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Rebirth or revival of the artistic style of the ancient Greeks and Romans - in Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries

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Renaissance

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The art of painting with water colors on wet plaster

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Fresco

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An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of such elements as scale and proportion - often had elongated, twisted figures

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Mannerism

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The Virgin Mary

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Madonna

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A painting or sculpture of the virgin Mary holding and mourning over the dead body of Jesus

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Pieta

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The technique of using light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art

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Chiaroscura

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A style of art and architecture from 1550to 1700 typeified by elaborate, ornate, and flamboyant style - Full of movement, figures, bold colors, and light

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Baroque

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Art that is simple crude or unsophisticated that has figures and landscapes that often look like a cartoon

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Primitive art

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A painting photographs etc. depicting a view of scenery or land

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Landscape

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An artistic representation thought to be visually accurate

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Realism

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A form of art that depicts objects of every day life and adapts techniques of commercial art such as comic strips

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Pop art

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A movement in France emphasizing vibrant expressive colors to express subjective feelings whose name means wild beast

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Fauvism

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The practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they are blended by the eye Seurat

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Pointillism

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The practice in art of producing fantastic incongruence imagery or affects by means of unnatural juxtaposition and combination

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Surrealism

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A picture consisting of inanimate objects

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Still life

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A practice in painting especially among French painters of about 1870 of depicting the natural appearance of objects by means of Dabbs or strokes of unmixed primary colors in order to stimulate actual reflected light

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Impressionism

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The photo-mechanical dots that constitute the shading in a comic strip Roy Lichtenstein is most famous for using these

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Ben Day dots