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Enfilade

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Sweet of rooms connected, people march and parade through the series of rooms, it’s an honour if able to enter King’s chambers

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Chinoiserie

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Imitation or evocation of Chinese motifs and techniques in Western art, furniture, and architecture

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Boiserie

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Carved wood panelling

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Poussiniste

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More about design than colour

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Rubenistes

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About colour evoking emotions

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Couviet

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Designer that brought in textiles and paint colours and decor to make it look like an ensemble (a together aesthetic)

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Fragonard’s painting…

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Verbality, eroticism

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Rococo Period

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  • Defined by the type of painting or decor that depicts verbally
  • Artistic style, exaggerated motion, rejection of the drama of the baroque
  • Period between the baroque and neo-classicism
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Josiah Wedgwood

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  • Most Successful Potter
  • Portland Vase (most popular classical object, massed produced to make more affordable for lower classes)
  • Invented jasperware
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Genre Painting

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Depicts everyday life

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Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe…

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  • Drawn from neoclassicalicism
  • Modern History Painting
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Neoclassical artists wanted to express…

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  • Rationalism
  • Moderation
  • Civic responsibility
  • Faith in humanity
    Secularism
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The sublime is defined by all inspiring and terrifying at the same time (T/F)

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True

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The Picturesque

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A category developed by William Gilpin refers to the charm of discovering the landscape in its natural state developed as a mediator between these apposed ideal of beauty and the sublime

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Realism

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The unembellished depiction of nature and life return to realism and enlightenment values, the quest for the truth

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Realism rejects…

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Neoclassicism and romanticism

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Realism is

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the bigger movement - depicting as close as reality as possible

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The Salon

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“the pals club” - considered high class if invited and could hang out there

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The Salon des Refuses

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a space in Paris where art was displayed if your art was not in the narrow categories that the salon would take (more for middle class)

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A Critique’s Livre

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The Salon pamphlet

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Positivism

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-A philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be
scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism
-Objective analysis
-For it to be truth or real, it needs to be proven
-Measurable, scientific facts to understand something

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Daguerrotypo(manie)

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  • Direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative
  • Original type of photography
  • Everything is in focus!
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Camera Obscura

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A darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside (projecting the image upside down)

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John Ruskin

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  • Proponent of the arts and crafts movement, craftsmanship scholar, art critic
  • Thought photography was the best way to capture truth and reality
  • Ideas of realism – photography is a great invention!
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Camille Corot – The Barbizon School

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  • Relationship between photography and painting – emerging after photography
  • Captured the eye of the viewer – capturing that moment in time (a snapshot)
  • They paint or sketch outside: “en plein air”
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Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple

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  • Taken by Nadar
  • No people – could not be captured because the lens needed to be open for 10-15 mins and cannot capture moving people
  • Daguerre planted two people (shoe polishers)
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Claude Monet, La Boulevard des Capucines

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  • Earlier images that represent photography
  • More colour, more people
  • Taken from Nadar’s studio
  • Does not use black!!
  • Coins as impressionist later on… based on what he sees so his impressions
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Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette

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  • Suburb outside the city
  • People out dancing on a Sunday afternoon… represents freedom, leisure time, and they are not working on the weekend (money to spend!)
  • Depicting a mix of social classes (unique)
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Impressionism

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  • Diverse individuals, united in a similar style
  • Used the way they painted as a feature of the paintings
  • Scenes of leisure
  • Renoir, Monet, Degas
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Post-impressionism

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a genre of painting that rejected the naturalism of impressionism (in favour of using colour and form in more expressive manners)

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Bacchanal

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  • a priest, worshiper, or follower of Bacchus
  • an occasion of wild and drunk revelry
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Chromoluminarism

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the characteristic style in neo-impressionist painting defined by the separation of colours into individuals’ dots or patches that interact optically

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Expressionism

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a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century

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Synthetism

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style of symbolic representation adopted by Paul Gauguin and his followers in the 1880s characterised by flat areas of colour and bold outlines

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Avant-garde

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new and unusual or experimental ideas, or the people introducing them – favouring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas

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The Battle of Love (Paul Cezanne)

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Depicts modern version of bacchanal (orgy, drinking, sex, etc.) – an occasion of wild and drunk revelry

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Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

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  • Colour theory!
  • Science of the eye, looking, and colour
  • Contrasts colours to create bolding colours through your view
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Vincent Van Gogh

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  • Emotional painter (anger, personal trauma)
    Swirly brush strokes
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Paul Gauguin

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  • Japanese art
  • Two dimensional
  • Evoking his emotions
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Neoclassical artist value the following ideas: (3)

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Rationalism, idealism, moderation, civic responsibility, secularism, rejected verbality, faith in humanity

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Who was the post popular potter in the 19th century?

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Josiah Wedgewood

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Who was A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte painted by?

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Georges Seurat

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Who painted Luncheon on the Grass?

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Edouard Manet

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When Gustave Courbet painting Burial at Onion, he disrupted the ideas of higher art by doing the following:

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A quotidian scene… genre style… historian painting (no hero, mostly family and friends)

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Cartouches

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A fancy form of frame

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