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Exam 2
Roccoco, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/11/2012

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Jean-Honore Fragonard

"The Meeting"

1771-73

oil on canvas

Roccoco

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Definition

Jean-Antoine Watteau

"Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera"

1717

Oil on canvas

Roccoco

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Definition

Thomas Gainsborough

"Portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1785-87

oil on canvas

Roccoco

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Definition

Jean-Simeon Chardin

"The Governess"

1739

oil on canvas

Roccoco

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Definition

Joseph Wright

"An Experiment on a Bird in an Air-Pump"

1768

oil on canvas

Roccoco

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Definition

Jacques-Louis David

"Oath of the Horatii"

1784-85

oil on canvas

Neo-Classicism

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Definition

Angelica Kauffman

"Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as her Treasures"

1785

oil on canvas

Term
Roccoco
Definition

painting should teach good moral values

much like from the Renaissance

 

light-hearted side/enlightened side

a chance to move back to moralities and have paintings teach about life

Term
Neo-Classicism
Definition

"new classicism"

another sense of romans attempting to renew classical antiquity as a moral force, particularly stoicism

 

clarity of composition that displays...

Term
The Salon
Definition
in the "Salon Carre" at the Louvre
Term
French Revolution
Definition

King Louis XVI tried to help the American Revolutionary war against Britain

almost led to bankruptcy


Queen Marie Antoinette


July 14, 1789: Fall of the Bastille


Louis XVI executed and beheaded on Jan 21, 1793


Awareness arose with surrounding countries with kings and formed a coalition to overthrow the revolution 

Term
History Painting
Definition

About the past

 

According to the Academy, the most important kind of paintings because they teach

Term
Stoicism
Definition

stoic=unemotional

 

ancient romans were thought of as stoic, who stood up to challenges in bravery

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Definition

Jean-Antoine Houdon

"George Washington"

1788-92

marble

Neo-Classicism

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Definition

David

"Death of Marat"

1793

oil on canvas

Neo-Classicism

Term
Romanticism
Definition

response to Neo-Classicism

 

associated with the rise of Napoleon

 

recovery of emotion

thrilling and exhilarating; military prowess

 

contemporary subject matter

 

emotional drama and violence

 

victim as hero

 

emphasis on color and lively drawing

 

the sublime

Term
The Sublime
Definition

the way romanticism expresses itself in landscape painting

landscape painting rose as an important and viable genre


emotion of wonder and fear, or of shock and awe


two different forms:

loud and intense

quiet

 

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Definition

Francisco Goya

"Third of May, 1808"

1814-15

oil on canvas

Romanticism

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Definition

Theodore Gericault

"Raft of the 'Medusa'"

1818-19

oil on canvas

Romanticism

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Definition

Delacroix

"Liberty Leading the People"

1830

oil on canvas

Romanticism

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Definition

Turner

"The Burning of the Houses of Parliament"

1834

oil on canvas

Romanticism

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Definition

Caspar David Friedrich

"Fog"

1809-10

oil on canvas

Romanticism

Term
Napoleon Bonaparte
Definition

French Empire (1804-1814)

 

overthrew French revolution and government

 

extracted art from the areas he invaded

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Definition

John Constable

"The White Horse"

1819

oil on canvas

Realism

Term
Realism
Definition

peasants from the countryside are heroes


glorification of countryside

cleaner, morally grounded and safer than the city

going back to reality by going back to the countryside

 

Term
Photography
Definition

invented in the late 1830s


"too real" compared to realism

too mechanical

good for science not art


had to make a case that it could be "art"


images produced through machinery without the touch of a human artist

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Definition

Jean-Francois Millet

"The Gleaners"

1857

oil on canvas

Realism

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Definition

Courbet

"The Stone Breakers"

1849

oil on canvas

Realism

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Definition

Oscar Reilander

"The Two Paths of Life"

1857

combination print

Realism

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Definition

Julia Margaret Cameron

"The Portrait of Thomas Carlyle"

1867

silver print

Realism

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Definition

John Singleton Copley

"Samuel Adams"

1770-72

oil on canvas

Realism

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Definition

Thomas Cole

"The Oxbow"

1836

oil on canvas

Realism

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Definition

Edmonia Lewis

"Forever Free"

1867

marble

Realism

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Definition

Thomas Eakins

"Gross Clinic"

1875

oil on canvas

Realism

Term
Impressionism
Definition

lends to realism, but celebrates the city

 

cutting edge and not accepted in the Academy

 

subjects from modern life

 

rapid, summary brushwork

 

"plein air" outdoor painting

captures effects of sunlight and weather

 

collapse distinction of preliminary sketch and finished drawing

 

modernity

 

quickening up pace of life

 

2 sides:

Celebration of Modern Life (Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Morisot, Cassatt)

 

Exploration of Dark side of Life (Manet, Degas)

Term
Nude vs Naked
Definition

naked: people with no clothes on with imperfect bodies

 

nude: the academic idealized version of the female body

Term
Eight Impressionist Exhibitions
Definition

1874-1886

 

first time ever artists created their own exhibitions to get exposure when denied by the Salon

 

Impressionist painters created a joint stock and rented a space to show their work

Percentage of the money went back to the company

 

like the Salon of the Refused, people went to mock the work

 

Manet refused to show because he felt that you could only show at the Salon, not here as well

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Definition

Edouard Manet

"Lunceon on the Grass"

1863

oil on canvas

Impressionism

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Definition

Claude Monet

"Gare St. Lazare"

1877

oil on canvas

Impressionism

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Definition

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Moulin de la Galette"

1876

oil on canvas

Impressionism

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Definition

Mary Cassatt

"Woman in a Loge"

1879

oil on canvas

Impressionism

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Definition

Edgar Degas

"The Rehearsal on Stage"

1874

pastel and drawing

Impressionism

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Georges Seurat

"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

1884-86

oil on canvas

Post-Impressionism

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Definition

Cezanne

"Still Life with Basket of Apples"

1890-94

oil on canvas

Post-Impressionism

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Definition

Vincent van Gogh

"The Starry Night"

1889

oil on canvas

Post-Impressionism

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Definition

Paul Gauguin

"Mahana no atua (Day of God)"

1894

oil on canvas

Post-Impressionism

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Definition

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

"Jane Avril"

1893

lithograph

Post-Impressionism

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