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Undergraduate 1
11/09/2009

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Term
rococo
Definition
light, playful, intimate
patrons:french aristocracy
francois de cuvielles-hall of mirrors (the amalienburg)
antoine watteau-return frm sithera
Term
inspiration for rococo?
Definition
french comic opera & theatre
Term
what was the enlightenment acting against?
Definition
church dogma and monarchy, acting without question.
Term
who were the two leaders of the enlightenment?
Definition
rousseau and voltaire
Term
who wrote about the importance of children and their psychological development?
Definition
rousseau
Term
In addition to the popularity of rational Enlightenment ideas, what sparked a resurgence of interest in classical Greek and Roman culture?
Definition
uncovering of pompei
and herculanium
Term
who did "woman pointing to her children as treasures?"
Definition
angelica kauffmann
neoclassicism
moralizing message:children treasures vs. other girl's jewels
Term
diff btwn renn. classicism and neo-classicism?
Definition
renn based on religious figures, mythology.
-neoclassicism has political twist
neo-classicism based on secularism
Term
who was the painter of the french revolution?
Definition
davide, "death of murat", "oath of the horatii"
Term
what do the men represent in "oath of horatii", women?
Definition
men=patriotism (favored), external
women=personal concerns, internal
Term
who was Marat?
what mood does Davide create by painting him?
Definition
french revolution journalist, martyr for revolution.
reverence and stillness, spiritualized moment of death.
Term
what's an example of neoclassicism in USA?
Definition
monticello by thomas jefferson
Term
who did George Washington's sculpture?
WHY did it flop?
Definition
Horatio Greenough, cus it represented semi-nude GW and made him like Zues when he is supposed to be = with his ppl, not ruler of everyone.
Term
who did Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa? style? how do terrible and sublime combine here?
Definition
Gros, romanticism.
illness, death, disease(bubonic plague) combined with sexuality, sensuality, beautiful bodies, eroticism
Term
romanticism shifts art patronage how?
Definition
turns to open market: loss of nobility/church as patrons, middle class audience, art critics in press, competition for unique yet pleasing style, "lonely starving artist" stereotype
Term
romanticism includes?
Definition
terrible and sublime, awe and terror, dark passions, exploration of psychological/spiritual being, eroticism, social personal freedom (of speech, to write, art,etc), irrationality, orient, based on western prejudice for everyone who is NOT european
Term
what did dominique ingres paint? what style and why?
Definition
the grande odelisque, romantic. turkish harem (orient), nude sensual model w/beautiful attenuated body, based on western european prejudices
Term
whats ingres' signature style?
Definition
line to carry expression
Term
what happens to the artist in romantic movement?
Definition
artists retreat from society, turn inward, need for originality to compete in open market,"lonely starving artist"
Term
Henry fuseli did what? what style? how?
Definition
The nightmare, romantic. dark passions, fears, anxieties. erotic body, sexual, inner passions of unconcious.
Term
what did gericault do? how is it baroque? romantic?
Definition
raft of the medusa. baroque cus dynamic diagnal lines, one side is death one side is hopeful, dramatic, intense, beatiful idealized figures. romantic cus awe and terror, hope and death.
Term
Goya did what two things?
what was he known as?
Definition
The 3rd of may, 1808
Sleep of reason produces monsters
master printmaker
Term
2 meanings of "sleep of reason produces monsters" by Goya?
Definition
1.sleep of reason unveils unconcious dark passions
2.sleep of reason unveils creative mind
Term
who did "the pesthouse at jaffa?"
how is it romantic?
Definition
GROS, orient, beautiful bodies, death and illness, erotic, exotic
Term
what did delacroix do?
3 reasons why it was exotic?
Definition
death of sardanapolus.
1.orient-assyrian king
2.orgy of carnage, death
3.awe and terror, terrible and sublime
4.prejudices against orient
5.naked bodies
Term
What did (William) Turner paint?
what happens?
Definition
The slaveship.
there are body parts due to overthrown slaves.
Term
what was turner an advocate of?
Definition
social justic-romanticism
abolition of slavery
Term
The haywain was painted by who?What is it? what does it represent? what makes it romantic?
Definition
Constable. bucolic, british countryside landscape. it represents loss of such beautiful land due to industrialization. it is romantic cus of its history.
Term
what is manifest destiny?
who uses it in their paintings?
Definition
the idea derived from the monroe doctrine that Europeans should take over America because of Divine Command.
Romantic USA painters who did landscapes used this idea.
Term
who is the audience for paintings (by the USA romantic artists) which include manifest destiny?
Definition
the audience are the Europeans who want to come to this fresh land and make railroads and post-offices for profit.
Term
what two works did courbet do?
Definition
the stonebreakers, burial at ornans
Term
why were courbet's works against the standards of the french academy?
Definition
because in stonebreakers, elevated working class to life-size painting only used for historical (high class) paintings.
in burial@ornans, he put void in mid for grave and made the clergy look like a drunk with a big nose.
Term
who did rue transonian?
how do we feel sympathy for the dead characters?
Definition
Duamier, and he puts us at their level as if we are on the ground too.
Term
3 things characteristic of manet?
Definition
1.fixed glance/icy stare
2.mixing of classes
3.flat paintings
Term
avante-garde
Definition
group of artists with diff.styles, but all rejected by the salon, and all with purpose of being modern and of their times.
Term
what writer inspired modern insight of the avante-garde?
Definition
Baudelaire
Term
why were avante-garde important?
Definition
showed dramatic insight on the social changes (loneliness, isolation, emptiness) that were occuring due to industrialization.
Term
what were Manet's works?
Definition
Olympia
Luncheon on the Grass
A bar at the Folies-Bergiere
Term
Who painted "THE GROSS CLINIC?"
Definition
eakins
Term
why was the USA realist eakins, shocking the public with the gross clinic?
Definition
cus ppl in USA did not know what a medical operation looked like, it was gruesome!
Term
what did tanner paint?
what are its characteristics?
who is he like?
Definition
tanner painted "the thankful poor"
it is quiet,warm color, interiorized, humble and spiritual (grandpa and grandaughter saying Grace) he is like rembrandt.
Term
what is a daguerre type?
Definition
early photograph, he got credit for inventing the camera
Term
who did harvest of death?
Definition
o'sullivan
Term
who did horse galloping?
Definition
muybridge, set up 12 cameras to take photo of animal in motion.
Term
how did photography evolve?
Definition
daguerre types to neg.print system, which allowed for more light and photos to be taken outside.
Term
what two things hold impressionism together as a movement?
Definition
1.they showed their works together
2.ocular truth-how the eye sees
Term
who established the idea of ocular truth?
Definition
corbet
Term
who painted the rouen cathedral?
Definition
monet
Term
who painted "paris, a rainy day"? what style is it? what qualities does it have?
Definition
caillebot, photographic qualities, impressionism,shows rain on ground, like a snapshot
Term
who did the falling rocket(nocturne in black & gold?)
Definition
whistler, impressionist
Term
who did the falling rocket(nocturne in black & gold?)
Definition
whistler, impressionist
Term
who did le moulin de la galette? what style and why?
Definition
renoir, impressionist, dabbles of sunlight on MID class faces.
Term
who painted at the moulin rouge?
what style?
Definition
taulouse-latrec,post-impressionist
Term
what did mary cassat specialize in painting? why? what influences?
Definition
women indoors (esp mothers and kids), women outside alone were seen as loose,japanese influence (move up instead of back)
Term
manet was interested in showing?
him and seurat both did?
Definition
psychological uneasiness, mixing of the classes
Term
what was cool about seurat?
what did he paint? what was he?
Definition
pointilism,Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, post-impressionist
Term
van gogh did what?
Definition
night cafe, starry night.
Term
what kind of painting was characterstic of van gohg?
Definition
dashes, emotion and distorted forms
Term
post-impressionists cared about?
Definition
careful examination of symbolic character of subject matter.
space and lines
Term
who was van goghs friend?
Definition
gohgan
Term
in the night cafe, the pic goes back very fast to give what sense?
Definition
psychological uneasiness.
Term
what did gauguin paint?
Definition
jacob wrestling with the angel
Term
what was characteristic of gauguin?
Definition
interested in color, religion, superstious. fields of color.
Term
who painted mt.st.victoire?
Definition
cezanne
Term
what is characteristic of cezanne?
Definition
color shape value, little patches, geometric shapes-trying to understand how the eye puts these things together.
Term
who are the two symbolist artists we need to know?
Definition
redon and munch
Term
redon painted?
Definition
the cyclops
Term
munch painted?
Definition
the scream
Term
characteristic of symbolism?
Definition
stems from post-impressionism, free reign to imagination,
Term
munch was known for?
Definition
pictures of tremendous anxiety (the scream),and tension
Term
who sculpted Burghers of Calais?
Definition
Rodin!
Term
who did the cyclops?
Definition
redon
Term
what did rodin do in the burghleurs of calet?
Definition
he made the texture not smooth cus he wanted to convey emotional expressiveness of despair, ppl gave lives for their city.
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