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Monica
MANOLESCU-OANCEA
"American Art and Photography"
This course offers a quick survey of American art and
artists. It gives you the opportunity to look at
paintings and photographs, while also trying to teach
you how to look at paintings and photographs.
It attempts to help you decode a landscape painting,
the image of Marylin Monroe by Andy Warhol or the
various symbols displayed on the one-dollar bill. Here
are some of the topics this course will cover:
painters of the American West, American painters in
Europe in the second half of the 19th
century, photographers of the Great Depression, New
York skyscrapers, Pop Art. While we will mainly
discuss images, you are invited to read one novel,
Paul Auster’s Moon Palace (1989), which offers
a masterful synthesis of emblematic American themes
and focuses largely on painting and vision.
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Ralph
Blakelock - Moonlight (1885)
Oil on canvas, 69.2
x 82.0 cm
The Brooklyn Museum
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Bibliography
For methodological
instruments: Danielle Bruckmuller, Peinture et civilisation
britannique (Ophrys, 2000).
Thomas Cole, Essay on the American
Scenery (1836, distributed in class).
Francesca Marchetti
et al., La Peinture américaine (Gallimard, 2002).
Miles Orvell, American Photography
(Oxford UP, 2003).
Resources for 2013
Class One - A Mad
Survey
Class Two - Painters of the American West
Class Three - New York
Class One: A Mad
Survey
Edward Hicks. Peaceable
Kingdom. 1834
Anonymous.
Elizabeth Clarke Freake and Baby Mary. 1671-1674
Gilbert Stuart. George
Washington.1796
Photograph
of Jackson Pollock at work
Jackson Pollock. Number 18. 1950
------.
Lavender Mist. 1950
American Artists in Europe : Sargent and Whistler
John Singer Sargent. A Morning
Walk. 1888.
Claude Monet. La
Promenade. La Femme à l'ombrelle. 1875.
J.S. Sargent. Portrait of Madame Edouard Pailleron.
1879.
------. Portrait of Madame
X (Madame Gautreau). 1884.
------. Repose.
1911.
------. Two Girls in
White Dresses. 1909-1911.
------. Carnation,
Lily, Lily, Rose. 1885-1886.
------. Garden Study
of the Vickers Children. 1884.
------. Zuleika
(watercolor). 1907.
------. Venice
(watercolor). 1902.
James McNeill Whistler. Arrangement in
Gray and Black (The Artist's Mother). 1871.
------. The
White
Girl
(Simphony in White). 1862.
------. Portrait
of
Miss Alexander. 1872-1874.
------. Nocturne in
Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket. 1878.
------. Caprice in
Purple and Gold. 1864.
Claude Monet. La
Japonaise. 1875.
Painters of the American West : Cole, Church, Bierstadt
Thomas Cole. Falls of
Kaaterskill. 1826. (109 x 91 cm)
------. The Oxbow. View
from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Mass. after a Thunderstorm.
1836. (131 x 193 cm)
------. The Course of
Empire I (The Savage State). 1836.
------. The Course of
Empire II (The Arcadian, or Pastoral State). 1836.
------. The Course of
Empire III (Consummation of Empire). 1836.
------. The Course of
Empire IV (Destruction). 1836.
------. The Course of
Empire V (Desolation). 1836.
Frederick Edwin Church. Niagara.
1857. (107 x 230 cm)
------. Heart of the
Andes. 1859. (168 x 303 cm)
------. Cotopaxi.
1862. (122 x 216 cm)
------. Rainy Season in
the Tropics. 1866. (143 x 214 cm)
------. Rainy Season in
the Tropics (detail).
------. Twilight in the
Wilderness. 1860s.
Albert Bierstadt. The Rocky
Mountains, Lander's Peak. 1863. (187 x 307 cm)
------. Emigrants
Crossing the Plains. 1867. (170 x 260 cm)
------. Sunrise in the
Yosemite Valley. 1868.
------. The Last Buffalo.
1889. (181 x 303 cm)
Georgia O'Keeffe
Photograph
of Georgia O'Keeffe
Photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
Photograph
of Georgia O’Keeffe taken by Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe. Light
Coming
on the Plains III. Watercolor. 1917 (30 x 20 cm)
------.
Evening Star IV. Watercolor. 1917 (30 x 20 cm)
------. Blue
and Green Music. 1919 (58,4 x 48,3 cm)
Example of abstract art: Kasimir Malevich. Black Square
and Red Square. 1915
Georgia O'Keeffe.
Black Iris III. 1926 (91,4 x 75,9 cm)
------.
Oriental Poppies. 1928 (76,2 x 101,9 cm)
------.
Jack-in-the-Pulpit III. 1930
------.
Jack-in-the-Pulpit IV. 1930 (101,6 x 76,2 cm)
------.
Jack-in-the-Pulpit VI. 1930
------. Yellow
Calla. 1926
------. Red
Canna. 1923
------. Deer
Skull with Pedernal. 1936
Photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe with a skull in the background
Georgia O'Keeffe. Cow’s
Skull: Red, White and Blue. 1931 (101,3 x 91,1 cm)
------.
Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses. 1932
------. From
the Faraway, Nearby. 1938 (91.2 x 102 cm)
------. The
Ranchos Church. 1929 (61,3 x 91,8 cm)
------.
Ladder to the Moon. 1958. (101,6 x 76,2 cm)
------. Sky
Above Clouds IV. 1965 (243,8 x 731,5 cm)
Additional Documents
About colors in
painting and the evolution from natural to chemical/industrial
colors (see the section on the "Development of synthetic
pigments")
Documentary
on Georgia O’Keeffe at 92
Documentary on the American painters of the West by Robert Hughes:
Part
1 Part
2 Part
3 Part
4 Part
5 Part
6 (six parts, 1 hour total play time)
Footage of
Jackson Pollock at work (1'20)
Footage of
the flappers and the Jazz Age (6'30)
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