Barron's: Chapter 21 - Late Nineteenth-Century Art Flashcards

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Time Period

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  • 1848-1900
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Realism

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  • 1848-1860s
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Impressionism

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  • 1872-1880s
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Post-Impressionism

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  • 1880s-1890s
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Symbolism

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  • 1890s
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Art Nouveau

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  • 1890s-1914
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Essential Knowledge

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  • New philosophies, particularly those by Freud and Einstein, spread throughout the world. These views were supplemented by a new understanding of worldwide cultures
  • modern movements include Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism
  • artists joined groups and worked for galleries
  • artists used new media like photography and lithography
  • architects use new technology in construction
  • commercial galleries become important. museums open and display art. art sells to an ever widening market
  • artists work for private and public institutions to a sometimes critical public
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The Stone Breakers

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  • Gustave Courbet
  • 1849
  • oil on canvas
  • formerly in Gemaldgalerie, Dresden
  • destroyed in World War II
  • Realism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Genre Scenes
    • Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance
    • Berughel, Hunters in the Snow
    • Cassatt, The Coiffure
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Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art

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  • Honore Daumier
  • 1862
  • lithograph
  • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
  • Realism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Humor in Art
    • Hogarth, The Tete a Tete
    • Fragonard, The Swing
    • Duchamp, Fountain
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Olympia

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  • Edouard Manet
  • 1863
  • oil on canvas
  • Musee d’Orsay, Paris
  • Realism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Female Form
    • Ingres, The Grand Odalisque
    • Titian, Venus of Urbino
    • DeKooninh, Woman I
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The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel

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  • Jose Maria Velasco
  • 1882
  • oil on canvas
  • National Art Museum, Mexico City
  • Post-Impressionism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Landscape
    • Cole, The Oxbow
    • Korin, White and Red Plum Blossoms
    • Su-nam, Summer Trees
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The Horse in Motion

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  • Eadweard Muybride
  • 1878
  • photograph
  • Impressionism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Multiple Images
    • Terra-Cotta Warriors
    • Warhol, Marilyn Diptych
    • Christo and Jeanne Claude, The Gates
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The Saint-Lazare Station

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  • Claude Monet
  • 1877
  • Oil on canvas
  • Musee d’Orsay, Paris
  • Impressionism
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The Coiffure

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  • Mary Cassatt
  • 1890-1891
  • drypoint and aquatint
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Art Nouveau
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Domestic Scenes
    • Vermeer, Woman with a Balance
    • Velazquez, Las Meninas
    • Stele of Hegeso
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The Starry Night

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  • Vincent van Gogh
  • 1889
  • oil on canvas
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Post-Impressionism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Landscape
    • Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation
    • Fan Kuan, Travelers among Mountains and Streams
    • Cole, The Oxbow
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

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  • Paul Gauguin
  • 1897-1898
  • oil on canvas
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Symbolism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: European Encounters with the World
    • Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
    • Bandolier Bag
    • Rodriquez, Spanish and Indian Produce a Mestizo
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Mont Saint-Victoire

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  • Paul Cezanne
  • 1902-1904
  • oil on canvas
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
  • Art Nouveau
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Interpretations of the Natural World
    • Su-nam, Summer Trees
    • Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the “Great Wave”
    • Silver and gold maize cobs, Inka
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The Scream

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  • Edvard Munch
  • 1893
  • tempera and pastel on cardboard
  • National Gallery, Oslo
  • Symbolism/Art Nouveau
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Individual vs. Society
    • Chariman Mao En Route to Anyuan
    • Neshat, Rebellious Silence
    • Salcedo, Shibboleth
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The Kiss

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  • Gustav Klimt
  • 1907-1908
  • oil on canvas
  • Austrian Gallery, Vienna
  • Art Nouveau
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Couples
    • Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
    • Sarcophagus of the Spouses
    • van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait
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Carson Pirie Scott

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  • Louis Sullivan
  • 1899-1904
  • iron, steel, glass, and terra-cotta
  • Chicago
  • Art Nouveau
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: City Planning
    • Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao
    • Trajan Market
    • Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
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The Burghers of Calais

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  • Auguste Rodin
  • 1884-1895
  • bronze
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Post-Impressionism
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Public Sculpture
    • Christo and Jeanne Claude, The Gates
    • Queen Hatsheput with Offering Jars
    • Bamiyan Buddha
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aquatint

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  • a kind of print that achieves a watercolor effect by using acids that dissolve onto a copper plate
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avant-garde

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  • an innovative group of artists who generally reject traditional approaches in favor of a more experimental technique
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caricature

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  • a drawing that uses distortion or exaggeration of someone’s physical features or apparel in order to make that person look foolish
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drypoint

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  • a printmaking technique in which the artist uses a needle to incise into a metal plate; different from etching in that it does not use acid to create the image
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japonisme

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  • an attraction for Japanese art and artifacts that were imported into Europe in the late nineteenth century
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lithography

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  • a printmaking technique that uses a flat stone surface as a base. the artists draws an image with a special crayon that attracts ink. paper, which absorbs the ink, is applied to the surface and a print emerges
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modernism

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  • a movement begun in the late nineteenth century in which artists embraced the current at the expense of the traditional in both subject matter and in media. modernist artists often seek to question the very nature of art itself
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plein-air

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  • painting in the outdoors to directly capture the effects of light and atmosphere on a given object
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positivism

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  • a theory that expresses that all knowledge must come from proven ideas based on science of scientific theory; a philosophy promoted by French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
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skeleton

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  • the supporting interior framework of a building
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zoopraxiscope

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  • a device that projects sequences of photographs to give the illusion of movement