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Modernism
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a greater consciousness of the present, an awareness of a constantly shifting reality, brought upon by changes in European society and thinking
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Realism
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a mid-19th century art movement and style in which artists discarded the formulas of Neoclassicism and Romanticism to paint familiar scenes and events as they actually looked. Typically it involved some sort of sociopolitical or moral message, in the depiction of ugly or commonplace subjects.
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Camera obscura
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dark room
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Daguerreotype
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direct exposure, cannot be reproduced. Image is negative, reflected as positive.
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Calotype
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an early photographic process and the first to employ a negative to produce a positive image on paper.
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Pictorialism
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a photographic movement in which photographs sought to create images whose aesthetic qualities matched those of painting.
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"The Fleeting Moment"
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the momentary image that the painter tries to capture before the conditions and situations of the subject change.
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Impressionism
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an art movement and style of painting that sought to capture a fleeting moment of everyday life, mostly optimistic, sketchy look, effects of atmosphere on a setting.
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En plein air
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meaning outdoors, referring to painters who preferred to paint n the open air to correctly render the conditions of light, shade, and atmosphere on an object.
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Japonisme
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mania for all things Japanese, focus on unbalanced composition, flatness, aerial viewpoints, scenes of leisure and entertainment
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Avant-garde
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moving ahead before everyone else has caught up
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Post-Impressionism
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movement that saw Impressionism as a dead end. Showed greater concern for expression, structure, and form, and rejected the emphasis on naturalism.
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Divisionism/Pointilism
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method of painting in which tiny dots of color are applied to the canvas. When viewed from a distance, the points of color appear to blend together to make other colors and to form shapes and outlines.
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