Terms 2 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Bodegon: *
a still life painting that depicts pantry items typically on a stone slab. (ex: Juan Sanchez Cotan - Still life of Quince, Cabbage, Melon + Cucumber)
Camera Obscura:
the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen is projected through a small hole and is reversed + inverted opposite to the opening (ex: Johannes Vermeer - View of Delt)
Decorative arts:
art that can be used functionally while also being decorative (ex: Lewis Pantin, Set of Tea addies and Sugar Box in Case)
Fete Galante:
A type of painting that first became popular with Antoine Watteau featuring an outdoor courtship party with elegantly attired men + women. (ex: Jean-Antoine Watteau a pilgrimage to the island of Cythera)
Vanitas Theme:
paintings that included collections of objects symbolic of inevitable death, transience + vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures (ex: Clara Peeters - Still life flowers, goblet, dried fruit, and pretzels)
Salon:
informal parties held by prominent women discussing art and other topics between high and lower class members. (ex: Boffrand - Salon De La Princesse, Hotel De Soubise, France)
Arabesque:
a form of artistic decoration consisting of rhythmic linear patterns and interlacing foliage. (ex: Boffrand - Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise)
Rococo:
painting with soft colours and curvy lines depicts scenes of love, nature, youth, and entertainment. (ex: Watteau, Ceres (summer))
Rocaille:
The 18th-century artistic architectural style of decoration characterized by elaborate ornamentation with pebbles and shells (mostly on grottos and fountains). (ex: Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing)
Ancien regime:
refers to the aristocratic social, and political system established in France from 14th - 18th century Monarch has absolute rule over his subjects and is not like himself bounded by any moral laws. (ex: Rigaud - Portrait of Louis XIV)
Veduta (or vedute):
(italian for view) a highly detailed, usually large-scaled painting or print of a cityscape or vista.
- artist referred to as vedutisti
(ex: Canaletto, The Doge’s Palace & the Riva Degli Schiavoni)
Grand Tour:
The 17th & 18th century custom of a traditional trip of Europe by upper-class young European men when they have come of age (typically with a chaperone). (ex: Van Dyck - Lord John Stuart and his brother Lord Bernard Stuart)
Recumbent:
a position of lying down, reclining, or leaning. (ex: Thomas William Coke - Pompeo Girolamo Botani)
Neoclassicism: *
the revival of a classical style or treatment of art in literature, architecture, or music. (ex: Boyle, Chiswick House).
Folly:
a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose. (Henry Flitcroft and Henry Hoare - The Park at Stourhead, The Death of General Wolf)
Jasperware:
a type of pottery or stoneware with an unglazed matte finish in a variety of colors. (ex: Josiah Wedgwood - The Apotheosis of Homer)
Grand Manner: *
an idealized aesthetic style derived from classicism and the art of the Renaissance. (
Romanticism:
18th century art movement that emphasized emotion, individuality, and nature, followed things that could not be explained by science. (ex: Goya - The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters).
Manifesto:
a public declaration of the motives, intentions, and views of an artistic movement on an artist. (ex: Jean Louis Theodore Gericault - The Raft of the Medusa).
Supine:
someone lying face up. (ex: Fuseli - The Nightmare)
Emigre:
someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Incubus:
a male demon who in mythology lies upon sleeping women in order to engage in sexual activities with them. (ex: Fuseli - The Nightmare).
Sublime: *
Refers to greatness physically, morally, intellectually, aesthetically, spiritually, or artistically.
Picturesque: *
“a peculiar kind of beauty” in an ideal type of landscape with an artistic appeal. (ex: Landscape with Aeneas at Delos Claude Lorraine)
