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Who was considered “avant-garde”

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Gustave Courbet

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What was Courbet’s focus?

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Ordinary Citizens

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In France, Artists could earn a spot in the

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French Royal Academy

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French Royal Academy paintings had to have:

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  • No Visible Brush strokes
  • Idealism rather than realism
  • Naturalistic Color
  • Art had to convey a message
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Courbet was a

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Realist

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Manet was

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Realist & Impressionist

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Monet was

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Impressionist

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Degas was

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Impressionist

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Renoir was

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Impressionist

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Morisot was

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Impressionist

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Van Gogh was a

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Post-Impressionist

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Seurat was a

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Post-Impressionist

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Gauguin was a

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Post-Impressionist

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Manet focused on

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city life and had loose brushstrokes

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Manet’s work _____ was accepted into the Salon but was heavily criticized.

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Olympia (19th Century)

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Where were the American Realists?

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Winslow Homer (Watercolors)
Thomas Eakins
Edmonia Lewis

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Which of the American Realists used watercolors?

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Winslow Homer

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18
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What were the roots of Modernism?

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Romanticism

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19
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What was the last movement before “modernism”

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Impressionism

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The goal of _____ was authentic representation of color and light.

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Impressionism

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21
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Which artist wanted a complete break from the past?

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Claude Monet

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22
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_____ became interested in light only.

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Monet

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23
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In The Saint-Lazare Station, the focus is on ____ & ____ NOT _____ & _____

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color &; light; NOT train &; people

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Who created the Salon of the Rejected

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Napoleon III

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In the work Olympia. Olympia was the name of a____. She is presented flowers by a servant from a ____

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Dumas Play; admirer

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What was the Salon that artists wanted to earn a spot in?

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The French Royal Academy

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27
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The work “The Blue Boat” was _____

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watercolor

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28
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What did Renoir focus is work on?

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Upper Middle Class at Leisure

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29
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____ encouragred Renoir to lighten his Palette

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Monet

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30
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____ became interested in the light only.

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Monet

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31
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When was the rise of Modernism?

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20th Century

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32
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Claude Monet began to paint urban scenes instead of ____

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nature

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33
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In Morisot’s work, “Summer’s Day”, she adopts ____ ___ of Impressionism (dissolving forms into a flurry of feathery brushtrokes)

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sketch aesthetics

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34
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Which artist was especially drawn to ballet?

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Degas

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35
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In “The Rehearsal of the Ballet on Stage”. Is this actually something that factually happened?

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No; but it has the realities of modern life.

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In “The Rehearsal of the Ballet on Stage”. Which technique is used from the opera box to the stage?

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Foreshortening

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37
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Degas’ angular viewpoints could be inspired from?

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Japanese Prints

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38
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Degas paintings often had a _____ message

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social

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39
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At the time, ballerinas were seen as _____ because they exposed their body.

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risqué

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40
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George Seurat believed that he was “____” Impressionism.

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Correcting

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41
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Seurat used _____ on the work “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte”

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Pointilism

42
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Post-Impressionism focused primarily on ____ _____. Such as: ___,___,____

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Formal Elements (Line, Pattern, Color)

43
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Seurat’s theme of his works was

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Leisure

44
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Van Gogh expressed more _____ in his work; Used ___ for his goal.

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Emotion; color

45
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What was “The Starry Night” inspired by?

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Dutch Prints (Protestant Themes, Rembrandt Prints, From B/W to Yellow/Blue)

46
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What is a thick application of paint?

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Impasto

47
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Where do we Come From? What are we? Where are we Going? was painted on ____?

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Sackcloth

48
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Where do we Come From? What does the Blue idol mean?

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The Beyond

49
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Where did Symbolist art originate?

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France

50
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Symbolist are usually had a _____ theme

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Spiritual

51
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“The Scream” One of 22 paintings from a series called the _____

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Frieze of Life

52
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“The Scream” Rejected ______ ideals of looking at light outdoors and instead looked _____

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Impressionist; looked inward

53
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Cezanne was influenced by ____

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Cubists

54
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“Mont Saint-Victorie” Cezanne painted multiple versions? Yes or no

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Yes

55
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Cezanne’s handling of paint is more controlled than the impressionists. TRUE OR FALSE

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True

56
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Who did not fit any of the categories of 19th Century Art?

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Rodin

57
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Why couldn’t the surface of “The Burghers of Calais” be smooth?

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He needed to reproduce human feelings, and so the surface cannot be smooth.

58
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Which war is the Burghers of Calais depicting?

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The 100 Years War, the 6 individuals offered the lives if the English King spared the rest of the population.

59
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The Burgers of Calais was during the ________

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Siege of Calais in 1347

60
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All of the Scientific Developments in the 20th Century led to

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Viewing physical nature differently

61
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Germany invaded ____

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Poland

62
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The Treaty of Versailles and ______ led to Instability which led to ___

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Economic Problems; WWII

63
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When did the US join the allies?

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1918

64
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Pavlov’s Dog is known as

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Conditioned Responses

65
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Who is the leader of the Fauvist movement?

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Henri Matisse

66
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Henri Matisse’s colors are

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not natural and he has loose brushstrokes

67
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“The Joy of Life” uses _____ lines which show movement.

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Curvilinear

68
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Color symbolizes _____

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Expression

69
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In “Street, Berlin” the two people on the left are ______. Their hurried movement is showed through the _____

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Prostitutes; slashing brushstrokes

70
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“Self Portrait as a Soldier” uses _____

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Primitivism

71
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Primitivsm is influenced on

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Die Brucke

72
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Die Brucke was led by

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Kirchner

73
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Two themes of Die Brucke are:

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Natural World

Nudity

74
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The Bridge between “old” and “new” and that humanity is a bridge to a better future is

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Die Brucke

75
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Who is the founder of Der Blaue Reiter

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Kandinsky

76
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Who Rejected Representation?

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Kandinsky

77
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“Improvisation 28” is

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feeling through color

78
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Which form of Cubism uses Brown and gray, DISSECTING THE FORMS OF THE SUBJECT

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Analytic Cubism

79
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Which form of Cubism is like a collage where works were constructed using other paper or materials.

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Synthetic Cubism

80
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The term demoiselles was a euphemism for ____

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prostitutes

81
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The Newspaper clippings in “Bottle of Suze” refer to the ___

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Balkan War

82
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The Rouen Cathedral was by who?

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Monet

83
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Cubism was named after ____ viewed Braque’s painting and said it was painted with little cubes

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Matisse

84
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Realism mostly depicted the

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Working Class

85
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Fauvism characteristics

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unnatural colors, very flat

86
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German Expressionism characteritics

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Der Blaue Reither, Die Bruke

87
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Cubism Branches

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Analytic and Synthetic

88
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The “Guitar” (Cubism) is what form?

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Synthetic

89
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The annual display of art by French artists in Paris during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Established in the seventeenth century as a venue to show the work of members of the French Academy, the Salon and its judges established the accepted official style of the time.

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Salon

90
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A painting technique in which pigments suspended in water are applied to absorbent paper, creating an image that cannot be corrected or reworked.

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Watercolor

91
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A French term meaning “in the open air,” describing the Impressionist practice of painting outdoors so artists could have direct access to the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere while working.

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en plein air

92
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A term derived from the French military word meaning “before the group,” or “vanguard.” Avant-garde denotes those artists or concepts of a strikingly new, experimental, or radical nature for the time.

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Avant-Garde

93
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The illusion created on a flat surface in which figures and objects appear to recede or project sharply into space. Accomplished according to the rules of perspective.

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Foreshortening

94
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Thickly applied paint that gives the quality of a three-dimensional surface to a painting.

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Impasto

95
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A style in nineteenth-century French and American art that was highly influenced by Japanese art.

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Japonisme

96
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Styles in which aspects of a work of art are exaggerated to evoke subjective responses rather than to portray objective reality or seek a rational response.

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Expressionism

97
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A style of painting which emphasizes the techniques and surface effects of brushwork (also color, light, and shade).

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painterly

98
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Art that does not attempt to reproduce the appearance of objects, figures, or scenes in the natural world. Also called nonobjective art.

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nonrepresentational

99
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Any art that attempts to depict an aspect of the external, natural world in a visually understandable way.

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Representational

100
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A handheld support used by artists for the storage and mixing of paint during the process of painting.

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Palette

101
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The theoretical spatial plane corresponding with the actual surface of a painting.

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Picture Plane

102
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A technique in which cutout paper forms (often painted or printed), and/or found materials, are pasted onto another surface.

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Collage

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