Final Flashcards
French Royal Academy- precepts and goals (history painting, nude, etc…)
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Salon- what is it?
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Myth of the Horatii
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French Revolution-Napoleon in relation to David and Ingres’s work
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Odalisque-French exoticism and relation to the female nude
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How is Romanticism different form Neoclassicism?
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Landscape painting: meaning of sublime and picturesque
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Effect of Manifest Destiny on images of the West?
Made people want to explore the west in hopes of gold and money and wealth, etc.
also made the west to seem ideal and perfect; hope of start of something new
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Belief that it was
America’s destiny, ordained by God,
to spread across the continent.
Without mythic cultural traditions,
America saw their vast and pristine
wilderness as central to their identity.
Believed that the principles of
freedom and the pursuit of
prosperity and happiness were to be
fulfilled by territorial expansion.
Gold discovered in CA in 1848.
What is plein aire painting?
painting during the day - in sunlight
Monet and Degas painted in plein aire
How was Paris changed in the 19th century? By Haussmanization?
New paris
Modernized
Rule by napoleon III
Complete restored paris
Tear down old buildings and replaced it with new ones
Haussmannization:
process of rebuilding Paris in midnineteenth
century, ordered by
Napoleon III and overseen by Baron
Georges Haussmann.
Altered Paris from narrow,
encumbered streets and bridges to
wider passages, new bridges, and
grand boulevards. Paris was now a
clean and renovated city with lights
and parks.
By 1870s, hundreds of miles of old
streets had been altered, widened
and connected with new ones,
which included massive evictions of
inhabitants.
Who is the Flaneur?
Manet
purposeful male stroller,
who looked critically and
bemusingly at the world, sizing up
persons and events.
He was characterized by exquisite
manners and impeccable dress,
devoted to newspapers and current
events.
Devoted to newpapers and current events
Not concerned of proverty
Urban fabric of paris and whats going on
Titian’s Venus of Urbino with Manet- how does he challenge artistic tradition or the academic nude?
What does impressionism signify in terms of style and subject?
it goes against academic style - focuses on motion and color, light rather than clear dilineated lines;
thick brushstrokes - capturing a single moment/impression in time
What was the significance of the French ballet as a subject for Degas? Relation between disegno and colorito in his style.
The complex poses that showed the body - ballet was a part of the red light district - used as a way to study female body
dance associated with sensuality and sexuality - low class talent/hobby
disegno: emphasis of line/shading, line, shadow and light
colorito: emphasis of color
Degas - starts with disegno and then adds color
Discuss use of color by Van Gogh, Matisse and Kandinsky?
Important in Van Gogh’s work to convey emotions - blues and yellows popular in work
Matisse - fauvism: describes bright use of color and its arbritrariness;
Kandinsky - knew the harmony between colors
each color represents a different emotion
