any art history yoube recs???

Hey y'all,

I'm defending my thesis this upcoming Thursday and would love any advice or tips either for the actual defense itself or any preparatory stuff. My school requirements are 20 min presentation with slides and we're allowed either notecards or reading from a script (I'm likely going the script route). I've lead discussions in my classes before and have general anxiety about public speaking like most people do, but any advice is thoroughly appreciated! I also am the first scheduled defense of MA Art History candidates so I don't have the luxury of watching someone else's first.

Thank you all!

Where can one see Jackson Pollock and other American AbEx works in Europe?

Well, like the title says, I am in the need of some ideas, I have a paper due roughly at the end of the month that’s roughly 5 to 7 pages in length. The concept of the paper roughly is to discuss a piece of art and or artworks/ sites from the time early, Hellenic. Roughly the death of Alexander, the great. 3000-323 B.C.E the part I’m having difficulty is it’s gotta be something that we really didn’t talk about in class, so if anyone has any direction, I can go with this that doesn’t involve a super famous site but yet plenty of information let me know. The big sites that are off-limits as of right now would be Mycenae, Knossos on Crete, Olympia, Delphi, Athens. I’m all ears and greatly appreciate any advice in what direction to go/research.

Hello, I am looking for a painting depicting the contemplation of suicide. I need illustrations for a voice acting project, but my knowledge of visual art is very limited.

The important part is the contemplation of the act, rather than the act itself. Say a person holding a knife, with the face of someone who fully realizes the power he is wielding. This is just an example of course, what matters is to convey the sense of existential awareness and the psychological tension associated with the act of suicide. Also, the tone is meant to be epic/positive more than gloomy or desperate (but that detail is secondary). I welcome all styles of art. Thank you in advance for your suggestions.

Does anybody know what the text behind her says?

Hi, would anyone be able to recommend books on the relationship between activism and art?

Thank you!

Bought this one on the whim because it looks like a large size coffee book, somewhat comprehensive as it contains 500 pieces world wide, and at an affordable price le price of $26 on Amazon. This book did not disappoint.the printouts are beautiful. Annotations are short and precise. All pieces are chronologically presented to show patterns of how arts have changed in each time period.

Since this one is newer and not as well known, I figure I would share it. While it doesn’t have a narrative like Story of Art, it is an enjoyable book if you just want a quick jump into learning famous pieces worldwide and appreciate their detail and background.

I noticed people sharing posts tracking European art history since the classical period which gloss over medieval art. Often reducing it to one style or putting different art movements in the same bracket. So I thought I'd make a timeline of my own to shed some light on its evolution and variety. Note that this timeline focuses on art made outside of Italy, doesn't show all of the regional differences and nuances of each style, and the dates are approximate.

I also made sure to include both manuscript miniatures and larger scale paintings (Like frescos and panel paintings)

Posting here for my partner.

He's doing an assignment for uni and he needs a scientific book or paper which discusses the painting here. Preferably free but in the very least inexpensive.

The painting is called 'Het ploten en kammen' 1594-1596 by Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburg.

He has spent days on this and it seems to be very hard to find relevant sources so I suggested reddit as a last resort. Any help is appreciated!

NOT including the semi-famous or famous regionally ones, And by that I mean every famous one, including but not limited to Thomas Cole and Frits Thaulow. I recently became a binge watcher of art history in the romanticism period and just want some unique artists.

Does anyone ever look at it and see the outline of two mournful eyes shaped by the water? As though the sweater itself makes the outline of two eyes, downcast in mourning? I told my teacher what I saw as well as some friends, and they didn’t see it. Perhaps I am alone on this claim, and I have no evidence to say that it was Turner’s intention either.

Basically the title. I've been looking for the most desperate, angry looking faces in painting for a while, I'd love your opinions on that subject.

I’ve been looking into Jacques-Louis David’s "The Coronation of Napoleon" and stumbled across an intriguing claim: one source suggests that Julius Caesar is depicted as a bust or head, supposedly in the upper area between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII. The idea is that David included it as a neoclassical reference to link Napoleon with Roman emperors.

The claim comes from an article by "Un jour de plus à Paris," which says it fills a compositional gap after David switched the scene from Napoleon crowning himself to crowning Josephine. I haven’t found much else to back this up, though—standard sources like Wikipedia or the Louvre’s site don’t mention it.

Has anyone here studied this painting closely or seen it in person? Can you confirm if there’s a bust of Caesar (or something resembling him) in that spot?

Thanks!

Link: https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/en/paris-culture/secrets-tableau-louvre-sacre-de-napoleon

Today, the internet is full of people who denounce AI as theft because it plagiarizes the work of the artists on which the AI is trained.

I think this serves as an excellent lens for examining the works attributed to Roy Lichtenstein. (To call it the work of Roy Lichtenstein is to concede too much already, in my opinion.)

Lichtenstein's attitude was that the original art of comic artists and illustrators that he was copying was merely raw material, not a legitimate creative work: “I am not interested in the original. My work takes the form and transforms it into something else.”

Russ Heath, Irv Novick, and Jack Kirby, et al, weren't even cited by Lichtenstein when he was displaying his paintings. Heath, who actually deserves credit for Whaam!, wrote a comic strip late in his life with a homeless man looking a Lichtenstein piece who commented: “He got rich. I got arthritis.”

Am I wrong?

I will preface that I'm aware that the different eras and the associated dates i have chosen are rather arbitrarily defined, i've mostly prioritized categorizing them in a way where each artistic epoch of genre art is very visually distinct from the others, this also means that many of the images might be slightly outside the approximate dates of their eras by a decade or so if i feel that they fit more comfortably in the artistic tradition of the previous era (for instance there are many illuminated manuscripts from the early 1500s that i put in the late medieval section rather than the renaissance one.)

Secondly, there will probably be a handful of images that are completely outside their allotted eras that i will remove eventually, its quite difficult to track down the dates of every single image, and when i first started the project i was a lot less thorough in checking.

This project is a work in progress, i add 20 or so new images every day, and currently my next big move will be to split the "industrial" section into an "early industrial" and "late industrial" so that the victorian and edwardian / george V era art can be kept separate.

here is the link: https://au.pinterest.com/eggandrum/art-of-daily-life-through-history-4000bc-1920/