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Section VI: Scientific Innovations in Paint, the Advent of Photography, and the Machine as Art and Artist Flashcards

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Before the 18th century, how were most colors for oil paints made?

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they were naturally derived, so made from natural materials

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Where was Prussian Blue discovered?

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a laboratory in Berlin

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True or False: Prussian Blue was an accidental discovery.

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True

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When was Prussian blue discovered?

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1704

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Why was Prussian blue named Prussian blue?

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because it originated in the Prussian Empire

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What was one of the most expensive artistic pigments at that time?

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ultramarine

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How was ultramarine made?

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it was produced by grinding lapis lazuli stone into a fine powder

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Where was lapis lazuli stone found?

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Afghanistan

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What type of paintings was ultramarine reserved for?

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religious paintings, specifically for the clothes of the Virgin Mary

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Who discovered Prussian Blue?

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Jacob Diesbach

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Prussian blue made a market for what type of pigments?

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blue pigments

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What are the ingredients for cochineal red lake?

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iron sulfate and potash

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What caused the potash Diesbach bought to turn deep blue?

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a reaction between iron, sulfate, and the contaminated alkali

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What painting from the resource guide used Prussian blue?

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Self Portrait in a Straw Hat

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Where was Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun born?

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Paris, France

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How old was Lebrun when her father died?

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12 years old

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Why was Lebrun initially denied into the French Royal Academy in Paris?

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because of her gender

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What did Lebrun do when she got rejected from the French Royal Academy?

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she took matters into her own hands and self-taught herself so well that she was accepted into the Academy

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When did Lebrun begin painting portraits?

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when she was a teenager

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Why were Lebrun’s early portraits illegal?

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because you had to be a member of a painter’s guild or an academy

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Her paintings became a favorite of which French queen?

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Queen Marie-Antoinette

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What type of art style were her portraits generally considered?

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Rococo

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What are some attributes of the Rococo art style?

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they are lively, colorful, and very vibrant

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The word Rocaille is derived from the French word for _________.

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pebble

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Rococo is similar to which other art style?

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Baroque style

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What is rocaille?

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the small stones and shells used to decorate grotto interiors in gardens

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What is one main color on her palette in the work Self Portrait in a Straw Hat?

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Prussian blue

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What mood does the color Prussian blue create in the portrait?

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a relaxed, serene feel

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Art historians have found the pose Lebrun has in her portrait is adopted from which other artist?

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Ruben

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In Ruben’s self-portrait in a straw hat, is her hat made from straw?

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No, her hat is made from felt

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How does Lebrun improve on Ruben’s original portrait?

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she paints herself in a straw hat

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32
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When was the French Revolution?

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1789

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Why did Lebrun despise her spouse?

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because he would take her earnings

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When did Lebrun leave her husband?

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1794

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What invention made paint more portable and long-lasting?

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the invention of the metal paint tube

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36
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What does en plein air mean?

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in the open air

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What did plein air painting allow artists to do?

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it lets them observe the changes in natural lighting as the sun and clouds move across the sky

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Claude Monet was a painter of which art movement?

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the Impressionist movement

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39
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Where were pigments crushed in the 1740s?

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paint-mills

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40
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What powered paint-mills?

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they used to be horse-powered

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Were the paints made by the paint-mills better or worse quality than the ones ground up by hand?

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they were worse quality

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In what decade did the paint mills become steam-powered?

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the 1820s

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43
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When did mechanically ground products become better quality?

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1836

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When was the collapsible metal tube invented?

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it was invented in 1841, but the patent was made in March of 1841

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Who invented the collapsible metal tube?

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John Goffe Rand

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46
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What did artists use to store paint before the collapsible metal tube?

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a pig’s bladder sealed with string

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How did the collapsible metal tube help artists?

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it allowed them to use paint multiple times without it drying up and it didn’t leak

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Impressionist painter Auguste Renoir said that without the collapsible metal tube, what wouldn’t have happened?

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he said there would be no Monet, Sisley, or any other Impressionist painters, even saying Impressionism wouldn’t have been a thing

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49
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Impasto comes from which Italian verb?

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impastare

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What does impastare mean?

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it means to knead or paste and it refers to thickly laying paint out so it will stick out from the rest of the painting

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Jackson Pollock first used a new synthetic paint that was made of which type of plastic?

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It was made of a plastic called acrylic

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52
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When did Claude Monet paint the Bridge at Argenteuil?

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1874

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How many times did Monet paint the Bridge at Argenteuil?

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7 times

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What colors are used in the water for the Bridge at Argenteuil?

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Prussian blue, cerulean, ochre, mauve, and white

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The use of complementary colors was a main philosophy for which color theory?

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the Impressionist color theory

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How do you identify the complementary colors on the color wheel?

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they are the colors that are opposite of each other

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57
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What was the first camera called?

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a camera obscura

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What was the camera obscura used for?

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it was an optical tool used to copy the outside world and receive unbiased visual information, often used as a drawing aid

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Camera obscura is Latin for what?

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dark chamber

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What was a camera obscura?

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it was a dark room with a small opening in one wall that was like a lens, focusing the image onto the opposite wall

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Did the camera obscura support imagination or personal style?

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No, because they were meant to be real images that were unbiased

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63
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What were the basic ingredients for photography?

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a light-tight box, lenses, and light-sensitive materials

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Was photography really considered an invention?

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No, it was more like a progressive history of improving techniques over time

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Who was Antoine Hercules Romuald Florence?

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a French artist and cartographer used light-sensitive materials to copy written documents

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What did Florence call his method?

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photographie

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Photographie comes from the Greek words for _______ and ___________.

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light and writing

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Was Louis Daguerre’s method for taking detailed photographs similar or different than Florence’s?

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It was very different

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In England, scientists Humphry Davy and Thomas Wedgewood did similar experiments in light-writing compared to Florence. Were Davy and Wedgewood successful in their experiments?

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No, because their light-sensitive material wasn’t that completely sensitive to light and it needed another material to make it work

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When did Wedgewood die?

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1805

72
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What is the world’s oldest surviving permanent photograph?

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the View from the Window at Le Gras

73
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How long was the View from the Window at Le Gras exposed to the sun?

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8 hours

74
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In the photograph View from the Window at Le Gras, why does the sunlight appear to be shining on both ends of the building?

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it looks this way because the photo was left out for 8 hours while the sun was moving across the sky

75
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When did Daguerre start collaborating with Niecpce?

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1829

76
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What was the world’s first widely successful and commercially available photographic method?

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the daguerreotype

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When did Niepce die?

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1833

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After Niepce’s death, what was Daguerre’s new objective?

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to create and develop a latent image

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What is a latent image?

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an image that was on the surface of the photographic plate during exposure, but was invisible until chemical processing

80
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What were latent images treated with to make the image appear?

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mercury fumes

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How long was the exposure time for a latent image?

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4-5 minutes

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True or False: Latent images were less refined and not as sharp as the daguerreotype.

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False, latent images were more refined and sharper than the daguerreotype

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Daguerre’s invention started a booming portrait industry around the globe, especially in which country?

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the United States

84
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When did the French government announce the daguerreotype?

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1839

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Which American artist and inventor brought the daguerreotype to the U.S.?

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Samuel Morse

86
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Do daguerrotypes fade?

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No, they retain their detail and shine very well

87
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Where was Frederick Douglass born?

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Maryland on a plantation

88
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How old was he when escaped Maryland to go to the North?

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early 20s

89
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What did he mostly write about?

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influential antislavery books

90
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How did Douglass see this type of photography?

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as a way to fight racial prejudice and stereotypes

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Who was the most photographed person of the 19th century?

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Frederick Douglass

92
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How many times did Frederick Douglass have his picture taken in the 18th century?

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over 160 times

93
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How many times did Abraham Lincoln have his picture taken in the 18th century?

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126 times

94
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Why didn’t Frederick Douglass smile in his photographs?

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he didn’t want to play into the “happy slave” stereotype

95
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What did Frederick Douglass call the most “democratic” medium?

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photography

96
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What is polygenesis?

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a theory that states that black people weren’t direct descendants of the first humans (thought to be Adam and Eve)

97
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By the end of the Civil War in 1861, what new photographic technology overtook the daguerreotype?

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the wet-plate process

98
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What was Precisionism?

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an art movement that emerged in the U.S. focused on the built environment around us

99
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Precisionism borrowed from what other art movement?

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cubism

100
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What was cubism?

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an art movement that was focused on abstraction

101
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Precisionism celebrated new American landscapes, such as ________, __________, and ________.

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skyscrapers, bridges, and factories

102
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What was Berenice Abbott able to do in 1935 after she had documented the rapid urbanization of NYC?

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She was able to receive money from the Federal Art Project

103
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The photographs from her years of documentation were published collectively in 1939, it was called “_______ ______ _____”.

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Changing New York

104
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What other work of art was included in the Federal Arts Project?

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Penn State Interior

105
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When is Penn State Interior dated?

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1935 to 1938

106
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What is Pennsylvania Station and where is it located?

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it is an important transit hub and is located in central Manhattan

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Why did the filtered light on the photograph Penn Station, Interior turn hazy?

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it turned hazy due to its long exposure time

108
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How many acres of city space did Pennsylvania Station take up?

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up to 8 acres

109
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When was Pennsylvania Station completed?

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1910

110
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Who designed Pennsylvania Station?

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McKim, Mead, and White

111
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When was Pennsylvania Station demolished?

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1963

112
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What replaced Pennsylvania Station after it was demolished?

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Madison Square Garden

113
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Before photography’s invention in 1839, what was the most prominent way of taking portraits?

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the silhouette

114
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How are silhouettes made?

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they are made by tracing out a person’s shadow and cutting out the painting in the outlined, so the black shape is revealed

115
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Why were silhouettes preferred over oil paintings?

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they were cheaper and took only minutes

116
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What is a physiognotrace?

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a contraption that copies a person’s traced profile onto a 2-folded white paper to make multiple identical silhouettes, but smaller

117
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Where was the physiognotrace invented?

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France

118
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Who invented the physiognotrace?

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Gilles-Louis Chretien

119
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When was the physiognotrace invented?

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around 1786

120
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When did Charles Wilson Peale open his museum?

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1784

121
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When did Peale adopt the physiognotrace into his museum?

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1802

122
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How much money was the commission Peale paid Moses Williams?

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8 cents

123
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Who did Williams marry?

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the Peale family’s white cook

124
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Who invented instantaneous photography?

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Eadward Muybridge

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126
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What was a large debate about horses in the 1870s?

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Was there a moment when all the hooves of a horse were above ground, floating?

127
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Who took up a frequently debated question about horses in the 1870s?

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Leland Stanford

128
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Who founded Stanford University?

A

Lean Stanford

129
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Why did Muybridge and Stanford make “the Horse in Motion”

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to see down to the 1/1000th second if there was a time where all 4 of a horse’s hooves were above ground

130
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Why did some people not believe Muybridge’s evidence?

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some people didn’t believe it because the pictures looked so fake

131
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What is a zoopraxiscope?

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a lantern that projected images onto a rotating glass disc at such a high speed that it looked like a continuous moving picture

132
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Who invented film?

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the Lumiere brothers

133
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In the early 20th century, which group of people quickly adopted film?

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avant-garde artists

134
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What does avant-garde mean?

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it is the French military term for “advance guard”

135
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When were television sets first shown to the public?

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1928

136
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In 1946 how many U.S. homes had a TV?

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6 thousand

137
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In 1951, how many U.S. homes had TVs?

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12 million

138
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In the late 90s, what percent of U.S. homes had at least one TV?

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98%

139
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What was one of the most important factors in the rapid growth of the TV?

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WWII

140
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What event was viewed as the turning point in the history of art?

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the Second World War or WWII

141
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When did abstract expressionism flourish in New York?

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the 1950s and 1960s

142
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What s Abstract Expressionism?

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a type of abstract art characterized by the brushstrokes and the impression of spontaneity

143
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Who was hailed as the father of video art?

A

Nam June Paik

144
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Where was Nam June Paik born

A

South Korea

145
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Paik treated the TV screen like a ____________.

A

canvas

146
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Did Paik want to make TV strange and unfamiliar, or comfortable and normal?

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he wanted to make is strange and unfamiliar, outside of our comfort zone

147
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What is one of Paik’s earlies TV based artworks, made in 1965?

A

the Magnet TV

148
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When was the Magnet TV first exhibited?

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1965

149
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When the Magnet TV was first exhibited, what was special about it?

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it was interactive, they could move the magnet on the top of the TV to change the images

150
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Why did they stop allowing the Magnet TV to be interactive in 1982?

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because it was becoming a safety concern

151
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Which president signed the Interstate Highway Act?

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower

152
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What was the largest publics work program in U.S. history?

A

the Interstate Highway Act

153
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In 1980, what percent of households in the U.S. owned at least one motor vehicle?

A

87.2%

154
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In 1980, what percent of households in the U.S. owned at least one motor vehicle?

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51.5%

155
Q

Who made Velvet White

A

John Chamberlain

156
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What year was Velvet White made?

A

1962

157
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Who was one of the most influential Abstract Expressionists for 3D in the 20th century?

A

John Chamberlain

158
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What was Junk Art?

A

scrap metal being reclaimed and reinterpreted as a fine art

159
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What did Chamberlain use to make Velvet White?

A

metal from a 1929 Ford Pie Wagon

Fine Arts Pentathlon 23-24 (6 decks)

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