Art 117 ● Key Terms Part 3

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Realism

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A movement that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century France. Realist artists represented the subject matter of everyday life.

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Karl Marx

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German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published 'The Communist Manifesto'.

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Friedrich Engels

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Friend of Karl Marx.

In their scientific works, Marx and Engels were the first to explain that socialism is not the invention of dreamers, but the final aim and necessary result of the development of the productive forces in modern society.

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The Communist Manifesto

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is an 1848 political manifesto by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that laid out the programme of the Communist League.

It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.

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Modernism

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is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Clement Greenberg

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was probably the single most influential art critic in the twentieth century.

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avant-garde

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new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.

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Courbet's Pavillion of Realism

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In 1855, Courbet's monumental canvas, The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up a Seven-Year Phase of My Artistic Life (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), was rejected by the jury of the Exposition Universelle. Courbet retaliated by mounting his own exhibition in his Pavilion of Realism, built within sight of the official venue, where he displayed, among more than forty other works.

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Pallet Knife

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a blunt tool used for mixing or applying paint, with a flexible steel blade.

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Michelangelo

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High Renaissance artist. Painter, sculptor, architect.

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Rembrant van Rijn

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a Dutch painter and etcher.

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Impressionism

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A late 19th century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions.