Studio - Matisse - 1911

“But the thought of a painter must not be considered as separate from his pictorial means” – Henri Matisse

Mountains at Collioure - Derain - 1905

“I use colour as a means of expressing my emotion and not as a transcription of nature” – Derain

Charing Cross Bridge - Derain - 1906

“The visible world is a great deal less interesting than the world re-imagined through colour” - Derain

The Turning Road - Derain - 1906

Restaurant de la Machine a Bougival - Vlaminck - 1905

“What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.” - Vlaminck

The River Siene At Chatou- Vlaminck - 1906

Street, Dresden - Kirchner - 1908

“We want to wrest from the comfortably established older generation freedom to live and move. Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.” – Ernst Kirchner (Die Brucke Manifesto)

Naked Playing People - Kirchner - 1910

“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.” – Ernst Kirchner

Nollendorf Platz - Kirchner - 1912

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” – Ernst Kirchner

Potsdamer Platz - Kirchner - 1914

“My paintings are allegories not portraits” – Ernst Kirchner

Brandenburger Tor - Kirchner - 1915

Weisses Haus In Dangast - Heckel - 1908

Portrait of a Man - Heckel - 1919

Two Women - Schmidt-Rottluff - 1912

Sonnenuntergang / Strombrücke in Leba - Pechstein - 1921

The Blue Rider - Kandinsky - 1903

“Are these human figures an absolute necessity to the composition, or should they be replaced by other forms, and that without affecting the fundamental harmony” – Wassily Kandinsky

The Blue Mountain - Kandinsky - 1908

“There is no ‘must’ in art, because art is free” – Wassily Kandinsky

Untitled (First Abstract Watercolour) - Kandinsky - 1910

“The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.” – Wassily Kandinsky

Lyrical - Kandinsky - 1911

"Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically."– Wassily Kandinsky

All Saints - Kandinsky - 1911

“The problem of harmonizing the appeal of the material and the non-material” – Wassily Kandinsky

Composition VI - Kandinsky - 1913

“The more frightening the world becomes ... the more art becomes abstract." – Wassily Kandinsky

Composition VIII - Kandinsky - 1923

"Each period of a civilization creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works." – Wassily Kandinsky

The Wolves/Balkan War - Marc - 1913

“Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.” – Franz Marc

The Fate of The Animals - Marc - 1913

“Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.” – Franz Marc

Fighting Forms - Marc - 1914

“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.” – Franz Marc

Meditation - Münter - 1917

The City - Grosz - 1916

Night - Beckmann - 1919

Survivors - Kollwitz - 1923

On A Motif From Hamamet - Klee - 1914

“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.” – Paul Klee

Ad Parnassum - Klee - 1932

“Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.” – Paul Klee

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia - Rothko - 1942

“If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.” – Mark Rothko

Orange and Yellow - Rothko - 1956

“I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.” – Mark Rothko

Black On Maroon - Rothko - 1959

“I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however – I think it applies to other painters I know – is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it.” – Mark Rothko

Untitled (Brown and Grey) - Rothko - 1969

“Painting is a language for exchange of truths about needs.” – Mark Rothko

Onement INewman1948

“Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.” – Barnett Newman

Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?Newman1966

“To produce important art it is necessary as a rule to digest the major art of the preceding period, or periods.” – Clement Greenberg (American-Type Painting)

Voice of Fire Newman1967

“And it is understood, I hope, that tradition is not dismantled by the avant-garde for sheer revolutionary effect, but in order to maintain the level and vitality of art under the steadily changing circumstances of the last hundred years” – Clement Greenberg (American-Type Painting)

1957 D1 - Still - 1957

"I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man's "time" limits him, it does not truly liberate him. Our age - it is one of science, of mechanism, of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mechanism of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of a graphic homage.” – Clyfford Still

Beginning - Noland - 1958

New York, NYKline1953

“The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?” – Franz Kline

Elegy To The Spanish Republic No. 110 - Motherwell - 1971

The She Wolf - Pollock - 1943

“The painting has a life of its own.” – Jackson Pollock

No. 5Pollock1948

“On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.” – Jackson Pollock

Blue Poles - Pollock - 1952

“When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about.” – Jackson Pollock

Legend and Fact - De Kooning - 1940

“Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.” – Willem De Kooning

Excavation - De Kooning - 1950

“I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.” – Willem De Kooning

Woman V - De Kooning - 1952

Flag - Johns - 1954

“Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.” – Jasper Johns

Three Flags - Johns - 1958

Map - Johns - 1961

“When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.” – Jasper Johns

Canyon - Rauschenberg - 1959

Erased De Kooning - Rauschenberg - 1953

“An empty canvas is full.” – Robert Rauschenberg

Portrait of Iris Clert - Rauschenberg - 1961

Retroactive I - Rauschenberg - 1964

“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.” – Robert Rauschenberg

Campbell Soup Cans - Warhol - 1962

Triple Elvis - Warhol - 1963

Brillo Boxes - Warhol - 1964

“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” – Andy Warhol

Drowning Girl - Lichtenstein - 1963

Whaam! - Lichtenstein - 1963

Brushstroke - Lichtenstein - 1965

Self Portrait - Lichtenstein - 1978

The Dinner Party - Chicago - 1974

“Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not. “ – Judy Chicago

Judith Slaying Holofernes - Gentileschi - 1614

Nighthawks - Hopper - 1942

Lucas - Close - 1942