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The artist of The Old Guitar Player (1905).
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Pablo Picasso - 1881-1973
One of the first to use cubism Created the work during the Blue period” from 1901-1904 |
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The artist of Dusk (1908).
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Claude Monet - 1840-1926
French landscape painter Monet helped found impressionism |
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The artist of The Starry Night (1889).
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Vincent van Gogh - 1853-1890
Postimpressionist Van Gogh also painted Sunflowers & Night Café |
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The artist of Clock Explosion
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Salvador Dali - 1904-1989
Leader in surrealism Other works Persistence of Memory The Elephants The Meditative Rose |
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The artist of Jack in the Pulpit IV (1930).
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Georgia O'Keeffe - 1887-1986
Her other works Petunia - 1925 Cow’s Skull, Red, White, and Blue (1931), Red Amaryllis -1937 |
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Art deco Movement -
Gometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces |
Popular in the 1920s and 30s
Subjects -typically men and women from high society jazz age |
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The artist of Liberty Leading People (1831)
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Eugene Delacroix -1798-1863
French romantic painter. Also created The Massacre of Chios (1824). |
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Jean-Francois Millet
Eugene Delacroix J.M.W. Turner William Blake |
Romanticism Artists
Late 18th to early 19th centuries Stressed the inherent goodness in humanity |
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The artist of Purple Robe (1937)
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Henri Matisse - 1869–1954
Pioneer -modernist movement Other works The Blue Nude -1907 The Piano Lesson - 1916 The Moorish Screen -1921 He illustrated the works of Baudelaire |
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Henri Matisse
Raoul Dufy Andre Derain |
Fauvism Artists - 1905-1908
Lasting for three short years. |
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Baroque Period.
17th and 18th Century |
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Jan Vermeer
Self Portrait by Rembrandt |
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The artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636).
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Rembrandt - 1606-1669
Best Dutch painter in history Other works Anatomy Lesson of Dr.Tulp -1632. Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer -1653 The Night Watch |
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Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael Michelangelo |
High Renaissance - 1490-1520
Order, grace, and harmony, with perfectly proportioned subjects |
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El Greco
Jacopo Tintoretto Antoine Caron |
Mannerism-1520-1600
Italian art Form |
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El Greco -1541-1614
aka - Domenicos Theotocopoulos |
Greatest - Assumption
Expressed religious ecstasy Other Burial of the Count Orgaz Baptism Crucifixion, and Resurrection |
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Artist of the The Blue Boy and The Honorable Mrs. Graham.
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Thomas Gainsborough-1727-1788- Great landscape artists
Paintied every section of his works himself |
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An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface
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Mosaic
Can also be formed using glass, marble, or wood |
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Hagia Sophia
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Example of Byzantine architecture
richly decorated in glittering Eastern mosaics. |
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Developed in 1907 by Pablo Picasso his contemporaries
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Cubism - Originally in blacks, whites, and grays
Designed to appeal to the human intellect |
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A piece of artwork composed of three hinged panels
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A Triptych
Eg Hans Memling’s Adoration of the Magi -1479 Nicolas Froment’s The Burning Bush Max Beckmann’s Departure (1932). |
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Artwork composed of two separate, connected parts
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Diptych
Eg -Hubert van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment -Hans Memling’s Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhoven |
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The art of painting plaster.
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Fresco
True fresco, or buon fresco |
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The painting of dried plaster
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Dry fresco or fresco secco
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A large painting that spans an entire wall
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Mural
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Diego Rivera -1886-1957
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famous Mexican painter made famous for his murals
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David Alfaro Siqueiros -1896-1974
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March of Humanity mural (1968) in Mexico City.
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In paintings, parallel lines appear to join at the
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Vanishing point
Andrea dal Pozzo (1647-1709) known for his converging perspective, with parallel lines |
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The distribution of lightness and darkness in a painting
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Chiaroscuro - light and dark in italian
Known |
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Chiaroscuro - Well know Artist
Distribution of lightness and darkness in a painting |
Antonio Correggio (1494-1534)
Caravaggio (1573-1610) |
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Created in Greece in 490 B.C.
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Amphora
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A half-man, half-horse
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Centaur
- Frequently battled with men in Greek mythology - Considered opposite of man, wild and uncivilized. |
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A traditional meisho-e, characteristically focuses on
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Mount Fuji
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The Great Wave at Kanagawa
from the Edo Period (1615–1868 |
Was done by Katsushika Hokusai
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Painter -Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican - 1508-1512
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Michelangelo - Painted nine stories from Genesis across the ceiling,
- Painted The Last Judgement on the Wall of the alter |
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Frescoes covering the walls of the Sistine Chapel
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Were done by
1.Perugin, 2.Pinturicchio 3.Botticelli, 4. Ghirlandaio 4.Rosselli, 5. Signorelli |
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The Vatican
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its museums include
-Museo Pio-Clementino -Chiaramonti Museum -The Braccio Nuovo -The Egyptian Museum -The Pinacoteca Vaticana |
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Auguste Rodin - 1840-1917
French sculptor |
Created the Gate of Hell
Other works Pygmalion and Galatea Danaïd (1885 The Kiss (1886). |
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Michelangelo(Buonarroti) - 1475
High Renaissance |
-The Last Judgment (1534)
-The sculpture David (1504). Frescos inside the Sistine Chapel |
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The Painter of Mona Lisa (1503)
Saint John the Baptist The Last Supper (1495) |
Leonardo da Vinci -1452–1519
-An engineering genius |
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Twentieth-century art using innovative means of expression
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Modernism
Jackson Pollock Andy Warhol |
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Vincent van Gogh
Paul Cezanne Amedeo Modigiliani |
Post-Impressionists end 19th C
Style known as Pointillism |
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Early 19th C
Monet Renoir Sisley Bazille |
Impressionism
Brilliant, luminous paintings of nature |
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Impressionism
Early 19th Century |
Rejection of the emotional response of Romanticism
Focused on the reality of natural scene |
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Post-Impressionists
End 19th Century |
Unified by their rejection of Impressionism
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Claude Lorrain 1600-1682
Baroque painter |
Brilliantly lit landscape pieces
-Seaport -Enchanted Castle -Rebecca’s Wedding |
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Domenico Beccafumi -1486–1551
Mannerism painter |
Designed Old Testament scenes and many sculptures for the Siena
Siena Sculptures Nativity of the Virgin Descent into Limbo St. Michael |
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Dadaism - 1916 to 1922
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Originated from the disenchantment created by World War
Artists Marcel Duchamp Man Ray |
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Ellsworth Kelly
Barnett Newman Clifford Singer |
Minimalist Painters -1960s
Minimalism reduces objects to their barest forms, focusing on color and simplicity |
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Giovanni Panini
Jacques-Louis David Rudolf Ernst |
Neoclassicism Painters
characterized by the 18-century regeneration in interest in Greek and Roman history, spurred by the discovery of Pompeii |
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Jacques-Louis David - 1748–1825 - French artist -Painter
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The Oath of the Horatii
Death of Socrates Napoleon portraits starting point of modern art |
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Edward Hopper -1882–1967
Realism artist |
- New York Movie
- Horse Fair known for his oil and watercolor street scene images, particularly the loneliness that many seem to represent. |
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Artist of - Lighthouse at Two Lights and Approaching a City
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Edward Hopper
his work - buildings and a repeated absence of people |
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Art Nouveau Art Movement
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Lasting from 1880 to World War I,
Created in protest to the preceding emphasis on historical subjects. |
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Gustav Klimt
Theophile Stimlin |
Art Nouveau Artists
The style mostly encompassed jewelry and book illustrations, and was fraught with symbolism. |
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Harlem Renaissance movemnet
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African-Americans in the 1920s
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Aaron Douglas
William Johnson Palmer Hayden |
Harlem Renaissance Artists
Developed in New York City, by Southerners moving to the North. |
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The artist of Café and Street Musicians
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William H. Johnson (Harlem Renaissance
from South Carolina Settled in Paris in 1926 |
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Neo-Plasticism
Founded by Mondrian |
A strict form of abstract art allowing only rectangles and straight lines
Popular among Dutch artists from 1920-1940 |
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Piet Mondrian
Theo van Doesburg |
Neo-Plasticism Artists
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Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte Max Ernst Man Ray |
Surrealist Painters
Vibrant visual imagery based - instead of reality |
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Pointillism
Created with thousands of tiny dots of color that merge into an image from far-away |
The Red Roofs by Camille Pissarro
Henri-Edmond Cross’s Cap Laye. |
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The highest horizontal slab on a Greek column
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Abacus - A flat square stone
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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
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Ben Shahn’s painting
- Inspired by the 1920 trial of two Italian anarchists |
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St. Luke the Evangelist
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The symbol of the Ox.
(symbol of priesthood) |
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Ezekiel’s cherub
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The face of an ox on one side, a lion on another, an eagle on the third side, and the face of a man on the fourth
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St. John the Evangelist
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The symbol of the Eagle
(like the bird, he looked upon the sun) |
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St. Mark the Evangelist
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The symbol of the Lion
(because he begins his gospel with the story of Jesus and the wilderness) |
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St. Matthew the Evangelist
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The symbol of the Winged human
(because he begins his gospel with a story of humanity) |
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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A woodcut by Albrecht Durer
-It personifies death as an old man. |
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Discobolos
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A famous Greek statue of a discus-thrower created by Myron
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A kouros
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A statue of a standing nude youth
- Used as a Greek male funerary memorial sculpture |
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Kore
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The Greek female funerary memorial sculpture
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Doryphorus.
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The Greek statue also known as the spearbearer:
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The Dying Slave and David, were both sculptures by
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Michelangelo
Dying Slave (made for the tomb of Pope Julius II) |
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Statue by Rodin - To honor one of France's greatest novelists
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Honore de Balzac -
His work - The Human Comedy |
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This sculpture of George Washington as a Roman half naked was created by
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Greenough
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The "Death of Socrates
NeoClassical movement |
Painting by Jacques Louis David
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Augustus Prima Porta
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An idealized Roman sculpture of Caesar Augusts, the first Emperor of Rome.
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A vase with two handles and a narrow neck
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An amphora
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Bayeux Tapestry
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-Embroidered on linen with colored woolen thread
commemorates the Norman conquest of England presents 72 scenes |
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Matthew Brady
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A famous Civil War photographer who took over 3,500 pictures during the war
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--"Kiss" and "Bird in Space"--were sculpted by
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Constantin Brancusi - Romanian-born sculptor
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Black chord was sculpted by
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Louise Nevelson - famous for her sculptures of wood 20th centruty
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Henry Moore
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Known for his abstract sculptures with curved edges and massive forms.
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Nara Period – 710-784
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Traditional Japanese painting Methods
Statues and other figures of Buddha done in wood and bronze |
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Kakemono
Usually silk, with Chinese ink |
Japanese hanging scroll that could be unrolled to display an illustrated narrative
-Once unrolled it is known as an EMAKIMONO |
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The Yamato-e form of painting – 898 -1185
Fujiwara Period – Japan |
The Yamato-e form focused on subjects with a Japanese, not Chinese
Eg Tale of the Genji The famous scroll by Lady Murasaki |
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Kanaoka
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Most well-known artist of the Fujiwara period
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Ukiyo-e
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The Edo Period(1615–1867)- in Japan with a new form of wood-block art
Initially for low social status |
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Harunobu
Kiyonaga Utamaro Hokusai Hiroshige |
Well-known ukiyo-e artists
Edo Period – Japan (1615-1867) |
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Origami
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Japanese art of Paper-folding
Most popular – Cranes and Boats |
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Creator of : Jeanne Hebuterne and Woman in a Brown Dress
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Amadeo Modigliani – 1884-1920
Originally a sculptor Elongated human subjects Soft tones; mostly Nude |
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The artist of Christina’s World -1948
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Andrew Wyeth
Subjects – Residents of the town of Cushing, Maine Other Collection of Helga portraits |
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The creator of :
Four Negro Heads Venus and Adonis Helen Fourment and Her Children |
Peter Paul Rubens - Flemish artist
Other Raising of the Cross – 1610 Descent from the Cross - 1611 |
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The creator of:
The Milkmaid – 1658 Girl with a Pearl Earring -1665. The Letter The Art of Painting The Concert |
focused on women, with yellow and blue tones.
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The artist of :
Girl With a Water Can Sailor Boy Girl With Jumping Rope |
Pierre-Augustine Renoir -1894-1979
-Impressionist - Close friend of Claude Monet. -Painted lively, well-lit portraitures, many of children |
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French Artist created:
Woman with Chrysanthemums Absinthe Two Laundresses Foyer of the Dance |
Edgar Degas - 1834–1917
Both painter and sculptor His work - a blend of classical art and impressionism Though a perfectionist, his works are purposefully off-centered sections of certain subjects cut-off |
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Georges Seurat - 1859 – 1891
Neo-Impressionist |
Developed the Pointillism, or divisionism, technique
Works Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte Sunday Afternoon on The Island of La Gra |
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Aubrey Beardsley - 1872-1898
Black-and-white illustrator |
-Editor of the famous Yellow Book
-Wrote his own fiction – Under the Hill - A collection of his published posthumously in 1904 -died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis |
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Wilde’s Salome - 1894
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata -1896 Pope’s Rape of the Lock - 1896. |
Aubrey Beardsley - 1872-1898
Black-and-white illustrator Editor of the famous Yellow Book Wrote his own fiction, with Under the Hill Died at age 25 from tuberculosis |
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Artist of George Washington portrait immortalized on United States dollar bills.
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Gilbert Stuart - 1755–1828
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Frederic Remington - 1861–1909
American painter |
Completed over 2,700 piece of writing and art during his lifetime, most revolving around life in the developing West.
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His paintings of cowboys, Indians, and horses were drawn from his real-life experiences as a Hearst war correspondent during the Spanish-American War.
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Frederic Remington - 1861–1909
American painter |
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Artist of Dog Barking at the Moon and Blue II
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Joan Miro
His works are a combination of cubism and surrealism With striking,pure colors |
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The artist of The Red Model - 1934 and The Son of Man
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Rene Magritte - 1898–1967
A Surrealist Paintings are real and largely ironic Other -Surprise Answer -Voice of Space |
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Reliquary
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-A highly decorated container for religious relics
-Adorned with gold, jewelry, and artistry -They largely hold items belonging to saints |
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Famous reliquaries
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- Peter Vischer’s Reliquary of St. Sebald
-Charles Wuorinen’s Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky |
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Andy Warhol -1928–1987
Pop art movement |
Created famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy
Made Voyeuristic films like The Chelsea Girls (1966) and Trash (1971 |
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An Pieta
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Depicts the Virgin Mary cradling the body of her dead son
From word - Piety meaning - familiar love Michelangelo created one of the most famous pietas in Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. |
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Gouache
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-An opaque watercolor work
-Also refer to the process by which such an artwork is created |
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Often confused for a Photograph instead of a painting
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A Trompe L´oeil
Means - Deception of the eye The term is used to refer to extremely realistic works |
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Verism
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Depicting subjects as true to their natural appearances
- largely found in Renaissance pieces |
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Verists - (Verism Artist
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Salvador Dali
Yves Tanguy |
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Third Style
From 20 B.C. to 20 A.D |
- Roman mural painting
- Works includ fantasies depicted against a monochromatic background. -Movement was from the illusion of depth and realism to fantasy |
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A round work of art, including painting and sculpture is known as
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Tondo
The most famous Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo -1504 |
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Artist of Arrangement in Grey and Black Number 1
Portrait of his mother |
James Whistler
The portrait is known as Whistler’s Mothe |
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Venus de Milo - Created in 120 B.C.,
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Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, later renamed Venus by the Romans.
-Currently housed at the Louvre |
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Emanuel Leutze
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Painted Washington Crossing the Delaware
- Portrayed launching a surprise attack upon the British |
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Artist of American Gothic
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Grant Wood - 20th century American artist
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-Made The Birth of Venus
-illustrated Dante’s Divine Comedy -The Adoration of the Magi -Madonna of the Pomegranate |
Sandro Botticelli Renaissance painter
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Created
-The Twittering Machine -Viaducts Break Rank -Fish Magic - Head of a Man (Going Senile). |
Paul Klee - Swiss artist
Famous for his whimsical, colorful images |
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James Ensor - 1860–1949
Belgian painter, |
-Created Strange Mask
-Opened the door for the surrealism movement -Entry of Christ into Brussels -The Temptation of St. Anthony. |
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Artists of
-Saturn Devouring His Children -Witches’ Sabbath -The Dog -The Three Fates |
Goya -1746–1828
Works found on the walls of his villa after his death |
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The artist of
Colored Circles and L'equipe de Cardiff |
Robert Delaunay -1885–1941
Moved from being a neo-Impressionist to cubism, eventually developing the orphism movement. |
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Orphism - Started in 1912
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Described lyrical, shimmering chromatic effects in paintings
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-Robert Delaunay
-Frank Kupka -the Duchamps -Roger de la Fresnaye. |
Orphism Artists
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A Beautiful World
The Old Checkered House in Winter |
Grandma Moses - 1860–1961 20th C
Did not begin painting until she was in her seventies - Her work - primitivism style |
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Primitivism
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-Attempts to recreate the style of children’s art
-Emulates the style of primitive cultures |
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Grandma Moses
Henri Rousseau. |
Primitivism Artist
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The Peaceable Kingdom was painted by
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Edward Hicks - A Quaker
- Works were on signposts and carriages -Completed more than 100 versions of The Peaceable Kingdom. |
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-View on the Stour -1819
-The Hay Wain - 1821 --Salisbury Cathedral Dedham Vale |
John Constable -1776–1837
-Known for his landscape scenes -inspired artists -Delacroix and Bonington |
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Richard Bonington - 1802–1828
English painter |
-Connected French and English landscape artists, _Rapidly painting watercolors like Coast of Picardy.
-his watercolors and lithographs are celebrated at the Louvre |
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Gupta Period
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The golden age of Buddhist art in India
-Attention to detail because more important to artists |
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Relief Sculpture.
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Three-dimensional protrusions from a flat surface
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Three degrees of relief sculptures
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- Alto-relievo - high protrusion
-Mezzo-relievo - medium protrusion -basso-relievo - low protrusion. |
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Intaglio
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A relief sculpture that is carved inwards instead of outwards
- frequent in jewelry than large-scale art - The opposite of relief sculpture |
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Dilettante
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-One who is interested in viewing the fine arts, but not participating
-Anyone who dabbles in many different subjects without seriously committing to one. |
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Crescendo
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Increasing loudness in a musical score
-Generally used to refer to the loudest section, or climax, of a piece |
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The Marseillaise
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The national anthem of France
- Writen during French Revolution -Firs sung by the soldiers of Marseilles when they entered Paris. |
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The lifestyle of artists is often stereotypically described as
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Bohemian
- Describes a lifestyle giving preference to art over material goods, and money in general -Thought of as unclean, unkempt, and somewhat immoral. |
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A musical section within a larger work that has its own unique tempo is known as
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Movement
-Each movement is recognized by its own number in the sequence of the piece -An undivided musical piece is one movement |
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Pianissimo
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The direction to perform a musical piece very softly
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Fortissimo
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Playing a musical piece very loudly
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Wrote the songs
-This Land Is Your Land -So Long -It’s Been Good to Know Yuh |
Woody Guthrie
- A 1930s songwriter and folk singer - Most of his is about the difficulties of living during the Great Depression |
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Created by an artisan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is worth substantial amounts of money today.
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Tiffany Glass - by Louis Tiffany
-Also know as Favrile glass -Glass forms are of an art nouveau style, with iridescent colors |
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American patriotic song -Battle Hymn of the Republic
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-Shares the same tune as John Brown’s Body
-Julia Ward Howe wrote the song after visiting Union soldiers. |
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Impresario
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-Sponsors a ballet, opera, or symphony
-Term can also apply to a producer of such works |
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Artist of
First Down and Choosin’ Up Best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers |
Norman Rockwell - 1894–1978
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The Cello performances
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by Pablo Casals
-At the United Nations in 1958 and White House in 1962 |
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Pablo Casals
Spanish cellist |
Known for his solo cello interpretations of Bach
-He was exiled from Spain in 1939 for protesting the government, and moved to France. |
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Kitsch
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Expensive-looking artwork that is shoddily done
-Term can also apply to furniture -Plaster reproductions of famous busts and cheap Mona Lisa imitations qualify as kitsch. |
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He performed
-Hound Dog and -All Shook Up |
Elvis Presley -1935–1977
Also appeared in films as: Love Me Tender - 1956 Jailhouse Rock -1957 |
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Francis Scott Key
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Wrote The Star-Spangled Banner
wrote while held prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812 |
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A Leitmotif - From the German for “leading theme'
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A recurring melody associated with a certain person, place, or event, used in opera.
-Most common in Wagner’s works |
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And Oh, you’ll take the high road,
I’ll take the low road, And I’ll be in Scotland before you |
Opening lines to the song Loch Lomond
A popular Scottish folksong about separated lovers |
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Wrote:
-Camptown Races. -Oh! Susanna -The Old Folks at Home -Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair -Beautiful Dreamer |
Stephen Foster
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Adagio
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A particularly slow tempo.
- It is slower than andante, and faster than larghetto |
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A Jolly Roger
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A black and white flag with a skull-and-crossbones
Mostly seen hanging on pirate ships |
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Walter Gropius and contemporaries founded
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The Bauhaus school in Germany
- To bring together architects, technologists, and traditional artists so that they might learn from one another. -eventually shut down by Nazi control |
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-Lucio Costa
-Lyonel Feininger -Marecel Breuer |
Influenced by the The Bauhaus school in Germany
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Functionalism
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Was a form of architecture designed to anticipate future needs of a structure.
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Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe |
Frequently used the principles of Functionalism in their work
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Ragtime Music
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Jazz-style pieces written primarily for the piano at the beginning of the 1900s
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Scott Joplin
Irving Berlin |
Ragtime artists
Revivedl in the 1970s Thee term Ragtime inspired a book and Broadway musical. |
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What are the three ranges of a male singing Voice
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1.bass - lowest
2.Baritone - Middle 3.Tenor - highest |
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What are the three Stages of a Female Singing Voice
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1. Alto -lowest
2. Mezzo-soprano - Middle 3.Soprano -highest |