12. Berthe Morisot
1841-1895
A founding member of the Impressionist school of painting, her handling of color
and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.
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17. Emil Nolde (1867 –1956)
A German painter and printmaker, one of the
first Expressionists and considered to be one
of the great oil painting and watercolor
painters of the 20th century.
He is known for vigorous brushwork and
expressive color.
Golden yellows and deep reds appear
frequently, giving a luminous quality to
otherwise somber moods.
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22. Nathan Oliveira
1928-2010
Part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, his work was also strongly influenced by Willem de Kooning,
Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, as well as European Expressionist masters Oskar Kokoschka,
Edvard Munch, and Max Beckmann,
"I'm not part of the avant-garde. I'm part of the garde that comes afterward, assimilates, consolidates,
refines."
52. Master studies: each
style sees color
differently.
On the left is the study
(copy); on the right, the
student’s self-portrait
in the style of the
master just studied
From the top down:
•Max Beckmann
•Alexei Jawlensky
•Amedeo Modigliani
•Diego Rivera
53. A master study allows you the chance to try on a different hat
(Student study of Maurice Quentin de Latour, pastel)
54. A master study allows you the chance to try on a different hat
(Student study of David Park, oil)
55. A master study allows you to confront an (artist) “ancestor.”
(Student study of Kathe Kollwitz, pastel)
63. Here are a series of reclining goddesses.
Each epoch recalls the one before it, each artist
in a ‘dialog’ or ‘dance’ with the past.
64. This Renaissance painting recalls Roman and Greek traditions.
(Titian, late 17th
century, Venus of Urbino)
65. And here is a point of view by one of the few celebrated women painters
of the same era as the previous slide.
(Artemisia Gentileschi , late 16th
century, Cleopatra)
66. In this wildly controversial painting, Paul Gauguin satirizes the high-
serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.
(Paul Gauguin, late 19th
century)
67. In this wildly controversial painting, Manet satirizes the high-serious
European tradition of the white reclining goddess.
(Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863)
68. In this wildly controversial painting, Mel Ramos (c.1960) satirizes the
high-serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.