Vocab (exam 4) Flashcards
Daguerreotype
introduced by jaques-mande; copper plate coated in silver; polished mirror smooth; image positive created on plate
bourgeoisie
the middle class; most important class of the 19th century; business owners and workers
modernism
philosophy; goal was to represent the here and now as well as show the process of art through obvious art strokes and painting materials
salon des refuses
salon of the refused art’ 1863; additional exhibition of refused art from the French Academic salon
Japonisme
influence of Japanese prints on the 19th century western arts
En Plein air
sketching or painting outdoors in order to capture the immediate effects of natural light
Aestheticism
art movement; art for art’s sake; art without morals, narrative, etc; beauty and beauty alone;
Impressionism
society of anonymous artists; visible brush strokes; emphasis o light and it’s changing qualities; ordinary subject matter (genre); inclusion of movement as a crucial element; unusual visual angles;
Realism
art movement in 19th century; attempted to create objective representations of the external world as viewed direct;y by the artist; consciously democratic, including subject matter that had previously been considered vulgar or ordinary;
Romanticism
move away from academia (history, man at best); “Mankind is not ideal”; man’s inhumanity to man; the sublime, angst, fear, longing (and some hope); passions as opposed to principles (colore)
Inudstrail Revolution
beginning of the age of technology; the creation of machines to replace mans labor
sublime
representation that inspires awe and feeling of something large than life
odalisque
Harem Slave woman
orientalism
the west’s (Europe’s) fascination with the cultures and customs of Northern Africa, east, and near east
Post-impressionism
name given by art critic, Robert Fry; made up primarily of Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, and Gaugin
pointilism
Making points with small segmented colored dots
symbolism
art movement; literary movement begun in France; rejected social consciousness of realism and the interest in nature of impressionism; main focus was man’s inter-soul: dreams, myths, macabre, and the poetic
Femme Fatale
an alluring, seductive, and dangerous woman
Fauvism
french for ild beasts; group of artists who appeared to substitute raw energy for craftsmanship and technique; primary colors were dominant; clearly influenced by Van Gogh and Gaugin; leader was Henri Matisse
Die Brucke
opposed the older, well-established powers; influenced by Nietzsche; opposed the bourgeoisie lifestyle; considered bohemians; leader was kirchner
Der Blaue Reiter
focus on visually expressing a spirituality that resided beneath the surface of the visual world used color as a language; studied religion
Analytic Cubism
that in which space is reduced to a flat plane and the subjects look as though they were spliced into strips which were put back together in shifting and overlapping planes and intersecting triangles of overlapping space
Synthetic Cubism
cubism that is constructed of exterior materials, paper, and other materials (collage); provokes question of what is real or not
collage
the addition of external images to a support
orphism
a combination of fauvism and cubism with reference to the spiritualism of color and the spiritual experience of flight
futurism
italian movement; used cubism’s formal discoveries to represent figures and machines in motion and to express a new universal dynamism; the machine was the dawn of a new era
suprematism
non-representational style of art started in Russia; severely simple geometric shapes and forms; extremely limited palette; goal was to convey that the supreme reality in the world was pure feeling which cannot be attached to any object
