U7 Flashcards
Paintings were mostly done on vases
Classical art
naturalism was attained, figures were well proportioned and shown in movement, although faces remained immobile.
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Gods and athletes were favorite subjects of sculpture.
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characterized by simplicity, formality, symmetry and restraint.
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the most important movement in the whole of modern painting.
Impressionism
group of young artists decided to paint, very simply, what they saw, thought, and felt.
Impressionism
This often meant using much lighter and looser brushwork than painters had up until that point, and painting out of doors, en plein air.
Impressionism
rejected official exhibitions and painting competitions set up by the French government, instead organizing their own group exhibitions, which the public were initially very hostile.
Impressionism
It is generally related to the French painter Georges Seurat, whose masterpiece Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte is widely praised as the most famous of the
paintings.
Pointillism
took hold of the art scene from 1905 to 1910, give or take, and is characterized
by intense color and bold brushwork. I
Fauvism
In some cases, artists from this period applied paint
straight from the bottle. They chose simple subjects and because of this, the paintings
looked almost abstract
Fauvism
were also deeply interested in scientific color theory from the 19th century.
Fauvism
umbrella term for any artwork that distorts reality to match the inner
feelings, views, or ideas of the artist.
Expressionism
it is art that expresses inner realities onto
the outer world.
Expressionism
art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative
reaction to the horrors and folly of the war.
Dada
Founder: hugo ball
Dada
became an international movement and eventually formed the basis of surrealism in
Paris after the war.
Dada
aimed to revolutionize human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life
in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams.
Surrealism
The movement’s
poets and artists found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the
disregarded and the unconventional.
Surrealism
used automatic drawing or writing to unlock ideas and images
from their unconscious minds,
Surrealism
the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by
American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in
the 1940s and 1950s.
Abstract expressionism
It is often characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making,
and the impression of spontaneity.
Abstract expre
was a major development of painting in the 1960s that used geometric forms to
create optical effects
Op art
used a framework of purely geometric forms as the basis for its effects and
also drew on color theory and the physiology and psychology of perception.
Op painting
an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in
America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial
culture.
Pop art
It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture
and traditional views on what art should be.
Pop art
painting style that emerged in Europe and the USA in the late 1960s,
characterized by its painstaking detail and precision.
Photo realism
rejected the painterly qualities by which individual artists could be
recognized, and instead strove to create pictures that looked photographic.
Photorealism
extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and
typified by artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the
rectangle.
Minimalism
art can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should
have its own reality and not be an imitation of some other thing.
Minimalism
True of False
Minimalist painter Frank
Stella famously said about his paintings ‘What you see is what you see’.
True
