Final Exam Flashcards
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a type of perspective where we view from below upwards
di sotto in su
scenes from everyday life
genre paintings
an Italian term that refers to a type of painted ceiling design that simulates framed easel paintings.
quadro riportato
thick applications of paint that give a painting a palpable surface texture
impasto
the use of strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated areas to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting.
tenebrism
a style of art and decoration characterized by lightness, pastel colors, grace, playfulness, and intimacy that emerged in France in the early eighteenth century and spread across Europe until the late eighteenth century.
rococo
the work of art an artist submitted to the French Royal Academy to gain membership. The work was submitted by the artist under a specific genre: history painting, portraiture, landscape, or still-life.
reception piece
movement in the decorative and visual arts that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
neoclassicism
the premier student prize awarded by the successive state-sponsored academies in Paris. This allowed the painter, sculptor or architect to study at the Académie de France in Rome for three to five years.
prix de rome
these works depict the elegant outdoor amusements of the elite.
fete galante
was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan.
odalisque
the representation of Asia, especially the Middle East, in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude
orientalism
mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterized by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner
realism
mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterized by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner
realism
a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life.
modernism
a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.
romanticism
was a late 19th-century art movement seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
symbolism
is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a few Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858.
japonisme
a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
impressionism
is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially decorative arts. It was most widely used in interior design, graphic arts, furniture, glass art, textiles, ceramics, jewelry and metal work.
art nouveau
emerged as a reaction against the concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Its emphasis was on abstract qualities or symbolic content.
post impressionism
a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.
cubism
an abstract movement founded during the interwar period in the Netherlands that proposed simplicity, order, and functionality. Only used perpendicular lines and 6 colors.
de stijl
is a modernist movement originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. 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.
expressionism
