Arts In Western Civ Final

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Define Impressionism

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A late 19th century artistic style characterized by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light through painting in short strokes of pure color

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Eduard Manet

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Laid the philosophical foundation for Impressionism

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Claude Monet

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Widely regarded as the most fervent practitioner of Impressionist techniques

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Pierre-August Renoir

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Widely regarded as the most significant Impressionist portrait painter

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Define Postimpressionism

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A late 19th century artistic style that relied on the gains made by Impressionists in terms of the use of color and spontaneous brushwork but employed these elements as expressive devises.

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Paul Cezanne

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Widely regarded as the "father" of modern art (the "Giotto" of a new renaissance art)

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August Rodin

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Changed the course of the history of sculpture by applying to his work the very principles on which modern painting was based, including Realism, Symbolism, and Impressionism.

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Define Fauvism

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From the French for 'wild beast'; an early 20th century style of art characterized by the juxtaposition of areas of bright colors that are often unrelated to the objects they represent, and by distorted linear perspective.

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Define Expressionism

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A modern school of art in which an emotional impact is achieved through agitated brushwork, intense agitated brushwork, intense coloration, and violent, hallucinatory imagery.

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Edvard Munch

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Widely regarded as the forerunner of expressionsm

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Define Cubism

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A 20th century style of painting developed by Picasso and Braque that emphasizes the two-dimensionality of the canvas, characterized by multiple views of an object and the reduction of form to cube-like essentials.

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Define Analytic Cubism

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The early phase of Cubism, during which objects were dissected or analyzed in a visual information-gathering process and then reconstructed on the canvas

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Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque

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Widely regarded as the fathers of Cubism

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Define Futurism

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An early 20th century style of art that portrayed modern machines and the dynamic character of modern life and science

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Louis Sullivan

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Widely regarded as one of the Fathers of modern architecture

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Richard Strausse

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Widely regarded as the most successful at writing convincing programs, symphonies, and symphonic poems

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Arnold Schonberg & Igor Stravinsky

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Widely regarded as the founders of modern music

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wrote?

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"Crime and Punishment"

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Marcel Proust, wrote?

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"Remembrance of Things Past"

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Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

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"The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn"

Widely regarded as "The great American novel"

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Mosques

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Widely regarded as Islam's most important religious architectural form

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Sun Zhu, wrote?

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"Tang Poems"

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Lady Murasaki Shikibu, wrote?

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"The Tale of Genji"

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Wu Cheng'en, wrote?

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"Monkey"

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Nelson Mandella, wrote?

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"Long walk to Freedom"

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Thomas Mofolo

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Widely regarded as the first African Novelist

Wrote "The Traveler of the East" & "Chaka"

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Chinua Achebe

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Widely regarded as one of the most widely read and acclaimed African novelists

Wrote "Things Fall Apart"

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T.S. Elliot

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Belief: if culture is to survive and move forward, it must recover a sense of continuity with the culture of the past

Wrote "The Waste Land" and "The Quarters"

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James Joyce

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Belief: only art could provide people with a new worldview that would provide meaning (art as religion)

Wrote "Ulysses"

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Franz Kafka, wrote?

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"The Trial"

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Virginia Woolf, wrote?

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"To the Light house"

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Aldous Huxley, wrote?

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"Brave New World"

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Sergei Einstein

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A Soviet filmmaker who is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists in the history of cinema and was a dedicated supporter of the Russian Revolution

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Jazz

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Born out of the unique experiences of Americans of African heritage and is widely regarded as "America's Classical Music"

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Scott Joplin

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Widely regarded as the unrivaled "King of Ragtime"

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Widely regarded as the most influential American architect of the twentieth century

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Scatting

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The singing of improvised syllables that have no literal meaning

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Ragtime

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A syncopated (off-beat) musical style popular between about 1899 and 1917. A forerunner of jazz.

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Define Existentialism

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A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as inexplicable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's actions

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Abstract Expressionism

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A style of painting and sculpture of the 1950's and 1960's in which artists expressionistically distorted abstract images with loose, gestural brushwork.

JACKSON POLLOCK: important artist

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Color-Field Painting

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A painter who uses visual elements and principles of design to suggest that areas of color stretch beyond the canvas to infinity; figure and ground are given equal emphasis

HELEN FRANKETHALER: important artist

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Minimalism

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A 20th century style of nonrepresentational art in which visual elements are simplified and reduced to their essential properties. Also a style of 20th century music.

FRANK STELLA: important artist

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Conceptual art

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Art that seeks to communicate a concept or idea to the viewer, not necessarily involving the creation of an actual art object such as a painting or piece of sculpture

JOSEPH KOSUTH: important artist

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Pop art

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An art style originating in the 1960's that uses ("appropriates") commercial and popular images and themes as its subject matter

ANDY WARHOL: important artist

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Superrealism

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The rendering of subjects in art with sharp, photographic precision

AUDREY FLACK: important artist

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Define Structuralism

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the principle of precise musical organization the "elimination of any sense of traditional melody, harmony, or counterpoint, along with the emotions they evoke.