SOCSCI4-L3 Flashcards
Characterized by unusual effects of scale,
lighting, and perspective, and the use of
bright, often lurid colors.
Mannerism
Characterized by highly ornate detail and
extravagant in style. Chiaroscuro and
Tenebrism became known in this period.
Baroque
Characterized the Enlightenment, which
emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and
the primacy of the individual. Often
contrasted with Classicism.
Romanticism
16th century
Italian art
Mannerism
18th century art
Romanticism
17th and 18th
century art
Baroque
PROMINENT ARTIST
* Andrea del Sarto,
* Jacopo da Pontormo
* Michelangelo Buonarotti
* Peter Bruegel
* Tintoretto
* El Greco
Mannerism
PROMINENT ARTIST
* Gian Lorenzo Benini,
* Michelangelo di Caravaggio
* Peter Paul Rubens
Baroque
PROMINENT ARTIST
* Eugene Delacroix
* Francisco de Goya
* Joseph Mallord William Turner
Romanticism
The word ______derives from the Italian
______, meaning “style” or “manner“
mannerism ,maniera
A period of European art that emerged from the
later years of the Italian High Renaissance
around 1520 and lasted until about 1580 in Italy.
mannerism art
_______was one of the great creative
exponents of Mannerism
Michelangelo
_____, ______, and _______were acknowledged as the Early Florence Mannerists
Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo da Pontormo, and Rosso Fiorentino
______was regarded as one of the great creative exponents of Mannerism
Michelangelo Buonarotti
______ is relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail.
Baroque art
In architecture the period is exemplified
by the palace of Versailles and by the work
of Bernini in Italy.
Baroque art
_____ and _____ are important visual Baroque artists.
Caravaggio and Rubens
_____ is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century
Romanticism
emphasizes inspiration, subjectivity and the primacy of the individual, often contrasted with classicism.
Romanticism
______ was a reaction against the
order and restraint of classicism and neoclassicism, and a rejection of the rationalism which characterized the Enlightenment.
Romanticism
Among romantic painters are such stylistically diverse artists as _____-, _____, and _____.
J. M. W. Turner, Delacroix, and Goya
New and unusual or experimental ideas,
especially in the arts
Avant-Garde
From French word vanguard (avant “before” + garde “guard”), referring to a group of people (movement) who led the way in new developments (innovation)
or ideas
Avant-Garde
Contradict or repudiate the
precise academic style
Avant-Garde
________ – a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s,
Impressionism
characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in term of the shifting effect of light and color
Impressionism
_______ – repudiated both the precise academic style and the emotional concerns of Romanticism, and their interest in objective representation, especially of landscape
Impressionism (Impressionist painters)
Pivotal figure: Edourd Manet (from realism to impressionism)
Impressionism
Chief exponents: Claude Monet; Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Camille Pissarro; Paul Cezanne; Edgar Degas, and Alfred Sisley
Impressionism
He was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism
Edouard Manet (The French Modernist)
- He adopted the style of Gustave Courbet
(loose brush stroke, simplification of details, and suppression of transitional tones)
Edouard Manet (The French Modernist)
- Known for using pure color to give a direct unsentimental effect.
Edouard Manet (The French Modernist)
- Notable works: Déjeuner sur
l’herbe(1863), Olympia (1865), and A Bar
at the Folies-Bergère (1882)
Edouard Manet (The French Modernist)
_____, originally Le Bain. The Paris Salon rejected it for exhibition in 1863, but Manet agreed to exhibit it at the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected)
The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe)
Founder of French impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perception before nature.
Oscar Claude Monet (Landscaper)
His painting Impression: Sunrise [1872] gave the movement its name.
Oscar Claude Monet (Landscaper)
His fascination with the play of light on objects led him to produce series of
single subjects painted at different times of day and under different weather conditions
Oscar Claude Monet (Landscaper)
- French artist who was one of the leading
painter in the development of Impressionist style.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (The Feminist)
- As an early impressionist, he developed a style characterized by light, fresh colors and indistinct, subtle outlines.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (The Feminist)
- In his later work he concentrated on the
human, especially female, form.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (The Feminist)
- Notable works: Le Moulin de lagalette (1876) and The Judgment of Paris(c. 1914).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (The Feminist)
- French impressionist, famous for his
paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (The Dancer Painter)
- He started his career in painting at age of
18, after he earned a baccalaureate in
literature in Lycee.
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (The Dancer Painter)
- He is known for his paintings of ballet
dancers, such as Dancer Lacing Her Shoe
(c. 1878), La Classe de Danse (1873-
1876), Ballet Rehearsal (1873) et cetera.
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (The Dancer Painter)
- French post-impressionist painter and known for his later work as an important influence on cubism style.
Paul Cezanne (Padre del Nos Todos)
- Both Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso
remarked him as “father of us all”
Paul Cezanne (Padre del Nos Todos)
- His works laid the foundations of the
transition from 19th century conception of
artistic endeavor to a new and radically
different world of art in the 20th century
Paul Cezanne (Padre del Nos Todos)
- Notable works: Still Life with Cupid (1895) and Bathers(sequence of paintings, 1890–1905)
Paul Cezanne (Padre del Nos Todos)
French post-impressionist painter who
was recognized for his experimental use
of color, synthetic style and the
integration of the primitive art.
Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin (The Modern Primitive)
- He was an important figure in the
Symbolist movement as a painter,
sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer
Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin (The Modern Primitive)
- He was influential proponent of wood
engraving and woodcuts as art forms
Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin (The Modern Primitive)
- French post-impressionist painter who
was recognized for his experimental use
of color, synthetic style and the
integration of the primitive art.
Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin (The Modern Primitive)
- He was an important figure in the
Symbolist movement as a painter,
sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer
Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin (The Modern Primitive)
- He was influential proponent of wood
engraving and woodcuts as art forms
Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin (The Modern Primitive)
Vahine no te tiare (Woman with a Flower), 1891
Spirit of the Dead Watching 1892, Albright_knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin (The Modern Primitive)
a technique of neo-impressionist painting using
tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer’s eye
- Pointillism
developed by George Seurat with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of Color.
- Pointillism
Founder of the 19th century French
school of Neo-Impressionism
George Pierre Seurat (The Pointillism)
- He is chiefly associated with
pointillism, which he developed during the 1880s.
George Pierre Seurat (The Pointillism)
- Among his major paintings using
pointillism style is the Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte (1884–86).
George Pierre Seurat (The Pointillism)
a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather impressions of the
external world
- Expressionism –
characteristically rejects traditional ideas of beauty or harmony, use of distortion, exaggeration, and other non-naturalistic devices in order to emphasize and express the inner world of emotion
- Expressionism –
emphasized and insisted on the primacy of the artist’s feelings and mood, which often incorporating violence and grotesque
(shocking)
- Expressionism –
_____ and ______paintings exemplify the earliest expressionism
El Greco and Grunewald’s
- It was first used in the late 19th to 20th century in Europe and specifically in Germany (German movement led by
_____, ____, and ____)
Van Gogh, Eduard Munch, and James Ensor)
Dutch post-impressionist painter and most famous and influential figure in the history of Western art.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (The Shifter)
The Starry Night, Bedroom in Arles, 1888, The Old Mill, 1888, The Night Café, The Potato Eaters,
Vincent Willem van Gogh (The Shifter)
- He started his career in painting in Nuenen, for 2 years, he accomplished 200 oil paintings
Vincent Willem van Gogh (The Shifter)
- In Arles, he completed _____ paintings and 100 drawings and watercolors (most of his works were painted in yellow, ultramarine, and mauve)
200 paintings, and 100 drawings
- In the last two years of his life, he created around _____oil paintings and in just over decade, he created about _____ artworks (Landscapes, still life, portraits, and self-portraits)
860 , 2,100
Norwegian painter and engraver.
Edvard Munch (The Emocionado)
- He infused his subjects with an
intense emotionalism, exploring the
use of vivid color and linear
distortion to express feelings about
life and death.
Edvard Munch (The Emocionado)
- His works include the painting The
Scream (1893)
Edvard Munch (The Emocionado)
The Scream, 1893, The Sick Child, 1885 and Anxiety, 1894
Edvard Munch (The Emocionado)