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content

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Subject matter and underlying meanings or themes - the “what”

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form (formal properties)

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The visual elements and the medium - the “how”

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style

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Characteristic methods of expression - the “what” + the “how” + the time period

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fete galante

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A type of painting depicting French aristocrats entertaining themselves outdoors. I.e. The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard

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Rococo characteristics (form)

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  • Patel colors
  • curvilinear, organic (shapes that come from nature)
  • swirls and she’ll forms in decorative arts
  • intimate scale painting (small scale)
  • soft, feathery, loose brushstrokes
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Rococo content

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  • erotic, lighthearted subject matter

- mythological subject matter

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Hierarchy of genres

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  1. History painting (story painting)
  2. Portraiture
  3. Genre painting
  4. Landscape
  5. Still life
    * Fete galante falls in between genre painting and landscape
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The swing

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  1. Title: The Swing
  2. Artist: Jean-Honore Fragonard
  3. “Style”/category: Rococo
  4. Medium: Oil on canvas
  5. Date range: 1767, mid 1700’s
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Academy

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An institution that trained artists in a traditional style of drawing and painting with a focus on anatomy and drawing from live models

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Salon

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Annual exhibition of academic paintings

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History painting

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Large scale painting depicting a mythological scene, biblical scene or historical event

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Oath of the Horatii

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  1. Title: Oath of the Horatii
  2. Artist: Jacques-Louis David
  3. Style: Neoclassical
  4. Medium: oil on canvas
  5. Date range: late 1700’s
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Neoclassicism content

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Liberty, civic virtue, morality and sacrifice

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Neoclassicism form

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  • emphasis on drawing (design or disegno)
  • symmetry and balance
  • classical proportions, idealization
  • linear perspective
  • Meticulous handling of paint (artist trying to hide brushstrokes)
  • high chroma (intense colors)
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Neoclassicism context

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Pompeii and Herculaneum

  • renewed interest in antiquity unearthed Greek and Roman works of art
  • grand tour
  • French revolution: downfall of absolute monarchies and declining power of the church
  • re-establishment of republics and democracies
  • enlightenment + antiquity = “double dose” of rationality and logic
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Orientalism

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In art, stereotypical/fictional depictions of Eastern cultures by Western artists that help justify Western domination over the “Orient”

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Grand Odalisque

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Title: Grand Odalisque
Artist: J.A.D. Ingres
Style: Orientalism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date range: 1814
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Neoclassicism in Napoleonic France

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  • 1789 French revolution
  • 1804 Napoleon crowned emperor
  • recalled grandeur of the Great Roman Empire
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Orientalism context and content

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  • Edward Said, “as a Western style of dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the orient”
  • sensuality, mystery, cruelty
  • Voyeurism
  • absence of the westerner
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Third of May, 1808

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Title: Third of May, 1808
Artist: Francisco Goya
Style: Romanticism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date range: 1814
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Romanticism

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  • Expressed personal melancholy emotions
  • Rejected reason (reaction against the enlightenment)
  • The revolutionary in politics
  • antihero
  • contemporary events
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P in PINE

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  • Past, longing for the medieval past
  • Pre-industrial
  • Shakespeare and Dante
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I in PINE

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  • Irrational/Inner mind/Insanity

- Depicts the human psyche and topics that transcend the use of reason

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N in PINE

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  • Nature-longing for the purity of nature, which defies human rationality
  • The Sublime-overwhelming emotion that makes you feel as if you are nothing compared to the world around you
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E in PINE
Emotion/Exotic-favored emotion and passion over reason | -Exotic themes and locales did not adhere to European emphasis on rationality (Orientalism)
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Spanish Romanticism
Francisco Goya - Drama,action color - rejects Academic painting (loose brushstrokes) - revolutionary in politics
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avant-garde
an innovative group of artists who generally reject traditional approaches in favor of a more experimental techniques
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Raft of the Medusa
``` Title: Raft of the Medusa Artist: Theodore Gericault Style: Romanticism Medium: Oil on canvas Date Range: 1818-1819, early 1800's ```
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Liberty Leading the People
``` Title: Liberty Leading the People Artist: Eugene Delacroix Style: Romanticism Medium: Oil on canvas Date Range: 1830, early 1800's ```
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School
a group of artists who share the same philosophy, work around the same time, but not necessarily together.
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The sublime
Any cathartic experience that cause the viewer to marvel in awe, wonder, or passion
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The Slave Ship
``` Title: The Slave Ship Artist: JMW Turner Style: Romanticism Medium: Oil on canvas Date Range: 1840, early 1800's ```
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Why is Goya's Third of May, 1808 considered modern art?
He is depicting a contemporary event
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Raft of the Medusa info.
- Shipwrecked vessel, Medusa, off Africa coast in 1816 - Raft with 150 people for two weeks- only 15 survived - Rescued by Argus - Depiction of the anti-hero-person of color is the hero - an "X" and triangles in the composition - shown at the salon for everyone to see
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Liberty Leading the People info
- July revolution of 1830 - Charles X tried to abolish freedom of press - Shows people trying to capture town hall - Church of Notre Dame in the background, similar to Third of May, 1808 (convent in the background) - anti-hero - triangle in the composition - Depiction of nature is the people rushing forward
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Still Life in Studio
``` Title: Still Life in Studio Artist: Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre Style: Modernist Art Medium: Daguerreotype Date Range: 1837 ```
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Luncheon on the Grass
``` Title: Luncheon on the Grass Artist: Edouard Manet Style: Realism Medium: Oil on Canvas Date Range: 1863 ```
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Romantic landscape painting
- independent and respected genre in Germany, England, and the U.S. - the sublime in nature - Hudson River School in the U.S.
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How is daguerreotype similar to painting?
There is only one of its kind
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Characteristics of Modernist Art
- Depict ideas and images of their time - critical reflection on art and aesthetics - open acknowledgement of the illusions and artifices of art - increasing independence from official exhibitions like the salon - from around the 1860's onward
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Plein-air
painting in the outdoors to directly capture the effects of light and atmosphere on a given object
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Burial at Ornans
``` Title: Burial at Ornans Artist: Gustave Courbet Style: Realism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1849 ```
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Characteristics of Realism
- disenchantment with Romanticism - creating art for art's sake (for fun) - critical of new industrial way of life and greed of the wealthy - sympathy for the working class - desire to depict a truthful vision of modern life - influence of photography
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Influence of photography on realism
Artists begin to use more color and texture to compete with photography (b&w, flat)
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Burial at Ornans info
- Ornans is Courbet's hometown - the painting depicts an ordinary scene on a large canvas. The Academy was angry with Courbet because large canvases are reserved for epic paintings - Hole at the bottom of the painting makes the viewer part of the painting - composition-wave of people
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Salon de Refuse
- in 1863, the Salon rejected many works of art | - alternate salon created for rejected works of art to be showcased
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Luncheon on the Grass Subject Matter
- depicts a nude woman - the painting is controversial because the woman is a prostitute and does not have the ideal body type to be depicted nude - syphilis was going around at the time - woman is looking straight at the viewer confidently
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Luncheon on the Grass formal properties
- loose brushstrokes - flat background - characters not painted to scale
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Impasto
thick applications of pigment that give a painting a palpable surface texture
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Impression:Sunrise
``` Title: Impression: Sunrise Artist: Claude Monet Style: Impressionism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1872 ```
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Impressionism's key ideas
- brushstrokes seek to capture the dappling effects of light across a given surface - interest in the transient, the quick and the fleeting - shadows contain color - times of day and seasons of the year affect appearance of objects - subtle harmonies and stark contrasts of brilliant hues - artists moved studios outdoor (invention of the aluminum tube) - influence of photography
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Japonisme
- French interest in Japan and its arts was greatest in 1872 and coined "Japonisme" - interest in Japanese prints - simplicity - flatness (woodblock prints, broad areas of flat color) - decorative elements
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Le Moulin de la Galette
``` Title: Le Moulin de la Galette Artist: Pierre-August Renoir Style: Impressionism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1876 ```
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
``` Title: A Sunday on la Grande Jatte Artist: Georges Seurat Style: Post-impressionism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1884-1886 ```
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Day of the Gods
``` Title: Day of the Gods Artist: Paul Gauguin Style: Post-impressionism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1894 ```
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Basket of Apples
``` Title: Basket of Apples Artist: Paul Cezanne Style: Post-impressionism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1895 ```
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Post-impressionism
-interest in light and color -thick paint -leisure subjects influence of Japosnisme and photography -reacted against what they saw as the ephemeral quality of impressionist painting, not interested in fleeting sensations of light and color -preserve traditional picture making elements -more distance (psychological) between subject and viewer
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Primitivism
the incorporation in early 20th c. western art of the stylistic elements from the artifacts of Africa, Oceania, and the indigenous people of the Americas
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Woman in the Hat
``` Title: Woman in the Hat Artist: Henri Matisse Style: Fauvism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1905 ```
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Improvisation 28
``` Title: Improvisation 28 Artist: Wassily Kandinsky Style: German Expressionism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1912 ```
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
``` Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Artist: Pablo Picasso Style: Cubism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1907 ```
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Fauvism
- Les fauves=the beasts - strong contrasting colors - spontaneous and rough - inspired by post-impressionists Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin
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German Expressionism
- anti-impressionists - looking within themselves to get ideas, painting from their own emotions - emphasis on subjective emotions - symbolic color and exaggerated imagery
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Cubism
- led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque - cubists sought a new approach to space - African and Iberian indigenous art (primitivism)
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Characteristics of cubism
- fragmented forms - depiction of multiple angles at once - simplified direction of objects - challenges viewers idea of reality and perception
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Analytical cubism
- first phase of cubism - analyzed form from every possible vantage point - combined points into one picture
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Synthetic cubism
- later phase - paintings and drawings constructed from objects and shapes cute from paper and other materials - breaking away from traditional oil on canvas
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ready-made
a commonplace utilitarian object selected and exhibited as a work of art
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Fountain
``` Title: Fountain Artist: Marcel Duchamp Style: Dada Medium: Readymade Date range: 1917 ```
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Dada
- "Dada"=hobby horse. nonsensical - direct reaction to WWI - defied all of the past traditions (academic painting, oil on canvas) - showed their distrust of the modern world - anarchy
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Characteristics of Dada
- sense of humor and satire - ideas about randomness and chance - innovative materials such as found in objects, photography and sound - new techniques such as collage, photomontage, and assemblage (sculpture)
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The Armory Show
- international exhibition of modern art - cubism, German Expressionism - introduce America to current trends in European art - "cousins to anarchist" - "alien threat"
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The Persistence of Time
``` Title: The Persistence of Time Artist: Salvador Dali Style: Surrealism Medium: Oil on canvas Date range: 1931 ```
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Surrealism
-influenced by Dada -Sigmund Freud-Interpretation of Dreams (1900) -world of dreams and subconscious thought reaction of WWI
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Characteristics of Surrealism
- realistic style and dreamlike imagery - strange juxtapositions - use of automatism to tap into subconscious (without automatically without thinking) - provocative, often erotic imagery - puzzles, challenges, fascinates

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