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| Little Dutch Masters, Social realist view that art is for everyone, not just for the rich and churches |
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| 1579, treaty separates low countries (Holland and Belgium) |
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| Until 1637, tulips grow out of Union of Ultrecht, creating economic boom; Imported from Turkey; Super rich in Holland spend lots of money on tulips |
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| 19th century art critic who rediscovered Vermeer; Attributed 66 paintings, today there are only 35; Social realist who painted domestic interiors |
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| Comes up with pre-camera machine/box, Allows you to trace what is projected |
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| LIttle imperfections come as white globules, Vermeer adds white dots (adds humidity, super realist quality) |
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| Decorative, graceful style known for its soft pastel colors, pursuit of pleasure, frivolous, and sensuous theme |
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| Elegant and graceful celebration |
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| King's mistress hires Boucher to paint voluptuous paintings with scenes of sensuous pursuits of pleasure and escapes from boredom |
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| poetic landscape painting |
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| Location of Hogarth's orgy was London's infamous brothel |
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| romantic attitude in art, that like the sublime arouse strong emotions |
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| Pauline Bonaparte Borghese |
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| Napoleon's sister caused scandal in Rome |
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| From story of Judgment of Paris, Venus wins prize of a golden apple in world's most famous beauty contest. Paris chose Venus, god of Love and the love of the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen of Troy, which starts Trojan War |
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| Female slave from Turkish harem and Ingres painted several works on the subject |
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| Name of French ship off coast of Africa is shipwrecked. 149 people witnessed cannabalism so that only 15 survived after 2 weeks. Scandal is shown in dramatic fashion and as an allegory of France herself on the doomed raft |
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| A play by Lord Byron. Sardanapalus was an Assyrian king who upon learning that his armies were defeated, had everything he owned destroyed including his harem women |
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| The artist painted with a drunken broom |
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| How critics viewed Delacroix, the major Romantic painter of 19th century |
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| Group of paintings by Goya created in the later years of his life that portray intense, haunting themes. |
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| The Bishop of Salisbury, who commissioned painting |
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| "I never saw an ugly thing" |
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| Constable's romantic and picturesque world view |
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| technical trick where Constable added touches of red, green, and white against brown backgrounds for dramatic effect. |
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| Back to nature group of painters |
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| God in Nature. Art that evokes mood of nostalgia for lost values, world, and life |
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| Romantic artists who painted scenes around the village of Barbizon in the forests of Fountainebleau |
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| View that country people are superior to city people and a glorification of the common man. |
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| She used to wade through pools of blood at the stockyards |
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| Bonheur was advocate of women's rights and dressed like a man. She needed a police permit to get her hair cut short. She never married |
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| Show me an angel and I will paint one |
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| Courbet's vow to paint onlywhat he could see. Courbet as a rebel, and hated labels like "realist" |
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| represented the Official School of Art, the establishment. The host of the salon |
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| 1855 Courbet's Salon, held in a shed |
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| Michelangelo of caricature |
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| first person to take aerial photographs, built huge hot air balloon named "the Giant" |
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| Father of Photojournalism |
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| Brady is credited with being the father of photojournalism |
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| Group of English painters, poets, and critics founded by John Everett Millais, with the intention to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo |
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| First African American painter to reach international acclaim |
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| Nude model, later became a painter herself |
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| In spanish is a light afternoon meal (Merienda on the grass) |
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| 1863 Salon of rejected works. 5000 works were submitted and over 1/2 were rejected. There are so many complaints that the Emperor Napoleon III decides to have a special exhibition |
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| introduces pure painting without subject, art for art's sake. Manet was interested in light and color, which is why the Impressionists looked to him for inspiration |
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| His patent made possible the 1600 foot Brooklyn Bridge, whose construction ran through two generations of Roeblings between 1869 and its completion in 1883 |
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| art critic whose scoffing article Le Charivari coined the word Impressionnistes as a general description of the exhibitors added a new term to the critical vocabulary that was to be historic |
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| Poor person's alcohol, the famed "green fairy" |
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| Muybridge device for projecting motion pictures |
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| "It's amazing, a woman who can draw" |
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| Monet's water garden, with 4 gardeners. His famous home and garden with its waterlily pond were bequeathed by his heirs to the French Academy of Fine Arts |
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| Pissaro was a mentor to Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin |
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| Seurat's overlapping dots |
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| Confused with Seurat, separate dots |
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| popular description of Seurat's art |
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| Van Gogh's supportive brother |
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| Van Gogh friend and patron |
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| Style of post-impressionist painting with bold forms separated by |
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| Influential French art dealer |
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| art movement of late 19th century painting and sculpture; characterized by exaggerated body proportions, animal totems, geometric designs and stark contrasts. First artists to systematically use these effects and achieve broad public success was Paul Gauguin |
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| Applied use of symbols; iconic representations that carry particular conventional meaning. |
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| International style of art, architecture, and design that peaked in popularity by beginning of 20th century. Style characterized by highly-stylized, flowing, curvilinear designs often incorporating floral and other plant-inspired motifs |
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| Austrian Art Nouveau movement |
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| The "Wild Beasts", Matisse is King of Fauves, also Derain |
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| "You will simplify painting" |
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| "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in the 20th century |
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| Concerning the Spiritual in Art |
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| Kandinsky 1910, defense of abstract art, published in 1912 Kandinsky argued that art should deal with color and form in spiritual ways |
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| The blue rider, Munich avant-guarde. The Blue Rider was not a formal group with a manifesto and strict membership, but rather a changing network of artists who exhibited together and shared ideas |
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| book about 100 prints based on paper cutouts by Matisse |
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| expatriate writer, subject of Picasso's painting |
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| Barcelona street of prostitutes |
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| Derogatory description of Picasso. That's not art, but only little cubes. New kind of pictoral space |
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| Analyzes forms from several point of view |
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| Random shapes arranged to look like objects. Not based on nature. Idea-based |
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| Filippo Tommaso Marinetti |
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| The name futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past |
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| art style that consisted of a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the use of the three primary colors |
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| in NYC, celebrated modern art |
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| Russian minimalist form of cubism and Futurism. Ex: The Black Square |
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| Wright's winter home and school in the desert. Today houses Wright Foundation, school for architects |
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| Non-NY art, point of view that country life is better |
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| 240 unknown and secret paintings "scandal". Did his wife know he was painting a nude woman in his barn? |
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| was Wyeth's favorite model, on cover of Time and Newsweek |
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| calls Helga a national treasure. Buys them for 6 million and then resells for 45 million |
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| 1913, one of the most influential events in the history of American art that shocked and outraged the public and raised questions about the boundaries of art |
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| Anna Mary Robertson Moses |
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| Grandma Moses, renowned American folk artist, became successful at old age (70) |
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| Pollock's new way of painting |
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| With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint |
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| burgled Bacon's house, eventually became partners |
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| French, coller to glue, is a work of art, primarily in the visual arts, made from the assemblage of different forms |
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| One of the most influential art dealers of the 20th century, launched careers of such pop greats as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and many more |
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| printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Day, is similar to Pointillism. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced or overlapping |
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| painting based on making a painting of a photograph aka hyperrealism |
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| Use of organic material and environment. Earth art best seen in Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty |
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| corporate name of artist, wife and staff. Skill in organizing others. Cost 3.2 million dollars. Paid for by selling drawings, models, and getting student volunteers |
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| created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork |
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| depict setting for 39 mythical and historical famous women throughout history |
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| the young Shoshone woman who assisted Lewis and Clark |
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| art of bad taste, cheap and tacky |
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| Hungarian born naturalized Italian porn star who for the 5 years pursued an alternate career as a member of the italian parliament. married Koons |
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| Most famous art forger, convicted when the blue he used proved to be a modern color not used before 1940, forges Supper at Emmaus by Vermeer |
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| dry pigment, chalk and glum, in stick form, popular in Rococo |
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| 1935 secured copyrights for artists |
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| used to teach, advocate, and mock |
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| German art historian and archaeologist, one of the founders of modern scientific archaeology, art should imitate ideal of classicism |
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| Romanticized view of the East, the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern culture in the West by writers, designers, and artists |
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| Romanticized view of the East, the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern culture in the West by writers, designers, and artists |
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| Revival of ancient Rome design, "Interpretations" light, spacious, symmetrical view of Roman ideas |
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| the people (church, government) |
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| 1774 spent 6 years in Rome, won by David |
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| wrote Marat saying she must see him about an uprising, supporter who kills John... |
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| liked dancers, singers ,prostitutes as subjects |
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| technique of laying paint very thickly so that the dried paint is a texture coming out of the canvas |
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| technique of laying paint very thickly so that the dried paint is a texture coming out of the canvas |
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| the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people. Colonizers believe their culture is superior, they manipulate and misread colonized culture |
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| study of the shape and bumps of skulls, based on the belief that they reveal character and mental capacity |
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| Said "Mr. Whistler was 'Flinging a Pot of Paint' |
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| coined by Louis Vauxcelles, Parisian art critic |
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| anti-establishment art movement which ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms |
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| Stieglitz's gallery introduces modern art to US, Steerage is called first modernist photograph. Famed for depictions of real life |
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| British artists' model and painter. Better known as the subject of paintings and sculptures by such prominent artists as Bacon, Picasso, Giocometti, and Derain than for her work as a painter |
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| Steel girders are joined horizontally and vertically to form a grid |
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| brief association among a small group of architects who practiced in Chicago area between 1900-25 |
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| extension over exterior space, made possible through use of reinforced concrete with steel girders |
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| Combined Wright's ideas with Mondrian's ideas of Plasticism, the movement advocated pure abstraction and simplicity |
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| called for a new "rational" social housing for workers, house for building |
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| called for a new "rational" social housing for workers, house for building |
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| promotes harmony between man and nature through design so well integrated with its site that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become unified with nature |
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