Art History Test 2

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rocco

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19th century term – derogatory term – overblown baroque style – style is extremely way too decorated and too over the top. Refers mainly to interior design. Lots of gold, crystal, thin table legs…

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empiricism

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theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge arises from sense experience

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Enlightenment

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the era in Western philosophy and intellectual, scientific and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority.

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painterly

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blurred lines

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linear

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defined lines

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planar

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refers to the composition – the way the figures are arranged in space – one level ground plane – all on the same plane

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diagonal

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action is taking place on multiple planes – more complexity

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orientalism

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reverence towards the east. Grand Opalisque

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Realism

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he general attempt to depict subjects "in accordance with secular empirical rules,"[1] as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation.

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Camera obscura

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is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen.

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daguerreotype

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was the first large scale commercial photographic process.

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stereograph

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is any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image.

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Straight photography

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photography that attempts to depict a scene as realistically and objectively as permitted by the medium, renouncing the use of manipulation.

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hue

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the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow

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value

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degree of lightness or darkness in a color

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saturation

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the intensity of a specific hue

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primary colors

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red, green, and blue

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secondary colors

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a color made by mixing two primary colors in a given color space

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complementary colors

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pairs of colors that are of “opposite” hue

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cool colors

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Blue, green, and violet

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impasto

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to a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible

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pointillism

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a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image

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Impressionism

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a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880. visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles

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Fauvism

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short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism

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metonymy

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a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept

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Analytic Cubism

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Analytic cubists "analyzed" natural forms and reduced the forms into basic geometric parts on the two-dimensional picture plane

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Synthetic Cubism

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improve reality with the creation of new tasteful objects. Many works of this period consisted of cutout shapes of canvas in many colors pasted on the main canvas.

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Futurism

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arly 20th-century artistic movement centred in Italy that emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life.

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assemblage

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an artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects.

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automatism

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the hand is allowed to move 'randomly' across the paper. In applying chance and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control.

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photomontage

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the process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photograph

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readymade

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are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art

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biomorphic Surrealism

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ocuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology

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naturalistic surrealism

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realistically painted images, removed from their context and reassembled within a paradoxical or shocking framework

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Synthetic Cubism

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the artist uses strong colors and decorative shapes to dismantle an object and reassemble or "synthesize" its essential structural lines.

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warm colors

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red orange yellow