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Art 221 Ottesen UMBC
Quiz 2
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11/10/2005

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Artist: Inigo Jones. Inspired by Michelangelo. Rubens painted the ceiling.
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Artist: Tiepolo. "The Marriage of the Emperor". Fresco. German. White colors are prevailant.
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Artist: Neumann. "Church of the Vierzehnheiligen" (14 Saints). German. Dominated by gold and white. Curvy.
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Artist: Watteau. "Le Pelerinage". Oil on canvas. France. Subject is not religious or mythological. It is contemporary, elegant, and the figures are idealized. They are going to Venus's island, and all of the people are in couples. Celebrating love.
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Artist: Watteau. "The Signboard of Gersaint". Oil on canvas. France. The art is crammed together on the walls.
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Fete Galante
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Elegant. Term inspired by Watteau's art.
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Artist: Boucher. "Diana Resting After Her Bath". Oil on canvas. France. Slightly erotic overtones.
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Rococo
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Guilded decorations and white walls
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paintings depicting everyday life
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Artist: Chardin. "The Governess". Oil on canvas. France. Genre painting.
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Artist: Fragonard. "The Meeting". Oil on canvas. France. Statue of Venus. Rococo.
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Artist: Boucher. "The Chinese Fair". Woven. France. Shows an interest in the world outside Europe.
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Artist: Zoffany. "Academicians of the Royal Academy". Oil on canvas. British. Everyone is drawing a nude man, so the women are included by their potraits on the walls.
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26-18
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Artist: Canaletto. "Santi Giovanni". Oil on canvas. Italy. Painted city scenes for tourists.
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Artist: Piranesi. "The Arch of Drusus". Etching. Italy. Fantastic archetectual designs.
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Neoclassicism
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interest in classical art.
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Artist: Mengs. "Parnassus". Fresco. Italy. Neoclassical dwelling of greek gods.
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Artist: Canova. "Cupid and Psyche". Marble. Italy. Neoclassical.
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Artist: Boyle. "Chiswick House". British. Centralized villa. Symmetrical. Early example of neoclassicism.
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"The Circus Bath". England. Circle of houses for a spa town.
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Strawberry Hill. Inspired by gothic architecture.
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Library at Strawberry Hill. Gothic.
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Artist: Wedgwood. England. Classical.
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Artist: Hackwood. English. Protesting slavery as immoral and inhuman.
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Artist: Hogarth. "The Marriage Contract". Oil on canvas. English. Satire on the lifestyle of the upperclass.
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Artist: Reynolds. "Lady Sarah Bunbury". Oil on canvas. English. Classical garmets, setting, and props.
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Artist: Gainsborough. "Portrait of Mrs. Richard". Oil on canvas. English. Unpretentious.
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Artist: Kauffmann. "Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures". Oil on canvas. Woman artist. Neoclassical. Moralizing. The boy's shoulder is wrong.
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Artist: West. "The Death of General Wolfe". Oil on canvas. American born. Contemporary battle scene, contemporary clothing, contemporary event.
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Artist: Fuseli. "The Nightmare". Oil on canvas. Erotic, and depicts what is not easily seen.
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Constructed with classical elements.
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26-44
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Artist: Greuze. "The Drunken Cobbler". Oil on canvas. Genre painting. Moralizing "this is not the way to behave".
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Artist: Lebrun. "Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children". Oil on canvas. Female artist, richest artist in France. Depicts Antoinette as a good mother, and a dark cloth over the crib symbolizes that she lost one child.
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Artist: Guiard. "Self portrait with two Pupils". Oil on canvas. A portrait with pupils means she is good enough to teach! Texture in silk dress.
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Artist: David. "Oath of the Horatii". Oil on canvas. France. Painted before the revolution breaks out. Nothing feminine, erotic, or frivilous. Masculine, which is a reaction to rococo. Family comes second, the state comes first. Neoclassical. Becomes a symbol of the fight against the french monarchy.
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Artist: David. "Death of Marat". Oil on canvas. France. Marat had a skin ailment that he got relief from by bathing. Woman stabbed Marat to death. Simple message so everyone can understand. Dead Christ position with one arm hanging.
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"Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley". Oil on canvas. France. African depicted as a gentleman. He was born a slave and represents that slavery is immoral. The bust is of a man who wrote about the wrongness of slavery.
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Artist: Houdon. "George Washington". He is dressed as a causual gentleman, and is leaning on a fascist (a bundle of sticks around an axe. A Roman symbol that one stick is easy to break but many are not.)
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"The Bermuda Group". British artist. Group portrait.
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Artist: David. "Napolean Crossing the Saint-Bernard". Nepoleonic Era. He points leading the way, dramatic, Napolean compared to the king who united France, PROPAGANDA!
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Artist: Gros. "Napolean in the Plague House". Napolean touches one of the dying patients, religious overtones, propaganda.
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Artist: Gericault. "Raft of the Medusa". Romantic era. Based on a current event, emotional depiction. Artist inspired by a newspaper artical.
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Artist: Ingres. "Large Odalisque". An odalisque is a sex slave, or a group of women who belonged to a man. Interested in the world outside Europe. Clearly has not seen an Odalisque before.
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Artist: Gericault. "Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man". French. Reflects terrible times in the slums.
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Artist: Delacroix. "Massacre at Chios". French. Important romantic artist. Loose brush strokes.
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Artist: Delecroix. "Women of Algiers". French. Golden, hazy atmosphere, irregular composition. Clearly has seen the world. Romantic.
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Artist: Rude. "The Marseillaise". French. Named after the national anthem. Ferocious female figure, dramatic pose, calling French to arms. Nationalism, courage, agression.
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Artist: Goya. "Family of Charles IV". Spain. Diagonal light, Goya included in portrait, loose brushwork.
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Artist: Goya. "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters". Etching. Spain. Romantic.
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Artist: Goya. "Third of May, 1808". Spain. Dramatic, emotional, diagonal lines, loose brush strokes.
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Artist: Turner. "Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps". 1812. Romantic: his war plan didn't work because he didn't take into account NATURE! Man vs. Nature. No straight lines, dramatic, expressive.
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Artist: Turner. "The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up". Humanizes the ship. Drama of light, brilliant colors, loose brush strokes. Romantic.
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Artist: Constable. "The White Horse". Quiet, attention to weather, relationship between light and image, Romantic.
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Artist: Catlin. "Buffalo Bill". Western depiction of an Indian.
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Artist: Cole. "The Oxbow". God exists in nature, interest in modern technology with the railroad.
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Artist: Bingham. Landscape showing everyday frontier people.
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Artist: Powers. "The Greek Slave". Duality: snow white marble, Christian cross, she is embaressed by her nudity.
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Neogothic.
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Artist: Paxton. "Crystal Palace". Innovative use of new materials. Exibition hall that was a national pride, London.
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Brooklyn Bridge. Gothic arches. Has inspired alot of artists.
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New materials, narrow columns (cast iron)
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Artist: Garnier. "The Opera House, Paris". Overly decorated, ceiling has a modern painting that contrasts with the 1860's architecture.
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Modern materials: gas lights.
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Artist: Carpeaux. "The Dance". Outside the Opera House. Not idealized nudes. Created controversy because female nudes dance drunkenly around a naked man while a child is present.
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Artist: Bouguereau. "Nymphs and a Satyr". French. Rebeling against the French Academy. Less pure and more intended for erotic purposes.
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Artist: Bonheur. "Plowing in the Nivernais". Realism. Female artist, lesbian. Given high honors.
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Artist: Millet. "The Gleaners". Their faces aren't shown, they are picking up peices of grain. Political statement: red, white, and blue (French colors). Realism.
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Artist: Courbet. "The Stone Breakers". Realism. One is too old and the other is too young for the work. Faces are not shown.
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Artist: Courbet. "A Burial at Ornans". Close horizon, dog's disinterest toward grave.
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Artist: Daumier. "The Third Class Carriage". Realism. Where's daddy?
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Artist: Hunt. "The Hireling Shepherd". Innocent, simple, and denial of reality.
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Artist: Rossetti. Admires high renaissance, and refers to figures out of poetry.
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Artist: Whistler. "Black Lion Wharf". Etching. American. Realistic looking city.
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Artist: Manet. "The Luncheon on the Grass". Inspired Impressionism, but is not impressionistic. Female nude looks out at us as if saying "so what?". The men's modern clothing make it controversial. Something is wrong with the pictorial space between the lunchers and the woman in the background. Color: black and white with accented colors. Flat body.
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Artist: Manet. "Olympia". She looks out with bored arrogance, no shame or embarressment. Attitude. Flat body, no 3D tones. Contour lines. Subtle changes in white: rosy white, warm white. Experimenting with pictorial space.
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Artist: Monet. "Terrace at Sainte-Adresse". Impressionism. Viewpoint from above, records this picture in a short amount of time.
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Artist: Monet. "Boulevard des Capucines". Viewpoint from above, doesn't make an exact copy of each person instead gives an impression of people. visible brushstrokes, bright colors, baloons.
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Artist: Renoir. "Moulin de la Galette". Speckled lighting from trees, compositon shows that this is only one little section of a larger scene, gas lights.
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Artist: Cassatt. "Woman in a Loge". American model. Confuses pictorial space. Slice of a bigger scene. Visible brush strokes.
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Artist: Degas. "The Rehearsal Stage". Interested in bodies motion. Light comes from below. Disordered composition.
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Artist: Manet. "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere". Behind her is a mirror. Impressionism.
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