Final

Question 1

Charles Henry

Answer 1

colour theorist - described emotional properties and symbolic meaning of line and colour

Question 2

belle epoque

Answer 2

a beautiful era - time period of positive change in Europe - a happy beautiful time

Question 3

pointillism

Answer 3

colours were more intense when mixed optically by the eye rather than the pallet

Question 4

Avant Garde

Answer 4

literally: soldiers sent to explore how bad the battle would be - used for forward thinking artists and politicians

experimental or innovative

Question 5

fin-de-siecle

Answer 5

end of the century - boredom and cynicism of a hopelessly decadent time period

Question 6

Symbolism

Answer 6

grew out of literary movement - the reassertion of the importance of subjective ideas

Question 7

Jean Moreas

Answer 7

writer who rejected materialism in favour of irrational states of mind - inspired Symbolism artists

Question 8

Le Nabis

Answer 8

literally: prophet

group of artists who initially followed Gauguin

Question 9

en plein air

Answer 9

when a painter paints directly observing the subject, usually in nature, preserving the freshness of the first sight of the scene - we talked about this with claude monet

Question 10

Michel-Eugène Chevreul

Answer 10

• invented colour and design system
• started juxtaposing colours based on this system
• a person could actually blend colours by looking at them rather than on a canvas

Question 11

primary colors

Answer 11

Any of a group of colors from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing

Question 12

complementary colors

Answer 12

Colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum, such as red and green or blue and orange

Question 13

Daguerreotype

Answer 13

A photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor

Question 14

pastel

Answer 14

any of various pale or light colors???

Question 15

Société Anonyme des Artistes

Answer 15

Society of artists that ran independant salons to allow the rejected artists to show work in Paris in 1884.

Question 16

primitivism

Answer 16

idea shared by Van Gogh and Gaugin based on a disdain for urban environments and a desire for better society.. linked to sexual freedom

Question 17

Arles

Answer 17

the community where Gaugin and Van Gogh lived and had intended to create their artists group

Question 18

impasto

Answer 18

paint method categorized by built up paint

Question 19

Saint-Remy

Answer 19

location of the asylum Vincent Van Gogh inhabited.

Question 20

maquette

Answer 20

study for a sculpture - like a sketch

Question 21

art nouveau

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new international style inspired by natural forms and plant life

Question 22

lithography

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print process

Question 23

curtain wall

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a wall that is not a support beam allowing it o be altered in anyway.such an idea allowed for all glass walls and modern skyscrapers

Question 24

flaneur

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idle wanderer – well dressed dandies – has a connotation of being well to do loungers just hanging out in cafes all day sort of thing

Question 25

alla prima

Answer 25

layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint

Question 26

Giorgione, Pastoral Symphony, c. 1508

Answer 26

more idyllic image of nude women

Question 27

Charles Baudelaire

Answer 27

o French poet
o Arguing that the Salon was really restricted to upper class
o He was very involved in class arguments
o Calls artists to reclaim painting for all the classes – paint scenes of middleclass and lowerclass
o Thinks past artists were cheating by drawing beauty out of stories and mythology. It’s easier to make up beauty than it is to extract beauty from everyday life that is all around you.