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73 Cards in this Set
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-I too in arcadia
-draws on rational order and stability of Raphael and antique statuary -landscape provides setting for painting -three shepherds study tomb -female figure may be spirit of death -reminds mortals that death can come at any time -youth with one foot on boulder=greco roman sculpture of neptune |
Et En Arcadia Ego
Nicholas Pussin |
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based on plutarchs life of phocion
tow bearers and body isloated in work landscape throws them into solitary relief landscapes planes slope up to sky in top left solid geometric structures(temple, towers, walls, villas, and central grand sarcophagus) carefully arranged not intended to represent particular place and time |
Burial of Phocion
Nicholas Poussin |
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-figures in right foreground
-left foreground cattle relax -middle ground cattel amble away -well defined foreground, distinct middle ground and fading background -antmospheric and linear perspective -followed venetian painting and carraci and pousin |
Landscape with Cattle and Peasants
Claude Lorrain |
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-reflects the thinking of 17th century french social theorists who celebrated natural virtue of peasants who worked the soil
-people express the grave dignity of peasant family made stoic and resigned by hardship -Family is pious, docile, and clam -could be intended to please wealthy urban patrons |
Family of Country People
Louis Le Nain |
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-conveys image of absolute mondarch.
-looks directly at viewer with directness -elegant ermine-lined fleur-de-lis coronation robes suggests and air of haughtyness -draws his garmet back to reveal his leg, shows vanity -king is focal point -looks down on viewer -courtiers not permitted to turn their backs on painting |
Portrait of Louis XIV
Hyacinthe Rigaud |
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-French and Italian classical elements
-facade has a central and two corner projecting clumnar pavilions -central pacilion is in form of classical temple form -rests on a stately podium -even roofline, balustrade and broken only by central pediment |
The Louvre
Claude Perrault, Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun |
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-Army of architects, decorators, sculptors, painters, and landscape architects.
-French caroque style and Louis XIV's power and ambition -satellite city to house court and government officials, military and guards, courtiers, and servants palace along three radial avenues that converge on the palace structure -axes intersect in the kings huge bedroom -palace more tahn a quarter mile long |
Versailles Palace
Charles Le Brun |
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-overlooks park from second floor and extends along most of the central block
-origional furniture was gold and silver and trees with jewels -hundreds of mirrors opposite of windows -could show vanity of King |
Gallerie des Glaces or Hall of Mirrors
JulesHardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun |
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-wu zhen among literati painters
-clearly differentiated among the bamboo |
Stalks of Bamboo by a Rock
Wu Zhen |
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--sketched the full composition in one burst of inpiration, added to a dn modiefied his painting whenever he felt moved to do so over next years
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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Huang Gongwang |
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-represents an episode from war in third century
-panting is of Guuan Yu, famed general of wei dynasty being presented with captured enemy general Pang De -used color to focus attention on Guan Yu and his attendants away from ink background -contrasted armor and garments from skin of loser |
Guan Yu Captures General Pang De
Shang Xi |
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-birthday present for one of his teachers
-has long poem in teachers honor -chose subject because he wished lofty mountains peaks to represent grandeur of teachers virtue and character -scale set by tiny figure on bottom -inpired by Fan Kuan |
Lofty Mount Lu
Shen Zhou |
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-southern school of paintings
-long insription at the top -shaded masses of rocks alternate with flat, blank band, flattening the composition and creating highly expressive and abstract patterns |
Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains
Dong Qichang |
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-chinese roots
-broad rapid strokes and drips -hovers at edge of legibility, without dissolving tinto sheer abstract -images of mountians, trees, and buildings emerge from the ink washed surface -two figures in boat -two swift stokes are a wine shop -balance of spontinaity and knowledge of painting tradition |
Slpashed Ink
Sesshu Toyo |
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-designed as a door sliding painting in a zen temple
-zen patriarch sweeping ground new his rustic tretreat as a foof tile falls at his feet, sound propels him into awakening -exact precision in applying ink in bold outlines by holding the brush perpendicular to the paper -thick cloud obscures the mountainous setting and focus the viewer's attention on the sharp, angular rocks, bamboo branchesand modest hut that frame patriarch -lightly applied colors draws attention to him -recalls subject of Liang Kai's Song hanging scroll |
Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhizian Sweeping with a Broom
Kano Motonobu |
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-painting of chinese lions on a six panel screen
-possibly created of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, second great warlord of Momoyama period -mythological chinese legendary lions -lions associated with power and bravery, good for military leader -Colorful beasts, powerfully muscled bodies, deined and flattened by broad contour lines |
Chinese Lions
Kano Eitoku |
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-for tea ceremonies,
-ceramic -named Kogan "ancient stream bank" -from painted design on jar and coarse texture and fough form like earth cut by water -rough surfaces, covered by heavy glazes -usually white, with grey or pink hues -has prominent crack in one side and sagging contours, intentional, to suggest accidental and natural qualities |
Kogan tea ceremony water jar
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-looks like a typical american ranch house
-karsura river southwest of Kyoto -features of earlier teahouses -not heavily ornamented, instead relies on proportion, color, and texture(sonte wood plaster, subdued colors) -artisans rubbed and brunished alls furfaces to bring out grains and textures -can be opened to achieve a harmony between building and garden |
Katsura Imperial Villa
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drawn from a 10th century poem about the boat bridge at Sano
-lid is a subtle and has etching for the boats supporting bridge -lead overlay is bridge planks -raised metallic lines on water, boats, and bridge are japanese characters from poem -poem describes experience of crosseing a vridge as ecoking reflection on life's insecurities |
Boat Bridge Writing Box
Honami Koetsu |
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from a series called eight views of the parlor
-beautiful young women and the activities that occupy their daily lives became the subject -two young women seen from the typically Japanese elevated viewpoint si on a veranda -one drying herself after a bath -other turns to face the chiming clock -artist transformed great temple bell into a modern Japanese clock -flatness of objects and rich color recall the traditions of court painting |
Evening Bell at the Clock
Suzuki Harunobu |
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-huge foreground wace dwarfs the artist representation of a distant Fuji
-this contrast and the whitecaps ominous fingers magnify the waves threatening aspect -distinctive European color called Prussian blue, -low horison typical of western painting -traditionally flat wave -represents the fact that Fuji will survive no matter how big the current obstacle |
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai |
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-softened architectural lines and panels
-flexible, siuous curves luxuriantly multiplied in mirror reflections -walls melt into vault. -irregular painted shpaes surmounted by sculpture and separated by the typical rocaille shells |
Salon de la Princesse in Hotel de Soubise in Paris
Germain Boffrand |
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-french rococo piece
-more delicate and lighter in color than portrait of Louis XIV -dancer moving in a rainbow shimmer of color, emerging onto the stage of the intimate comic opera to the silken sounds of strings -highlights different patronage of the eras |
L'Indifferent
Antoine Watteau |
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-Fete Galante Painting
-artists entry for admission to the french royal academy of Painting and Sculpture and they created a new category so he could get in -portrays luxuriously costumed lovers who have made a pilgrimage to Cythera, the island of eternal youth and love, sacred to Aphrodite -amorous cupids and statuary -sought to capture slow movement from dificult and unusual angles intended to find the smoothest, most poised , and most refined attitudes -tried to get rid of shades of color difference -shimmer of silk at a bent knee and iridescence that touches a glossy surgace as it emerges from shadow |
Pilgrimage to Cythera
Antoine Watteau |
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-unsuspecting bishop pushes girl on swing where lover can look up her skirt
-girl kicks off her shoe flirtatiously -statue of cupid -glowing pastel colors and soft light convey themes sensuality |
The Swing
Jean-Honore Fragonard |
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-scholar demonstrates a mechanical model of teh solar system called an orrery
-light from lamp shows light source from within the painting, heightens drama of scene -listener takes notes, lone woman sits at left and two men at right watch intently -imgae in circular fashion -postures and gazes of all participants focus attention on cosmic model -detailed figures |
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery
Joseph Wright of Derby |
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Modest room wher ea mother and her small daughters are about to dine
-husted lighting and mellow color -closely studied still life accesorries -mother and older sister supervise prayer -three figures highlighted against dark background -feeling of honesty, insight, and sypathy -Once owned by Louis XIV |
Saying Grace
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin |
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-setting is an unadorned room in a rustic dwelling
-in notarys presence, father gives his daughters dowry to youthful husband-to-be and blesses them -they gently take each others arms -mother and sister sad, other sister jealouse -kids playing in scene too -chickens in house -happy climax of a rural romance moral is hapoiness is the reward of "natural " virtue |
Village Bride
Jean-Baptiste Grueze |
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-Satirical
-one of a sequence of six paintings taht satirize the marital immoralities of the moneyed classes in england. -marrage of young couple is starting to gounder. -Husband and wife tired after out partying at different parties -husband was out with women, hat in pocket -house filled with clues of its occupants(row of religios paintings end with a naked chick) |
Breakfast Scene
William Hogarth |
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cloudy sky, picturesque water traffic, and well known venetian landmarks
-linear perspective -minute detail |
Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice
Antonio Canaletto |
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-drawn from greek and roman history and art
-theme in painting is virtue of cornelia because she values her children over her jewels -architecture is roman, no rococo motif in evidence -composition and drawing have the simplicity and firmness of low-relief carving |
Cornelia Presenting her Childre as Her Treasures or Mother of the Gracchi
Angelica Kauffmann |
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-depicts a story from pre-republican rome
-dsvids pinting shows the Horatii as they swear on the swords to win or die fro rome, oblivious of the feelings of female relatives -narartive of patriotism -depicted in shallow space like a stage with architectural framework in background -statuesque and carefully modeled figures across space close to foreground, like ancient relief sculptures -men on left contrast with women on right -moral of story is for the men to do what they have to for their country because country is more important than personal life |
Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David |
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inteded painting to serve as record of important event in revolution but also to provide inspiration and encouragement to the revolutionary forces
-space above Marat makes chilling oppressiveness -narative details (knife, wound, blood, andletter) -Marat figure based on Michelangelo's Pieta |
Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis David |
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Free variation of theme of Palladio's Villa Rotonda
-simple symmetry, unadorned places, right angles, adn precise proportions makes it look classical and rational -interior is a luxurios baroque foil(opposite of outside) |
Richard Boyle and William Kent
Chiswick House |
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inpired by pantheon
elevated platform overlooks colonnaded lawn of U of V |
University of virginia
Thomas Jefferson |
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-used Houdon's portrait for face
-washington seminude and enthorned -after famous lost statue of Zeus in Olympia Greece |
Horatio Grenough
George Washington |
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-outbreak of buboni plague in near eastern campaign of 1799
-depicted napolean as unaffraid of plague and had him touching wounds like he was healong them -reminicent of David -horseshoe arches and moorish arcades of the mosque rourtyard napolean and his seargents in light |
Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa
Antoine-Jean Gros |
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-young woman sleeping with incubus on her
-incubus sitting could be sexual -ghostly horse with flaming eyes -was among the first to depict dream world |
The Nightmare
Henry Fuseli |
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-from series Los Caprichos
-depicted himself sleeping on a table -owls (symbols of folly) and bats (symbols of ignorance) -could be read as what happens when reason is supressed and shows importance of elightenment thinking -or artists commitment to creative process and romantic spirit- unleasing of imagination, emotions, and nightmares |
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Francisco Goya |
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-sought to capture chaos, horror, and emotion of tragedy and invoke grandeur of large-scale history painting
-alot of research don -built replica of raft -not organized like neoclassical but more a jumble of bodies -x shpae light from bottom left to top right dark from sail top left to bottom right -person slipping into water includes viewer -so does diagonal raft |
Theodore Gericault
Raft of the Medusa |
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Based on Parisian uprising against charles X
-depicts allegorial personification of liberty thrusting forth french flag as she urges masses to fight -scarlet phrygian cap symobl of a freed slave in antiquity -street boy with pistol -worker with cutlass -intelectual with sawn off musket -bodies everywhere -notre dame puts it in a place and time but made up story |
Liberty Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix |
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splendid scene opens to viewer, dominated by ox-bow curve in commecticut river
-2 halves wilderness and civilization -miniscule artist turns to viewer to ask for advice for future of country |
The OxBow
Thomas Cole |
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-two men, 70 and you man, breaking rocks
-traditionally the lot of lowest of french society -dirty browns and greys convey drear and dismal nature of task -angular positioning of older mans arm suggests monotony of task -representative of acknowledgement of lower class after revolution -old and young men suggests that these people will do this task all their lives |
The stone Breakers
Gustave Courbet |
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-depicts funeral in a bleak provincial landscape outside artists hometown
-ordinary people are attending -glergy reads from book people range form being sad to not really caring -horrified critics -wvering line of peole extends across painting -three groups, woment right, men middle, and clergy left -peole are real portraits girls are family and friends -bands of overcast sky and baren cliffs -coubet controlled painting with lack of bright color -presents viewer with mundane realities of daily life |
Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet |
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Monumental figures in foreground picking up scraps of wheat
-lowest level of peasantry -field streches to horison but three women are main point -french public didnt like it becauase they looked down on peasants and he was glorifing them |
Jean-Francois Millet
-The Gleaners |
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Lithograph
-depicts attrocity of massacre after sniper kills guard and they killed the whole building -view of slaughter from a sharp, realistic angle of vision -terrible, quiet aftermath -broken scattered forms lie amid violent disorder, as if newly found -factualness -example of artists starting to use facts as subjects |
Rue Transnonian
Honore Daumeir |
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-one nude woman, two clothed men and a clothed woman bathing in a river
-they are having a picnic -foreground on living people, favorite model, brother, and sculptor Ferdinand Leenhof -naked woman unidealized and not worried about being naked -looks at viewer as if saying so what -pu8blic hated it because she was not classical -has example of history painting, portraiture, pastoral scenes, nudes, and religious scene -represents critique ofhistory of painting -figures rendered in soft focus and broadly paointing the landscape including pool in which other chik is bathing -loose manner of apinting contrasts with clear forms of harshly lit foreground -lighting creates strong contrast between darks and highlighted foreground -flat figures because of no shading -cheif actor in ainting is light |
Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe
Edourd Manet |
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public didnt like it because it was scandalous
-young white prostitute reclining on bed naked except bracelet, necklace, and slippers -looks directly at viewer -black maid presents flower from a client -contrast between black and white people reference to racial division |
Olympia
Edourd Manet |
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depicted a classical theme with polished illusionism
flirtatious and ideally beautiful nymphs strike graceful and natureal poses -nymphs look young |
Satyr and Nymphs
Adolphe-William Bouguereau |
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-dr Samuel Gross doing surgery on a young man
-at jefferson medical college in philidelpia -was there until sold in 2006 -Dr. Gross with bloody fingers and scalpel -several colleagues who have been identified -mother covers her face -anesthitist covers patients face with cloth of ether -concern for anatomical correctness |
The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins |
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built to house great exhibition of 1851,
-in london -built with prefabricated parts -allowed structure to be put up in six months and dismantled at closing -moved and made bigger and stayed until it burned down -plan borrowed from ancient roman and christian basilicas, central flat-roofed nave and barrel vaulted crossing transept |
Crysatl Palace
Joseph Paxton |
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picture of dead union soldiers at gettys burg
-pockets picked and boots stolen -could be a report but still shows the costs of civil war -scene streches to horizon -corpses litter battlefield |
A Harvest of Death
Timothy O'Sullivan |
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-exhibited at the first Impressionist Show in 1874
-picture of a harbor with ships and small boats -no attempt to disquise brush strokes or blend pigment -left open to the mind and the viewers interpretation -shadows do not appear gray or black |
Impression Sunrise
Claude Monet |
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-each painting shows cathedral in different part of day
-differnt light for each one -same viewpoint -depicted church bathed in bright light -real subject is light on buildings main portal |
Rouen Cathedral
Claude Monet |
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-captured energy and viatlity of Paris's modern transportation hub
-train emerging from steam and smoke, rumbles into the station -in background haze are the tall buildings that were becoming a major component of Parisian Landscape -agitated paint application contributes to sense of energy and conveys the atmosphere of urban life |
Saint-Lazare Train Station
Claude Monet |
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depicts lots of people at a dance hall
-people dance and sit in chairs and talk -lively atmosphere -painter dappled whole scene with sunlight and shade , to give effect of floating adn fleeting light -casual and unposed figures suggest contunuity of space -psoition viewer as partivipant rahter than as an outsider -incidental, momentary and passing aspects of reality |
Le Moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
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-barmaid, cenrally placed, looks out form the canvas but seems distracted from patrons
-blurred and roughly applied brush strokes and effects of modeling are minimal -mirror behind barmaid creates confusion because of her reflection |
Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Edouard Manet |
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In china, talented amateur painters and scholars from the landed gentry
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Literati
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Greek, "beautiful writing." Handwriting or penmanship, especially elegant writing as a decortive art.
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Calligraphy
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In Asian art, a horizontal painted scroll that is unrolled right to left, section by section, and often used to present illustrated religious texts or landscapes
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Handscroll
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In Asian art, a vertiacl scroll hung on a wall with pictures mounted or painted directly on it.
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Hanings
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A varnishlike substance made from the sap of the Asiatic sumac tree, used to decorate wood and other organic materials. Often colored with mineral pigments,it cures to a great hardness and has a lustrous surface
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Lacquer
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In 12th through 19th century Japan, a military governor who managed the country on behalf of a figurehead emperor
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Shogun
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A Japanese Buddhist sect and its doctrine, emphasizing elightenment through intuition and introspection rather than the study of scripture. In Chinese, Chan.
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Zen Buddhism
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Japanese; the value found in the old and weathered, suggesting the tranquility reached in old age.
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Sabi
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A 16th century Japanese art style chrarcterized by refined rusticity and an appreciation of simplicity and austerity
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Wabi
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A movement that emerged in mid-19th-century France, realist artists represented the subject matter of everyday life (especially subjects that previously had been considered inappropriate for depiction) in a relatively naturalistic mode.
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Realism
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A movement in western art that developed in the second half of the 19th ventury and sought to capture the images and sensiblities of the age. Modernist art goes beyond simply dealing with the present and involves the artist's critical examination of the premises of art itself.
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Modernism
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A western philosophical model that promoted science as the minds highest ahcievement.
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Positivism
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A late-10th-century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions.
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Impressionism
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The term used to descirbe the stylistically heterogeneous work of teh group of late-19th-century painters in France, including can Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, and Cezanne, who more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form, and color than the Impressionists did.
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Post-Impressionism
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A sysetm of pointing devised by the 19th-century painter Georges Seurat. The artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots(points) the image becomes comprehensible only from a distance, when the viewers eyes optically blend the pigment dots. Sometimes referred to as divisionism
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Pointillism
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French "advance guard" (in a platoon)
Late-19th century and 20th-century artists who emphasized innovation adn challenged established convention in their work. Also used as an adjective. |
Avant-garde
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