Module 5.3 Flashcards
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- Before the Enlightenment, there were countless wars and strife and it almost brought Europe into a collapse
- Kings were dethroned, and beheaded, some were exiled and governments were unstable
- People demanded for decorum and an orderly civilization
- Europe adopted the worldview that Reason must remain the chief faculty over Passion.
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The 18th Century - The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
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– During the age of reason also evolved into something that favored a cohesive civilization as opposed to mere individual interest and the irrational.
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The Arts and Sciences
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– He is the embodiment of the Enlightenment period in America
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Benjamin Franklin
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- French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopedie
- A Publication which is considered to be the start of society’s de-christianization
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Denis Diderot
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- Experienced execution.
- He was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire’s nailed to his torso.
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Francois-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre
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- Denounce the arbitrary nature of justice
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Voltaire
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- A Famous art movement during 18th Century
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Rococo Art
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- A painter who was the first to use Rococo style
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Antoine Watteau
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-A new form of architecture was also formed in this century
- It is an American form of Neo-Classicism or NeoPalladianism
created by Thomas Jefferson
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Jeffersonian Architecture
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he quoted “what does reason fail to address?”
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Edmund Burke
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– teamed together and wrote a collection of poems in 1798, called Lyrical Ballads as an experiment in a new, emotional, personal and visionary form of expression
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William Wordsworth: Tackled poetry about nature
Samuel Coleridge: Tackled poetry about dreams, visions and the glories and dangers of imagination
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– Made a radical break from the 18th century tradition of representing non-European people
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Marie-Guillemine Benoist
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- French painter who shifted his emphasis from heroism to suffering and from victors to victims
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Theodore Gericault
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- He Was born after the revolution.
- His ambition was to paint large history pictures in the grand manner, in the tradition of Michelangelo and Rubens
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Eugene Delacroix
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- He was as coined as the “Devotee of Raphael” the champion of lines and the opponent of Delacroix
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Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
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- The first photographic process
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Heliography
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- Also referred to as pinhole image, is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen is projected through a small hole in that screen as a reversed and inverted image on a surface opposite to the opening.
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Camera Obscura
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- They publicly announced their independent inventions of photography.
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Louis Jacques-Mande Daguerre (1787-1851) and William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
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- Patented the Calotype, a unique form of Daguerreotype
- The first negative-positive process that made it possible to multiply the same image, by means of an intermediate negative on a solver chloride paper made translucid with wax
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William Henry Fox Talbot
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- Began as a rejection of the imagination and subjectivism of Romanticism
- Focused more on accurate observation of the ordinary world and situations by painting explicit subject matters like politics and prostitution.
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Realism
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- He is known as the main proponent of Realism
-his paintings challenged convention by depicting unidealized peasants and workers, often on a grand scale traditionally reserved for paintings of religious or historical subjects.
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Gustave Courbet
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- He is an American painter whose works, particularly those on marine subjects, are among the most powerful and expressive of the late 19th-century American art
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Winslow Homer
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- He is regarded as one of the greatest painters of this time
- He was also one of America’s finest realist painters
- As aforemention, Realism is an art style in which everyday scenes and events are painted as they actually look.
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Thomas Eakins
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- He is former student of Thomas Eakins, was an important African-American artist.
- He studied for a period in Paris
- In 1894, one of his paintings was accepted by the Salon
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
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- He Was a native of Pennsylvania
- While studying at Paris, he met the Impressionists and was greatly influence by their style of painting
- He slowly shifted to Post
Mary Cassatt
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It is an art style that attempts to capture the rapidly changing effects of sunlight on objects.
Impressionism
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- Developed impressionism during the early 1860s.
Claude Monet and Other Paris-based Artists
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- Became an even greater medium for expression, as it was not afraid to have unorthodox subjects.
- created out of the criticism of Impressionism's "naturalization"
Post-Impressionism
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- A prominent Post-Impressionist artist
- "Don't copy too much after nature. Art is an abstraction: extract from nature while dreaming before it and concentrate more on creating than on the final result."
Paul Gaugin
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– is one of the most famous and celebrated artists in human history.
- In his paintings, he used twisted lines and forms, intense colors, and rich textures to express deep emotions
Vincent Van Gogh
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- Were an important aspect of 19th century society
The Performing Arts
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- One exceptional form of play that was formed during the 19th century
- The play is quite dramatic where the plot is sensational and is designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes supersede over detailed characterization.
- It typically concentrates on dialogue , which is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action.
Melodrama
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– Another form of theatrical performance that was created during this time
- Began to emerge as modern Western theatre in the 19th century.
- They're commonly shows that integrate a story with music, range from 30 minutes to 3 hours and are presented in two acts
Musical
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The emergence of a new art form called the Advertising Poster helped increase the popularity of the performing arts.
The Art Nouveau
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In the late 1880's various people began experimenting with photography, blending them together to give the illusion of a
Motion Pictures
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Created the groundbreaking motion photography The Horse in Motion
Eadweard J. Muybridge
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A French inventor who directed Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
Louis Le Prince
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filmed the L'Arrivee d'un Train A la Ciotat,
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
