Final exam Flashcards
1
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Realism
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- Naturalistic
- Detail
- Earthy Colour Palette
- Absence of Idealism or Allegory
- Social Commentary
- Subdued Lighting
- Paintings can still be posed, but made seem like they are not.
“Il faut être de son temps”
A Burial At Ornans
2
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Romanticism
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- Follow your own genius, individualistic
- Emotion, intuition, unrestrained creative genius.
- Children & the exotic a popular subject.
3
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Impressionism
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- Art should engage with reality, not escape it.
- Captures a fleeting moment
- Rejects traditional ideas: randomized compositions and colours.
- Leasurely activities instead of politics.
- Impressionists such as Manet challenged the idea that paintings should mirror reality.
4
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Post-Impressionism
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- Van Gogh, Cezanne, eurat, Gauguin.
- More deliberate than Impressionism, but also shows the artist’s presence: brushstrokes.
5
Q
Fauvism
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- Colour main focus
- No spirituality (difference with symbolism)
- Ignores traditional rules to emphasize timelessness.
- Distracts the viewer from modern times and takes them back to the simpler times.
- Subject matter can be real, imaginary or both.
6
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Surrealism
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- Overthrow rationality in society.
- Subconcious (emotions hidden emotions), automatic paintings
- Dream-like
- Drawing from within themselves
7
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Dadaism
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- Duchamp, Hugo Ball
- All kinds of media
- Poking fun at high art
- Didn’t want to be art
- Use of humor to challenge notions of what art is
8
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Post-modernism
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- Pluralistic (media & practitioners)
- Marginalized voices: feminism, racism
- Death of painting
- Anything goes
- Performance art becomes more mainstream
