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Test 3: UF-Westin
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12/12/2005

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Chiaroscuro
Definition
Contrasts of light and dark
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Alla Prima
Definition
Without preperation, directly on canvas
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Tenebrism
Definition
NAturalistic Shadow painting
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Gobelins
Definition
French art factory
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L'Orangeirie
Definition
Louise XIV's portable orange grove
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Andre le Notre
Definition
Great French landscape gardener for Versailles
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Capability Brown
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Great English Landscape gardener
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French Garden
Definition
Formal, controlled, subservient
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English Garden
Definition
Informal, natural, untamed
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Nocturns
Definition
Special effects of night-time scenes in art
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Liber Veritatis
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Claude Lorrain's book of truth, 185 drawings of proof
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Sebastien Bourdon
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Sneaky French painter in Rome who steals good ideas
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Delectation
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Studied, measured, intellectual art with a thoughtful purpose
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Bodegones
Definition
Eating scenes of genre life
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Troppo Vero
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Too True, Innocent X's reaction to Velaquez's portrait of him
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Donna Olympia
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Notorious sister in-law of Innocent X, called the "La Popessa."
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Heinrich Wolfflin
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Swiss art historian,publishes ULThe Principles of Art HistoryUL in 1915
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Wolfflinian Art History
Definition
Compare and contrast of opposite pairs
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Marie De'Medici
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Reigned 1610-1642, French Queen, hires Rubens
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Margaret Lemon
Definition
Van Dyck's Mistress, Bites him where it hurts!
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Anamorphosis
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An image that appears distorted unless it is viewed from a special angle or with a special instrument
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Tulip Mania
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til 1637; Symbol of era, boom and bust economy
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LDM
Definition
Little Dutch Masters; Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer
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RRP
Definition
Rembrandt research project. Searches for the true rembrandts.
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Camera Obscura
Definition
Drawing Maching, pre-camera
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Hans Van Meegeren
Definition
Most famous Art forger
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Momento Mori
Definition
Reminders of shortness of life and fading beauty
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Cythera
Definition
Mythical isle of love
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Fete Calante
Definition
Elegant and graceful celebration; party on the go!
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Madame de pompadour
Definition
King's mistress hires Boucher to paint sense of sensuous pursuits of pleasure and escapes from boredom
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Carceri d'Invenzione
Definition
Piranesi's imaginary prisons on a grand scale
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Mussolini Piranesi
Definition
to support Fascists government, the Calographia turned out thousands of Piranesi's printed on 18th century papter but actualy printed in the 1930s
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Johann Winckelmann
Definition
Theoretical founder of Neoclassicism movement. German art critic and writer on ancient art. Made very influential studies that caused his generation to move to classism!
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Venus Victrix
Definition
Story of Paris judging the three goddess. he chooses venus and is given Helen as a reward and thus starts the trojan war!!
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Picturesque
Definition
Romantic attitude in art, that like the sublime arouse strong emotions; Strikingly expressive or vivid
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Sublime
Definition
Art that has strong feelings
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Prix de Rome
Definition
Prize given to artist to study in
Rome
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Odalisque
Definition
Turkish Term for a female slave or harem woman.
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Medusa
Definition
French ship that wrecks off the coast of Africa, Many perish, cannabalism, after 13 days only 15 are left alive.
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Sardanapalus
Definition
A play by Lord Bryyon, performed in 1826, Sardanapalus was an Assyrian King who upon learning that his armies were defeated, had everything he owned destroyed.
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Pantheism
Definition
God in Nature
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The Hudson River School
Definition
America's Barbizon School. America celebrated as the new Ede, God's country
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Barbizon School
Definition
Romantic artists who painted scenes around the village of barbizon in the forests of Foountainebleau
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Pavilion of Realism
Definition
1855 art show wehre only realistic art was shown.
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"Show me an angel..."
Definition
Courbet's vow to only paint what he could see
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Color patches
Definition
Introduces pure painting without subject. Art for Arts sake. Painting chiefly interested in light and color,
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Giverny
Definition
A famous sport 40 miles from paris, famous for its giant lillypad gardens
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Pastel
Definition
Drawing stick made from pigments ground with chalk
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Post impressionism
Definition
Generic Term, coined by Roger fry. Rejected by public and the art establishment. Two Divisions
(1) Analytical/Scientific
(2) Subjective/Expressionist
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Divisionalism
Definition
Seurat's overlapping dots
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The French Grandma Moses
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Description of original and primitive artist
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Guernica
Definition
First example of saturation bombing
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Armory Show
Definition
1913: Introduces modern art to USA
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291 Gallery
Definition
NEw York Gallery that helps introduce Modern art to the USA
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Fauves
Definition
The wild beasts
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Die Brucke
Definition
"The Bridge" Dresden expressionistic artists
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Analytical Cubism
Definition
Analyzes forms from several point of views
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Synthetic Cubism
Definition
Random shapes arranged to look like and object.
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Collage
Definition
Different Materials glued together
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Futurists
Definition
Italian pre-world war revolutionary movement
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Ash Can School
Definition
American genre painters of backstreet ofubran landscape
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Neoplasticism
Definition
Mondrain's De Stijl, outgrowth of cubism
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DADA
Definition
anti-establishment movement
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Helga
Definition
240 paintings down by wyeth of the woman of mystery!!
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Action Paiting
Definition
Pollack's painting techinque of dripping paint
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Benday Dots
Definition
Used to add ton in printing
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Jerry Uelsmann
Definition
Former UF faculty. The most collected American photographer
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Photo-realism
Definition
Return to realism
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Appropriation
Definition
Artist takes pre-existing objects and make it his/her own
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Kitsch
Definition
Art of bad taste, cheap and tacky
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Droit Moral
Definition
Rights of an artis and of a work of art not to be changed
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