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Session 1: The Rallying Cry of the Avant-Garde

Touring Modernism: From the French avant-garde to American Pop and Beyond
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Lesson 2

Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze 1851. Public Domain

The Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull 1817-1819. Public Domain

Tennis Court Oath, Jacques Louis David 1791. Public Domain

Execution of Louis XVI Georg Heinrich Sieveking 1793. Public Domain

Marie Antoinette, Anonymous 1793. Public Domain

The Great Barricade of 1848, Illustrated London News 1848. Public Domain

Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix 1830. Public Domain

Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848, Heri Feliz Emmanuel Philippoteaux 1848. Public Domain

Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Jaques-Louis David 1801. Public Domain

Rain, Steam, and Speed--The Great Western Railway, JMW Turner 1844. Public Domain

The Captive Slave, John Philip Simpson 1827. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

A Visit to the Art Dealer , Frans Francken the Younger. Public Domain

Art Dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, Pierre Auguste Renoir 1910. Public Domain

Lesson 3

The Rape of the Sabine Women. Jaques-Louis David 1799. Public Domain

Excavation Pompeii, Italy, B.W. Killburn 1891. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

View of the Port of Ripetta in Rome, Hubert Robert 1766. Public Domain

Virgil Reading the “Aeneid” to Augustus, Octavia and Livia, Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar 1790. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David 1784. Public Domain, On display in the Louvre

Lesson 4

Are They Thinking About the Grape?, Francois Boucher 1747. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Self Portrait, Angelica Kauffman 1770. © National Portrait Gallery, London

Virgil writing his own epitaph, Angelica Kauffman 1785. Public Domain

Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Angelica Kauffman 1764. Public Domain

Self Portrait at Easel, Elizabeth Vigee-LeBrun 1790. Public Domain

Fourth Earl of Bristol, Elizabeth Vigee-LeBrun 1790. Public Domain

Self portrait with daughter, Elizabeth Vigee-LeBrun 1786. Public Domain

Amor and Psyche, Antonio Canova 1793. Wiki Commons CC-BY Photo Credit: Bini wikimediacommons

Head of Medusa, Antonio Canova 1801. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

A French Gilt-Bronze Striking Mantel Clock Depicting the Oath of the Horatii 1860. Public Domain

Lesson 5

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Francisco Goya 1797. Public Domain

The Curse of Frankenstein Film Still, Dir. Terence Fisher 1957.

Head of Guillotined Man, Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault 1818. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Dead Cat, Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault 1820. Public Domain

Study of Two Severed Heads, Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault 1819. Public Domain

After Death (Study of the Head of a Corpse), Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault 1818-1819. Public Domain

Head of a Lioness, Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault 19thC Public Domain

Four Lions, Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault 19thC. Public Domain

The Morgue (Death Unknown), Andres Serrano 1992. © Andres Serrano

The Morgue (Death by Drowning II), Andres Serrano 1992. © Andres Serrano

Raft of the Medusa, Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault 1818. Public Domain, On display in the Louvre

Lesson 6

Self-Portrait, Eugène Delacroix Public Domain

Lion Hunt, Eugène Delacroix 1860. Art institute of Chicago Collection

The Lion Hunt, Peter Paul Rubens 1621. Public Domain

The Women of Algers in their Apartment, Eugène Delacroix 1834. Public Domain

Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion, Eugène Delacroix 1849-1850. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Lion Fighting a Serpent, Antoine Barye 1847. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Death of Sardanapalus, Eugene Delacroix 1827. Public Domain

Grand Odalisque, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1814. Public Domain

Venus de Milo, 130-100 BC Public Domain, On Display at the Louvre

Venus of Urbino, Titian 1538. Public Domain

Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met?, Guerrilla Girls 1989.©Guerrilla Girls

Amédée-David, the Comte de Pastoret, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1823. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Charles Gounod, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1859. Public Domain

Frederick Slyvester Douglas, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1815. Public Domain

After Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s “Triple Portrait of Charles I”, Kehinde Wiley 2009. © Kehinde Wiley

After Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres “The Virgin with the Host”, Kehinde Wiley 2009. © Kehinde Wiley

Lesson 7

Third Class Carriage, Honore Daumier 1862-1864. Public Domain

After Dinner at Ornans, Gustave Courbet 1849. Public Domain

Self- Portrait, Jean-Francois Millet 1840. Public Domain

The Wood Chopper, Jean-Francois Millet 1858. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

The Gleaners, Jean-Francois Millet 1857. Public Domain

Jo, Cathy Opie 1993. ©Cathy Opie

Crystal Mason, Cathy Opie 1993. ©Cathy Opie

Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields, Jean-Francois Millet 1864. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Woman Feeding Chickens, Jean-Francois Millet 1846. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

The Keeper of the Herd, Jean-Francois Millet 1871-1874. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Les Baigneurs, I’m Not Going In There Anymore!, Honore Daumier 1839. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Robert Macaire Beaureau of Military Replacements, Honore Daumier 1839. Public Domain

Caricatures du Jour: Les Illusions D’Artistes, Honore Daumier 1842. Public Domain

Locataires et Propriétaires, Honore Daumier Public Domain

This One Can be Set Free, Honore Daumier 1835. Public Domain

Gargantua, Honore Daumier 1831. Public Domain

The Legislative Belly, Honore Daumier 1834. Public Domain

The Beautiful Days of Life, Pl. 59: When one’s portrait is at the Salon, Honore Daumier 1845. Public Domain

Les Poires, Honore Daumier 1831. Public Domain

The Celebrities of Juste Mileu, Honore Daumier Art Institute of Chicago Collection

Portrait Bust of Louis XIV, Gianlorenze Berini 1665. Public Domain

The Past, The Present, and the Future, Honore Daumier 1834. Public Domain

Felix Barthe, Minister of Justice, Honore Daumier 1833. Public Domain

Count Antoine D’Argout, Honore Daumier 1832. Public Domain

Jean-Auguste Chevandier, Honore Daumier 1833. Public Domain

The Stone Breakers, Gustave Courbet 1849. Public Domain

A Burial at Ornans, Gustave Courbet 1849. Public Domain

Mere Gregoire, Gustave Courbet 1855. Art Institute of Chicago Collection

The Painter’s Studio, Gustave Courbet 1855. Public Domain

Self Portrait of an Unfinished Work, Eric Fischl 2011-2012. ©Eric Fischl

Lesson 8

Plowing Scene, Rosa Bonheur 1854. Public Domain

Sheep, Rosa Bonheur 1857. Public Domain

Shepherd of the Pyrenees, Rosa Bonheur Public Domain

Ploughing in the Navers, Rosa Bonheur 1849. Public Domain

Music in the Tuileries, Edouard Manet 1860. Public Domain

Luncheon in the Studio, Edouard Manet 1868. Public Domain

In the Conservatory, Edouard Manet 1879. Public Domain

La Vie Moderne Magazine Cover 1881. Public Domain

Dejeuner sur L’herbe, Edouard Manet 1862. Public Domain

Romans in the Decadence of the Empire, Thomas Couture 1847. Public Domain

Le dejeuner sur l’herbe, les trois femmes noires, Mickalene Thomas 2010 ©2010 Mickalene Thomas

Olympia, Edouard Manet 1863. Public Domain

Birth of Venus, Alexandre Cabanal 1863. Public Domain

Untitled, Wangechi Mutu 2004. Public Domain

Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, Edouard Manet 1865.Art Institute of Chicago Collection


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