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renaissance to 1900
Art history test 3
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
12/13/2008

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Courbet
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1819- 1877

french painter

let the Realist movement

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Homer
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1836-1910

American
Landscape painter

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Eakins
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1844-1916

American

Realist painter, photographer, and sculptor

 

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Tanner
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1859-1937

African-American

Realist painter

studied under Eakins

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Rossetti
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1828-1882

English

Pre-Raphalite painter

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Bouguereau
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1825-1905

French academic painter

modern interpretations of classical subjects with an emphasis on the female body.

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Bonheur
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1822-1899

French realist artist

one of the few female sculptors

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Manet
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1832-1883

French painter

Realist and Impressionist

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Monet
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1840-1926

French impressionist Painter

used Plein-air technique

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Renior
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1841-1919

French artist

led the impressionist movement

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Cassat
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1844-1926

female American painter and printmaker

lived most of her adult life in France.

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Whistler
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1834-1903

American-born

British-based artist.

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Seurat
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1859-1891

French painter and draftsman

Neo-Impressionism and Modern art

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Cezanne
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1839-1906

French artist and post-Impressionist painter

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Van Gogh
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1853-1890

Dutch Post-Impressionist artist

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Gaugin
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1848-1903

French

Post-Impressionist painter

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Munch
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1863-1944

Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and expressionistic artist

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Beardsley
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1872-1898

English illustrator and author

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Homer
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Eakins
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Rossetti
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Bougureau
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Manet
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Monet
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Cassatt
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Seurat
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Van Gogh

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Gaugin
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Beardsley
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Salon
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a hall or place used for the exhibition on works of art.
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plein-air
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an approach to painting much favored by the impressionists to sketch outside to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color.
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Japonisme
Definition
objects whose style reflects influence form Japan.
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"Haussmannization of Paris"

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Renovations of Paris
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formalism
Definition
strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms as in music, poetry, and art.
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avant-garde
Definition
refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularily with respect to art, culture, or politics.
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Bohemian life style
Definition
the rejection of bourgeois lifestyles.
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"art for art's sake"
Definition
slogan from early 19th century. expresses a philosophy that the intrinsic value of art and only "true" art is divorced from utilitarian function.
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tonalism
Definition
artistic style from the 1880s when american artists painted landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist.
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Pointillism
Definition
style of painting in which small distinct points  of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors.
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optical mixture
Definition
apparent rather than actual color mixture, produced by interspersing brush strokes or dots of color intead of physically mixing them.
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fin de siecle
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cultural movement between 1880 and WW1. a period of hope for a new beginning.
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jugendstil
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also known as art nouveau. a reaction to academic art.
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