Art History Movements Flashcards

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The longest phase of stone age culture

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Paleolithic period followed my Mesolithic and neolithic

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The oldest painting known to exist

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Wall paintings in a cave at Lascaux, France

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Is a little female statuette.

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Venus willendorf/ figurines

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This form of rock art was used in ceremonial or ritual istick structures, single or multiple tombs, centuries and several other types of monumental architecture

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Megaliths, stonehenge

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Also known as parietal art or occasionally ice age art

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Cave art

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Pursued ideals of duty harmony and proportion even ask those ideas shifted and change over the centuries

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Classical art

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Used as a main method of communicating accounts of a biblical nature society (what period)

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Medieval art

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Made up of combinations of roman and oriental arts and was characterized by its complete lack of realism.

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Byzantine art

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Included stained glass pieces and railings on buildings and columns big murals on walls and dorned ceilings illuminated manuscripts and sculptures.

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Romanesque art

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Religion was dropped as the most important element within art, has this new subject matter is included by walls and mythic scenes.

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Gothic period

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Started to depict individual characters with genuine demeanors and compose their actual physical appearances

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Renaissance art

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Viewed as one of the prominent leaders in the ideals of naturalism

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Leonardo da vinci

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The most important movement in the whole of modern painting

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Impressionism

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Predominantly french art movement that develop roughly between 1886 and 1905. The movement emerged as a reaction against ate concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color

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Post-impressionism

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An art movement named after a technique in which a small dots of color are applied to canvas in order to form an image

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Pointillism

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16
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Describe the rise by intense color and bold brushwork.

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Fauvism

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They brought different views of subjects together in a same picture resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted

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Cubism

18
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What’s an art movement form during the first world war in zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of war

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Dada

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Aim to revolutionize human experience project irrational vision of life in favor of one that ascertain the value of the unconscious and dreams

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Surrealism

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Often characterized by gestural brush strokes or mark making and the impression of spontaneity

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Abstract expressionism

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What’s a major development of painting in the 1960 s . Use geometric forms to create optical effects

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Optical art

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An art movement drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture

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Pop art

23
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It is a painting style characterized by its paintstalking detail and precision

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Photorealism

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An extreme form of abstract art and typified artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and rectangle

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Minimalism