Art History test Three Flashcards
(68 cards)
Impressionist Exhibitions
art exhibition held by the Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, etc., a group of nineteenth-century artists who had been rejected by the official Paris Salon and pursued their own venue to exhibit their artworks.
En plein air
Out side painting
Rubenistes vs. Poussinistes
Poussinistes) who were a group of French artists, named after the painter Nicolas Poussin, who believed that drawing was the most important thing. On the other side were the Rubenists (Fr. Rubénistes), named after Peter Paul Rubens, who prioritized color.
Hudson River School
19th centerery, American doing art of landscapes
Manifest Destiny
19th century, the concept of Manifest Destiny held that it was the divinely ordained right of the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean and beyond
Dia Art Foundation
Dia Art Foundation is committed to advancing, realizing, and preserving the vision of artists. Dia fulfills its mission by commissioning single artist projects, organizing exhibitions, realizing site-specific installations, and collecting in-depth the work of a focused group of artists of the 1960s and 1970s.
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; He is considered the founder of Western cryptography,
One-point perspective
Perspective of drawing from one vanishing point
Momento mori
a Latin phrase that means “remember you must die”
In situ
Latin for “in the place,” refers to an artifact that has not been moved from its original resting place or the place where it was deposited.
Anamorphic perspective
“to transform,” the term anamorphosis was first employed in the 17th century
ex: the skull that can only be viewed by one angle
Trompe l’oeil
an optical illusion that makes a flat surface appear three-dimensional. The term is French for “deceives the eye”
Daguerreotype
first publicly available photographic process; a direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative
Cyanotype
a photographic printing process that uses coated paper and light to produce blueprints. It’s also known as the “original” sun-printing process.
(we did a print in class)
Charles Baudelaire
French poet, translator, and literary and art critic. He does not like photography
Modernity
artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.
Haussmanisation
Napoleon commissioned Georges-Eugène Haussmann in 1853 to give Paris a makeover. The results were the wide boulevards, homogenous architecture, beautiful public gardens and parks, grand fountains, and bustling squares that define Paris today.
Flâneur
French term popularized in the nineteenth-century for a type of urban male “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, or “loafer”. can be a male veiwing others without the people knowing. Top hats
Chronophotography
a photographic technique that involves capturing images of a moving subject at regular time intervals and superimposing them on the same image
F.T. Marinetti
Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement.
Manifesto
A manifesto is a written declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party, or government
Readymade
A found object, or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function.
Ex: toilet
Assisted Readymade
manufactured (as opposed to handmade) goods were often repositioned or joined (“assisted”) by the artist to change their meaning and interpretation.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories have had a lasting influence on the early 20th century avant-garde, including the Surrealist movement, American Abstract Expressionism, and Russian modern art. Freud’s theories captured the spirit of the times as artists explored the human mind beyond the visible world. His techniques of dream analysis and free association had a particularly profound impact on the Surrealist movement
