Final Vocab

Question 1

Sublime

Answer 1

the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic
Romantic artists of the 19th century/Goya, Third of May

Question 2

Picturesque

Answer 2

In the manner of a picture

Question 3

Associationism

Answer 3

a reductionist school of thought; Pablo Picasso les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Question 4

French Salon

Answer 4

French academy’s official exhibitions

Marriage a la mode by William Hogarth

Question 5

Orientalism

Answer 5

imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures
Grand Odalisque by Ingles

Question 6

Modernization

Answer 6

Bauhaus in Germany; upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts

Question 7

Modernity

Answer 7

evolution of capitalism and industrialization; impressionism, Caillebotte Paris Street; rainy day

Question 8

Modernism

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Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Pablo Picasso Demoiselles d’Avignon

Question 9

Avant-garde

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works that are experimental or innovative; Dali Persistence of Memory

Question 10

Haussmannization

Answer 10

Renovations and modernization of Paris; Caillebotte’s Paris Street Rainy Day

Question 11

En plein air (plein air)

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act of painting outdoors;

Question 12

Japonisme

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influence of Japanese art on Western art; Claude Monet Water Lilies

Question 13

Pointillism

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small, distinct dots of color; Seurat Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Question 14

Primitivism

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visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples; Gauguin Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Question 15

Daguerreotype

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first photographic process; Louis Daguerre

Question 16

Straight photography

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scene or subject in sharp focus and detail; Alfred Stieglitz Third Class Carriage

Question 17

Collage

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Hannah Hoch Cut with a kitchen knife

Question 18

Manifesto

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public declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of an artist or artistic movement

Question 19

Ready-made

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made for purchase and immediate use; Marcel DuChamp, Fountain

Question 20

Photomontage

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process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photograph; DADA Hoch, Cut with a kitchen knife

Question 21

Action painting

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gestural abstraction”, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied; Franz Kline Number 2

Question 22

Armory Show

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Introducted american to European Art such as Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism

Question 23

Assemblage

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3D collage; Picasso, still life with chair caning

Question 24

Postmodernism

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deconstructionism; Le corbusier Glass House