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Humanities Quiz #1
Humanities quiz 1
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
01/24/2017

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Term
Enlightenment
Definition
Reason
Order
Balance
Rationality
"Head over your heart"- I think therefore I am
Term
Romanticism (1780-1800's)
Definition
Heart over head
Nature: Power of nature over man (England)
Patriotism and Nationalism (France)
Isolationism: darker themes, death, despair, outcast(Germany)
impulsive
Emotions over rationality
Day dreaming - looking to the past
"I feel, therefore I am"
(US, France-Paris, Spain, Germany, England) express romanticism
Term
Realism
Definition
Truth
objective
"Real" and raw
Here and now
Science and technology
moving from farming economy ->mechanical/industrial economy
country -> cities
Term
Nude
Definition
No clothes
Face turned away
persons face is visible
based on mythological character or someone who does not exist
Term
Naked
Definition
No clothes
persons face is visible
person actually exists
Term
Thomas Eakins
Definition
master of nude figure
Anatomy/Biology
Very detailed
preferred unconventional themes
"The gross clinic"- this is a very realistic painting that shows a surgery occurring in front of a class
Term
Gothic Architecture
Definition
Originally French
Rose Windows
High vaulted ceilings
Stained glass
covered in windows
pointed arches
layout of the church is in the shape of a cross
lots of ornamentation, decorations
Term
Caspar Friedrich
Definition
Germany
A man alone among nature
mysterious
Term
Thomas Cole
Definition
Founder of the Hudson River School of Arts (1st art school in US
Associationism-you don't have to go to church to be closer to god
series painter: paints a story into five different paintings
Term
J.M.W Turner
Definition
nature painter but more action
“Ring stream and speed” (page 507)
Train crossing a bridge during a storm
Supposedly there is a rabbit in the painting?
Abstract; brushstrokes
Term
John Constable
Definition
(England)
oils
quiet
countryside
lots of colors
streams, lakes, trees, mountains
peaceful lscenes
Term
Francisco de Goya
Definition
(Spain) dark and gothic paintings he was an optimistc and happy person to start out After the revolution he started painting dark paintings "Man eating his children" -to show the horrors of war and the things he has seen -what evil looks like
Term
Theodore Jarickle
Definition
-focuses more on how humans are powerless when they are put against nature
-"men on a raft"
- o Based off a real event
o Scene of the people on the life raft holding on for dear life
o Figures were modeled after Michael Angelo
Critics said this was not realistic because after 12 days, cannibalism was possibly occurring
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