Quiz 2 Flashcards
Enfilade
Sweet of rooms connected, people march and parade through the series of rooms, it’s an honour if able to enter King’s chambers
Chinoiserie
Imitation or evocation of Chinese motifs and techniques in Western art, furniture, and architecture
Boiserie
Carved wood panelling
Poussiniste
More about design than colour
Rubenistes
About colour evoking emotions
Couviet
Designer that brought in textiles and paint colours and decor to make it look like an ensemble (a together aesthetic)
Fragonard’s painting…
Verbality, eroticism
Rococo Period
- 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
Josiah Wedgwood
- Most Successful Potter
- Portland Vase (most popular classical object, massed produced to make more affordable for lower classes)
- Invented jasperware
Genre Painting
Depicts everyday life
Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe…
- Drawn from neoclassicalicism
- Modern History Painting
Neoclassical artists wanted to express…
- Rationalism
- Moderation
- Civic responsibility
- Faith in humanity
Secularism
The sublime is defined by all inspiring and terrifying at the same time (T/F)
True
The Picturesque
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
Realism
The unembellished depiction of nature and life return to realism and enlightenment values, the quest for the truth
Realism rejects…
Neoclassicism and romanticism
Realism is
the bigger movement - depicting as close as reality as possible
The Salon
“the pals club” - considered high class if invited and could hang out there
The Salon des Refuses
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)
A Critique’s Livre
The Salon pamphlet
Positivism
-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
Daguerrotypo(manie)
- 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!
Camera Obscura
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)
John Ruskin
- 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!
Camille Corot – The Barbizon School
- 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”
Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple
- 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)
Claude Monet, La Boulevard des Capucines
- 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
Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette
- 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)
Impressionism
- Diverse individuals, united in a similar style
- Used the way they painted as a feature of the paintings
- Scenes of leisure
- Renoir, Monet, Degas
Post-impressionism
a genre of painting that rejected the naturalism of impressionism (in favour of using colour and form in more expressive manners)
Bacchanal
- a priest, worshiper, or follower of Bacchus
- an occasion of wild and drunk revelry
Chromoluminarism
the characteristic style in neo-impressionist painting defined by the separation of colours into individuals’ dots or patches that interact optically
Expressionism
a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century
Synthetism
style of symbolic representation adopted by Paul Gauguin and his followers in the 1880s characterised by flat areas of colour and bold outlines
Avant-garde
new and unusual or experimental ideas, or the people introducing them – favouring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas
The Battle of Love (Paul Cezanne)
Depicts modern version of bacchanal (orgy, drinking, sex, etc.) – an occasion of wild and drunk revelry
Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- Colour theory!
- Science of the eye, looking, and colour
- Contrasts colours to create bolding colours through your view
Vincent Van Gogh
- Emotional painter (anger, personal trauma)
Swirly brush strokes
Paul Gauguin
- Japanese art
- Two dimensional
- Evoking his emotions
Neoclassical artist value the following ideas: (3)
Rationalism, idealism, moderation, civic responsibility, secularism, rejected verbality, faith in humanity
Who was the post popular potter in the 19th century?
Josiah Wedgewood
Who was A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte painted by?
Georges Seurat
Who painted Luncheon on the Grass?
Edouard Manet
When Gustave Courbet painting Burial at Onion, he disrupted the ideas of higher art by doing the following:
A quotidian scene… genre style… historian painting (no hero, mostly family and friends)
Cartouches
A fancy form of frame
