chapter 3 2 Flashcards
— emerged in France in the mid-19th century and lasted until the early
20th century.
Impressionism
Can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting.
Impressionism
— was characterized by its focus on capturing the fleeting impressions
of light and colour in the natural world and was marked by its loose brushwork and
vivid, luminous colours.
Impressionism
—- sought to capture the sensory experience of the world around
them, often painting outdoors or en plein air (a French expression meaning “in the
open air”).
Impressionist artists
The —- aimed to be painters of the real life they aimed to extend the
possible subjects for paintings.
impressionist
—- is a term used to describe the reaction in the 1880s against
Impressionism. It was led by Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and
Georges Seurat.
Post Impressionism
—- is a movement in French painting of the late 19th century that
reacted against the empirical realism of Impressionism by relying on systematic
calculation and scientific predetermined visual effects.
Neo-Impressionism
—- was both an artistic and a literary movement that suggested ideas
through symbols and emphasized the meaning behind the forms, lines, shapes, and
colors.
Symbolism
— can also be seen as being at the forefront of modernism, in that it
developed new and often abstract means to express psychological truth and the idea
that behind the physical world lay a spiritual reality.
Symbolism
—- could take the ineffable, such as dreams and visions, and give it form.
Symbolists
—– in the visual arts had its sources in early 19th-century Romanticism’s
emphasis on the imagination, rather than reason, and the themes first evident in the
writer Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (1857).
Symbolism
—- was in many ways a rection against the moralism, rationalism, and
materialism of the 1880s.
Symbolism
An offshoot of the literary Symbolism that influenced visual art was the field of art
criticism, particularly that of ——-.
Albert Aurier
In 1891 Albert Aurier wrote, in what became
essentially a Symbolist manifesto, that art should be
- Idéiste (Ideative) … expressing an idea.
- Symbolist since it expresses that idea through form.
- Synthetic since it expresses those forms and signs in a way that is generally
understandable. - Subjective since the object… is only an indication of an idea perceived by the
subject. - And as a result it will also be Decorative … since decorative painting is at once
an art that is synthetic, symbolist, and ideative.
—- (a period of
artistic or moral decline as seen in the preference for the artificial over the natural -
and by extension, the idea that even humanity was in decline).
decadence
developed first in England and soon spread to the European continent,
where it was called Jugendstil in Germany, Sezessionstil in Austria, Stile Floreale
(Stile Liberty) in Italy, and Modernismo (Modernista) in Spain.
Art Nouveau
The term ‘—-‘ was coined by a gallery in Paris that exhibited much of this
work.
Art Nouveau
—- ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910
throughout Europe and the United States.
Art Nouveau,
—- is 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.
Art Nouveau
The term —- stemmed from the name of the Parisian art gallery, called “La
Maison de l’Art Nouveau”, owned by the avant-garde art collector Siegfried Bing
(1838-1905), which showcased works created in the Art Nouveau style.
“Art Nouveau”
The term —- stemmed from the name of the Parisian art gallery, called “—-“, owned by the avant-garde art collector Siegfried Bing
(1838-1905), which showcased works created in the Art Nouveau style.
La
Maison de l’Art Nouveau
two greatest graphic artists of the Art
Nouveau movement were the —-
French
lithographer Jules Cheret and designer Alphonse Mucha
—- is a style of painting that flourished in
France around the turn of the 20th century.
Fauvism
—- used pure, brilliant color aggressively
applied straight from the paint tubes to create a
sense of an explosion on the canvas.
Fauve artists