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Arts Appreciation Midterm Exam > Lesson 1-6 > Flashcards

Lesson 1-6 Flashcards

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One of the innate qualities that “pretty art” can give is that it makes our dull, lifeless walls come to life.

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Human Issue: Beauty

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Studia humanitatis

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Study of humanities

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In every country and in every generation, there is always art.

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Art is Universal

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Nature inspires an artist and art is the expression

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Art is not nature

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If a person is to know art, he must know it not as a fact but as an experience.

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Art involves experience

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A Filipino Asian Modern and Contemporary Artist which is primarily known for her “calado” works

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Araceli Limcaco Dans

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“Art is a creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom.”

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Imagination is a creative work that depicts the world in a completely different light and perspective, and the source is due to human freedom.”

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Albert Einstein

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Those that appeal to the sense of sight

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Film

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Live art with the human body as the artist main medium

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Performance Art

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Art form where the artist expresses his emotions by using words carefully selected to exhibit clarity and beauty and to emulate strong emotions

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Poetry Performance

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The art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other types of structures

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Architecture

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A series of movements that follows the rhythm of the music accompaniment

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Dance

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Uses words to express an artist’s self and communicate emotions to the readers

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Literary Art

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Uses live performers to present accounts or imaginary events before a live audience

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Theater

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Incorporates elements of style and design to everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetic value

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Applied Arts

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“Every particular substance in the world has an ends - a telos”

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Aristotle

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For a thing to reach its purpose, it has to fulfill its function.

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Telos

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Art has three distinct functions

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personal, social and physical

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Has to do with public display or expression Because it is personal, it can be varied and highly subjective, depending on the person.

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Personal Function

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Mostly through photography, art performs this function through the depiction of social conditions

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Social Function

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When an artwork is not only aesthetically pleasing but is also physically useful

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Physicals/ Utilitarian

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Art as Imitation

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Plato

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Art as Representation

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Aristotle

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Art as disinterested judgement

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Kant

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Art as disinterested judgement

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Immanuel Kant

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27
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Art is a communication tool

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Leo Tosltoy

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28
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Art is dangerous because it provides a petty replacement for real entities that can only be attained through reason.

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Art as imitation

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It allows for the experience of pleasure, allowing experiences that are otherwise offensive to be entertaining.

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Art as Representation

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The judgment of beauty, and therefore, art, is innately autonomous from specific interests and, as such, is subjective.

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Art as disinterested judgement

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Art is a way to be able to communicate emotions which the artist has previously experienced.

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Art as communication tool

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A branch of philosophy devoted to the study of art and beauty used during the 18th Century by Alexander Baumgarten, a German philosopher.

From the Greek word eisthesis meaning “perception.”

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Aesthetic

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can be examined by an item’s color, shape, pattern, line or movement

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Visual Aesthetics

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Those pertaining to sound, can be judged in terms of a sound’s volume, beat repetition, pitch or even noise

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Auditory aesthetics

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have to do with touch/ We assess the aesthetic value of a tactile material based on its texture, shape, weight, ability to provide comfort, temperature, vibration, sharpness, or its ease of use.

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Tactile aesthetics

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36
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deal with things that we taste

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Gustatory Aesthetics

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are concerned with those that we can smell: its strength, its sweetness, its pleasantness, and others.

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Olfactory Aesthetics

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One of the earliest pieces of evidence of this attempt are the cave paintings in Lascaux, France.

Evoked naturalism

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Paleolithic Art (late Stone Age)

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Created the illusion of three-dimensional forms (contrasts of light and shadow, foreshortening)

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Paleolithic Art (late Stone Age)

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  • Works were not used for decorative purposes but for religious rituals
  • There was a link between what was drawn and what could happen, eventually reflecting some of their early beliefs, especially with life and fertility
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Paleolithic Art Notions and Beliefs

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Developed when life for early humans became more stable (cultivated lands and domesticated animals)

Civilization was more developed

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Neolithic Art

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What are the three significant periods in the ancient civiliztion, Egyptian?

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  • Old Kingdom,
  • Middle Kingdom
  • New Kingdom
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  • Religion was bound to the afterlife as evidenced by tombs.
  • Tombs served to keep the dead bodies of important people and as shelter for the next journey (afterlife).
  • Functions: depicts the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt; served as a ceremonial palette used in the ritual of applying makeup
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Old Kingdom

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  • Marked by a shift in political hierarchy with the emergence of powerful groups and landlords.
  • Marked the beginning of Bronze Age weapons
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Middle Kingdom

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What merely was a repository for dead bodies have become mortuary temples which served as a sanctuary for the dead and a place of worship for the living.

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New Kingdom

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  • The leaders of the post-New Kingdom who aimed to revolutionize both the arts and religion.
  • They ordered the construction of new monuments in honor of the god Aton.
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King Akhenaton and Queen Nefertiti

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  • Became king at the age of 9 until his death at age 19
  • The full artistry surrounding his final resting place is another evidence of how the Egyptians of this period combined religion and art.
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King Tutankhamen

48
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  • After his death, was mummified per Egyptian religious tradition
  • Had organs removed, was wrapped him in resin-soaked bandages, with a 24-pound solid gold portrait mask placed over his head and shoulders,
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King Tut’s Final Resting Place

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Art is used to communicate ideologies and belief systems. Thus, the Greek and Roman civilizations are also known as the “Classical World”

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European Civilization

50
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n art and architecture, both civilizations tended to promote the possibility of having an objective and widely acceptable standards for beauty.

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Classical World

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  • Politics has always been the Greeks’ expertise so political ideals became the framework for the democratic form of government.
  • Those who practiced painting, sculpture, and architecture were required to have certain skill sets and body of knowledge.
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Greek Civilization

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  • began when was starting to get back from what seemed to be their Dark Ages
  • During this period, their artwork, mostly evident in their pottery
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Geometric

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  • placed a huge importance on human figures as a result of Greece’s trading activities with other civilizations.
  • Greeks rebuilt their temples and focused on creating artworks
  • They had also managed to give the face and body more detail, an improvement of the earlier works of the Classical period.
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Classical

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  • considered to have occurred at the peak of Greek architecture and sculpture
  • The facial features of the sculptures during this period were not very distinct, though, as the emphasis was more on the human form rather than on their facial features.
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Archaic

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  • focused on including emotions and movement into their work
  • The Hellenistic period is in reference to the expansion of Greek influence and the dissemination of its ideas following the death of Alexander the Great.
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Hellenistic

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consisted of a sloping seating area, an orchestra (the flat area where the chorus stood, sang, and danced), and the skene which serves as the backdrop of the stage.

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Amphitheaters

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was established around 500 BC. This civilization eventually transformed into one of Western Europe’s mightiest empires

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The Roman Empire

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To distinguish their works from those of the Greeks, the faces of the Romans as depicted in their sculptures featured even the imperfections of the person the work was modeled after: receding hairline, pockmarks, fats, and all.

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Roman Civilization

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  • Still standing until this very day, it was planned and constructed during the reign of Emperor Vespasian.
  • Mainly used for entertainment (public events and gladiator games),
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The Colosseum

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  • Significant in the study of Roman Civilization was the Middle Ages, a period between the decline of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. This era was characterized by ignorance and darkness.
  • The Church was the central figure and authority of the time.
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Middle Age

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a move away from the naturalism of the Classical tradition towards the more abstract

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Byzantine

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  • drew upon the earlier elements of Roman architecture
  • featured a combination of the basilica and religious structure
  • Most distinctive feature is the domed roof
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Byzantine Architecture

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his period (1050-1200 AD) was inspired by the glory of the old Roman Empire.

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Romanesque

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Structures of this time (1200-1500 AD) had a more Northern flavor from the Goths, mostly identified to be vulgar and barbaric, because it was very different from the classy look of the Romanesque style.

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Gothic

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Gothic architecture has five key elements:

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  • large stained glass windows, pointed arches
  • ribbed vaults
  • flying buttresses
  • ornate decoration.
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The literary, performing, and visual arts of Europe and regions that share a European cultural tradition

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Western Arts

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“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”

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Michaelangelo

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  • primarily a time of the revival of Classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural decline and stagnation
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Rennaisance

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“rebirth” of classical values

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Italian Renaissance

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Stages of italian Rennaissance

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Proto-Renaissance and Early Renaissance

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uncertain period of transition in Italian arts as the creative influence of the Byzantine tradition began to decline.

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Proto-Renaissance

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introduces a greater degree of naturalism by placing an emphasis on the observation drawing of the human figure.

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Early Renaissance

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highest peak of artistic achievement in which Renaissance art reached an unsurpassed level of grandeur

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Mannerism or Higher Renaissance

74
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gave rise to a different character of art with a stronger emphasis on color, pattern, and atmosphere

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Venetian Renaissance

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Inspired by the life-like accuracy of Classical sculpture

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Naturalism

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Allowed artists to accurately portray the 3-dimensional world on a 2-dimensional surface from a fixed point of view

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Perspective Drawing

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Fostered the idea that an individual’s faith was not totally governed by institutional religion, thereby freeing artists from the influence of the clergy.

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Humanism

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in Ancient Rome was a ‘warts and all’ realism called ‘verism’ (from the Latin word ‘verus’ meaning ‘true’)

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Portraiture

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technique that is associated with large scale murals.

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Fresco

80
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main medium used during the Early Renaissance for smaller scale paintings on wooden panels.

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Tempera

81
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replaced both tempera and fresco as the principal painting medium of the Italian Renaissance as it produced the most intense color,

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Oil

82
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translates as ‘smoky’, refers to a blurring of the hard edge lines that separate adjacent objects or colors from one another.

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Sfumato

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  • Characterized by self-confidence, dynamism, and a realistic approach to depiction
  • Highly ornate and extravagant
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Baroque

84
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Derives from the French word ‘rocaille’ which means rock-work, referring to a style of interior decoration that swirls with arrangements of curves and scrolls

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Rococo

85
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Arose in opposition to the overly decorative and gaudy styles of Rococo and Baroque that were infusing society with a vanity art culture based on personal conceits and whimsy

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Neoclassicism

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The movement sought to return to the classical beauty and magnificence of Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

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Neoclassicism

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simple and austere column and capital

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Doric

88
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twin volutes (scrolls) of its capital

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Ionic

89
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ornate capital carved with stylized acanthus leaves

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Corithian

90
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simplest; resembles the Doric order but has a simpler base and an unadorned frieze

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Tuscan

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combines both Ionic and the Corinthian order

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Composite

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  • Emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental
  • Can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality
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Romanticism

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Tendency or style in art with specific common philosophy or goal followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time

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Art Movement

94
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Frequently characterized by aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability

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Avant garde

95
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Using lively painting techniques and use of color; sacrificing accurate lines in favor of a more atmospheric effect; capturing effects of light in nature

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Impressionism

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Was not a formal movement or style but more of a form of rebellion against the limitations of Impressionism

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Post Impressionism

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Post-Impressionism Offshoots

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  • Fauvism
  • Expressionism
  • Cubism
  • Pointillism
98
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  • First abstract style of modern art
  • the objects are analyzed, broken up, and reassembled in an abstracted form.
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Cubism

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There are two distinct phases of the Cubist Style

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Analytical & Synthetic Cubism

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fractured the subject into multi-layered, angular, surfaces that brought still life paintings and portraiture close to a point of total abstraction.

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Analytical Cubism

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embraced a broader palette, simpler geometric planes, and more representable subject matter

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Sythethic

102
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Simplified drawings with bold, exaggerated colors

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Fauvism

103
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Subjective search for emotional truth; remarkable, evident, and observable expressions through the face and body form

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Expressionism

104
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anarchy; playfulness; introduced temporary installations

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Dadaism

105
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In this technique the artist would empty their mind of conscious thought and then start to draw spontaneously, recording any response that filled the vacuum.

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Surrealism

106
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Coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture.

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Pop Art

107
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was the greatest sculptor of the Pop Art movement, creating many large scale public works.

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Claes Oldenburg

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seen as a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.

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The art of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg

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