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Style Themes
Forms of Art
Term | Definition |
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*Renaissance | the pleasures and enjoyment of the physical world. remembrance of individuals, egoism, common man, renaissance man |
Humanism (Individualism) | natural color, atomic details, 3-d perspective, realism, chiaroscuro, common man portraits, exploration of the human body. filled with emotion. |
humanism sculptural + archit | neoclassical style of Greco Roman. symmetry human body; columns, arches, domes |
*Absolutism/ counter reformation | the creation of the Council of Trent and renewed faith of Catholicism through baroque art |
Baroque | engage the viewer physically and emotionally . imperfect, grotesque, absurd. "spiritual art" meant to overpower the senses |
*Enlightenment | ideas of reason, nature can be controlled and predicted, happiness, progress, liberty, toleration |
Rococo | elegance, pleasantness, and frivolity. lighthearted and light-colored pastels. architecture highly decorated |
*Romanticism | French Revolution. a reacion against the enlightenment. Writers made people aware of their common heritage. national feelings sparked nationalist movements. |
Neoclassical | key figures portrayed as classical hereos, the values of self-sacrifice, devotion to the state, Greek and Roman ideals |
Romantic Artists | Jacques-Louis David portait of Napoleon, the death of Marat, the oath of the horatii; Delacroix "Lady Leading Liberty" |
*Industrial Revolution | focused on the daily concerns of real people such as workers and peasants at the height of the Industrial Revolution with the poor working and living conditions |
Realism Art | the revolutions of 1848 were a total failure. against romantic values of fantasy and nationism. caputured the cruel part of life and reality. the polution... |
Literature | Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment" Dickens "Hard Times" Flaubert "Madam Bovary" |
Modernism | paintings show the point of reality as subjective. the painter portrays what he feels |
Impressionism | 1920s away from realism, the expression of how the world is seen and not how it is. Monet showed the passage of time and movement of light |
post Impressionism | the nontraditional dots and experimentation of color |
Dada | political art, anti-war |
Surrealism | the unconscious mind revealed as in dreams and fantasies |
Abstract | non-art looking of the 1960s |