Humanities Excel Review Art

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Danilova

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Prima Ballerina in the Ballet Russe

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Martha Graham

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Ballet dancer. She is remembered as the “mother of dance.”

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Serge Diaghilev

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Ballet Russe

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Richard Strauss

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(Romantic) Don Juan, Also Sprach Zarathustra

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Joseph Haydn

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(Classical) Surprise Symphony (he taught Beethoven and Mozart)

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Mozart

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(Classical) Magic Flute, Cossi fan Tutte (remember Saliere)

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Vivaldi

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(Baroque) The Four Seasons

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Bach

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(Baroque...Counterpoint) Toccata and Fugue, Brandenburg Concertos, Well-Tempered Clavier

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Impressionist

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Degas, Renoir, Monet (candid glimpses, effects of different light on the same painting)

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Romantic

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Millet, Delacroix, Constable, Goya (nature, the past, melodramatic, tragic)

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Baroque

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Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt (dramatic, emotion and movement, often religious theme)

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Mannerism

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El Greco (more detailed, rejected perfectionism, "warts 'n all")

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Seurat

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distinct dots

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Salvador Dali

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clocks melting,
The Precedence of Memory (clocks), Gala in the Window (bronze),

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Andrew Wyeth

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Christina's World

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Cubism

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objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form

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Van Goghs

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post impressionist paintings like The Starry Night

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Rembrandt

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Dutch Reformation
Self Portraits, Christ in Storms, dramatic, emotion and movement, often religious theme

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Rubens

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Dutch Reformation
Westphalia, Reuben and Elizabeth in the Honeysuckle, movement, color and counterreformation altar pieces, mythology

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Vermeer

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Dutch Reformation
The Milkmaid, Girl with Pearl Earrings, nobility of work and home life

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Jacques-Louis David

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Dutch Reformation

Napoleon on Horseback, Death of Socrates, Napoleon in his study, (lots of Napoleon), darker tones

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Botticelli

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Birth of Venus, calm, simple faces, people flying, feet not firm on the ground

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Chiaroscuro

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– contrast between light and dark

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Fresco

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– painting on plaster walls or ceilings

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Tapestry Bayeux rug

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– rug that tells story of English History

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Counterpoint

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is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and are harmonically interdependent. It has been most commonly identified in classical music, developing strongly during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period, especially in Baroque music. The term originates from the Latin punctus contra punctum meaning "point against point".

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Baroque

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is an artistic style prevalent from the late 16th century to the early 18th century in Europe.[1] It is most often defined as "the dominant style of art in Europe between the Mannerist and Rococo eras, a style characterized by dynamic movement, overt emotion and self-confident rhetoric".[2]

The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.[3] The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.

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Impressionist

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Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on the accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.

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Post-impressionist

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is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and Post-Impressionism. Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour.

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Renaissance

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The Renaissance (French for "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from ri- "again" and nascere "be born")[1] was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.

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Fauvism

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Matisse (extreme colors)