Western Art History

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The first works of sculpture

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Fertility Sculpture

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Exaggerated treatment of female sexual attributes

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Fertility sculpture

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Example of fertility sculpture

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Venus of willendorf and the venus of dolni vestonice

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Closely knit with religion

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Art of ancient Egypt / Egyptian art

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The core of their beliefs is a profound preoccupation with death and immortality

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Egyptian Art

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This during ancient times were exemplary not just because of the grandiose architecture, but also because of the paintings and sculptures they contained.

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Pyramids and temples

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Three periods of greek art

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Archaic— classical—hellenistic

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arts manifested the influence of earlier civilizations such as those of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

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Archaic Period

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There is a rise in complex aesthetic and philosophical ideas was achieved

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Classical Period

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Perfect naturalism was among the traits of sculpture

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Classical Period

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_____________was among the traits of sculpture

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Perfected naturalism

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A time when classical ideals were challenged

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Hellenistic period

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Emotion replaced classical restraint and serenity

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Hellenistic period

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_________replaced classical restraint and serenity

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Emotion

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Four prevalent artistic styles under the medieval period:

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Early christian period— byzantine— romanesque— gothic

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Followed the teachings of Christianity

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Early christian art

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an emphasis on the spiritual and eternal - life on earth being a preparation for life after death.

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Early Christian Art

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merged a two-dimensional style placing emphasis on clarity of line and sharpness of outline.

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Byzantine Art

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This was also prevalent, resulting to flat frontal figures with heads turned to three-quarter view.

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Western three dimensional style of classical tradition

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In painting and sculpture showcased figures in unrealistic anatomy and whirlpool of intricate patterns.

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Romanesque style

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Architecture during this period were mostly massive and placed an emphasis on horizontality, since the fortresses predominated

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Romanesque Style

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New technologies in construction allowed for a development of_______________

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Gothic style of architecture

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Aside from the use of stone in building, there were translucent stained glass and in the interior, ornaments of gold, silver, and precious stones, and exquisite tapestries.

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Gothic Style

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Meaning rebirth, is one of the highest moments of civilization.

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Renaissance

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During this time, there was a revival of classical learning in the study of Greek and Roman texts.

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Renaissance

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Known Artist during the Renaissance Are:

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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello

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The decay of classicism in the visual arts took the form of____________

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Mannerism

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which expressed the insecurity, anxieties, and escapist tendencies of the aristocratic class.

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Mannerism

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Perversion of classicism

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Mannerism

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The highly sensual and dynamic style that emerged from the crisis of Christianity gave rise to?

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Baroque Style

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Movement, energy, and restlessness are the characteristic style of the?

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Baroque Period

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Is marked by excessive ornamental intricacy

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Baroque Style

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Extension of the baroque art in its ornate aspect.

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Rococo

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organic growth with spirals, and twisting lines becoming increasingly ornate.

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Rococo

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In pursuant of the classical tradition of greek and roman art in the 19th century

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Neo-classicism

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Prominent artist during the neo-classicism:

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Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain

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with its emphasis on formal discipline and its revival of antiquity, served the aims of the regime by exalting civic and patriotic values of the early Romans for the emulation of the public.

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Classicism

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an artistic style followed the French Revolution.

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Romanticism

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stressed the individual freedom of the artist and his subjective reaction to the world around him.

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Romanticism

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Due to the rise of industrial capitalism, and with it the growth of the working class, a group of artists advocated for

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Realism

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They preferred to derive their subjects from the working people and to show them as they are in their daily activities without idealizing them.

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Realism

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It was lead by the theory of aetheticism giving the rise to “art for art’s sake.”

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Symbolism

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During this period, prime importance on form or the formal aesthetics elements over meaning and content prevailed.

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19th century | Symbolism

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A reaction to the industrialization, machination of labor, and mass prodution.

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Art Nouveau

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Plant motifs proliferated in this style characterized by sinuous, undulating line transforming itself continually to tendrils, stems, leaves, veins, and petals.

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Art Nouveau

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Is considered style developed through the experimentation of form.

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Impressionism

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A rebel movement against classicism in french academy with its ideals of performance, stability, and the intention of capturing the eternal.

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Impressionism

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use of bright colors by the impressionists

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Fauvism

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With color assuming primary importance, they aimed at gay or startling compositions.

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Fauvism

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derived from the modern period's primacy of feeling, often strong and violent, always intensely personal, in the work of art.

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Expressionism

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nature and everyday objects, such as flowers, become highly expressive of a mood or an emotional state.

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Expressionism

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was a movement that treated nature by its basic forms: cylinders, spheres, cones, everything in proper perspective, so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

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Cubism

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Point of view was continually shifting, shapes were exaggerated and simplified, while color emphasized formal structure.

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Cubism

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Linear perspective was negated and the canvas was reaffirmed as a two-dimensional surface.

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Cubism

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As a style in painting, it strove to analyze visually the various stages of action.

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Futurism

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Painting seem to correspond to photography and a series of multiple exposures of one action in a single film.

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Futurism

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a violent reaction against the tyranny of artistic traditions.

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Dadaism

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ridiculed the bourgeois concept of art as commodity.

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Dadaist/ Dadaism

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Prominent artist of dadaism:

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Marcel Duchamp and Frances Picabia

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draws from the psychoanalytic methods of Freud, particularly that of free association and the interpretation of dreams.

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Surrealism

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Artist who practiced surrealism were:

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Salvador Dali and Giorgio de Chirico

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centered around the theory that man's conscious activity was but a small and limited area compared to the vast realism of the unconscious of which dreams are only the symbols.

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Surrealism

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was the leader. of the De Stijl group.

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Piet Mondrian

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They developed geometric abstraction through mathematically precise paintings based on right angles, squares, and rectangles.

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De Stijl

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Their work influenced the suprematists, a Russian group including Kasimir Malevich, which aimed to achieve "pure painting" freed from any allusions to the external world.

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De Stijl

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Also called as action painting

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abstract expressionism

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The major exponent of this style was Jackson Pollock whose technique, consisting of splattering or spraying the canvas with paint, brings the element of chance into play.

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Abstract expressonism

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The major exponent of this style was_______________ whose technique, consisting of splattering or spraying the canvas with paint, brings the element of chance into play.

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Jackson Pollock

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created through ingenious and precise combinations of line and color.

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Optical illusion

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It requires great precision in planning, as well as scrupulous draftsmanship.

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Optical Illusion

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drew its subjects from mass-produced items that flood the consumer market.

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Pop-art

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These are usually half-comic, half-ironic commentaries on contemporary urban consumerist societies.

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Pop-art

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Also called hyperrealism or superrealism

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Photorealism

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These are works that are heavily dependent on photographs as references, often projected onto a canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy.

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Photorealism

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makes use of an "environmental object" or an "environmental composition."

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Installation

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Objects are organized to provide a psychological atmosphere that the artist wants to create.

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Installation

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a genre in which art is presented "live,' usually by the artist but sometimes with collaborators or performers.

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Performance art

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This reflects the period's so- called dematerialization of the art object," and the flight from traditional media.

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Performance Art

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Although the concerns of performance artists have changed since the 1960s, the genre has remained a constant presence until today.

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Performance Art

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Intrumental period has:

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Baroque period, classical period, romantic period, modern period

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refers to the rich polyphonic music composed about the period 1600-1750.

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Baroque period

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It was a period of vocal forms such as the oratorio and the cantata, and instrumental forms such as the fugue.

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Baroque Period

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The great composers of baroque music were:

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G. F. Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach.

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is the period between Baroque and Romantic periods.

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Classical Period

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has a lighter, and clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex. It is mainly homophonic.

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Classical Music

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The key composers of classical period are:

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Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert.

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In this music, emotion triumphs over intellect, and the beauty of the melodic line hold sway over considerations of structure.

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Romantic Period

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Well-known composers during romantic period are:

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Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, and Richard Strauss.

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The trend from classical to romantic continued to the this period developed through experimentation.

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Modern Period

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Composers became preoccupied with the reassessment of the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and tone quality.

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Modern period

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Some of the well known composers during the modern period are:

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the modern period are Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, and Maurice Ravel.

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a rise in complex aesthetic and philosophical ideals was achieved.

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Classical Period

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Cave that is discovered that contain paintings

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Lascaux Cave and Altamira Cave