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Romanticism & Realism TERMS
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/25/2009

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Term
Realism
Definition

Attempting to portray objects from everyday life

 

as they are, (not to be confused with the 19 century 

 

movement called Realism)

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Romanticism
Definition

Bad definition:

-to glamourize or portray in a romantic, as opposed to a realistic manner.

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Sublime
Definition

Elevated or lofty in thought, language.

 

-Supreme or outstanding.

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Folk Art
Definition
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Industrial Revolution
Definition

-steam engine

-Late 18 and early 19 century.

-agricultural

 

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Cartoons
Definition

-a full scale preparatory drawing for a painting, which is transferred to the Support before the final work executed.

 

-in more modern usuage, a comical or satirical drawing.

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Caricatures
Definition
A representation in art or literature that distorts, exaggerates, or oversimplifies certain features.
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Darwinism
Definition
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Naturalism
Definition

1) Naturalistic, a style of art seeking to represemt objects as they actually appear in nature.

 

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Manifesto
Definition
A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature, but may also be life stance related. However, manifestos relating to religious belief are rather referred to as credo.
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Watercolor
Definition

a) paint made of pigments suspended in water.

 

b) paintingn executed in this medium.

 

-see box about watercolour.

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En Plaine Aire
Definition

-Painting outside. 

 

-Is typicall of Monet.

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Palette and Palette Knife
Definition

Palette: the range of colours used by the artist, an oval or rectangular tablet used to hold and mix pigments.

 

Palette Knife: a knife with a flat, flexible blade and no cutting edge, used to mix and spread paint.

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Positivism
Definition
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Photography
Definition
the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x-rays, gamma rays, or cosmic rays.
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Lithography
Definition
- a printmaking process in which the printing surface is a smooth stone or plate on which an image is drawn with a crayon or some other oily substance.
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Daguerreotype
Definition
mid19th century photographic process for fixing positive images on silver-coated metal plates.
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Camera Obscura
Definition
a dark enclosure or box into which light is admitted through a small hole, enabling images to be projected onto a wall or screen placed opposite that hole, the forerunner of the photographic camera.
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Calotype
Definition
an early negative-positive photographic process, patented by William Henry Talbot in 1841, in which a paper negative is produced and then used to make a positive contact print in sunlight.
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