Exam 3 Flashcards
(58 cards)
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Rococo Style
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- Characterized by brush strokes, pastel color pallette, and amorous and or aristocratic subject matter
- focus on aristocratic life
- ornamental, gold, pastels
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Salon De La princesse
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- Germain Boffrand
- begun in 1732
- lavish and highly decorated
- the whole room is an art piece meant to be represented together
- Rococo
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Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera
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- Jean-Antoine Watteau
- 1717
- lucious pastel color, visible brush strokes, amorous subject matter (very Rococo)
- Fete Galante
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Fetê Galante
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- a new catagory of painting created specifically for Watteaus acceptance into the academy
- French Rococo painting displaying outdoor activities of the aristocratic class
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The Swing
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- Jean- Honoré Fragonard
- 1766
- peak Rococo painting, pastel, amorous, very indulgent in texture and detail
- points out the differences in the expected behavior of the aristrocracy and the sometimes reality of the their behavior
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Marriage a la mode II: Shortly aftert the Wedding
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- William Hogarth
- 1743-1745
- cautionary tale about marrying for wealth not for love
- A critical lens held up to what was then modern society
- Hogarth cared for children and that is shown in this series
- Rococo
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Vedute
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Paintings that showed scenic views
- often comissioned by young men on their grand tour
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Cupid and Psyche
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- Antonio Canova
- 1787-1793
- well known neoclassical sculpture
- pyramidal form creates a grounding and balancing effect with restrained emotion
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Chiswick House
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- Richard Boyle
- 1724-1729
- neoclassical architecture
- Roman influence (Palladio and the pantheon)
- Temple front portico
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What is the importance of the art academy in the 18th century and onward?
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- Shift away from the previous guild/workshop method of training new artists
- Academies determined the dominant artistic style and controlled the tastes of artists
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History Painting
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- depicts an important event in which people are often (but not always) pictured in classical wear
- they are large
- considered the highest possible art form at the time
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The Death of General Wolfe
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- Benjamin West
- 1770
- Modern history painting (contemporary everything)
- depicts the general as a christ like figure, sacrificing himself for his people
- neoclassical
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Watson and the Shark
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- John Singleton Copley
- 1778
- dramatizes and heroicizes the event where lord Watson has his leg bitten off by a shark
- neoclassical
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What year does the french revolution begin?
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1789
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Death of Marat
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- Jacques- Louis David
- 1793
- Revolutionary propaganda that idealized Marats death and made him a kind of martyr
- neoclassical
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Napoleon Crossing the Saint- Bernard
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- Jacques- Louis David
- 1800-1801
- After the revolution David becomes Napoleons favorite painter and is then exiled like him
- the equestrian portrait represents power and stability as a leader poltically and through the military
- neoclassical
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True or False?
Romanticism represents a specific style with specific features?
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False, it was a movement consisting of art, writing, and music as well
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The sublime
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a romantic movmement concept, often seen in landscape painting, where the awesome beauty and power of nature is seen
evokes strong emotions such as terror
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what do the letters in P I N E stand for?
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P: past
I: innner /insanity/ irrational
N: nature
E: emotion/ exotic
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Third of May 1808
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- Franciso Goya
- 1814-1815
- A modern history painting
- warns men against the brutality of war
- creates a faceless enemy in the French and a christ like sacrifice by the Spanish
- romantic
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The Raft of the Medusa
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- Theodore Gericault
- 1818-1819
- unusual for history paintings because nothing is idealized, it is very brutal and honest
- clearly calls out the newly reinstated monarchy
- romantic
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Liberty Leading the people
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- Eugene Delacroix
- 1830
- full of passion, energy and emotional intensity
- depicts the Paris uprising of 1830 NOT the 1789 revolution
- allegorical figure
- romantic
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Large Odalisque
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- Jean Auguste Ingres
- 1814
- the exotic portion of the romanticism movement (orientalism)
- notice how the womans proportions and anatomy are not quite right
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Orientalism
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expresses interest in exotic subjection matter/ ‘the other’
- fueled by expansion of western colonialsim
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Rue Transnonain
- Honoré Daumier
- 1834
- Lithograph
- led to heavier censorship in french newspapers
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Lithograph
a differnt kind of print making using ink and grease
- gives artist more control over the tones of the piece
- no carving involved
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Snow storm: Hannibal and His army crossing the Alps
- JMW Turner
- 1812
- good example of the sublime
- Turners style is almost abstract
- romantic
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The Oxbow
- Thomas Cole
- 1836
- Cole was the father of the Hudson river school
- Painting shows the contrast of the unexplored wilderness and the colonization of America
- Americas natural wonders
- romantic
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Houses of Pariliament London
- Charles Barry and Augustus Welby
- 1836-1860
- neogothic/ revival style
- looks like it has been constructed hundreds of years before it actually was
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Monticello
- Thomas Jefferson
- 1769-1782 and 1796-1809
- Jefferson implemented the neoclassical federalist style as the style of the United States
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George- Eugene Haussmann
- hired to redesign Paris during the Haussmannization of Paris
- The city of Paris had essentially been the same since the Middle ages
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Daguerreotype
- developed by Louis Daguerre in 1839
- uses metal plates to produce small scale images
- one of the first modern developments of photography
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The Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter
- Alexander Gardner
- 1863
- Wet plate colloidal method
- the American civil war was one of the first wars to be documented by photography
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Wet plate colloidal method
- cheaper than Daguerreotypes
- if the image dried out at any point the picture was completely lost
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Realism
- like romanticism, was a movement and not a specific style
- depicted subjects and events of everyday life without romanticising them
- "Truthful and unvarnished"
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The Stone Breakers
- Gustave Courbet
- 1849
- Realism
- painted on a large scale that was typically reserved for history paintings
- makes a clear poltical statement about the working class and class struggle
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The Horse Fair
- Rosa Bonheur
- 1853-1855
- artist was as successul and talented animal painter at a time where women were not respected for their intellectual advancements
- realism
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The Luncheon on the Grass
- Edouared Manet
- 1863
- a rather controversial realism painter
- reimagining of Titians Pastoral Concert through a modern lens
- Shown in the Salon of Rejects
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The Banjo Lesson
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
- 1893
- subjects of black famalies and african american life
- note the tones in which the younger and older figure are painted in, one warm and one cool
- realism
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Impressionism
- formed aroudn 1870 with the first impressionist exhibition (it was not state sponsored)
- Subjects were often middle class, noting a shift away from socio-economic commentary
- loose brushwork, light and optical realism over social realism
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Impression: Sunrise
- Claude Monet
- 1872
- a critic may have used this painting which sparked the styles name
- blue and orange are complimentary colors
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En plein air
to paint outside
- many impressionists practiced this
- caputre a moment in time, especially the light
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Mother and Child
- Mary Cassatt
- c. 1890
- in contrast to other impressionists her figures were very solid while backgrounds tended to fall out into brushstrokes
- represnetitive of how women painted and represented the spaces they were welcome in
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Japonisme
Western interest in japanese art, persepctives, and other physical items
- Japan was opened to the west in 1853 after complete international isolation
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Ukiyo-e
- 'pictures of the floating world'
- woodblock prints produced during the edo period in Japan
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A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- Georges Seurat
- 1884-1886
- divisionism
- depiction of how clothing was no longer an obvious factor in class, fashion was blurred between classes now
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Divisionism
- a subsection of post- impressionism
- strokes or dots of pure color to form continuous images
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The Starry Night
- Vincent Van Gogh
- 1889
- Dynamic, colorful, and expressive but still with solidity
- contemplation on death (note the cypress trees)
- post-impressionism
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Single Chair from Sussex Range
- William Morris
- Reprsentative of the arts and craft movement at the time
- reaction agaisnt increased production of mass goods
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Nocturne in Black and Gold
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler
- 1875
- abstracted from reality but NOT abstract
- art for arts sake
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Art for Arts sake
Art has an intrinsic value that is not dependent on the lesson it teaches or the labor but rather the visual quality
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The Scream
- Edvard Munch
- 1893
- Symbolism
- Intense emotional moment portrayed through visual means
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The Burghers of Calais
- Auguste Rodin
- 1884-1889
- broke free of classical and academic sculptoral forms
- Rodin wanted the figures to be viewed as humans, not symbolic representations
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Tassel House
- Victor Horta
- 1892-1893
- Art Nouveau
- curving natural forms built into the interior
- unified by curving motifs
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Mont Sainte-Victoire
- Paul Cezanne
- 1885-1887
- Three planes of depth using the tree as a frame to create that depth
- uses warm tones to emerge out towards the viewer and cool tones to recess away from the viewer
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The Crystal Palace
- Joseph Paxton
- 1850-1851
- Housed the London world fair and was considered an engineering marvel
- Largest enclosed space at the time
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Eiffel Tower
- Gustave Eiffel
- 1887-1889
- main attraction fo the 1889 world fair and was considered a temporary structure at the time
- utilized advancements in technology
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Wainwright Building
- Louis Sullivan
- 1890-1891
- In St. Louis, sullivans first major skyscraper
- Tri structure with base, shaft, and capital
