Midterm Flashcards
Realism
movement characterized by depictions of lowest classes of society; limited color palette; looser brushstrokes; monumental scale; late 1840s-1870s
Impressionism
movement characterized by loose brushstrokes; attempts to capture moments in a quickly changing modern society; explorations of light; 1870s-1880s
Post-Impressionsim
Not characterized by one unified style; try to capture feelings/anxieties caused by modern life; flattening of space; color becomes important; 1880s-1890s
Symbolism
fears, desires, impulses of human mind; not replicating reality, imagination important; flatten space; 1880s-1890s
Fauvism
color arbitrary/bright/intense; expression; flattening of space; philosophies about time(clock/duration); primitivism; 1905-1908
Cubism
Rejection of traditional perspective; limited color palette; durational time important; primitivism; 1907-1911
Futurism
Italian movement; emphasis on mechanical, war, power, , dynamism; want to leave/get rid of past; 1912-1915
Modernity
questioning/rejection of traditions; focus on individual (freedom, equality, democracy, socialism); human progress (science, technology, industrialization, urbanization); capitalist market economy
Flaneur
type of person that just hangs around, usually wealthy man; dressed in coat, top hat, cane; people watch
Avant-Garde
french for front line; art that moves art forward in what we consider art; all these movements were part of this until they were accepted
Primitivism
European artist’s interest in other cultures, predominately African or oceanic; believed answer to modern problems but ultimately caused harm to other cultures
Synthetism
specific to Gauguin; subject/idea form and color, express invisible; subjective emotion
Synthetic Cubism
collage, new materials;
Analytic Cubism
new way of depicting space, traditional subjects; mostly paint
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