Unit 4 Test Flashcards
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“en plein air”
French for “in open air”; refers to painting out-of-doors in front of the subject
rather than in the studio
Gustave Caillebotte
The Floor Scrapers (1875)
Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877)
Art Nouveau style in France was introduced and promoted by
Siegfried Bing.
Along with Futurist performance, the ballets of Vaslav Nijinsky set to the music of Igor Stravinsky contributed to the characterization of modern art as
an affront to public taste.
The furor of European audiences over Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was incited by the decision of the central character, Nora, to
Leave her children behind
Rodin’s representation of novelist Balzac was rejected by the literary organization that commissioned the work due to
the exaggerated physical features.
WWI aka.The Great War - we stop here because WWI marks a great historical shift.]
1914-1918
Charles Darwin
- The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- The Descent of Man (1871)
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)
- The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms (1881)
Paul Gauguin’s career is particularly associated with scenes of
the south Pacific island of Tahiti in present day French Polynesia.
The early nickelodeon theater primarily catered to
Working class women and children
Edvard Munch’s artwork is known for its
powerful sense of isolation and despair.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s paintings are notable for
Lush color
Pablo Picasso
- Gertrude Stein (Autumn – Winter 1906)
- Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (May – July 1907)
- Houses on the Hill, Horta de Ebro (1909)
- The Guitar Player, (Summer 1910)
- Violin (Late 1912)
- Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass (1912)
- La Bouteille de Suze (Bottle of Suze) (1912)
Kitigawa Utamaro
- How the Famous Brocade Prints of Edo are Produced (ca. 1790)
- The Fickle Type, from the series Ten Physiognomies of Women (ca. 1793)
Mary Cassatt
- Lydia Cassatt Reading (1878)
- Reading (1878) (Portrait of the artist’s mother)
- In the Loge (1879)
- The Bath (1890 – 1891)
- Gathering Fruit (ca. 1893)
- Modern Women, central panel (1893)
- The Boating Party (1893 – 1894)
Filippo Marinetti
“Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909)
John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, “On the Nature of the Gothic” (1851 – 53)
This example of Morris design illustrates which guiding principle?
Simplicity and utility
Thomas Philips, Portrait of Bryon (Year)
1835
Carlo Cara
Interventionist Demonstration (1914)
The term Übermensch is associated with
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire
1902-1904
Sticks of powdered pigment in a gum or resin binder are called
Pastels
Pastels
sticks of powdered pigment bound with resin or gum.