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
