Art History 2

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Salon

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a large room for entertaining guests; a periodic social or intellectual gathering, often of prominent people; a hall or gallery for exhibiting works of art

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Putti

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A plump, naked little boy, often winged. In Classical art, called a cupid; in Christian art, a cherub

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Momento Mori

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From Latin for “remember that you must die.” An object such as a skull or extinguished candle, symbolizing the transience of life

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Fete Galente

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a subject in painting depicting well-dressed people at leisure in a park or country setting

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Drame Bourgeois

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the middle-class drama; moralizing plays that communicated moral and civic lessons, through simple, clear stories of ordinary lfe

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Picturesque

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the interesting but ordinary domestique landscape

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Sublime

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a state of greatness or vastness; something awe-inspiring

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Daguerreotype

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An early photographic process that makes a positive print on a light-sensitized copper plate; invented and marketed in 1839 by Louis Jacques-Mande Daguerre

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Avant-Garde

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Artists or concepts of a strikingly new, experimental, or radical nature for their time

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Positivism

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The idea that one must insist on verifiable facts and not on wishful thinking

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Industrialization

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The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale

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Haussmannization

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The renovation of the city of Paris from narrow streets to wide boulevards

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Alienation

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Close physical proximity coupled with great psychological distance

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En plein air

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The act of painting outdoors

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Complementary color

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The primary and secondary colors across from one another on the color wheel. When juxtaposed, the intensity of both colors increases

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Pointillism/Divisionism

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The technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image

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Optical mixture of colors

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Creating paint colors not by mixing them on the palette, but through knowledge of color theory and how the eye perceives colors that abut and overlay each other.

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Primitivism

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The borrowing of subjects or forms usually from non-European or prehistoric sources by Western artists. Originally practiced by Western artists in an attempt to infuse their work with the naturalistic and expressive qualities attributed to other cultures, especially colonized cultures

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Impasto

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Thick applications of pigment that give a painting a palpable surface texture

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Synthetism

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The synthesis of the artist’s observations of the subject in nature with the artist’s feelings about that subject

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Fauve

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Wild Beast

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Synesthete

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Someone who “hears” colors and “sees” sound

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Tonal Center

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A home base or place of repose in a musical composition

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Readymade

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An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist

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Dynamic equilibrium

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Balance of opposites

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Automatism

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A technique in which artists abandon the usual intellectual control over their brushes or pencils to allow the subconscious to create the artwork without rational interference

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Frottage

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A design produced by laying a piece of paper over a textured surface and rubbing with charcoal or other soft medium

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Grattage

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A pattern created by scraping off layers of paint from a canvas laid over a textured surface

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Biomorphic

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Denoting the biologically or organically inspired shapes and forms that were routinely included in abstracted Modern art in the early twentieth century

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Formalism

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An approach to the understanding, appreciation, and valuation of art based almost solely on consideration of form

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Romanticism

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Term in use by the early nineteenth century to describe the movement in art and literature distinguished by a new interest in human psychology, expression of personal feeling and interest in the natural world.

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Neoclassicism

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Return to reason, teaches you something.

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Naturalism

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Paints alienation/realistic view.

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Impressionism

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Different approach to the modern day life of oatmoternization. Interested in painting specific seasons and light of day and how it changes.

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Dadaism

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A movement after the First World War which is a rejection of logic and reason.

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Cubism

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No expression of emotions, Just fracturing of the painting and planes. No depth, No in front or behind. No sense of space in cubism. Form and color is completely gone.

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Expressionists

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large scale, color and distortion. Expressionism is faithfulness to emotional response to a subject is more important than the appearance of art.

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Post Impressionism

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Cast shadows and involved pointillism of dots on the picture plane that blend on the retina. Technique: pointillism, and paints stillness. Impressionists do not paint still, they paint quickness.

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Rococo

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A style that provides pleasure and loose brushwork and bold colors like the Reuben’s.