exam 4 Flashcards
Characterized by harsh lines, a subdued palette, and for the most part, planar instead of linear…. Classical especially roman subject matter.
neoclassicism
medieval past, inner mind, nature, emotions/exotic
romanticism
most popular style of the day, derived subject matter from conventions established by the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris
Academic art
opposed academic art, subjects in everyday life using an optical approach. focus on modern life, critical on what is art?
Realism
advocated paining outdoors and chose to render subjects found in nature, atmosphere and light, local colors, modern subjects, plein air, loose brush strokes
impressionism
rebellion against what they considered fleeting impressions and disregard for traditional compositional elements, differing individual styles
postimpressionists
artists whose work were more emotional, expressive, and lading with symbolism. In their vibrant palettes and bravura brushwork, van Gogh and Gaugu
expressionism
a lyrical linearity, use of symbolism, rich ornamentation, and an overriding sense of the organic. Originated in England as part of arts and crafts movement
art nouveau
neo-classicism painter, official painter of the french revolution, and clothing designer, painted oath of horatio
Jacques-Louis David
father of the realist movement, used the term realism, painted stone breakers
Gustave Courbet
french modernist (realism), led transition from realism to impressionism, luncheon on the grass with Olympia, and Olympia
Edouard Manet
Georges Suerat’s a Sunday Afternoon on the Island….., composed small dabs or points of pure color
Pointillism
Based on Venus of Urbina, prostitute, reject art fair, looks straight at you Edouard Manet
Olympia
Dutch post impressionist, pushed towards expressionism,
Vincent Van Gogh
Nineteenth century sculpture, devoted his life to true to life forms, very realistic, the burghers of calais
Auguste Rodin
harsh non-descriptive color, bold linear patterning, a distorted form of perspective, grew out a desire for a direct form of expression, Africa,
fauvism
20th century The distortion of nature, a opposed to imitation of nature, to achieve a desired emotional effect, Die Brucke, and Der Blaue
German expressionism
Subjects are clear and direct, the bridge
Die Brucke
explored the spiritual in their art with symbolism to ethereal
Der Blaue Reiter
offspring of nineteenth-century influences, Cazene’s geometrization of nature
Cubism
Considered the first phase of Cubism, focuses on structures and forms, in particular dissection and reassembling them
Analytic Cubism
A new phase that began in 1912 artists constructed paintings, drawings, sculptures, from found or pre-made materials, collage
Synthetic cubism
Introduced a a way of glorifying dynamism, the theory that force or energy is the basic principle of all phenomena, artists attempted to capture the energy of modern life through depiction of the movement of their subjects , experiment in abstraction, destroy museums,
futurism
a 1916 international movement against reason, society, and traditional art. Nonsense term for art, mustache art
Dada
Cultural movement in Harlem New York, conspicuous body of work
Harlem Renaissance
artists largely practiced automatism (art without conscious control) works were mainly abstract
Biomorphic surrealism
artists depicted recognizable scenes that had transformed into dreams or nightmares
Naturalistic Surrealism
dutch neoplasticism, completely abstract work
De Stijil
Wiemar school of arts and crafts, das staatliche bauhaus, these artists created designs that would shape much of the remaining two-thirds of the twentieth century
Bauhaus
French impressionist painter known for bright colors
Henri Matisse
driving force behind birth of Cubism
Pablo Picasso
cubism and dada artist, mona lisa with mustache, Nude descending the stairs, synthetic cubism
Marcel Duchamp
well known surrealist painter, the persistance of memory
Salvador Dali
Two fridas, nationalistic, mixed heritage work
Frida Kahlo
figurative art, dark street, people in restaurant
Nighthawks
cubism, picasso, bombing of town
Guernica
inspired by the urge to depict contemporary life and events rather than history
modernism
general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”.
postmodernism
spontaneity, gestural brushstrokes, nonobjective imagery, fields of intense color
abstract expressionism
Action painting, sometimes called “gestural abstraction”, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, …
action painting
sought to reduce their ideas to their simplest forms
minimalism
created a world in which cultures are no longer separate or distant
globalization
consists of borrowed elements
appropriation
