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Renaissance
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Florence became the cultural center of early �
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Renaissance
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The three leading innovators of the arts in the fifteenth-century Florence- the painter Masaccio, the sculptor Donatello, and the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.
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Brunelleschi�
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Was the inventor of geometric, linear perspective, a system he probably developed in order to study the ruins of ancient Rome.
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Masaccio�
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Translated Donatello’s naturalism and Brunelleschi’s sense of proportion into the art of painting.
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High Renaissance�
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The three great artists of this time- Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
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Mannerism
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The style of art prevalent especially in Italy from about 1525 until the early years of the seventeenth century, characterized by its dramatic use of light, exaggerated perspective, distorted forms, and vivid colors.
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Baroque
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A dominant style of art in Europe in the seventeenth century characterized by its theatrical or dramatic, use of light and color, by its ornate forms, and by its disregard for classical principles of composition.
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Rococo
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A style of art popular in the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century, particularly in France, characterized by curvilinear forms, pastel colors, and light, often frivolous subject matter.
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Neoclassicism
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A style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that was influenced by the Greek Classical style and that often employed Classical themes for its subject matter.
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Neoclassicism
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“Women are no longer seen cavorting like mermaids…”
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Neoclassicism
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“Identified with the public-minded values of Greek and Roman heroes, who placed moral virtue, patriotic self-sacrifice, and “right action” above all else.”
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Romanticism
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A dramatic, emotional, and subjective art arising in the early nineteenth century in opposition to the austere plans of Neoclassicism.
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Impressionists
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The painters of this movement in the nineteenth-century France whose work is characterized by the use of discontinuous stroke of color meant to reproduce the effects of light.
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Post Impressionism
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A name that describes the painting of a numbers of artists, working in widely different styles, in France during the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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Cubism
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A style of art pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the first decade of the twentieth century, noted for the geometry of its forms, its fragmentation of the object, and its increasing abstraction.
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Fauves
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The artists of the early twentieth century whose work was characterized by its use of bold arbitrary color. Their names derives from the French word meaning “wild beasts.”
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Expressionism
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An art that stresses the psychological and emotional content of the work, associated particularly with German art in the early twentieth century.
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Futurism
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An early twentieth-century art movement, characterized by its desire to celebrate the movement and speed of modern industrial life.
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Dada
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An art movement that originated during World War I in a number of world capitals, including New York, Paris, Berlin, and Zurich, which was so antagonistic to traditional styles and materials of art that it was considered by many to be “anti-art.”
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Surrealism
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A style of art of the early twentieth century that emphasized dream imagery, chance operations, and rapid, thoughtless forms of notation that expressed, it was felt, the unconscious mind.
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Surrealism
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One of the founding figures of this, Andre Breton, explained the direction his movement would take: “I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory..”
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American Modernism
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Had been responsive to trends in European painting since the early years of the century but instead of pushing toward abstraction, as had happened in Europe.. tend to utilize European painting’s formal innovations in more realist painting.
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Abstract Expressionism
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A painting style of the late 1940s and early 1950s, predominantly American, characterized by its rendering of expressive content by abstract or nonobjective means.
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Pop Art
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A style arising in the early 1960s characterized by emphasis on the forms and imagery of mass culture.
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Pop Art
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left behind traditional artistic media like painting.
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Minimalism
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A style of art, predominantly American, that dates from the mid-twentieth century, characterized by its rejection of expressive content and its use of “minimal” formal means.
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