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