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Ch. 31
ARH F303
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
07/01/2013

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Term
Impressionism
Definition
a late 19th-C art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the illusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions
Term
Post-impressionism
Definition
the term used to describe the stylistically heterogeneous work of the group of late 19th-c painters in France, including van Gogh, Gaugin, Seurat, and Cezanne, who more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form and color than the Impressionists did
Term
Symbolism
Definition
a late-19th century movement based on the idea that the artist was not an imitator of nature but a creator who transformed the facts of nature into a symbol of the inner experience of that fact
Term
Art Nouveau
Definition

French, "new art"

 

a late 19th-century and early 20th-century art movement whose proponents tried to synthesize all the arts in an efor to create art based on natural forms that could be mass produced by technologies of the industrial age

Term
[image]
Definition

Claude Monet

 

Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in sun)

 

Oil on canvas

 

1894

Term
[image]
Definition

Paul Cezanne

 

Still Life with a Basket of Apples

 

Oil on canvas

 

1890-94

Term
[image]
Definition

Georges Seurat

 

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

 

Oil on canvas 

 

1884-86

Term
[image]
Definition

Edvard Munch

 

The Scream

 

Tempera and casein on cardboard

 

1893

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