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Art History
Undergraduate 2
01/25/2010

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Art is the result of:
Definition
1. Artistic innovation and experimentation 2.Interpersonal 3.Intrapersonal
Term
Industrial Revolution
Definition
  • Starts in England in the 1760's
  • The steam engine was invented by James Watts (1769)

Three main points:

  1. Western culture moves from hand power to machines (mechinization of manufacture led to higher produced consumer goods)
  2. Steam engines changed travel (changed perception of time and space)
  3. Broader self awareness begins (not just one of many that make up the world but made up of many)
Term
Orientalism
Definition
Increased mobility also led to more contact with other countries and cultures and an increase in trade and cultural exchanges: luxury objects but also fantasies of the other
Term
American Revolution
Definition
  • 1776
  • Protesting of British domination
  • Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War
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French Revolution
Definition
  • 1789
  • Power from Monarchy to Parliament
  • The fact that aristocrats controlled the wealth and political power offended both the rising middle class and the peasants
  • Violent
Term
Philosophers of the Enlightenment era
Definition
  • Diderot
  • Franklin
  • Jefferson
  • Kant
  • Rousseau
Term
The Enlightenment
Definition

Culmination of developments that began in the 16th century when Renaissance humanists revived the arts and philosophies of antiquity

  • Revival of Greek and Roman philosophies
Term
Modern
Definition
  • Time period from the Renaissance to the present
  • First used in the 17th century to determine modern art from classical
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Consequences of the People's Revolutions
Definition
  • Political - shift from fuedal and monarchy run states to capitalism
  • Economic - a shift from artisan and guild production run houses to factory production and department stores
  • Technological - shift from manual labor to machine labor
  • Crosscultural Exchange - exchanges with other countries opens up at the same time foreign policies of neo-colonialism led to the rise of colonialism
  • Social and Cultural - rise of the metropolis and development of urban leisure activities
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Modernity
Definition
  • Expands the notion of being of the contemporary world - "Of one's own time"
  • Propelled through the Enlightenment, People's Revolutions, and Industrial Revolution
  • Concept: cultural values and structures begin to shift
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Modernism
Definition
  • Response to Modernity
  • 19th century - Art that forges into uncharted territory

Three plots:

  1. Self-conciousness
  2. break from bourgeois or middle class values
  3. Trend toward abstraction and non-objective art
Term
Genre
Definition
Subject category in painting
Term
Hierarchy of Genres
Definition
  1. History
  2. Portraits
  3. Landscape
  4. Still Life
  5. Slice of Life
Term
Bourgeoisie
Definition
Middle Class
Term
Proletariat
Definition
Working class
Term
Rococo
Definition
  • Delicate, sensual
  • Derived from the word rocaille
  • mid to late 18th century
Term
Rocaille
Definition
  • Collection of shells or shell-like form
  • Refers to rockeries in 19th century gardens
  • Rococo is derived
Term
Descartes
Definition
  • Pre-enlightenment philosopher
  • "I think therefore I am"
Term
18th Century Thinkers
Definition
  • Voltaire
  • Diderot
  • d'Alembert
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Madame Pompadour
Definition
  • Sponsored writing of the Encyclopedia (multi-volume, illustrated that included many disciplines)
  • Mistress to Louis XIV
Term
French Academy Mandate
Definition
  1. Teach skills,history, theory, aesthetics
  2. Uphold and regulate artistic standards
  3. Uplift cultural attitudes towards the arts
Term
Fuedalism
Definition
Aristocracy owned the land and the serfs and farmers worked the fields
Term

Winckelmann

Art Historian

 

Definition

Two works:

  1. Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture
  2. The History of Aincent Art
Term
Neoclassicism
Definition
  • Not a mimicking, re-interpretation
  • Return to Roman and Greek forms
  • Inspired by the redescovery of Pompeii and Hurculaneum
Term
Estates General
Definition

Clergy, nobility, 3rd estate or the commons

 

Term
Constitutional Assembly
Definition

Was the National Assembly but decided to not disband until a constitution had been written up and became the Constitutional Assembly

Legalized on June 27th

Term
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Definition
Liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression
Term
Jacobins
Definition

Radical faction of the revolution

David joined and Robespierre was the head of this wing

Term
Girondins
Definition
Moderate wing of the revolution
Term
Corday
Definition

Murdered Marat

 

Term
Livy
Definition
Wrote the classical Roman story that inspired the play by Horace and later the Oath of the Horatii
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