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| An Enlightenment thinker; someone who promotes Enlightenment ideas. Believes in democracy, that humans are basically good, and in science. |
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| The annual or biannual exhibition of art organized by the French academy. Named for a room in the Louvre. |
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| Aesthetic concept defined by the pleasure of seeing overpowering, awe-inspiring images. I.e. Turner's "The Slave Ship" |
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| Goya's series of didactic prints, which he produced in the 1790s. They were Enlightenment prints meant to educate the public in reason. Censored for being anti-Inquisition. |
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| A group of naturalists and realists who lived in or near the town of Barbizon in the middle of the 19th century. Rousseau and Millet were influential in this school. |
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| A workers' revolution in Paris that briefly established a socialist government. Much socialist art came out of this time. |
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| Includes the Barbizon artists, Daumier, and Courbet. The artists who emerged around this time who focused on work, lower class, and country. |
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| Includes artists such as Caillebotte, Manet, and the Impressionists. Focused on city, upper class, and leisure. |
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| The method Seurat used of tiny brushstrokes so that the color would mix in the eye and not on the palate. This didn't work, but it was a scientific study of color. |
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| The alteration or manipulation of the formal elements of art to convey something about the artist. Tells how the artist is feeling about the subject. |
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| 1910-1970; The careful arrangement of the formal elements (i.e. shape, color, texture) of art for aesthetic purpose. |
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