art history test two Flashcards
(63 cards)
Renaissance (c. 1400 – c. 1600)
a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
Baroque (c. 1600 – c. 1725)
emphasizes dramatic, exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted, detail.
Neo-Classicalism (c. 1770 – 1840)
A European style of art and architecture based on Ancient Greek and Roman models, with particular importance put on simplicity and discipline
Romanticism (c. 1800 – c. 1850)
emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of the past and nature, preferring the medieval over the classical.
Beaux-Arts (c. 1830 – c. 1930)
sculptural decoration along conservative modern lines, employing French and Italian Baroque and Rococo formulas combined with an impressionistic finish and realism.
Realism (c. 1840 – c. 1870)
the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life.
Neo-Impressionism (c. 1885 – c. 1910)
developed as a reaction against conceptual art and minimal art of the 1970s. Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way, often using vivid colors.
Symbolism (c. 1880 – 1910)
the idea that things represent other things.
Contemporary (c. 1970 – now)
current and very recent practice.
Tableau vivant
French for ‘living picture’, is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically lit.
Sinopia
The preparatory drawing for a fresco, painted directly on the rough plaster, using ocher pigment thinned with water.
A secco
is a process that dispenses with the complex preparation of the wall with wet plaster. Instead, dry, finished walls are soaked with limewater and painted while wet. The colors do not penetrate into the plaster but form a surface film, like any other paint.
Fresco
wall paintings generally made on wet plaster so that the coloured pigment is absorbed into the surface of the wall, resulting in brilliant, vibrant colours.
Patronage
the support that princes, popes, and other wealthy and influential people have provided to artists such as musicians, painters, and sculptors.
Sack of Rome
The sack was a sign that the Roman Empire’s geopolitical position had been forever changed. Even though Rome was no longer the seat of the imperial government, it was still important enough that people throughout the empire took notice of what had happened.
Cartoon
animation or a funny drawing, in an art historical context it can also refer to a full-scale preparatory drawing for a fresco, oil painting or a tapestry.
Fig-leaf campaign
to camouflage the penises and public hair visible in art across Italy
Absolutism
the correlative nature between an aesthetic object and objective beauty exists in one, static state.
Louis XIV (The Sun King)
centralized the government around his own person and used art and architecture in the service of the monarchy.
Boudoir
refers to a woman’s private dressing room. It’s an intimate place that she has all to herself. In the same way, boudoir photography is intimate photography taken for the subject and her own personal reasons.
Rocaille
a flamboyant yet light-hearted form of art often characterized by whites and pastel colors, gilding, and curvaceous lines. fancy chairs
Enlightenment
art and architecture sought to express the ideals of rationality, morality, and reason that are part of Locke and Newton’s philosophies.
Denis Diderot
well-known as a philosopher and Encyclopedist, has also been recognized as one of the first modern art critics.
Appropriation
the practice of artists using pre-existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original.
