Chapter 31 Flashcards
The middle class, typically with reference to its percieved materialistic values
Bourgeoisie
Workers or working-class people
Proletariat
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Imperialism
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Historicism
Darkened chamber in which the image of an outside object is projected through a small hole and focused onto a surface
Camera Obscura
Created by exposing a silver-coated copper surface previously exposed to iodine vapour or iodine and bromine vapours
Daguerreotype
An early photographic introduce in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot that used paper coated with silver iodide
Calotype
Domestic animal used in drawing heavy loads
Draft animal
Term for any artistic work whose success is attributed in whole or in part, to public controversy surrounding the work
Success de Scandale
Status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relation to monorialism. It was a condition of bondage, which developed primarily during the High middle ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid 19th century
Serfdom
Where artists painted outside looking at their subject instead of painting in the studio
En Plan Air
Pairs of colours that when combined, they cancel each other out and make a new colour
Complementary colour
Style of brushwork used to apply the paint. Dots.
Pointilism/Divisionism
Puts a figure or object in the extreme foreground and uses it as a contrast in order to increase the illusion of depth and focus our attention on the main subject
Repoussoir
Critical approach to representations of the orient of the eastern cultures of the middle east
Orientalism
Artistic movement that began in France, seeks to portray contemporary subjects and situations with truth and accuracy
Realsim
Another exhibit created by artists who were refused from the Salon
Salon des Refuses
Looked back to the middle ages and early Renaissance for beauty and spirituality that they found lacking in their own time
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. Small characteristics, yet visible brushstrokes, open composition
Impressionism
Genre that rejected the naturalism of impressionism in favour of using color and form in more expressive manners
Post-Impressionism
Europeans were interested in Japonise art
Japonisme
International movement in art and literature championed by a loose affiliation of artists who addressed the irrational fears, desires, impulses of human mind in their work
Symbolsm
Movement launched in the early 1890’s that permeated all aspects of European design for more than a decade
Art Nouveau
