Chapter 13 + 14 Flashcards
(29 cards)
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
1884–1886. Oil on canvas, 6’ 9” × 10’. Art Institute of Chicago. —involved dividing colors into their component parts and applying those colors to the canvas in tiny dots. The forms become comprehensible only from a distance.
Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-belly of the weimar Republic
1919, collage of pasted papers. Hanna Höch
Night Café, 1888.
Vincent van Gogh Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gal- lery, New Haven
Starry Night, 1889.
Vincent van Gogh Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Modernism
Modernism, in the arts, a radical break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.
Academic art
the painting and sculpture produced under the influence of the Academies in Europe and especially France, where many artists received their formal training. It is characterized by its highly polished style, its use of mythological or historical subject matter, and its moralistic tone.
Salon
an annual exhibition of works of art by living artists, originally held at the Salon d’Apollon: it became, during the 19th century, the focal point of artistic controversy and was identified with academicism and official hostility to progress in art.
Impressionism
A style of painting associated mainly with French artists of the late nineteenth century, such as Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Impressionist painting seeks to re-create the artist’s or viewer’s general impression of a scene.
plein air
The French term plein air means out of doors and refers to the practice of painting entire finished pictures out of doors.
Lithography
the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone
Post-Impressionism
Known for their diverse yet distinctive styles and their subjective perceptions of the world around them, the Post-Impressionists pioneered a new approach to painting at the turn of the century. Art from the mind
Pointillism
the theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they blend together.
Art Nouveau
characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration.
Bar at Folies-Berger
Édouard Manet, 1882. Oil on canvas,
Saint- Lazare Train Station
Claude Monet, 1877. Oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Le Moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Summer’s Day
Berthe Morisot, 1879. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London
Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
Paul Gauguin, 1888. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburg
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cézanne, 1902–1904. Oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Avant-garde
basically the people and ideas that are ahead of their time. Usually it refers to a movement in the arts, like Dadaism
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Pablo Picasso, 1907. Oil on canvas, 8’ × 7’ 8”. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Fauvism
a group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
Futurism
an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasised speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.
Expressionism
Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
