Term
Baroque
What does this period due to renaissance forms?
Lighting?
Greater emphasis on what? Why?
Gender?
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Definition
-Takes renaissance forms and makes them more dynamic, and more animated with more movement.
-There is a violent contrast of light and dark
-There is greater emphasis on movement than drama because the painting wants you to be a part of it.
-Violent portrayal between men and women
-Complex and involving current issues |
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Term
Rococo
Style is largely what? How does this affect the term Rococo?
This Period is Stereotypically what?- 5 reasons why
Describe the figure style.
What can't you tell about the artist by the painting? Why?
What does this period reflect?
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Definition
-French artists serving Aristocrats- Widely French term
-“feminine”: pink pastel pallets, Soft fluffy brushstrokes, Scenes of love, everything appears soft, flirtatiousness
–figure style is dainty
-the gender of the artist by the painting: Sometimes women painted realistic images and then men sexually idealized them
-the interests and tastes of the Aristocrats
- Louis XIV
-People were starving at the time yet the paintings show people playing or high life etc.
-in a soft intimate way
-that senses are important |
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Term
NeoClassicism
What does it look back to? Name 5 things.
What was the idea during this period that paintings should have?
Two ways to describe this period?
This period was the age of what 2 things?-Explain
What theme arises during this period? |
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Definition
- earlier patterns-their Heritage- to a conservative style to feel safe-to what they know is good-to Greek/ Roman art
- more morality in their art
-more formal and elegant
- The Age of Enlightenment: Doing away with superstition
-The age of Reason: Chief agent was Science- It was starting to blossom and Newton was given credit for being the scientist who knew all
-Theme of classifying everything |
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Romanticism
What is it the Rival opposition to? What the other concerned with?
What is this period concerned with? 3 things.
Color?
What was the idea about nature during this period? |
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Definition
-to Neo-Classicism- wanted to show you the truth.
-Concerned with emotion- Romanticism is more open-ended-Existential experience related
-Lots of Color
-Idea that when you feel low, you need to go to nature to rekindle your spirit |
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Realism
What don't painting in this period have?
How is this period different from the previous one?
What do realist artists want to paint?
What did this period's view help do for art?
What overall does the realist movement express? |
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Definition
-they don’t have a theory
-Romanticism wants to find emotion etc.
-Realists wants to see what is going on and paint what they see and what is going out around them
-This view helped free art from its superfluous view
-Realist movement was painting now, not ancient Greece or what is in your mind |
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Impressionism
What tools did they try to use? name 2.
What is and what is not painted?
What did the impressionists paint and what did the public want?
what is the image in these paintings and w |
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Definition
-optical mixture and broken pigment
-the Perceptual truth is painted, not the absolute conceptual truth
-Painting a moment in time & people wanted eternity
-Image is relative because it will change
-the Quick brushstrokes appeared unfinished
-use of Primary colors
-People did not view one’s impression of anything as a full study
-the negatives of the time period, just vessels of relaxation
-the atmospheric perspective |
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Post Impressionism (in terms of what we learned from Seurat)
How was the previous period viewed? Why?
How is these artists use science?
What is the law of contrast color?
What is pointillism?
What makes artists like Seurat non-impressionist?
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Definition
-it was not durable enough- too much to do with time
-to apply with colors
-OBJECT IN LIGHT NEEDS TO BE PAINTED WITH COMPLIMENTING COLORS AND THOSE ADJACENT TO THE OBJECT
-tiny little dots of paint that up close looks like Hershey kisses, and from away it looks like spots like fleas
-Lack of atmospheric effects
-deeper than impressionism
- the properties and the expressive qualities of line, pattern, form and color
-exploring the expressive capabilities of formal elements. |
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