Art Flashcards

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Art is also called as __

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Visual Art

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It is a visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination.

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Art

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It encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation.

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Art

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It embraces a wide variety of movements, theories, and attitudes whose modernism resides particularly in a tendency to reject traditional, historical, or academic forms and conventions in an effort to create an art more in keeping with changed social, economic, and intellectual conditions.

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Modern Art

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Who said “True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing”?

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Jean Cocteau

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It is a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it.

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Impressionism

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They paint the pictures with a lot of color and most of their pictures are outdoor scenes.

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Impressionism

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The artists like to capture their images without detail but with bold colors.

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Impressionism

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It is an art style that tried to capture an impression of what he eye sees at a given moment and the effect of sunlight on the subject.

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Impressionism

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__ and __ are conscious elements in the works of the impressionists.

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Time and Motion

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They prefer painting outdoors.

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Impressionists

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It usually include the people of the city life involved in everyday events.

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Impressionism

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It is a term used to describe the reaction in the 1880s against Impressionism.

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Post-Impressionism

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They used vivid colors, thick paint, distinct brushstrokes, and ordinary subject matter but stressed the use of geometric forms and unnatural colors.

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Post-impressionist Artists

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It is a style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions.

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Fauvism

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Fauvism derived from __, referring to the group of French expressionist painters who painted in this style.

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les fauves (wild beast)

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It is referring to the group of French expressionist painters who painted in Fauvism.

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les fauves

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The art movement which artworks conveyed strong feelings.

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Expressionism

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It is an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person.

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Expressionism

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It is a style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.

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Cubism

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It is is recognized as the first movement in Modern Art, which started in France in the 1840s.

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Realism

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It aimed at the precise representation of human conditions, perspective and distance, and detailed effects of color.

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Realism

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This is an artistic movement that used source lighting to create the natural lighting of a
scene.

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Realism

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It was a reaction against enlightenment and represented the ideal.

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Romanticism

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Three Artists in Realism

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Gustave Courbet
Jean-Francois Millet
Edouard Manet

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It is the birth of Light in painting.

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Impressionism

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Using pure, intense colors on the canvas, instead of
mixing the colors on the palette first

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Impressionism

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Using small brushstrokes and dabs of paint

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Impressionisn

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It is an extension of the Impressionist movement and also an abandonment of that artistic movement’s limitations.

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Post-Impressionism

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It focused on the objective recording of the momentary effects of light and color.

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Impressionism

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It can be considered the inspiration for Expressionism because the artists used non-naturalistic and often brash colors.

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Fauvism

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They are actually known for their aggressive use of pure, brilliant colors boldly applied straight from paint tubes.

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Fauvism

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It aimed at making beautiful things accessible to a wider public by applying artistic designs
to everyday objects.

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Art Nouveau

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It’s inspired by both geometric and organic forms and preferred sophisticated designs that united angular and flowing forms.

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Art Nouveau

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They believed that the function of an object dictates its form, not the other way around.

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Art Nouveau

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This is an artistic movement that used swaying, swirling, and dramatically executed strokes in portraying their subjects

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Expressionism

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It valued the depiction of the intellectual idea of an object, as well as how it was related to others.

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Cubism

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This art movement emphasized machine and modernization.

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Futurism

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It shows the beauty of modern life–the splendor and magnificence of change, violence, machine, and speed.

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Futurism