Exam 3

Question 1

Genre paintings

Answer 1

Painting of everyday life and ordinary people

Question 2

Tenebrism

Answer 2

Strong contrasts of light and dark that obscure parts of the composition

Question 3

History painting

Answer 3

Depict a narrative in time (large canvases)

Question 4

Still-life painting

Answer 4

Paintings of still objects

Question 5

Vanitas

Answer 5

Uses symbolism to show the transience of life

Question 6

Etching

Answer 6

Scratching a design on a sheet of metal and putting ink over it to transfer

Question 7

Drypoint

Answer 7

Image is incised in a plate with a hard needle

Question 8

Impasto

Answer 8

Thick application of paint

Question 9

Camera Obscura

Answer 9

A camera obscura is a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side through which an image is projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole

Question 10

Rubenistes

Answer 10

Prioritize color

Question 11

Poussinistes

Answer 11

Prioritize line and clarity

Question 12

Salon Fête galante

Answer 12

a category of painting specially created by the French Academy in 1717 to describe Antoine Watteau’s (1684–1721) variations on the theme of the fête champêtre, which featured figures in ball dress or masquerade costumes disporting themselves

Question 13

Chinoiserie

Answer 13

the imitation or evocation of Chinese motifs and techniques in Western art, furniture, and architecture, especially in the 18th century.

Question 14

Grand Tour

Answer 14

the fashionable European trip undertaken by cultural and socially conscious tourists, to the great centres of classical, Renaissance and Baroque architecture, sculpture and painting: notably, Paris, Florence, Venice, Rome, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Amsterdam and Antwerp

Question 15

Pastel

Answer 15

Light colors

Question 16

Odalisque

Answer 16

a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey.

Question 17

Sublime

Answer 17

An existence of a greater power

Question 18

Orientalism

Answer 18

the representation of the East in Western art which often blurred the line between fantasy and reality