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Chapter 30
quiz four
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/24/2012

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French Revolution

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1830,1848
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First impressionist exhibition

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1847
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Origin of modern architecture

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Late 19th century 
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Avant-garde
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represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm
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calotype
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the first photographic process utilizing negative and paper positive. it was invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in the late 1830s
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camera obscura
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an early cameralike device used in the renaissance and later for recording images of nature. Made from a dark box(or room) with a hole in one side (sometimes fitted with a lens) the camera obscura operates when bright light shines through the holes, casting an upside down image of an object outside onto the inside wall of the box
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daguerreotype
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an early photographic process that makes a positive print on a light sensitized capperplate; invented and marketed in 1839 by louis-jaques-made daguerre
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divisionism
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painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interacted optically
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historicism
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the strong consciousness of and attention to the institution, theme, styles, and forms of the past, made accessible by historical research, textual study and archaeology
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impasto
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thick applications of pigment that give a painting a palpable surface texture
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impressionism
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Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes; opencomposition; emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities
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japonisme
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a style in french and american nineteenth-century art that was highly influenced by Japenese art, especially prints
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lithograph
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a design drawn on a flat stone block with greasy crayon. Ink is applied to the wet stone and adheres only to the greasy areas of the design
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orientalism
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the fascination with midlle eastern culture
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realism
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concentrated on contemporary social realism
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salon de refuses
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an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official
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