Session

Artwork

Date

Artist

Comments_____________

French Revolution

1. Tennis Court Oath
2. Allegory of Liberty

1789
1790s

Jacques-Louis David
Antoine-Jean Gros

Find the symbolism
Why a classical woman?

Napoleon and Romanticism

3. Napoleon Crossing the Alps
4. Napoleon at Jaffa

1801
1804

Jacques-Louis David
Antoine-Jean Gros

David's new style
Who does he remind you of?

Ideas of Progress

5. Capital and Labor
6. Houses of Parliament
7. Liberty Leading the People

1841
1843
1830

Punch Magazine
Charles Barry
Eugene Delacroix

One of the first cartoons
A modern building (?)
Lady Liberty again

Triumph of Nationalism

8. Proclamation of German Empire
9. The Stonebreakers

1877
1850

Anton Werner
Gustave Courbet

What is the setting?
What happened to romantic?

Rise of the Masses

10. Cleveland Arcade
11. Corporate Logos

1888
1890s

John Eisenmann

mass shopping
consumer language

Fin de Siecle

12. Gare St. Lazare
13. The Demoiselles of Avignon

1877
1907

Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso

abstraction begins
abstraction cubed

New Imperialism

14. The Shield and the Shadow
15. On the Swoop

1890
1880s

L Swinburne (Punch)
John Tenniel (Punch)

reason for empire
another reason

Modernism

16. LHOOQ
17. Persistence of Memory
18. The Bauhaus

1919
1931
1926

Marcel Duchamp
Salvador Dali
Walter Gropius

not in polite company
what is reality?
starting fresh from basic principles

Rise of Fascism

19. Chivalric Hitler
20. Guernica


1937


Pablo Picasso

Less silly than it seems
Fascism at work

Recovery and Cold War

21. UN building
22. Nuclear Energy

1952
1967

Le Corbusier
Henry Moore

Appropriate architectural style
What does it look like to you?

Liberal Idealism

23. Peace Symbol

24. The Problem We All Live With
25. Love

1950s
1964
1966


Norman Rockwell
Robert Indiana

Do you know semaphore?
Interesting title
It was recently a postage stamp