Terminology 03

Question 1

The Grand Tour

Answer 1

A popularity of prolonged visit or vacation to major cultural sites in Europe.

Question 2

Fête galante

Answer 2

It means “Feast of Courtship.”

A new genre category of painting specially created by the French Academy in 1717 based on Watteau’s art.

Question 3

Louis XV (15)

Answer 3

A grandson of Louis XIV during the Rococo period.

Question 4

Louis XVI (16)

Answer 4

The last king of France during the Neo-Classical period and married to Marie Antoinette…who never said, “let them eat cake.”

Question 5

French Revolution (1789)

Answer 5

A period of political and societal change in France that began in May 1789 when the ancient form of absolute rule by a King was abolished in favor of a constitutional monarchy.

This eventually led to the Execution of Louis XVI in January 1793, and a period of political turmoil until 1797.

Question 6

Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1821)

Answer 6

A French political and military leader who led many successful campaigns during the French Revolution.

He became Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815.

He was exiled twice, the last time to the island of St, Helena in the middle of the Ocean off the west coast of Africa, where he died in 1821.

Question 7

Orientalism

Answer 7

‘Orient’ means “of the east” but also generically applied to Islamic and Chinese cultures.

Question 8

Printmaking

Answer 8

An artistic process based on transferring images from one type of ground onto another surface, most often from metal to paper or fabric.

Traditional printmaking techniques include woodcut, etching, engraving, and lithography.

The process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a print.

Question 9

Aquatint

Answer 9

A printmaking technique that produces tonal effects by using acid to eat into the printing plate creating sunken areas which hold the ink.

Question 10

Sublime

Answer 10

Something sublime would an extreme event in nature, uncontrollable by humans.

It could be the most beautiful sunset or the worst storm.

To artists, it was something beyond all possibility of capturing the event.

Question 11

Industrial Revolution

Answer 11

A period of global human impact on economics throughout the world when the manufacturing of goods moved from small shops and homes to large factories and using steam to power machinery.

Question 12

Pavilion of Realism (1855)

Answer 12

A first-ever one-man show organized by Courbet to exhibit his own art.

Question 13

Salon des Refuses (1863)

Answer 13

“Salon of the Refused.”

An art exhibition held in 1863 in Paris by command of Napoleon III for those artists whose works had been refused by the jury of the official Salon.

Question 14

Abstract art

Answer 14

It does not attempt to represent an accurate image of visual reality but instead uses shapes, colors, forms, and textures to achieve its effect.

Artists intentionally used non-traditional techniques, colors, or designs to produce a work of art that does not rely on precision or art of the past.

Abstraction can be simplified or exaggerated

Question 15

Ukiyo-e

Answer 15

“Pictures of the floating world.”

“Floating” referred to something that was common, insignificant, and temporary.

Question 16

Color woodblock prints

Answer 16

Multiple wood blocks were painted with ink and different pigments and applied to a sheet of paper to assemble the image based on shapes or areas with the same color.

The original design is painted by an artist, the print is made by a master woodcarver and printer.