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37 Cards in this Set
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biedermeier |
bourgeois lifestyle in Germany. Solid, sturdy, unpretentious |
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conversation pieces |
family portraits done in a genre setting |
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queen victoria |
Her reign is referred to as the Victorian era |
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pre-raphaelite brotherhood |
breakaway from the academy, their inspiration was pre-raphael works and literature |
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the germ |
the journal of the PRB |
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the aesthetic movement |
rossetti, the philosophy of beauty. not about educating the masses, but about creating beauty. content is secondary. |
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exposition |
large public exhibitions. think world's fair. was an expo for what was important to the collective. machinery and agriculture were big stars. |
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arts and crafts movement |
backlash to industrialism, sought to promote decorative arts and craftsmanship that was lost with industry. |
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universal exposition of 1889 |
the centennial French revolution, the Eiffel tower won to be the entry point of the festival |
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Gallery of machines |
the hall of machines in the exposition |
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the wanderers |
avante garde russian artists that took their works all over russia and displayed the for free to spread the message of maltreatment of serfs. |
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Paris commune |
the people that disagreed with the new paris gov't b/c they believed it was a Prussian puppet gov't. they revolted and were killed. |
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the third republic |
formed with help of otto von bismark after Napoleon III's defeat |
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Societe anonyme des artistes |
what the impressionists called themselves. to exhibit with them, one could not exhibit with the Salon |
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impressionism |
art movement of visible brush strokes, emphasis on light, ordinary subject matter, typically genre or landscape. included movement and unusual visual angles. painted en plain air. |
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avant garde |
ahead of the army. the front guard. artistically, refers to the cutting edge artists, ahead of their time. |
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paul durand-ruel |
the man who makes Monet. French art dealer who loved the avant garde art. credited with discovering impressionists. often provided artists with stipends |
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plein-air painting |
painting outside |
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flaneur |
purposeful male stroller, observer of society, detached/objective. |
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japonisme |
Japanese art floods the European market with the opening of the ports. Japonisme refers to the art inspired by the flat, angular style of Japanese woodblock prints |
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Oblique view |
bird's eye view but at an angle. |
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essence |
Degas' own medium, a combo of pastel and oil paint |
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post impressionism |
didn't display with impressionists, but were heavily inspired by them. Interested in linearity (unlike impressionists), but kept the color and subject matter of impressionists. Return to linearity and solidarity |
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roger fry |
20th century british art critic coined the term post-impressionism |
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neo-impressionism/pointilism/divisionism |
Seurat's technique of painting dots to keep the color pure. colors blend optically. A technique, not an art movement |
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ogden rood |
scientist that studied how we perceive color, how we see, how we feel about color. |
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charles henry |
mathemetician, wrote about how we perceive lines: upward oriented are positve...ect. |
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theo van gogh |
Van Gogh's brother who paid for him |
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La belle epoque |
'the beautiful era' |
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fin de siecle |
end of the 19th century, their y2k |
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art nouveau |
'new art', all is art, beauty transforms the mundane |
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siegfried bing |
starts art nouveau, held first exhibition in Paris. He was an import/export guy. Functional and beautiful objects. handmade |
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synthetism |
Gauguin's personal style. outward appearance of natual forms, but use of unnatural colors to evoke emotion |
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symbolism |
art which rejects the literal translation in favor of the evocative or the suggestion |
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the Nabis |
group of young artists inspired by Gauguin |
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Intimistes |
group of artists who painted intimate scenes of people enclosed in their own environment |
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primitivism |
forms of imagry derived from art of the 'unsophistocated' peoples outside the western world. |
