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37 Cards in this Set
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What is Realism?
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Creating objective representations of the world based on the impartial representations of contemporary life
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What did Whistler do?
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Portrait of the Artists Mother
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Who is Jean-Francois Millet?
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limited color, grew up on farm, experimented with Impressionism
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What did Millet do?
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Woman Baking Bread
The Gleaners |
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Who is Edouard Manet?
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Influential 19th cnetury painter, began w genre sujects, vivid brushwork
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What did Manet do?
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The Bar at Folies and The Picnic
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What is Impressionism?
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Gives a general "impression" of a scene/subject. Uses unmixed primary colors, small brush strokes to simulate actual reflected light, objective scenes of realism
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Who is Claude Monet?
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founder of Impressionist movement, influenced by Manet, often did landscapes, bright colors, contemporary middle class life
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What did Monet do? (not Manet)
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On the Seine at Bennecourt, The Water Lilies
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Who is Mary Cassatt?
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American. Helped bring impressionism to America, usually women and children
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What did Cassatt do?
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painted The Child's Bath and The Boating Party
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Who is Pierre-Auguste Renoir?
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Worked in a porcelain factory as a child. Liveley and warm, unsurpassed in representing feminine grace
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What did Renoir do?
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The Theater Box, Le Moulin de la Galette
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Who is Edgar Degas?
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grew up in aristocracy, influenced by Japanese prints and Ingres, cropped angles, asymmetrical, theatrical subjects
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What did Degas do?
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The Star, Ballet Rehearsal on Stage
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What is Neo-Impressionism?
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stricter and more formal than impressionism in composition and employed pointillism
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What is Pointillism?
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Painting with ltos of lil dots that blend
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What did Seurat do?
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That painting at the park wth all th8e peeps and umbrellas. "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
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Who is Paul Cezanne?
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often called the "father of modern art", not very successful during lfteime, into geometric shapes, "modulated" color
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What did Cezanne do?
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Mont Sainte-Victoire
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Who is Paul Gauguin?
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"synthetism", direct influence of Fauvism, influence by Medieval Stained glass, Japanese prints, art of the tropics, lush color, flat 2D forms
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What did Gauguin do?
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La Orana Maria
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Who is Vincent van Gogh?
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spontaneous, influenced Expressionism, painted outdoors, color form brush, sold one painting during his lifetime
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What did van Gogh do?
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12 Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Wheatfield with Crows
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Who is Pablo Picasso?
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considered greatest artists of the 20th century, was painter and sculpotor, invented lots. Created more than 20,000 works. 1st living artist to have an exhibition at the Louvre
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What did Picasso do (Blue Period)?
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Portrait of the Artist Mother, Mother and Infant,
The Old Guitarist |
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What did Picasso do (Rose Period)?
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Harlequin with Glass, Acrobat and Young Harlequin
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What is Cubism?
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influenced by Cezanne and African tribal art. Geometric schema and cubes, core of style is to view an object from all sides spontaneously
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What is Expressionism?
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began in Germany, intention is not to reproduce subject, but to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist
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What did Beckman do?
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Christ and the Women Taken in Adultery, The Night
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What is Abstract Expressionism?
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characterized by the view that art is nonrepresentational and chiefly improvisational
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What did Kandinsky do?
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Improvisation No 31. ("Sea Battle")
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WHo is Georges Bizet?
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choral music, cantatas, keyboard pieces, French Opera composer, Exoticism
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What is Exoticism?
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music from other countries
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What did Bizet do?
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MUSIC: Carmen, "Habanera"
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Who is Claude Debussy?
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influenced 20th century music, father of Impressionistic music, wrote all kinds of crap. Influenmced by Chopin, Wagner and Eastern Music
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What did Debussy do?
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MUSIC: Prelude to the ASfternoon of a Faun
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