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Nocturnes |
A painting style that depicts scenes evocative of the night or subjects as they appear in a veil of light, in twilight, or in the absence of direct light.
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Baron Georges Haussmann
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was chosen by the Emperor Napoleon III to carry out a massive program for the rebuilding of Paris. The new Paris consists of wide boulevards and focuses on commerce and sociability.
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Charles Baudelaire |
Essayist and one of the key theorists of modern art.He is credited with coining the term "modernity" to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience. |
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Constantin Guys
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Water color painter and illustrator for British and French newspapers. Baudelaire called him the "painter of modern life".
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Flâneur
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"idol stroller". The detached observer, often fashioned themselves as armature detectives. Bourgeois people who emphasis urban leisure. |
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Salon des Refusés
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"Salon of the refused". Exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon. |
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Emile Zola
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French novelist and journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
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Theory of Correspondence |
States that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined only by how it relates to the world and whether it accurately describes that world.
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Ukiyo-e |
"Art of the floating world". Japanese prints, flattened images depicting common life. |
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Japonisme |
Western fascination of Japanese culture. |
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Plein-air painting
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Paintings produced outdoors on location rather than in a studio. |
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Impressionism
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A 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence. The characteristics include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, human perception, and bourgeois leisure time.
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The Anonymous Society of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.
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Group or artists who created the impressionism movement. They organized an exhibition to display the art they could not show in the salons. |
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Complementary Contrast
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When two colors opposite of each other on the color wheel are contrasted. When this is done they mutually intensify each other. |
