Final Exam Deck Flashcards
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Romanesque*
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- France: 12th Century
- Rounded arches in architecture and thick walls
- Dark
- Retained many Roman features
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Gothic Period*
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- 1200-1400 AD
- Clustered piers, stained glass, pointed arches
- Flying buttresses, ribbed vaulting, rose windows
- Luminescent
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High Renaissance
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- 1495-1520
- Classical culture, perspective, proportion, and human anatomy
- The leading artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo
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Leonardo Da Vinci*
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- 1452-1519
- Quintessential “renaissance man”
- Studied art, botany, geology, geography, cartography, zoology, military, engineering…
- Optical understanding of perspective, light, and color
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Counter-Reformation
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- 1545-1648
- The Catholic Church’s response to the establishment of Protestantism
- Launched by Pope Paul III
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Mannerism
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- 1520s
- Response to the High Renaissance style of Florence, Rome, and Venice
- Characteristics of Mannerism is “style” (as in stylish, cultured, and/or elegant”
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Baroque Art*
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- Italy: 1600-1715
- Tension, movement, strong, and full of energy
- Francesco Borromini, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentilleschi
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Caravaggio*
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- 1573-1610
- Criticized as the “antichrist of painting” for his outspoken disdain for the classical masters
- The Stark contrast of light and dark was a key feature of his style
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Artemisia Gentilleschi*
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- 1593-1653
- Female artist following the style of Caravaggio.
- She was raped by her tutor and put on trial where she was tortured.
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Rococo
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- France: 1715-1800
- Light and airy movement
- About love and joy
- Well known artists of this style include Germain Boffrand
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Neoclassicism*
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- 18th century
- Artistic movement from a revival of interests in ancient art of Greece and Rome
- Historically correct settings and costumes and stimulated by the new scientific interest in classical antiquity
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Romanticism*
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- 1750-1850
- Appreciation for nature
- Emerged from a desire for freedom
- Showed feeling in response to Neoclassicism
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Delacroix
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- 1798-1863
- Artist whose work epitomized Romantic colorist painting
- Use of expressive brushstrokes and color inspired Impressionism and Symbolism
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Pre-Raphaelites*
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- 1850s-1890s
- English Romantic movement. Power is drawn from nature
- Women as mystical and strange (typically depicted having red hair)
- Artists: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John William Waterhouse, and Sir John Everett Millais
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Loreena Mckennitt*
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- 1957-present
- Contemporary Canadian Celtic Romantic musician
- Pre-Raphaelite influences: The Bonny Swan, The Lady of Shalott
- “The Mummy Dance”
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Realism
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- Mid-19th century
- Movement that developed in France and focused on real people and events during the time
- Artist for style: Gustave Courbet
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Gustave Courbet
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- 1819-1877
- Leading figure of the Realist movement
- Depictions of mundane, working-class laborers and peasants
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Impressionism*
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- 1870s
- Art movement that built on realism
- Themes favored real life but conveyed the elusiveness and impermanence of the subjects
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Edouard Manet
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- 1832-1883
- Utilized realist principals but also led to the development of Impressionism
- French artist of both Impressionism and Realism
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Claude Monet*
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- 1840-1926
- French Impressionist artist
- Artwork had emphasis on nature
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Post-Impressionism
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- 1880s
- Revitalization of line, pattern, form, and color.
- Paul Cezanne: “Still life with apples and fruit, 1882”
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Vincent Van Gogh*
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- 1853-1890
- Dutch Post-Impressionist
- Wanted to remove the barrier between self and the universe.
- Cut his ear off
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Edvard Munch*
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- 1863-1944
- Norwegian Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
- “The Scream, 1893”: landscape of his mind.
- Painting got destroyed
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Symbolism*
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- Late 19th century
- Representation of nature becomes subjective
- Artist of style: Gustav Klimt
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Gustav Klimt
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- 1863-1918
- Symbolist Viennese Artist
- “The Kiss: 1907-1908”
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Art Nouveau
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- Late 19th century
- Named after shop in Paris called L’Art Nouveau
- Based on natural forms but could be mass-produced
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Art Deco
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- 1920-1930s
- Influenced by cubism and shattered angles
- Rich, sumptuous material
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Frank Lloyd Wright*
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- 1867-1959
- American Architect
- Sought to develop organic unity of planning, structure, materials and site.
- Motto: “Form follows function”
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Fred Astaire (1899-1987) and Ginger Rogers (1911-1995)
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- Curvilinear dancing
- Ginger’s dress moved in curvilinear patterns
- Fred Astaire starred in a movie with Vera Ellen
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Depression Modern
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- 1930s
- Curvilinear
- Plucked eyebrows, moon face, platinum blonde
- Influences: Jean Harlow and Shirley Temple
