Art Flashcards
• Quattrocento / Early Renaisssance
o Realistic portrayal – human-sized scale
-centered in Florence
• High Renaissance
o Idealized portrayal – monumental scale
-– centered in Rome
• Northern Renaissance
– northern Germany and Netherlands
o More Christian elements than Italian Renaissance – fewer classical themes – emphasis on merchant/everyday life
• Mannerism
o Deliberate distortion of rules of proportion – elongated figures
o Sense of anxiety and confusion
• Baroque
o Monumental scale – dramatic effects to arouse emotion
o Blends classical proportions with Catholic spirituality
Painter: grentileschi
• Rococco
o Baroque to the extreme
o Emphasis on delicacy, refinement, and complexity
o Themes focus on aristocratic life – idealized
• Classicism
o Emphasis on balance and harmony
o Rejects emotionalism of Baroque
• Romanticism
o Emphasis on emotion, heroic individuality, nature, idealized past, eerie supernatural
o not all at once – Romanticism is a broad category
o Rejects rationalism of Classicism/Enlightenment
• Realism
o Emphasis on reality – not specifically reason or emotion, but whatever it is- deal with ordinary people from real life
• Modernism in literature
– Naturalism – like Realism, but less optimism
Modernism in o Poetry
– Symbolism (around 1900) – Art for arts sak
modernism in painting
impressionism
post impressionism
cubism
abstract painting
impressionism
– create impressions of changing effects of light on nature
Post-Impressionism
– real beginning of modern art – focus on shapes and color to express feelings
modernism in msuci
Incorporate nationalist spirit – Grieg
Incorporate ideas of Impressionism as wel
