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Art Appreciation - Final
Chapters 15 - 20
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Undergraduate 1
06/08/2008

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Term

Nationalilty:  Vermeer ?

Definition

DUTCH

Term

Nationality: Rubens ?

Definition
FLEMISH
Term

Nationality: Velazquez ?

Definition
SPANISH
Term

The Palace of Versailles is

 located in the country of _____________?

Definition
France
Term

Nationality:  Bernini

Definition
ITALIAN
Term

Nationality: Rembrandt ?

Definition

DUTCH

Term

What period spans roughly

 from 1600 to 1750?

Definition
The Baroque Period
Term

________ is the element that is probably

the unifying theme of the formal changes in the transition from Renaisance to Baroque.

Definition
SPACE
Term

Among the general characteristics of Baroque art are a sense or movement, energy, and tension (whether real or implied).

True or False ?

Definition
TRUE
Term

RESTRAINED spirituality is often present in works of baroque art; in the Roman Catholic countries, for example, scenes of ecstasies, martyrdoms, or miraculous apparitions are NOT common.

True or False ?

Definition

FALSE

Term
The Baroque Period was born in the city of __________?
Definition
ROME
Term
St. Peter's in Rome stands as a hallmark of the ___________ style?
Definition
BAROQUE
Term
Bernini's Ecstasy of  St. Theresa combined the arts of sculpture, ___________, and painting?
Definition
ARCHITECTURE
Term
Which artist's unidealized figures and naturalistic treatment of subject matter influenced many later artists throughout Europe, and changed the manner painting was executed? 
Definition
CARAVAGGIO
Term
The ITALIAN Baroque artist who acquired a lengthy police record for such things as attacking a man with a sword, carrying weapons without a permit, and breaking windows was _____________?
Definition
CARAVAGGIO
Term
Among the foremost painters of the ITALIAN Baroque was Artemisia ________________, the daughter of a  successful Roman artist.
Definition

GENTILESCHI

Term

Who was a much sought-after painter,

and was also an ambassador and diplomat.

Definition
PETER PAUL RUBENS
Term
The SPANISH Baroque artist _______________ is considered the "painter's painter"?
Definition
DIEGO VELAZQUEZ
Term
The principal exponent of the Classical style in French Baroque painting was ______________? 
Definition
POUSSIN
Term
When considering modernity and modern art, the key component to this movement began as a direct outgrowth and reflection of the ________________________?
Definition
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Term

STYLE: JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

Definition

STYLE:  NEO-CLASSICALISM

Term

The painting, "The Oath of the Horatii"

 by _________________,

 depicts the Neo-Classical elements of

heroism, rationality, truth, reason, and logic.

Definition
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
Term
The Neo-Classical period is also thought of as the Age of ______________?
Definition
ENLIGHTENMENT
Term
The return to the classical style of the Neo-classical period was based upon the excavations of _________ wifh began in 1748?
Definition

POMPEII and HERCULANEUM

Term
Neo-classicism was inspired by the _________ Revolution and was designed to heighten moral standards.
Definition
FRENCH
Term
In Neo-classicism, the _________ Empire was often chosen as the model to emulate?
Definition
ROMAN
Term

Romanticism believed in the notion that ___________, and they also

valued sincere feeling and honest emotions.

Definition
FEELING IS ALL
Term

Eugene Delacroix's style ?

Definition

STYLE:  ROMANTICISM

Term

Eugene Delacroix's painting ____________________, probably

best exemplifies the common notion

of romantic art.

Definition
DEATH OF SARDANAPALUS
Term
The invention of __________ shortly before the mid-century was a significant milestone, as it altered the public perceptions of "reality".
Definition
PHOTOGRAPHY
Term

The painting, "The Stone-Breakers" by

_______________________

epitomizes the style of realism.

Definition
GUSTAVE COURBET
Term
The first woman artist to receive the Legion d'Honneur (1865) was _____________?
Definition

ROSA BONHEUR

Term

Claude Monet's style ?

Definition

STYLE: IMPRESSIONIST

Term

STYLE:  Vincent Van Gogh

and

George Seurat

Definition

Expressionism

Term

The nationalities of Cezanne and Cassett?

Definition

FRENCH

Term
_______________ borrowed the composition for his painting, "Luncheon on the Grass" from Raimondi's engraving "The Judgment of Paris".
Definition
EDOUARD MANET
Term
James McNeill Whistler's portrait painting of his mother is titled_____________?
Definition

Arrangement in Black and Grey

Term

The term Impressionism was

derived from Claude ________'s

painting _____________: Sunrise

Definition
MONET - IMPRESSION
Term
____________________ is a late nineteenth century style of art characterized by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by means of painting in short strokes of pure color.
Definition
IMPRESSIONISM
Term
____________________ is a late nineteenth-century art style that relies on the gains made by Impressionists in terms of the use of color and spontaneous brushwork, but which uses these elements as expressive devices.
Definition
POST IMPRESSIONISM
Term
______________ is a modern school of art in which an emotional impact is achieved through agitated brushwork, intense coloration, and violent, hallucinatory imagery.
Definition
EXPRESSIONISM
Term
Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night" is an excellent example of ______________?
Definition
EXPRESSIONISM
Term

The style of "The Blue Rider" ?

Definition
STYLE: CUBISM
Term
STYLE: "WILD BEASTS"
Definition
STYLE: FAUVES
Term

STYLE in 1910:

PICASSO and BRAQUE

Definition
STYLE: CUBISM
Term
STYLE:  THE BRIDGE GROUP
Definition
STYLE: EXPRESSIONISM
Term

 

Strong influence of African, Oceanic, and Iberian Art is ___________?

Definition
STYLE:  EXPRESSIONISM
Term

STYLE:  "War is the sole hygiene of the world"...

Violence, energy, and boldness"

Definition
STYLE:  FUTURISM
Term

Duchamp's style _____?

Definition
STYLE: DADA
Term
The painting "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali belongs to the movement ___________?
Definition
STYLE:  SURREALISM
Term

What style is considered READY-MADE?

Definition
STYLE:  DADA
Term

The art form that creates an intense interest in the

 reality of the dream state?

Definition
STYLE:  SURREALISM
Term

What set the Fauves apart from their nineteenth-century predecessors was their use or harsh, non-descriptive unnatural ___________, bold liner patterning, and distorted form of perspective.

Definition
COLORS
Term

The author of "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"

was ________________?

Definition
AUTHOR:  KANDINSKY
Term
Picasso's "Les Demoiselle's d'Avignon" is an excellent example of ________________?
Definition
STYLE:  CUBISM
Term
When Braque and Picasso began pasting bits of printed matter or other things in their Cubist paintings, they called the process "papier colle", what we now call ____________.
Definition
COLLAGES
Term

One of Picasso's most powerful works of protest is a painting he did in 1937 to broadcast

to the world the brutality of the
German bombing of the Basque town of ___________.

Definition
GUERNICA
Term
One of the 1st modern artists to achieve total abstraction in sculpture was _____________?
Definition
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI
Term
______________ walked across canvases dripping and splashing paint ?
Definition
JACKSON POLLOCK
Term

____________ used synthetic substances such as liquid polyester resin to closely approximate the visual and tactile qualities or flesh?

Definition
HANSON
Term

Pop Art can also be coined as

the art that embodies _____________ _______________?

Definition
CONSUMER CULTURE
Term
To combat a trend of male-dominated art shows in major museums and galleries, __________ _________ appeared in public in masks as "conscience of the art world" and mounted huge posters of protest.
Definition
GUERRILLA GIRLS
Term
Robert Rauschenberg introduced a kind of construction referred to as ______________ painting in which stuffed animals, bottles, articles of clothing and furniture, and scraps of photographs are attached to the canvas.
Definition
STYLE:  POP ART
Term
An excellent example of Pop Art is Andy _______________'s "Green Coca-Cola Bottles".
Definition
ANDY WARHOL
Term
_________________ was a daring project in which Miriam Schapiro teamed up with students to take over a dilapidated mansion and refurbish each room in a theme built around women's experiences.
Definition
WOMANHOUSE
Term

In ______________ Art, the work exists

in the mind of the artist as it is conceived.

Definition
STYLE:  CONCEPTUAL
Term
Jackson Pollock's painting "One (Number 31, 1950)" is an example of Abstract Expressionism, which is also termed ___________________.
Definition

ACTION PAINTING

Term
Color Field Painting can be considered as depicting the ________ or color.
Definition
ESSENCE
Term
Mark ___________'s "Blue, Orange, Red" is an example of Color Field painting.
Definition
MARK ROTHKO
Term
______________ painting is art that represents the likeness of humans and other figures.
Definition
STYLE:  FIGURATIVE
Term
Modernist art emphasizes the accord and autonomous aspect of an artist and a work of art, whereas ______________________ art emphasizes the fusion of the work of art and its intricate interconnectedness to its milieu.
Definition
STYLE:  POST-MODERNIST
Term

Pluralism in the arts is the inclusion of not just a white, male master, rather exploring and embracing women artists of

color, non-western art, and folk art.

Definition
TRUE
Term

Who painted

 "Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride"

 in 1434?

Definition
Jan Van Eyck
Term

Who made:

The Merode Altarpiece

Definition
Robert Campin
Term

Style:  Alberti ?

Definition
Italian Renaissance
Term
The French word meaning "rebirth" ?
Definition
RENAISSANCE
Term

The Early Renaissance artist

______________ is considered the

 "Father of the Early Modern Period" because of his introduction of naturalism into his art.

Definition
GIOTTO
Term

Durer's "Adam and Eve" conveys his admiration for the ______________ style.

Definition
RENAISSANCE
Term

The ____________ was characterized by a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art and design and included an emphasis on human beings their environment, science, and philosophy.

Definition
RENAISSANCE
Term

The Early Italian Renaissance took root and flourished most successfully in the city of

_________________?

Definition
FLORENCE
Term

One of the main social beliefs of the Renaissance is the ability to separate intellectual inquiry for matters of faith--the ability to be a good Christian, and also study the pagan classics.

Definition
TRUE
Term

Brunelleschi was one of the pioneers in the development of a system called

linear ___________.

Definition
PERSPECTIVE
Term
Some of the purest examples of Renaissance Classicism lie in the buildings designed by ____________.
Definition
ALBERTI
Term
Leonardo's "Madonna of the Rocks" portrays a Mary, who is ______________.
Definition
HUMAN and REAL
Term
BOTTICELLI, MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO da VINCI, and RAPHAEL all painted in which style?
Definition

STYLE:  ITALIAN HIGH RENAISSANCE

Term

"The School of Athens" was painted by ?

Definition
RAPHAEL
Term
Michelangelo's "David" embodies a classical tradition of the _____________.
Definition

IDEAL YOUTH

Term
During the latter years of the fifteenth century in Italy, a painter who used the model Simonetta Vespucci for his Venus was ______________?
Definition
BOTICELLI
Term
Dissatisfaction with the leadership and policies of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Protestant Reformation.  In response, the Catholic Church initated the ____________?
Definition
COUNTER-REFORMATION
Term
_____________ was a style that rejected the calm balance and contained art of the High Renaissance in favor of emotion and distortion.
Definition
MANNERISM
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