Mid-Term Flashcards
(120 cards)
1715
(death of Louis XIV, ruling as the Sun King 1661-1715)
Rococo
A style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700. Rococo interiors featured lavish decoration, including small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, easel painting, tapestries, reliefs, wall paintings, and elegant furniture. The term Rococo derived from the French word rocaille (‘pebble”) and refereed to the small stones and shells used to decorate grotto interiors.
fête galante
French “amorous festival. “A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society.
Enlightenment
The Western philosophy based on empirical evidence that dominated the 18th century. The Enlightenment was a new way of thinking critically about the word and about humankind, independently of religion, myth, and tradition.
1776
America declares its independence from Great Britain
Neo-Classicism
A style of art ad architecture that emerged in the late 18th century as part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures. Neoclassical artist adopted themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome.
exemplum virtutis
Latin, “example or model of virtue”
1789
beginning of the French Revolution
Romanticism
A Western cultural phenomenon beginning around 1750 and ending about 1850, that gave precedence to feeling and imagination over reason and thought. More narrowly, the art movement that flourished from about 1800 to 1840. (c.1780-1850)
1789
the beginning of French Revolution
1804-14
Napoleon is Emperor of France
etching
A kind of engraving in which the design is incised in a layer of wax or varnish on a metal plate. The parts of the plate left exposed are then etched by the acid in which the plated is immersed after incising.
aquatint
a print resembling a watercolor, produced from a copper plate etched with nitric acid.
subjectivism
the doctrine that knowledge is merely subjective and that there is no external or objective truth.
optical mixture of color
The visual effect of juxtaposed complementary colors.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(founded 1848) group of English 19th-century artists who consciously sought to emulate the simplicity and sincerity of the work of Italian artists from before the time of Raphael.
lithograph
A printing making technique in which the artist uses an oil-based crayon to draw directly on a stone plate and then wipes water onto the stone. When ink is rolled onto the plate, it adheres to the drawing.
Daguerreotype
A photography made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal; developed by Louis J.M. Dauguerre.
Calotype
From the Greek kalos, “beautiful”. A photographic process in which a positive image is made by shining light through a negative image onto a sheet of sensitized paper.
Wet plate photography
An early photographic process in which the photographic plate is exposed, developed, and fixed while wet.
albumen print
First, a thin piece of paper is coated with an emulsion containing both egg white (albumen) and salt. A subsequent immersion in a bath of silver nitrate renders the paper light-sensitive. The paper is next dried in the dark, then placed in a frame under a glass negative and exposed in direct sunlight until the image achieves the proper level of darkness.
1863
Salon des Refusés
1874
first Impressionism group show
Impressionism
A late 19th centrury art movement that saught to capturea fleeting moment, therby conveying the illusiveness and impermance of images and conditions(c.1869 - 1886)
