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19th Century Art
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
03/25/2009

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____ took the first photograph in ______.
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Niépce, in 1827.
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The Republican Government annnouces the invention of photography by _______ in ______.
Definition
Daguerre, in 1836.
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Copies were made possible by the invention of ________.
Definition
photographic negatives.
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______ produces first photographic negatives in _______.
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Talbot, in 1847-48.
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______ introduces combination printing in ______.
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Gustave Le Gray, in 1850.
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______ invents the cartes de visite, or visiting card, in ______.
Definition
Disdéri, in 1854.
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Niépce called his process _____.
Definition
heliography
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Many famous French photographers of the late nineteenth century came out of the studio of _______.
Definition
Paul Delaroche.
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Daguerreotypes were ______ objects.
Definition
unique
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What is meant by the term 'unique object'?
Definition
Image is not reproducible. What the camera produces is the one final product.
Term
Gustave Le Gray
Definition
1850 - He put the first negative on glass

1851 - he helped to found the Société Héliographique, the "first photographic organization in the world“

Became official photographer of Napoleon the III
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carte de visite
Definition
visiting card, a photograph mounted on cardboard. This enables the mass production and distribution of photographs.
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French landscape painters were in opposition to Italian schools because they...
Definition
rejected clear ordered space and recession.
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Millet's work is noteworthy because he...
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shows sympathy for the poor laboring classes. Their figures are intense and focused.
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As opposed to traditional studio paintings, Corot's work showed...
Definition
attention to actual visual phenomena in the outdoors.
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Giuseppe Castiglione
Definition
Italian missionary to China

first artist to introduce Western techniques of perspective and accurate depiction of figures
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The leading site for art and culture in China
Definition
Shanghai
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Rise of 'Shanghai-style' was led by ____.
Definition
Ren Xiong
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The Ten Myriads
Definition
Ren Xiong: mineral pigments on a ground of gold leaf each leaf has a line of calligraphy
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Zhao Zhiqian was known for...
Definition
incorporating elements from ancient inscriptional carvings into his paintings

His bright palette peppered with brilliant oranges, greens pinks and purples

Master calligraphy
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Wu Jiayou worked as...
Definition
an illustrator for Shanghai’s first pictorial magazine.
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Edo period
Definition
Emperors were largely ceremonial
The real power lay in the hands of the shoguns (dictators) who ruled from Edo (Toyko).

Occupation determined by birth
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Ukiyo-e
Definition
"Pictures of the floating world"

created for and by the lower strata of society

secular, unapologetically plebian, sometimes even anti-aristocratic
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nishiki-e
Definition
“brocade pictures”

developed by Suzuki Harunobu

emphasis on pattern
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Interior of a Bathhouse
Definition
Torii Kiyonaga, 1787

opposites brought together: awkwardness and grace, realism and stylization, naked and dressed figures, wet and dry

The space is made of seemingly half hazard arrangements - "artlessness" is what gives it interest
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Hishikawa Moronobu (c. 1625-1695)
Definition
generally considered the founder of Ukiyo-e.
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Definition
Was considered the greatest master of Ukiyo-e in the early nineteenth century

Produced 30,000 drawings - an important historical record of the period.
Term
The Great Wave off Kanazawa
Definition
Katsushika Hokusai, 1823-39

Emphasis on pattern (very Japanese), color

Hokusai's landscapes were very popular
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Utagawa Hiroshige, (1797-1858)
Definition
younger contemporary of Hokusai

he would use natural components of the foreground to frame the background
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Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Definition
Courbet's paintings are characterized by their weight, their ability to give the beholder the impression that he can enter it, physically.
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Burial at Ornnans
Definition
Courbet, 1849

Shows burial in a public graveyard, not a church yard proper.

Signaled a landmark Republican victory of the Clergy. Reaction was hostile.
Term
The Artist's Studio
Definition
Courbet, 1854-55.

A sort of rhyming takes place between the painting within the painting and its surroundings

Allegorically, a reference to political problems, historical problems and the subject matter of art.
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Aftermath of Revolution of 1830:
Definition
Charles X overthrown because of his restrictive politics

People left leaderless

A group of bourgeois by give the government to the Orleans scion Louis-Philippe, empowering the bourgeoisie.
Term
Philipon
Definition
Published La Caricature and Le Charivari, satirical journals.
Term
King Louis-Philippe's 'pear-image' was developed by _____.
Definition
Philipon
Term
Gargantua
Definition
Daumier, 1830s

Gluttonous, pear-headed monarch devouring gold
Term
Louis Philippe area characterized by:
Definition
greed

oppression of the poor

no freedom of press
Term
Nadar
Definition
Important caricaturist, photographer, and balloonist

Lent his studio to a group now known as teh Impressionists so they could have their first show.
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Why was caricature feared by those in power?
Definition
it could communicate political discourse to an illiterate population.

It was easy to reproduce through lithography, and hard to control.
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J.J. Grandville
Definition
suffered enormously under the censorship of Louis-Philippe

did fun engravings of animals in human occupations
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morceaux vs tableaux
Definition
morceaux: a "picture", something aesthetically pleasing

tableaux: a literal picture with a story, such as Oath of the Horatii
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Manet
Definition
Beginnings of realism

Studied under Couture, who Manet saw as Pompadour
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Old Musician
Definition
Manet, 1862

Basically a 'cut and paste' of figures taken from earlier French master works

Maybe it was created to recover a specifically French tradition, against Neo-classicism?
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Olympia
Definition
Manet, 1865

Canvas is raw, almost dirty

Sparked controversy, hostility

Looked kind of like widely-circulated, private photographic porn. Manet was bringing this to the public?
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