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Art History
Undergraduate 2
03/11/2014

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Romanticism
Definition

·      Roman referred to novels, horror stories, far from the romanticism that first comes in mind, dramatic stories with fear

 

·      Mankind is not ideal, he is simultaneously great and wretched

 

·      Move away from academia

 

·      Represent man’s inhumanity to man

 

·      The teenage art movement, miserable

 

·      Passions as opposed to principles – colore

 

·      Napoleon is ruling France

 

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Industrial Revolution
Definition

Beginning of the age of technology – creation of machines to replace man’s labor

Everybody died of consumption (filled lungs with smoke)

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Sublime
Definition

Representation that inspires awe and a feeling of something “larger than life”

 

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Odalisque
Definition
Harem slave woman, sex slaves
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Orientalism
Definition
The west’s (Europe) fascination with the culture of Northern Africa, the East and Near-East (middle east today)
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Coup d’etat
Definition

Overthrow of the government

 

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the symbol of rome

 

Definition
Eagles
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Bourgeoisie
Definition

The middle class

 

 

 

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Modernism
Definition

The “Here and Now”

 

The process of Art

 

We are going to use painting to cristize painting

 

Showo the process of paint = brush strokes

 

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Realism
Definition

·      Emerges in the mid-nineteenth century in Paris

 

·      Attempting to create objective representations of the external world as viewed directly by the artist.

 

·      Consciously democratic, including subject matter that had previously been considered unworthy or vulgar

 

·      If you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist

 

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Salon des Refusés
Definition

Salon of the Refused art, 1863, additional exhibition of refused art from the French Acadmic salon – beginning of the philosophy of modernism

 

 

 

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Japonisme
Definition

Influence of Japanese prints on nineteenth century Western artists, it’s the technique they use, cropping

 

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En plein air
Definition

Sketching and/or painting out of doors in order to capture the immediate effects of natural light

 

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Aestheticism
Definition

beauty

 

Art for art’s sake

 

Art without morals, narrative etc.

 

Beauty and beauty alone

 

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Impressionism
Definition

·      The anonymous society of the artists,

·      Visible brush strokes

 

·      Emphasis on light and its changing qualities

 

·      Ordinary subject matter (genre)

 

·      Inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience

 

·      Unusual visual angles

 

 

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Post-Impressionism
Definition

·      Name given by art critic, Roger Fry

 

·      Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh and Gauguin

 

·      No formal organization

 

·      Followed Impressionism’s modernist interest and bright palette

 

·      Added formal elements (line, form, shape)

 

 

 

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Pointillism – Divisionism
Definition

optical blending, don’t blend color on palette, chromoluminarism,

 

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Symbolism
Definition

·      Literary movement, begun in France

 

·      Rejected social consciousness of Realism

 

·      Rejected interest in nature of Impressionism

 

·      Main focus is interior – man’s soul or dreams

 

·      Drawn to dreams, myths, the macabre and the poetic

 

 

 

Term
Fin de siele
Definition
end of the century
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Fauvism
Definition

wild beasts,

 

·      group of artists who appeared to substitute raw energy for draftsmanship and technique.

 

·      Primary colors were dominant

 

·      Clearly influenced by van Gogh and Gauguin

 

Term
Die Brücke
Definition

  • Opposed to the “older” well-established powers
  • Wanted to create a bridge to the future
  • Influenced by Nietzsche
  • Opposed to bourgeoisie lifestyle (the middle class way of living, shopping)
  • Considered Bohemians

 

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Der Blaue Reiter
Definition

 

·      Focus was on visually expressiong a spirituality that resided beneath the surface of the visual world

 

·      Used color as a language

 

·      Theosophy

 

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Analytic Cubism
Definition
Is that in which space is reduced to a flat pane and the subject look as if they were sliced into small strips which were then put back together in shifting and overlapping planes and intersecting triangles of empty space.
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Synthetic Cubism
Definition

·      Cubism that is constructed of exterior materials, paper and other materials collage, the birth of Collage

 

·      Provoke the question of what is real and what is not

 

·      Collage= to stick

 

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Orphism
Definition

A combination of Fauvism and cubism, with reference to the spirituality of color and the spiritual experience of flight

 

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Futurism

Definition

·      Italian movement

 

·      Used cubism’s formal ssiscoveries to represent figures and machines in motion and to express a new universal dynamim

 

·      The machine was the dawn of a new era for Futurism

 

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Suprematism
Definition

·      A nonrepresentational style of at develop in Russia in the early twentieth century

 

·      Used severely simple geometric shapes or forms

 

·      Extremely limited palette

 

·      Goal: to convey that the supreme reality in the world is pure feeling, which can sttach itself to no object

 

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Avant-garde
Definition

cutting edge artists

 

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