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Development of Art and Ideas Exam 2
Art of Dev. Exam Study Guide 3
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Art History
Intermediate
12/13/2017

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Bernini, “Baldacchino,” St. Peters, Rome
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Bernini, “Apollo and Daphne”
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Borromini, “San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,” Rome
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Borromini, “San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,” Rome
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Borromini, “Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza,” Rome
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Caravaggio,“Incredulity of St. Thomas”
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Pozzo, “Glorification of St. Ignatius Loyola”
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Rembrandt, “The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch)”
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Johannes Vermeer, “Woman Reading a Letter”
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Claesz, “Vanitas Still Life”
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Mansart, “Hall of Mirrors,” Versailles Palace
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Le Brun, “Apotheosis of Louis XIV”
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Boffrand, “Salon de la Princesse,” Hotel de Soubis, Paris
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Asam, “Assumption of the Virgin”
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Neumann, Tiepolo & Bossi, “Imperial Hall,” Wurzburg
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Watteau, “Pilgrimage to Cythera”
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Fragonard, “Happy Accidents of the Swing”
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Canaletto, “View of the Riva degli Schiavoni”
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Lord Burlington, “Chiswick House,” London
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Thomas Jefferson, “Monticello,” Virginia, USA
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David, “Oath of the Horatii”
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West, “Death of General Wolfe”
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Canova, “Napoleon as Mars the Peacekeeper”
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Goya, “Third of May, 1808”
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Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People”
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Friedrich, “Abbey in the Oak Forest (Abbey in the Oak Wood)”
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Turner, “Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying”
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Courbet, “The Stonebreakers”
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Manet, “Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe” (Picnic on the Grass)”
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Eakins, “Portrait of Dr. Samuel Gross (The Gross Clinic)”
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Barry and Pugin, “Houses of Parliament,” London
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Paxton, “The Crystal Palace,” London
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Niépce, “View from the Window at Le Gras”
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Daguerre, “Boulevard du Temple, Paris,”
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O’Sullivan, “Incidents of the war: A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg”
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Monet, “Impression: Sunrise”
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Renoir, “Luncheon of the Boating Party”
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Degas, “The Rehearsal”
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Seurat, “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”
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Van Gogh, “Starry Night”
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Cezanne, “Mont Ste. Victoire”
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Munch, “The Scream”
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Horta, ”Tassel House,” Brussels
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Eiffel, “Tower for the 1889 Exposition,” Paris
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Adler & Sullivan, “Wainwright Building,” St. Louis
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Steiglitz, “The Steerage”
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Bourke-White, “Fort Peck Dam, Montana”
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Lange, “Migrant Mother”
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Matisse, “The Joy of Life”
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Kirchner, “Street, Berlin”
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Pablo Picasso, “The Young Ladies of Avignon”
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Leger, “The City”
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Boccioni, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”
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Duchamp, “Fountain”
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Duchamp, “Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2”
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Malevich, “Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying”
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Dix, “The Skat Players”
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Dali, “The Persistence of Memory”
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Oppenheim, “Fur Breakfast”
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Mondrian, “Tableau No. 1”
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Rietveld, “Schroeder House,” Utrecht
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Brancusi, “Bird in Space”
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Calder, “Lobster Trap and Fish Tail”
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Hopper, “Nighthawks”
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Gropius, “The Bauhaus,” Dessau
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Frank Lloyd Wright, “Robie House,” Chicago
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Mies van der Rohe, “Seagram Building,” New York
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Pollock, “Autumn Rhythm”
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Warhol, “Nine Marilyns”
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Lichtenstein, “M-Maybe”
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Oldenburg, “Clothespin”
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Riley, “Fission”
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Judd, “Untitled – in 10 Units”
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Hanson, “The Tourists”
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Close, “Robert/104,072”
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Smithson, “Spiral Jetty”
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De Maria, “Lightning Field, New Mexico”
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Wright, “Guggenheim Museum,” New York
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Graves, “Portland Services Building,” Portland
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Gehry, “Guggenheim Museum,” Bilbao
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[Gianlorenzo] Bernini's fountain ["Of the Four Rivers" in the Piazza Navona, Rome] exemplifies the Baroque era's love for uniting art and ____________________ .
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spectacle
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Whereas Renaissance artists embraced the precise, orderly rationality of classical models, Baroque artists reveled in dynamism, ____________________ , and elaborate ornamentation, often on a grandiose scale.
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theatricality
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[Bernini's "Baldacchino" in St. Peter's] marks the high altar and the tomb of Saint Peter beneath the basilica, and provides a ______________________ presence at the crossing, visually bridging the marble floor to the lofty vaults and dome above.
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dramatic
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In his design for "San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane" in Rome, [Francesco] Borromini set the building's front in undulating motion, creating a ______________________ counterpoint of concave and convex elements on two levels.
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dynamic
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Art historians call Caravaggio's use of dark settings that envelop their occupants tenebrism, from the Italian word tenebroso, or "______________________" manner.
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shadowy
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Although [Anthony] Van Dyck created dramatic compositions of high quality, his specialty became the ____________________ .
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portrait
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_____________________ were a major source of income for Rembrandt, as they were Albrecht Dürer, and he often reworked the plates so that they could be used to produce a new edition.
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prints
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______________________ scenes abound in 17th-century Dutch art.
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Landscape
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The architects and decorators [of Louis XIV's "Versailles Palace"] designed everything from wall paintings to doorknobs in order to reinforce the _____________________ of Versailles and to exhibit the very finest sense of artisanship.
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splendor
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The ____________________, that ultimate source of illusion, was a favorite element of Baroque interior design.
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mirror
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_____________________ or forms resembling shells were the principle motifs in Rococo ornamentation.
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Shells
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The glowing pastel colors and soft light [of Jean-Honore Fragonard's "The Swing"] convey, almost by themselves, the theme's ____________________ .
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sensuality
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Most scholars mark the dawn of the technological revolution in the 1740s with the invention in England of steam engines for _____________________ production.
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industrial
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Another manifestation of the "naturalistic" impulse in 18th-century French art was the emergence of a new more personal and less pretentious mode of portraiture, exemplified by the _____________________-portrait.
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self
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[Antonio] Canaletto was the leading painter of Venetian vedute, which were treasured ______________________ for 18th-century travelers visiting Italy on the "Grand Tour."
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souvenirs
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[Jacques-Louis David] rebelled against the Rococo style as an "artificial taste" and exalted the "_____________________ form" of Greek art.
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perfect
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In England, Neoclassicism's appeal also was due to its clarity and ______________________ .
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simplicity
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In its simple symmetry, unadorned planes, right angles, and precise proportions, [Richard Boyle's] "Chiswick House" looks very classical and __________________ .
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rational
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Romanticism emerged from a desire for ____________________ – not only political freedom but also freedom of thought, feeling, action, worship, speech, and taste. Romantics asserted that freedom was the right and property of all.
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freedom
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The transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism represented a shift in emphasis from calculation to intuition, from _____________________ nature to _____________________ .
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objective, subjective
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Related to the imaginative sensibility was the [Romanticism] period’s notion of the ____________________ .
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sublime
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[Caspar David Friedrich’s] “Wanderer above a Sea of Mist” perfectly expresses the Romantic notion of the sublime in ____________________ .
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nature
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[J. M. W. Turner’s] discovery of the aesthetic and emotive power of pure color and his pushing of the medium’s fluidity to a point where the _____________________ itself is almost the subject were important steps towards 20th-century Abstract Expressionist art.
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paint
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Realist artists argued that only the contemporary world – what people could ______________________ – was “real.”
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see
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Of great importance for the later history of art, Realism also involved a reconsideration of the painter’s primary goals and departed from the established emphasis on ____________________ .
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illusionism
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[Eduoard] Manet aimed to move away from illusionism toward and open acknowledgment of painting’s properties, such as the _____________________ of the painting surface.
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flatness
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[Thomas Eakins’s early masterpiece “The Gross Clinic”] is an unsparing description of an unfolding event, with a good deal more ______________________ than many viewers could endure.
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fantasies
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[Joseph Paxton’s “Crystal Palace”] was the perfect expression of the new _____________________ age that the “Great Exhibition [of the Works of Industry of All Nations]” celebrated.
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industrial
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The relative ease of the process [of photography], even in its earliest and most primitive form, seemed a dream come true for 19th-century scientists and artists, who for centuries had grappled with less satisfying methods for capturing accurate _____________________ of their subjects.
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images
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From the moment of its invention, photography threatened to expropriate the _____________________ image.
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realistic
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Making _____________________ was an important economic opportunity for most photographers, and portraiture quickly became one of the most popular early photographic genres.
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portraits
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Photographers were quick to realize the ____________________ power of their new medium.
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documentary
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One of the most popular "Impressionist" subjects was Paris's vibrant ______________________ .
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nightlife
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"Modernism" in art . . . transcends the simple depiction of the contemporary world - the goal of Realism. Modernist artists also critically examine the premises of _____________________ itself.
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art
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Beyond its affinity with sketches, Impressionism operated at the intersection of what the artist _____________________ and what they _____________________ .
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saw, felt
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The Impressionists, acquainted with these [Japanese woodblock] prints as early as the 1860s, greatly admired their ______________________ organization, familiar and intimate themes, and flat, unmodeled color areas.
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spatial
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The Impressionists were a diverse group of artists, women as well as men, from disparate economic, social national, and religious backgrounds, united by a shared interest in the ________________________ world that they experienced daily and a distaste for the stylistic constraints and restricted themes of academic art.
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modern
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[The "Post-Impressionist"] artists were much more interested in systematically examining the properties and _______________________ qualities of line, pattern, form, and color.
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expressive
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[Georges] Seurat's color system - pointillism - involved dividing colors into their component parts and applying those colors to the canvas in tiny ___________________ .
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scientific
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3: Color in painting, [Vincent van Gogh] argued, is "not locally true from the point of view of the delusive realist, but color suggesting some _________________________ of an ardent temperament."
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emotion
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For [Paul] Gauguin, the artist's power to determine the _______________________ in a painting was a central element of creativity.
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colors
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[Paul] Cezanne's rendition of nature approximates the experience that a person has when viewing the forms of _______________________ piecemeal. The relative proportions of objects vary, rather than being fixed by strict linear perspective.
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nature
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By the end of the 19th century, many artists turned their attention away from the real world to the ______________________ . These artists rejected the optical world of daily life in favor of a fantasy world, of forms they conjured in their free imagination.
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imaginary
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The task of Symbolist artists was to see through things to a significance and reality deeper than what superficial ______________________ revealed. Symbolists cultivated all the resources of imagination, and their subjects became exotic, mysterious, visionary, dreamlike, and fantastic.
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appearance
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[With his tower for the 1889 Paris Exhibition, the engineer Gustave] Eiffel jolted the architectural profession into a realization that modern materials and processes made possible a radically innovative approach to _______________________ design.
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architectural
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In architecture as well as in the pictorial arts, the late 19th century was a period during which artists challenged traditional modes of expression, often emphatically rejecting the ____________________ .
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past
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[In the work of Pablo Picasso], gone is the traditional Renaissance concept of an orderly, constructed, and ______________________ pictorial space mirroring the world.
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unified
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Driving the Fauve ["wild beasts"] movement was a desire to develop an art having the directness of Impressionism but employing intense ___________________ juxtapositions for expressive ends.
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color
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[Henri Matisse has been quoted as saying:] "The chief function of color should be to serve ______________________ as well as possible.
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expression
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[Vassily] Kandinsky was one of the first artists to explore complete ____________________ as in "Improvisation 28."
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abstraction
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Together, [Georges] Braque and [Pablo] Picasso formulated "Cubism" around 1908 in the belief that the art of painting had to move far beyond the description of ____________________ reality.
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visual
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As [Pablo] Picasso once explained: "I paint forms as I _____________________ them, not as I see them."
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think
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Framed with rope, [Pablo Picasso's "Still Life with Chair-Caning"] challenges the viewer's understanding of _____________________ .
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reality
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[Ferdinand] Leger's paintings have the sharp precision of the _____________________, whose beauty and quality he was one of the first artists to appreciate.
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machine
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[The Futurists] called for radical innovation in the arts. Of particular interest were the speed and dynamism of modern _____________________ .
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technology
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The Dadaists turned away from logic in favor of the _____________________ .
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irrational
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The creation of "ready-mades," [Marcel] Duchamp insisted, was free from any consideration of either good or bad ____________________, qualities shaped by a society that he and other Dada artists found aesthetically bankrupt.
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taste
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[Hannah] Hoch's "photo-montages" advanced the absurd illogic of Dada by creating __________________, contradictory, and satiric compositions.
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chaotic
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Russian artist Kazimir Malevich developed an abstract style to convey his belief that the supreme reality in the world is "pure _____________________ ."
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feeling
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[Alfred] Steiglitz said that he wanted the photographs that he made with this _____________________ technique "to hold a moment, to record something so completely that those who see it would relive an equivalent of what has been expressed."
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direct
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The Surrealists were determined to explore ways to express in art the world of _____________________ and the unconscious.
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dreams
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Like the Dadaists, the Surrealists used many methods to free the creative process from reliance on the kind of conscious ____________________ that they believed society had shaped too much.
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control
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To achieve "pure plastic art," or Neoplasticism, as [Piet] Mondrian called it, he eventually limited his formal ____________________ to the three primary colors, . . . the three primary values, . . . and the two primary directions.
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vocabulary
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Clearly not a literal depiction of a bird, the ___________________ form of [Constantin Brancusi's "Bird in Space"] is the final result of a long process.
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abstract
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The public immediately embraced [Grant Wood's painting called] "American Gothic" as embodying qualities that represented the true _____________________ of America.
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spirit
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[Walter Gropius, founder of "The Bauhaus,"] staunchly advocated the importance of strong basic design and craftsmanship as fundamental to good art and architecture, and promoted the ____________________ of art, architecture, and design.
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unity
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Taking as his motto "less is more" and calling his architecture "skin and bones," the new Bauhaus director [Ludwig Mies van der Rohe] had already fully formed his aesthetic when he conceived the model for a ____________________ skyscraper building in 1921.
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glass
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The key element of [Frank Lloyd] Wright's new architecture was _____________________ not mass – a space designed to fit the patron's life and enclosed and divided as required.
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space
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Camera Obscura
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a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography
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Baldacchino
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  1. a ceremonial canopy of stone, metal, or fabric over an altar, throne, or doorway.
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Chinoiserie
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the imitation or evocation of Chinese motifs and techniques in Western art, furniture, and architecture, especially in the 18th century.
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Fête Galante (“Amorous Festival”) Painting Daguerrotype
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A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of French upper class society
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Collage
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a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing.
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Ready-Made
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everyday object selected and designated as art
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“Less is More”
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 a phrase adopted by 1947 by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a precept for Minimalist design and architecture.
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Pop Art
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art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values
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“Straight” Photography
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 refers tophotography that attempts to depict a scene or subject in sharp focus and detail, in accordance with the qualities that distinguish photography from other visual media, particularly painting.
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Environmental Art
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artistic works that are intended to enhance or become part of the environment or make a statement on environmental issues.
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