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35 Cards in this Set
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Paleolithic |
Old stone age. Hunter-gatherer tribes; cave paintings |
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Mesolithic |
Middle Stone Age. Human figures, stone tools and pottery |
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Neolithic |
Late Stone Age. Weaving and architecture. temples and tombs. |
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Mesopotamian |
Babylonian. Architecture |
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Egyptian |
Religious focus. Sculptures, tombs, pyramids, paintings |
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Persian |
Architecture, painting, weaving pottery, stone metal. |
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Ancient Greek |
Elevation of human form. Ceramics, architecture, sculpture, coin design, pottery. Focus on balance, harmony, and ideal proportions. |
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Ancient Rome |
Borrows from Greek. Focuses on imperial themes of power, military victory and heroism. Introduces the landscape. |
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Early Christian |
Religious themes and symbolic iconography (fish for Christ). Mosaic art. Flourished after Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313. |
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Byzantine |
Eastern Roman Empire. Roman and Christian influences. Stiff religious figures on golden backgrounds. Mosaics, frescoes and icons. Architecture featured domes. |
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Romanesque |
Roman aesthetics and Eastern and Byzantine influences. Architecture. |
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Gothic |
Evolved from Romanesque. Christian religious themes in sculpture, fresco painting, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts. Architecture: Pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses. |
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Renaissance |
Emphasis on the individual. Age of Discovery and advancements in science. Oil painting, linear perspective in painting aerial perspective in landscapes. More realism. |
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Mannerism |
Reaction to the harmony and proportionality of the renaissance. Distorted figures in difficult poses, strange artificial colors and intense lighting. |
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Reformation |
Northern Europe. Protestant teachings. Woodcut illustrations and paintings providing an alternative vision from Catholic depictions. |
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Baroque |
Europe, N. & S. America. a reaction to the rise in Protestantism. Emotional and dramatic, drawing on Biblical stories and themes. |
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Neoclassicism |
Influenced by Greek and Roman idealized realism. Drew on Enlightenment thinking. Sharp colors and chiaroscuro. |
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Rococo |
Late Baroque. Rock work. Lighter and more playful pastels and asymmetrical arrangement of curves. Popular in France. |
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Romanticism |
Reaction to Neoclassicism. Passion, emotion, and exotic settings with dramatic action. |
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Pictoralism |
Emulated paintings and etchings. Emphasized soft focus, sentimental subject matter |
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Impressinism |
Capture initial, fleeting reaction to whatever they observed. Current subjects, light and color, simple compositions leaving out detail. Paint stored in tubes. MONET |
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Realism |
response to idealized Romantic art. Accurate and objective portrayals of the ordinary world. Lower classes. Became popular just as photography was introduced. |
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Art Nouveau |
International style, architecture and design. Lines, curves. Plants and flowers. |
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Victorian Photography |
Utilized the newly emerging technology. Realistic portraits along with images of literary and biblical scenes |
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Post-Impressionism |
Expression, structure and form. Colors not found in the natural world. Neither realistic nor abstract. VAN GOUGH |
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Fauvism |
A break from Impressionism. Vibant, wild colors directly from the tube. Subjective. MATISSE |
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Cubism |
Most influential style of 20th C? Represented subject from multiple angles using simple geometric forms. Deconstruction and reconstruction of reality. PICASSO |
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Geometric Abstraction |
Visual style with two-dimensional geometric shapes. KANDINSKY |
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Surrealism |
Influenced by Freud's focus on dreams. Free association. DALI |
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Bauhaus |
German art and architectural style. Simplicity, functionalism and craftsmanship. GROPIUS |
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Dada |
Anti-establishment artistic movement that emerged in Europe in reaction to the horrors of WWI. No rules, shock, irreverence. |
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Expressionism |
Subjective feelings above objective observations. Conveys emotions. MUNCH |
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Abstract Expressionism |
Started in NY. Large abstract paintings. Focus on the process of painting. Action painting. |
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Minimalism |
1960's sculpture and painting. Simple visual elements. |
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Pop Art |
1950s UK &USA. Drew from popular mass culture. WARHOL |
