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Neoclassicism
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movement that draws upon the western classical art, Ancient Greece and Rome, Mid 18th to late 19th century, emphasis on moralizing content
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Romanticism
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movement at end of the 18th century, less interest in science, more emotional intense art with loose brushwork, deep colors and dynamic compositions
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British Landscape
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important in late 19th century British art, either naturalistic or more dramatic romantic
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Invention of photography
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use of light sensitive chemistry to imprint images, caused a movement to realism
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Realism
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interest in accurate images of landscape, animal scenes, and scenes even everyday life
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Impressionism
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Visible loose brushwork, pure unmixed color, painted outdoors
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Post-Impressionism
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incorporated more structure and/or personal expression
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Pointillism
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technique where small sisting dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image
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En plein air
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to paint outdoors
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Avant-garde
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term derived from French military word meaning “before the group” or “vanguard.” Denotes artists or concepts of strikingly new experimental or radical nature
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The Fauves
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name means Wild Beasts, used arbitrary colors not the colors that are in real life
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Cubism
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angular, geometric shapes, flattens out space, uses multiple vantage points
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Futurism (Italian)
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strong sense of movement,
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Suprematism (Russian)
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interested in pure sensations and perception, used geometric shapes
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Dada
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a movement in response to WWI, readymade art, art from existing object, artist’s idea/choice more important than skill or beauty, art that makes people think
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Surrealism
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strong interest in psychology, especially Freud, and the unconscious mind
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Biomorphic Surrealism
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more organic, sometimes abstract style, strange objects and unreal creatures
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Representational Surrealism
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recognizable objects with impossible properties, recalls dreams and hallucinations
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Early 20th century sculpture
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emphasizes simplicity and more reductive forms, also experiments with the bases of sculpture
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Collage
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made from an assemblage of different of different forms to make a new whole
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Readymade
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ordinary made objects that are selected by and artist and modified
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Manifesto
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public declaration of principles and intentions
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Automatism (automatic writing)
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production of writing material that proponents claim does not come from the conscious thoughts of the writer
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Abstract Expressionism
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major post WWII international style that develops in US
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Action/gesture painting
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strong sense of action in artwork, paint application is very involved in movement
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Color Field Painting
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expanses of expressive color
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Neo-Dada
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unexpected materials that are assembled together to form a piece of art
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Pop Art
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borrows mass culture images and production techniques
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Minimalism
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sculptors increasingly interested in making something real, actual , used squares triangles rectangles, used industrial materials and fabrication
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Post minimalism
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artists interested in physical process, and tactility of materials
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Conceptual art
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the emphasis on the idea as primary element of art
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Earthworks
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art that is taken outside the gallery/museum setting , made and shaped y the environment
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Feminist art
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1970s saw the second rise of feminism; women of color artists interrogate race and gender
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Neo-Expressionism
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artists look back to older styles
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Postmodernism
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artists interrogate assumptions about art and meaning, how do we know who we are?
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Assemblage
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artwork created by gathering and manipulating 2D and or 3D found objects
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Combine
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Used unexpected materials used in an assemblage type artwork
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Happening
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events where viewer becomes involved in work. Guest’s were invited over to a gallery. Different rooms have different activities, change room every 15 minutes. Viewer participation is highly stressed
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Paleolithic
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- old stone age paleo (old) stone (lith)
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Neolithic
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new stone age
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Corbelling
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layers of flat stones without mortar projecting slightly inward over the one below
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Post and lintel
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two or more vertical elements are used to support abridging horizontal one
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Megalith
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large stone structures
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Pictograph
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simple pictures drawn into wet day with a pointed tool
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Cuneiform
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images that represent sounds of syllables Sumarian
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Hieroglyphic
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pictographs and phonograms from Egypt
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Ziggurat
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stepped pyramidal structures with a temple or shrine on top
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Sarcophagus
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rectangular stone coffin
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Acropolis
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cities built upon hilltops
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Cella or naos
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main room in a temple
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Contrapposto
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“hip out” pose
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Arch
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fundamental element formed by fitting together wedge shaped pieces and locked together by final top center piece
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Voussoir
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wedge shaped piece forming arch
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Barrel vault
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lengthened simple round arch
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Groin vault
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2 buried spaces intersect at 90˚
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Forum
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civic center, large open surrounded by columns leading to a temple/basiliea
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Menorah
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Jewish religious symbol, Jewish lamp with 7-9 branches
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Basilica
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Constantine commission’s church dedicated to St. Peter, for spread of Christianity, borrowed from Roman Civic architecture with nave, apse, aisles.
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Nave
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central hallway
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Transept
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nave joined to another wing set at a right angle
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Pendentives
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curved triangles that make base for dome
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Manuscript
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printed by hand on parchment, valuable item, decorated with paint and lavish script
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Codex
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a book or group of manuscript pages held together by stitching or other binding on one side
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Folio
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manuscript page
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Icon
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images of Christ, mary, saints used in prayer and worship
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Monastery
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sites of education, manuscript production
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Feudalism
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medieval secular life, based on ag
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Ribs, ribbed vaults
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barrel and groin vaults with additional interior supports (ribs/buttresses
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Fresco
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a painting technique in which water-based pigments are applied to a surface of wet plaster
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Hidden Symbols
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all invested with religious meaning
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Linear perspective
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method of creating the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two dimensional surface by delineating a horizontal line and multiple orthogonal lines, these lines recede to meet at one or more point on the horizon (vanishing point)
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Vanishing point
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the point on the horizontal line at which orthogonals meet
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Atmospheric perspective
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rendering the effect of spatial distance by subtle variations in color and clarity of representation
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Chiaroscuro
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Italian word designating the contrast of dark and light in painting, drawing or print, creates special depth and volumetric forms through gradations in the intensity of light and shadow
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Genre scene
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a term used to loosely categorize paintings depicting scenes of everyday life
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Putto
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a plump, naked little boy, often winged, classical art called cupid, Christian art a cherub
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