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Art History II
Impressionism through Post war Abstraction
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 2
05/07/2012

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Grand Tour
Definition
The Grand tours were travels expcted of well rounded cosmopolition affluent members of society in 18th Century Europe. The explorations showed status and gave braging rights to Socialites. For Artists they traveled to experience and study other artists. They were sparked by the discovery of Pompey and Herculalum
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Pastels
Definition
Soft media-ground pigment formed into chalk and gum base, solid media that is soft and maliable. You can smudge. shows clean, controlled, precise hand. Seen in a lot of Impressionists work.
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Capriccio
Definition

Caprice-play with the image. It is not a direct image of the cityscape. the scene is manipulated with added or deleted building, trees, and people.

Used to help the viewer enter the paint at the corrrect point.

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Veduta
Definition
view, well known/famous place incorporated in panoramic view, populated.
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Romantic
Definition

Response to Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment. Logic ruins individual thoughts. They try to clorigy alternatives to human characteristics.

 

Nature controls man, it is unpredictable

Fleeting Moment, with No control and No rationality

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Picturesque
Definition

carefully condsidered

everyday scenes

result of en plein air

unplanned scenes, opposite of sublime,

Calm serene landscapes

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Academy
Definition

Very strick painting styles

Wanted actual representation of the objects.

Heavely influenced by Greco-Roman Art

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Historical Painting
Definition

Painting of History, an Actual event

Have to be knowlegable

Highl respected

Helps to educate society and often makes a political statement

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Odalisque
Definition

Female Concubine, Sex slave, eastern tradition, nude women

Often to show the lesser than status of the Orient, because they are less refined and cannot control their urges. But it is okay for westerners to look and draw these because they are not western women

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Lithography
Definition

Stone Prints

Stone snded perfectly flate,with 2 stones to get a clean slate. Grawn with greesy oil based media to pick up the ink, acit etched, cleaned, inked and rolled with ink. Wet Stone and plexie pressed and slided

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Sublime
Definition

Notion that you are confromted with something dangerous
in Art you are a safe distance between you and the sublime, Nature controls Man

Emphasise smallness of human kind

Grandiose of MotherNature

Contrary to the Enlightenment

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Abstract
Definition
Taking something in Nature and consciously changeing it
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Daguerreotypes
Definition

Named after Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre

Photography

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Camera Obscura
Definition

A Box that used light to reflect the image onto the canvas, and an artist can trace it then used that to create his work.

THis let the way to photographs

Perminating a reflected image

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Historicism
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Orientialism
Definition

Eastern civilizations seen as less than, they could not control their urges, and are often displayed with odalisques (Naked women/Prostitutes)

 

Hiearchy, with them below the westerners

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Realism
Definition

Movement  that doesn't have anyu specific tennents

About the subject matter, letter laboring classes

Similar to genre scens

no dramatic events, lower class and everyday means nitty griddy

Dark colors not usually happy Reflecting effects of industrialization

The Stone Breakers

Political and socal overtones urge to cause change

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En Plein Air
Definition

Going out into the world and painting. Using light and less correographed material.

Paint in tubes

Less women, because it wasn't right for them to wander alone

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Flaneur/Flaneuse
Definition

Upper middle class life of Leisure

No body anomonity, are the subjectsm in Impressionist

non-active subjects

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Haussmannization
Definition

Napoleon III hated dirty

So he had the streets of Paris replanned to be bigger

Goods are available for cheap, more jobs and food is available, the city was crowded, there were dirty working condition and unfare wages

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Burgeoisie
Definition

Upper Middle Class

Bankers, Businessmen

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Impasto
Definition

Thick globs, applications of paint

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Salon
Definition
Where Academic art was displayed, usually crammed on a wall with no thought to space or angle. They rejected many of the artist who became Impressionist and Post Impressionists
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Salon De Refuses
Definition
A salon started by Napoleon III for the Rejection to be displayed, enventually they would be deemed Impressionist
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Franco-Prussian War
Definition
France teamed up with Prussia to take out Germany, The French lost
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Intransigence
Definition
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Third Republic
Definition
After the defeat of the French, they reorganized their Government and enstated the Third Reublic, they did not want to step on anyones toes so were cautious when making political decisions
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The Commune
Definition
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Modernity
Definition
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Repoussair
Definition
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expressioinistic
Definition
WWI impacts art role and use for comment of disillusionment
Questioning the meaning of the War
Russia
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Divionism/Pointilism
Definition
Application of dots applied with color theory evoling colors based on what color they are next to
You can measure a Persons reaction based on the colors that are presented
Monet
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Neo-Impressionism
Definition
The Return of Impressionist ideas
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Complementary Colors
Definition
On a Color wheel, you put two colors together and they help you see another color
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Ukioy-e/ Japonisme
Definition
Floating World
Relm of entertainers, gashias and celeberties like trading cards
Used in print to wrap Gifts
Westerners studied to study the use od 2D
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Primitvism
Definition
use of art and culture that are described as less than, less training, less technology,
But More in touch with emotions
Such as The African and Oceanic art
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Synthetism
Definition
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Symbolism/Symbolists
Definition
Artists are heavily influenced of psychology, dream theory and literature
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The Secession
Definition
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Fauves
Definition
Group of artist know for their wild colors
1905-1910
Color evolked how you feel about the scene
A Critic gave them this name
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Leo and Gertrude Stein
Definition
Brother and Sister who opened their house as a private salon, Lots of Matisse
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Die Brucke
Definition
The Bridge-Russian
Folk art and primitive
Response to the Urbanization of Berlin
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Der Blaue Reiter
Definition
The Blue Rider-Russian
Because of St. George from Moscow
Started by Kandinsky and Marc
SPIRITUAL
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Cubism
Definition
Braque and Picasso
Analytic and Synthetic
Breaking down our society and piecing it together as we see it
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Analytic Cubism
Definition
Breakdown of parts to study it
Paintings
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Synthetic Cubism
Definition
creating objects
way artist creat complex compositions by cominging transforming individual elements to create a whole
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Cubism
Definition
Braque and Picasso
Analytic and Synthetic
Breaking down our society and piecing it together as we see it
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Analytic Cubism
Definition
Breakdown of parts to study it
Paintings
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Synthetic Cubism
Definition
creating objects
way artist creat complex compositions by cominging transforming individual elements to create a whole
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Collage
Definition
Glue -in French
Artist technique taking paper and other material, and pasting them together
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Assemblage
Definition
Take 3D Elements together to make a sculpture
Questions what a sculpture was
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Futurism
Definition
Literary Italian movement, given cubism motion
Proposed to shake itself free of its past by embracing an exhilarating, masculine, and dangerous world based on the thrill, speed, energy, and power of modern urban life.
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Rayonism
Definition
Russia
Reaction to italian political Futerism
Dealing with fractured space
Evoling rays
Cubism + Movement-in line
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Suprematism
Definition
This Russian -ism sought a universal language based in abstract geometry, which highlighted the two-dimensional canvas.
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Constructivism
Definition
This Russian -ism sought to create three-dimensional works of art out of modern, urban materials (like metal and glass) that interacted both with the walls on which they hung and the viewer's space.
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Proun
Definition
a work of art that is often an installation in a specific site (creating a total environment), which can include paintings, prints, and constructions. Proun was thought to be an acronym for the Russian project for the affirmation of the new.
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Photomontage
Definition
A collection of Photographs
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Bauhaus
Definition
Constructivism
Lack of Practicalliy for off Designs
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de Stijl
Definition
Dutch-The style, universal
Primary colors against black and white
Basic geopetric shapes,making sence of the war, 2d and architecture.
Clean, streamline, hygenic to Purify
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Dada
Definition
responded to the absurdity and horror of war, mocked the senselessness of rational thought, and the foundations of modern society. This movement had distinct local manifestations.
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Ready-mades
Definition
manufactured items deemed art because the artist says so.
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Merz or Merzbild
Definition
Trash
The usage of what society throws away to make a statement about society
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Automatism
Definition
Creating art without thinking or using rationality as to the design, subject, or composition
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Frottage
Definition
Scraping a media (other than Paint) such as lead across a canvas with a textured material underneath to get the texture on to the canvas.
Using the texture to find object, like looking for stars...except finding monsters
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Grottage
Definition
Scrapping Paint across a canvas with a textured surface underneath to get the texture on the canvas. Connecting the texture to find thing, mostly monsters
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The Eight/The Ashcan School
Definition
Exhibition in 1908
Counter academics thought of beatuy
filled with nitty gritty deep earth colors
Wanted to show the reality of the streets
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Gallery 291
Definition
This gallery held frequent exhibitions of photography, painting, and drawing, in an attempt to create equality amongst all artistic media. Many early American Modernist artists started showing at this location.
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The Armory Show
Definition
en Masse
1913
+1600 artworks were displayed in New York
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Degenerate Art Exhibition
Definition
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Exhibiton of the African and Oceanic Masks
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Surrealism
Definition
began in 1930’s France It changed when it came to America
-It was not rooted in Psychology (in Am)
-Embraced disorders
-IN Europe they were greatly influenced by the Freud Analysis of WWI-Psychoanalytic- fighting subconscious, looking to Dreams
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
New York
Between WWI and WWII
Migration from aggie South to industrial North
African American Movement that included art, music and literature
Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas
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Federal Art Project
Definition
(FAP) a program set up by Roosevelt during the depression to get people to have money to spend it to help the economy
Long lived 1935-1943
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Works Progress Administration
Definition
(WPA) A work program set up by Roosevelt to get people jobs, so they could be paid by the govt, spend money and boost the economy,
Short lived
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Abstract Expressionism
Definition
New Yourk
Result of WWII
Europt moved to America to express frustration with displacement
Influenced Surrealist-Dream theory
Innovation-Composition, structure, and material
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