Time Periods Flashcards
Romanticism (characteristics, themes):
Motion, movement, emotion, similar to Hellenistic and Baroque styles.
Nothing as geometric or mathematical as the classical or Renaissance art
Feeling, emotion, senses trump logic
Focus on feelings
“Discovery” of nature - new found interest in nature and what it holds
Ideals of Romanticism started from the publishing of Lyrical Ballads
Fascinated with death
Humanism, optimism of man working toward perfection
Music is the most emotional, emotive medium (the most romantic of the arts during this age)
Impressionism
Strictly painting the light
The painting is an impression of what they are seeing, not what they are actually seeing.
This form is a reaction to the invention of the camera
This form also leads into the cubism painted by Picasso and Braque
Post-Impressionism:
similar to Symbolist art
emphasized modernity
The only reason they are called Post-Impressionists is because they came after the impressionists
There is a wide variety of art among these artists.
They rejected impressionism
Surrealism:
Represents a sort of “dream world,” something a camera cannot depict
Typically very strange scenes that seem as though they may come from dreams or nightmares.
Post-modernism:
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