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“The Nightwatch”

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Rembrant, 17th Century

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“Hundred Gilder Print”

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Rembrant, 17th Century

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“The Little Street”

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Jan Vermeer, 17th Century

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“Still-life with Oysters, Silver, Tazza + Glassware”

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William Claesz, 17th Century

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Group Portraits

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Everybody paid to be painted, flat, basic, no foreground

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Impasto

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thick paint

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Houding

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creating space in a portrait, like a person could walk around inside the painting

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17th Century Dutch Art

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Conservative, Structured, move future to thinking not materialistic

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Rembrant

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Famous painter, print maker and engraver “Rembrant can do everything”

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Engraving

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Less work, can use different papers, can go back and change something to make something entirely new

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Rembrants Hundred Gilded Print

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Prints selling at oil painting prices, dynamic light and darks, ppl doing things preformance-like

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Dutch Control Spice Trade So…

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ppl very wealthy, SUMPTUARY LAWS - restrictions on how showey people can be with money, Beginning of the Art Market

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Easel Pictures

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Dutch Creation, small portable paintings with no purpose or meaning

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Jan Vermeer, The Little Street

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Small Easel Painting, need to be up close to view detail, opposite of linear perspective

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Camera Obscura

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Blackout all natural light except a pinhole to project a scene, Dutch Technique

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Dutch “Little Masters”

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Ppl who paint easel paintings

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Willem Claesz, Still Life

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Vanitas - warning against vanity
idea that life is temporary, and those need to think to eternity

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Dutch Art Market

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works are made and then put for sale, not commissioned based

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Dutch and Slavery

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Controlled slave trade, distant from their own plantations and the drawings commissioned of plantations do not show the slaves. Racial Slavery invented, only African Americans can be enslaved

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Gomes de Zurara

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this bitch invented slavery. Made distinctions of people by appearance not ethnic, DIVIDED THE WORLD BY RACE thus instilling racism

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“The Swing”

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Fragonard, 18th Century

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“Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures”

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Angelica Kauffman, 18th Century

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Rococco

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Painterly (love of paint), Seductions, Mirrors (arrogant)

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Criticizes Enlightenment, argues that increased wealth leads to decreased morals, evidence all the paintings during this time lol

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Camp

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over the top exagguration, “look at me”

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Louis 14

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“The Sun King”, 17th century, Centralized power to King, Makes rivals move to Versailles capitol where they are more worries about manners and etiquette to overthrow him, VISUAL AUTHORITY

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Royal Academy

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Louis 14 creates, trains artists, limited to 4 women because that is all that is needed to show off the genius of women

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Genre Hierarchy (Royal Academy)

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History
Portraiture
Genre
Landscape
Animal
Still-Life
(If a painting doesn’t fall into one it isn’t considered art)

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Salon

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Exhibition of French Art (everybody goes, not limited by class)

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Neo-Classism

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“Knowledge is more important than life”, if exposed to Neo-classism you will be a more virtuous person

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Faust

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Delacroix, 19th Century

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“Cottage Children”

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Gainsborough, 18th Century

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“Raft of Medusa”

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Gericault, 19th Century

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“Slaveship”

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JMW Turner, 19th Century

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Romantasism

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God, Truth, Knowledge
Emotions, Darkness, Reason
Supernatural, Monstrous, Rebellion, Individual

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William Blake

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Believes people should be unconventional and individual

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Thomas Gainsborough, Cottage Children

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Romantisizes the Sublime, Reality is nothing when compared to Nature

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Fancy Picture

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Fanciful, from the imagination

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Gericault, Raft of Medusa

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Ger. built replica of raft to see how it would float, went to a morgue to see what dead things looked like to paint, doesn’t fit into RA art (so not art), Neo-Baroque

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Turner, Slaveship

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Horror of slave trade disguised by the Beauty of the Storm

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“Young Ladies of the Village”

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Courbet, 19th Century

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“The Horse Fair”

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Rosa Bonheur, 19th Century

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1851 London Great Exhibition

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First Worlds Fair, England shows off all the things their industrial revolution can make

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William Morris

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Horrified by the Industrial Revolution, poorly made cheap products, need ornamental things to create a better life

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Arts and Crafts Movement

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William Morris, away from mass production, tries to make more enjoyable

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Gustave Courbet

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Creates Realism, Challenges Expect Art

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Salon de Refuses

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Artists rejected from Salon (mainly impressionists), not taken seriously

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Courbet, Young Ladies of the Village

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Controversial - setting not near Paris, women aren’t pretty enough, not high fashion clothes, not naturalistic, about painting not reality

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Emile Zola

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Defends Manet, Paintings and reality shouldn’t be the same thing

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Manet, Luncheon on the Grass

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Social Problem, Bad Linear Perspective, Unknown if Naked or Nude, not very detailed background

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Dealer-Critic System

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end of 19th century, what the system is like now

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Monet, Impressionsim: Sunrise

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Gives impressionism it’s name, “seems like a child can do it”, stops colored sketches

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Pointilissm

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associated w/ anarchy

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“Luncheon on the Grass”

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Manet, 19th Century

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“Child’s Bath”

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Mary Cassatt, 19th Century

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“Sideshow”

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Seurat, 19th Century

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“Impression Sunrise”

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Monet, 19 Century

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