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A style that developed in France then spread across Europe. Its trademark is its refined, fanciful, sensual and often embellished look in both painting and architecture.
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Art often has the dual purpose of being aesthetically interesting and spiritually/ritually inteegral to the culture. The act of making art is often ritualistically important.
Art of the Americas differs greatly in style and purpose. From the Aztec statues of gods and remnants of the Inca Empire to the North American natives intricate beadwork and totem poles, artwork is extremely culturally diverse. -
Art often has the dual purpose of being aesthetically interesting and spiritually/ritually inteegral to the culture. The act of making art is often ritualistically important.
Pacific art often involves initiation ceremonies such as spirit poles and tattoos, or ceremonial dress like masks and cloaks. -
Actually made in 1500s, a statue of the Aztec goddess is "powerful and unsettling"
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Pilgrimige to the Island of Cythera
Greatest proponent of Roccoco style, his idyllic scenes carry aspects of vanitas and the fleeting quality of human happiness. (Stokstad) -
Girl Reclining
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Neoclassicism was essentially a revival of Classical trends and focused on the idealized. Human figures were idealized and content focused on moral and civic virtue. It was used to promote the virtues of democracy and republicanism and was thought to embody uiversal standards of taste and beauty.
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Shows frivolity and humour that was common in Roccoco
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Oath of the Horatii
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Self Portarit with Two Pupils
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Romanticism takes themes from stories and poems and was more individual and private as opposed to Neoclassicism which was more public. It reflected changing social values, patriotism, emotional expressiveness and dramatic subject of anything from literature to the imagination.
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The Raft of the Medusa
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Realism was a critical shift in subject matter as poor and lower class people began to e portrayed. Paintings depicted peasants going about their daily, and often difficult tasks.
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Slavers Throwning Overboard the Dead and Dying (The Slave Ship)
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Uses fast, open brushstrokes and tries to capture a fleeting moment in paint. Subject was mostly upperclass city people or rural scenes.
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Impression: Sunrise
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Moulin DeLa Galette
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Does not share a single style of painting but were all infuenced by Impressionism-style ranges from Seurat's pointilism to Van gogh's expressive impasto techniques.
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Encompasses Post Impressionism, Expressionism, fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealist, and International Style
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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte
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The Starry Night
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Flat, colourful, expressive paintings where the colour was as important as the subject. Radical because of the incorporation of colour into portraiture etc.
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"Wild beasts"-Fauvism used explosively bright colours and blunt brushstroke
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The Woman with the Hat
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Uses broken, distorted and separated forms and breaks up organic shapes into more linear and geometric ones.
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Violin and Palette
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Portrait of Daniel Henry Kahnweiler
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Three Nudes
Expressionism in Germany-member of "Die Brucke" -
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Fountain
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Architecture that stemmed from the Bauhaus movement. It didn't associate historically and used volume, regularity, and harmonius aesthetics.
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Surriealism used dream imagery and the irrational and disorderly to fuel their work
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Birth of Liquid Desires
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Autumn Rythm
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1000-1500 CE these figures are still there today
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