Week 9: Art of Europe and America: Rococo to Romantism

Question 1

Abstract

Answer 1

an artwork the form of which is simplified, distorted, or exaggerated in appearance (See Chapter 3.7, page 499)

Question 2

Arches

Answer 2

structures, usually curved, that span an opening (See Chapter 3.7, page 494)

Question 3

Asymmetry

Answer 3

a type of design in which balance is achieved by elements that contrast and complement one another without being the same on either side of an axis (See Chapter 3.7, page 497)

Question 4

Baroque

Answer 4

European artistic and architectural style of the late sixteenth to early eighteenth century, characterized by extravagance and emotional intensity (See Chapter 3.7, page 487)

Question 5

Classical

Answer 5

ancient Greek and Roman; art that conforms to Greek and Roman models, or is based on rational construction and emotional equilibrium (See Chapter 3.7, page 491)

Question 6

Dome

Answer 6

an evenly curved vault forming the ceiling or roof of a building (See Chapter 3.7, page 494)

Question 7

Engraving

Answer 7

a printmaking technique where the artist gouges or scratches the image into the surface of the printing plate (See Chapter 3.7, page 489)

Question 8

Genre

Answer 8

category of artistic subject matter, often with a strongly influential history and tradition (See Chapter 3.7, page 493)

Question 9

Grand Tour

Answer 9

a trip for the cultured and wealthy to study Classical and Renaissance artworks and culture found mostly in Italy (See Chapter 3.7, page 491)

Question 10

Idealized

Answer 10

represented as perfect in form or character, corresponding to an ideal (See Chapter 3.7, page 498)

Question 11

Implied line

Answer 11

a line not actually drawn but suggested by elements in the work (See Chapter 3.7, page 497)

Question 12

Linear perspective

Answer 12

a system using converging imaginary sight lines to create the illusion of depth (See Chapter 3.7, page 493)

Question 13

Narrative

Answer 13

an artwork that tells a story (See Chapter 3.7, page 489)

Question 14

Neoclassicism

Answer 14

European style that flourished during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, characterized by an extreme interest in the Classical world, strictly ordered scenes, and heroic subjects (See Chapter 3.7, page 491)

Question 15

Oculus

Answer 15

a round opening at the center of a dome (See Chapter 3.7, page 494)

Question 16

Organic

Answer 16

having irregular forms and shapes, as though derived from living organisms (See Chapter 3.7, page 487)

Question 17

Orthogonals

Answer 17

in perspective systems, imaginary sightlines extending from forms to the vanishing point (See Chapter 3.7, page 493)

Question 18

Patron

Answer 18

an organization or individual who sponsors the creation of works of art (See Chapter 3.7, page 487)

Question 19

Pediment

Answer 19

the triangular space, situated above the row of columns, on the facade of a building in the Classical style (See Chapter 3.7, page 494)

Question 20

Personification

Answer 20

representation of a thing, and idea, or an abstract quality, such as “freedom,” as a person or in human form (See Chapter 3.7, page 497)

Question 21

Print

Answer 21

a picture reproduced on paper, often in multiple copies (See Chapter 3.7, page 489)

Question 22

Renaissance

Answer 22

a period of culture and artistic change in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century (See Chapter 3.7, page 491)

Question 23

Rhythm

Answer 23

the regular or ordered repetition of elements in the work (See Chapter 3.7, page 497)

Question 24

Rococo

Answer 24

an eighteenth-century style in France characterized by organic forms, ornate extravagance, and whimsy (See Chapter 3.7, page 487)

Question 25

Romantic/Romanticism

Answer 25

movement in nineteenth-century European culture, concerned with the power of the imagination and greatly valuing intense feeling (See Chapter 3.7, page 497)

Question 26

Salon

Answer 26

an official annual exhibition of French painting, first held in 1667 (See Chapter 3.7, page 493)

Question 27

Subject matter, subject

Answer 27

the person, object, or space depicted in a work of art (See Chapter 3.7, page 487)

Question 28

Sublime

Answer 28

feeling of awe or terror, provoked by the experience of limitless nature and the awareness of the smallness of an individual (See Chapter 3.7, page 499)