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Art 117-JJC
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/04/2013

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Periodic Style
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artistic manner of a certain time
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Regional Style
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variations tied to grography
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Personal Style
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Distinctive manner of individual
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Formal analysis
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the visual analysis of artistic form
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Iconography
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symbolic meaning
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Rococo
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interior design; began in France; lavish decoration; "pebble" (decorate grottos
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Enlightenment
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philosophy based on a new way of thinking for mankind; independent of religion
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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believed that all people are born good; society corrupts people.
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Voltaire
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1694- Writer. Writings were banned; advocate for freedom and independence
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Grand Manner
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type of portrait painting. symbolizes a persons class or grace by having a large scale for them
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Romanticism
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began in France and Spain; 1750-1850; Western Culture; feeling over thought
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Landscape
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picture showing natural scenery
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Sublime
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relating to horror
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Picturesque
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between sublime and beautiful
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French Royal Academy
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1648; Louis XIV;
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Rubenistes Vs. Poussinistes
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debate between line vs. color; ingres and delacroix
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Excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum
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rome; transportation hub; A.D 79 Volcano errupted and covered entire city
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Andrea Palladio
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italian architect; considered most influential
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James Stuart and Nicholas Revett
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published findings in The Antiquities of Athens; depicted the first time the architectural achievements of ancient Greece.
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Cabinet of Curiosity
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belonged to wealthy men; curio cabinets holding their objects of interests
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Raphael
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painted for Julius II; marriage of the virgin; Madonna in the meadow
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Line versus color
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line=logic
color=emotion
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Lord Byron
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Greek War of Independence
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Beautiful
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opposite of sublime
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Sir Edmund Burke
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Thomas Clarkson
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Captain Luke Collingwood
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captain of The Zong; loaded with slaves dying of illness; threw over 133 overboard
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Hudson River School
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Neo-Gothic, Gothic revival
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Houses of Parliament (1835)
-late 1100's
-pointed arch
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Realism
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Everyday life
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Karl Marx
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Friedrich Engels
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The Communist Manifesto
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Modernism
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cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements; 19/20th century
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Clement Greenberg
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American modern art in mid 20th century; abstract
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avant-garde
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advance guard; refers to experimental works.
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Courbet's Pavilion of Realism
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palette knife
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large butter knife; build up on canvas is called impasto
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Adolphe-William Bougurtreau
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Rembrant van Rijin
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lithography
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multiples of an image
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Impressionism
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coherent movement; industrialized and urbanized Paris
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The eight "Impressionist" exhibitions
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Franco-Prussian War
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-1870/1871
-France becomes a Republic
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Charles Baudelaire
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Eugine Boudin
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plein air
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painting outdoors
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Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann
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Japanese woodblock prints
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Japonisme
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Ukiyo-e
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Japanese prints; carved on blocks transferred on fabric; pinned on walls
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Edgar Degas
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Harunobu
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Ecole des Beaux-Arts
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