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History of Visual Art II Final Exam
Final Exam covers impressionism through modern/after WWII
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
12/05/2010

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Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa, 1804.

Oil on canvas.

This is art under Napoleon.

Gros is a student of Jacques-Louis David - an advocate for neoclassism style.

The interest in the exotic, along w/ emphasis on death, suffering & an emotional rendering of the scene, foreshadowed prominent aspects of Romanticism.

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Francisco Goya, Third of May, 1808, (1815).

Spanish Romanticism.

Enhances emotional drama of tragedy through stark use of darks and lights & extending the time frame depicted.   Central man spreads arms wide in Christ-like stance. Resistance & Patriotism.

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Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, 1979, Feminist Modern Art
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