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Art History Exam #2
Cards for second exam
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/10/2009

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Term
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Definition

"Pilgrimage to Cythera"

Watteau

 

18th

French Rococo

 

- A more plaful scene

- Fantasy setting

- "Fete galante = Elegant party

- In theater costumes

- Island = venus' island

- Coule be departure

- Luxurious fabrics

- Sea Shell boat = organic shape

Term
[image]
Definition

"Venus Consoling Love"

Boucher

 

18th

French Rococo

 

- Supposed to be sensual,  appealing to the senses

- Soft texture

- Use of diagonals, movement, painterly background, drapery/since of movement

- Celebrate nature

Term
[image]
Definition

"The Swing"

 Fragonard

 

18th

French Rococo

 

- Playful scene for the well to do

- Curly, frilly forms

- Mistress on swing, Baron looking up dress

- Questioning of the chruch (pushing swing)

Term
[image]
Definition

"Marie Antoinette"

Vigée-Lebrun

 

18th

French Rococo

 

- Expensive attire (Features, etc)

- Luxury

- Louis' bust in photo

- Use of drapery and patterns

- Idea of her aloofness

 

Term
[image]
Definition

"Investiture of Bishop Harold, Kaisersaal"

Tiepolo

 

18th

German Rococo

 

- Trompr l'oeil = Fool the eye

- Light, rich fabrics

- Draperies, clouds

- Done on ceilings to fool the eye

- Dog symbolizes fidelity

 

Term
[image]
Definition

"Marriage à la Mode II"

Hogarth

 

18th

English Rococo

 

- Satire of the rich

- Moral, genre scenes

- Black mark = STD

- Maybe infedelity? Dog?

- Cupid among ruins = Marriage on the rocks

- Bust without nose = STD

- Room with saints is igonred= Ignoring morals

Term
Art and Architecture of the 18th Century in Europe
Definition

-light hearted

-Frilly

-Pastel usage

-Gold

-Organic forms

-Dainty Figures

- A lot of venus & cupids

-Playful movement

Term
[image]
Definition

"Chiswick Villa"

Lord Burlington

 

18th

English NeoClassicism/Palladio

 

- Burlington'g playhouse

- No kitchen or bathroom

Term
[image]
Definition

"Cornelia Pointing to her Children as her Treasures"

 Angelica Kauffmann

 

18th

English Neoclassicism

 

- Drapery

- Triangle form

- Classical setting (Colums)

- Clean, linear style

- Shallow space

Term
[image]
Definition

"An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump"

 Joseph Wright of Derby

 

18th

English NeoClassicism

 

- Crisp linear edges

- Shallow space

- Reason

- 18th = "Age of enlightenment"

- Use of tenebrisim

- Moon = Lunar Society

Term
[image]
Definition

"Strawberry Hill"

Horace Walpole

 

18th

English Romanticism

 

- Romanticis=Imagination,rejects clarity, purity

- His country house

- Gothic style=Pointed windows, edges

Term
[image]
Definition

"Death of General Wolfe"

Benjamin West

 

18th

English NeoClassicism

 

- Wolfe lead troops to vitory

- Critiized for dressing in contemporary style.

-Painted for king george, but didn't want because of clothing

- Charged people to come see the painting

Term
[image]
Definition

"Paul Revere"

John Singleton Copley

 

18th

American NeoClassicism

 

- Sprting symbol of freedom

- Tea= Heavily taxed tea.

- Wouldn't drink tea because of the politcal.

- looks baroque

- NeoClassicism linear style

Term
[image]
Definition

"Monticello"

Thomas Jefferson

 

18th

American NeoClassicism

 

- "Monticello" = "Little mountain"

- Three stories

- Made out of red brick

Term
[image]
Definition

"George Washington"

Horatio Greenough

 

18th

American NeoClassicism

 

- Inspiration was Zeus statue

- Looks godly

- Wasn't recienved well because of ideals.

Term
[image]
Definition

"Oath of the Horatii"

Jacques-Louis David

 

18th

French NeoClassicism

 

 

-  From classical antiquity

- Louie trying to show change by commissioning these paintings.

- Alba Longa - Curiatii

- Instead of during action (Like Baroque), tense moment beforehand.

- One must be willing to make scrafices for the good of the state.

- Linear

 

Term
[image]
Definition

"Death of Socrates"
 David, Jacques-Louis

 

18th

French NeoClassicism

 

-Socrates sent to death for questioning  god.

- Socrates iluminated and strng compared to curving, dark figures.

- Linear

- Clothes

- Showing story from classical times

- Idiolized

Term
[image]
Definition

"Death of Marat"

David, Jacques-Louis

 

18th

French NeoClassicism

 

- Propaganda for Jacobin party

- No background

- Close to the picture frame

- Appeals to the emotion

- Like Barogue

- Linear edges

- Moment after violence

- Dramatic lighting

- Knife and letter in picture

- "dead marter"

Term
[image]
Definition

"Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass"

  David, Jacques-Louis

 

18th

French NeoClassicism

 

- First Consels = President

- Got the painter out of jail to get propaganda

- Name on rock

- He seems powerful, on horse back like romans

- Before the storm.

- Calm in comparison to horse

-  Linear line

- Diagonal

- A little painterly

Term
[image]
Definition

"Arc de Triomphe, Paris"

 Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin

 

18th

French NeoClassicism

 

- 168 ft high

- Towers over paris

- Decorated in relief sculputre

- Instead of sculputres for Napolean, it's for france in general

Term
[image]
Definition

"Maria Paolina Borghese as Venus"

Antonio Canova

 

18th

French NeoClassicism

 

- Imported by Napolean from Italy to sculp

- Napolean's sister as venus

- Combines indivdulized features with standard venus

- Reclining instead of standing

- Holding apple (in beauty contanst where apple was prize)

- Rebel in the nudity

Term
[image]
Definition

"Napoleon Enthroned"

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

 

18th

 French NeoClassicism

 

- Linear, smooth, finished

- Shown as rich, covered in rich fabrics and costumes

- Golden Laural reeth on head

- Staff of Charlamane, staff of the ivory staff of justice

Term
[image]
Definition

"Grande Odalisque"

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique 

 

18th

NeoClassicism

 

-Light skinned harem girl

-Linear

-Mistakes in anatomy

- Foot, spin, breast

Term
[image]
Definition

"Raft of the “Medusa”

Théodore Géricault

 

19th

Romanticisim

 

- Moment of rescue

- moment of action

- Triangular composition

- Dead and dying figures on diagonals

- Romantic = Awesomeness of nature

- brsuh work on sky is loose

- Emotional figures

Term
[image]
Definition

"Bark of Dante"

Eugène Delacroix

 

19th

Romanticism

 

- Emotional/movement

- More painterly

-  Grotesque figures

- Dramatic lighting

- Dark background

Term
[image]
Definition

"Massacre at Chios"

Eugène Delacroix

 

19th

Romanticism

 

- Dead bodies.

- Old and young

- Diagonals

- Movement

Term
[image]
Definition

"Death of Sardanapalus"

Eugène Delacroix

 

19th

Romanticism

 

- About acient Middle East

- Movement

- Loose brush work

- Interest in exotic cultures

Term
[image]
Definition

"Liberty Leading the People"

Eugène Delacroix

 

19th

Romanticism

 

 - Loose brush strokes

- Colors unify painting

- Marianne is personification of liberty

- Bare breasted for freedom

Term
[image]
Definition

"Family of Charles IV"

Franciso de Goya y Lucientes

 

19th

Romantisim

 

- Family together

- inerest in people

Term
[image]
Definition

"Executions of the Third of May"

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

 

19th

Romanticism

 

- Known for pictures of war.

- Rigid faces of frnech soilders

- Victims individulized

- Moment of action

- A lot of emotion/pulling you in

- Clouding background

- High light victims

Term
Romanticism
Definition

-ExoticCultures

-Imagination

-Middle ages

-Dramatic lighting

-Emotion

-Movement

-Loose brush strokes

- Atmsphere

-Victims of social injustice

-Awesomeness of nature

-Grotesque

Term
[image]
Definition

"Two Men Contemplating the Moon"

Caspar David Friedrich

 

19th

Romanticism

 

- sublime= inspires any overwhelming feeling

- Interest in nature and natural sciences

- Reaction to indutrial revolution

- Wearing Medievil outfits

- Nighttime = mystery

- Loose, painterly style

Term
[image]
Definition

"Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Garden"

 John Constable

 

19th

Romanticism

 

- Gothic Cathedral

- Pastoral = Idealized landscape

- Contrast of light and dark

- Shows nastaglia for middle ages

- Painterly brushstrokes.

- Idealized. No industrialization

Term
[image]
Definition

"Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834"

 Joseph Mallord William Turner

 

19th

Romanticism

 

- Show force of nature/awesomemes/sublimity of nature

- Over whelming human kind and it's creations

- Clash of warm and cool

Term
[image]
Definition

"The Oxbow"

Thomas Cole

 

19th

Romanticism

 

- More linear/less painterly  and mroe conservative

- Best way to be close to god, to be outside

- In the painting, in top hat, painting

Term
[image]
Definition

Gleaners

Jean-François Millet

 

19th

Realism

 

- Rural peseants

- Transition piece between romnticism and realisim

- Warm, hazy landscap

- Don't break the horizion.

Term
[image]
Definition

"Horse Fair"

Rosa Bonheur

 

19th

Realisim

Term
[image]
Definition

"A Burial at Ornans"

Gustave Courbet

 

19th

Realism

 

- "Show me an angel and I'll paint one"

- 10 by 22 ft.

- Protriats of people from home town

- Critiziced for composition

- Rough painting style

- Two figures in 18th century clothing

- Burying of political hopes?

Term
[image]
Definition

"Stone Breakers"

Gustave Courbet

 

19th

Realisim

 

- Annoymous

- Nothing heroic

-Blend in with surroundings

- Tattered clothing

Term
[image]
Definition

"Interior of My Studio: A Real Allegory"

Gustave Courbet

 

19th

Realisim

 

- His view of society. 

- Realtionship of society

- People on right = friends (artist, writers, and collectors)

- Left = Working class types (hunters, beggars, street performers, jews, peasents)

-Children = freedom before tainted

- Naked lady = turning his back from the classical works of the past

Term
[image]
Definition

"Louis-Philippe as Gargantua"

Honoré Daumier

 

19th

Realism

 

- Real because of social commentary.

- Showing explotation of lower classes

- Lithograph

Term
[image]
Definition

"Third-Class Carriage"

Honoré Daumier

 

19th

Realism

 

- Infasis on the poor

- Uses ligt and faces to show hopelessness

Term
[image]
Definition

"The Luncheon on the Grass"

 Ėdouard Manet

 

19th

Realism

 

- Salon = where works could be displayed

-  Challengeing what makes high art

- A no no to have modern naked french women with men.

- Nude looking a viewer

- Nude = favorite model

- Fruit not in the same season

- Rejected by Salon

Term
[image]
Definition

"Olympia"

Ėdouard Manet

 

19th

Realism

 

- See as obsene

- A prositute

- Cheap shoes

- Flat, cut out like look

Term
[image]
Definition

"Gross Clinic"

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins

 

19th

Realism

 

- Power of science to illumnate a world of ignorance

- Light focused on doctor

- Honors surgery as a healing profession

Term
[image]
Definition

"Annunciation"

Henry Ossawa Tanner

 

19th

Realism

 

- Naturalistic depiction

- Angel is light.

- Middle eastern looking virgin mary

Term
[image]
Definition

"Sarah Bernhardt"

Nadar

 

19th

 

 

- Softer

- Composition work

- more artistic.

Term
[image]
Definition

"Wainwright Building"

Louis Sullivan

 

19th

 

 

- Tensile strength (ability of a  building to deal with wind), structural steel, reinforced concrete

- Cornice (horizontal decoration on the top)

Term
Impressionism
Definition

-  Build upon ideas from manet and courbet
- Everyday life/ contemporaneity/modernity
- Immediacy
-  Emphasision on materials

-Religion is no longer the most important

Term
[image]
Definition

"Impression Sunrise"

 Claude Monet

 

 19th

Impressionism

 

- Factory (modern)

- Capturing the moment of the sunrise

- Materials

- Painted outside (en plein air

- Interested in light, waters, weather

Term
[image]
Definition

"Moulin de la Galette"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

 

19th

Impressionism

 

- Sweet faces figures

- Interested in costumes and fashion

- Brush strokes create sense of movement

Term
[image]
Definition

"Dancing Lesson"

Hilaire-Germain Degas

 

19th

Impressionism

 

- Interested in the way the body moves through space

- Idea of a captured moment

- ideas from japanese art

Term
[image]
Definition

"At the races"

Hilaire-Germain Degas

 

19th

Impressionism

 

- visable blurry brush strokes

- In the moment

- Train & horse  = Modern travel

Term
[image]
Definition

"The Cradle"

Berthe Morisot

 

19th

Impressionism

 

-Artist sister

- Baby's arm connects with diagonal

- Diagonal curtain

- Circle to embrace mother and child

- Different layers of paints

- Loose brush work

Term
[image]
Definition

"A Bar at the Folies-Bergère"

Ėdouard Manet

 

19th

Impressionism

 

- Potraying a slice of actual life

- Asserting that it's a painting by shifting the image in the mirror

Term
[image]
Definition

"Nocturne in Black and Gold"

James Abbott McNeil Whistler

 

19th

Impressionism

 

- Artistic agganments of form and color

- Cove mood instead of repersent something

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