Test 2 Flashcards
Describe the Rococo style.
Decorative, curvilinear surface patterns, lavish guiding, dainty decorations of flowers & garlands, elaborate costumes, stylized manners
Which genre of painting was the highest in the hierarchy of genres established in the 17th century?
History painting.
Which style was Rosalba Carriera a part of?
Rococo
What culture of painting was Elisabeth Vigée le Brun a part of?
Rococo and Reaction to Rococo
Elisabeth Vigée le Brun’s Self portrait from 1790 was a part of…?
Reaction to Rococo, 18th century Naturalism.
Elisabeth Vigée le Brun’s portrait of Marie Antoinette and Her Children was part of what style?
Rococo
Characteristic of female impressionists?
Indoor family scenes. Often mothers and children
What artistic medium did Rosalba Carriera explore and help to popularize?
Pastels
What major obstacle stood between women artists and history paint?
Were denied access to human anatomy and were not able to replicate an anatomically correct body.
Angelica Kauffmann was instrumental in the popularization of which style in Britain?
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Why did Elisabeth Vigée- Lebrun leave France in 1789?
Revolution
What is the cult of True Womanhood?
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What is one of the positive aspects of the separation of the sexes for women in the Victorian Period?
The separation of sexes allowed women to form deeper relationships with each other as well as offer mentor ship toward one another
Laura Herford was the first female student to attend the Royal Academy School in England. How did she gain admittance?
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How did the Royal Academy School arrange for its first female students to study anatomy?
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How did critics tend to characterize the works of Lady Butler?
Works were masculine, so they’re good
Many American women artists in the 19th century (such as Harriet Hosmer and Lilly Martin Spencer) came from families that were involved in what kinds of social movements? Why?
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How did Harriet Hosmer achieve financial success through sculpture?
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How did Vinnie Ream Hoxie’s beauty and charm serve as both an advantage and a disadvantage in her career?
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What was a major problem with the exhibition of the works if women artists in the women’s pavilion at the 1876 Philadelphia centennial exposition?
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What was the first stylistically radical art movement in which women were involved? Why did this appeal to women artists?
Impressionism, subject matter wasn’t looked down on, subjects were accessible to women.
What was the traditional division of labour between the sexes in the commercial production of painted pottery?
Men created designs and signed the finished objects. Women executed the designs in the workshops.
Describe William Morris’s beliefs regarding sexual division of labour. Describe the reality of the division of labour in the British Arts and Crafts Movement, which he championed.
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Describe the characteristics of the New Woman.
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