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WGU-Purpose of Art & Art History

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Aesthetics   Philosophy of art; study of creative process, work of art, aesthetic experience, principles of criticism, & role of art in society  
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Artistic Form   Organization of a medium that clarifies or reveals a subject matter  
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Content   Subject matter detached by means of artistic form from accidental or insignificant aspects  
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Perception   Awareness of something stimulating our sense organs  
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Propaganda   Political persuasion  
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Style   Identifying features (characteristics of form)  
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Paleolithic   (Old Stone Age) Decorated objects, Venus figurines,& cave paintings focused on hunting & fertility  
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Mesolithic   (Middle Stone Age) Rock & cave paintings of human figures, creation of stone microliths, & pottery  
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Neolithic   (Late Stone Age) Weaving, architecture, megaliths, temple buildings, tombs, & pictographs  
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Babylonian Art   Artwork from civilizations found between Tigris & Euphrates rivers. Architecture found in Mesopotamia  
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Egyptian Art   Art with religious focus, depictions of gods & goddesses, & afterlife, sculptures, tombs, monuments/pyramids, & paintings  
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Persian Art   Architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, works of stone & metal  
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Ancient Greece   Art best known for elevation of human: ceramics, architecture, sculpture, coin design, & pottery  
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Rome   Architecture, development of concrete as construction material, introduction of landscape to painting  
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Romanesque Art   Architecture, sculpture, fresco painting, metalwork, & manuscript illumination (performed by monks)  
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Gothic Art   Dominated by christian religious themes. Architecture: pointed arches, ribbed vaults, & flying buttresses  
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Renaissance Art   Innovations: Oil painting, linear perspective in painting & sculpture, aerial perspective in landscapes, Mannerism  
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Renaissance Artists   Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael Sanzo, Sandro Boticelli, Albrecht Durer, Pieter Bruegel  
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Baroque   Emphasis on harmony & unity complemented by a religious fervor, often drawing on biblical stories & themes, Rococo  
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Baroque Artists   Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Rembrandt van Rijn, Diego Velazquez  
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Neoclassicism   Idealized realism, & reason, drew on enlightenment thinking. Painters used sharp colors & chiaroscuro  
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Neoclassicism Artist   Jacques Louis David  
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Romanticism   Romantic artists stressing passion, emotion, & exotic settings with dramatic action  
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Romanticism Artist   Eugene Delacroix  
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Realism   Accurate & objective portrayals of the ordinary, observable world  
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Realism Artists   Gustave Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet  
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Impressionism   Initial, fleeting reaction to what is observed at the moment. Painted subjects & landscapes; used light, color, & simplified compositions  
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Impressionism Artists   Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, & Pierre Auguste Renoir  
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Post-Impressionism   Greater concern for expression, structure, & form; also emphasized emotions & personal responses  
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Post-Impressionism Artists   Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, & Paul Gauguin  
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Art Nouveau   International style of art & architecture favored sinuous lines, curves, & organic motifs (plants & flowers)  
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Fauvism   Spontaneous, bold reactions to nature, employed vibrant colors directly from the tube  
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Fauvism Artists   Henri Matisse & Andre Derain  
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Cubism   Subject represented from multiple angles using simplified geometric forms  
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Cubism Artist   Pablo Picasso  
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Geometric Abstraction   Observed subjects converted into geometric shapes, stressing the two-dimenionality of painting  
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Geometric Abstraction Artists   Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, & Kasimir Malevich  
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Surrealism   Influenced by Freud's focus on dreams. Used images from dreams & subconscious to transform ordinary subjects by placing them in distorted or fresh contexts  
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Surrealism Artists   Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, & Rene Magritte  
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Bauhaus   "House of Art/Architecture" known for its simplicity functionalism & craftsmanship  
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Abstract Expressionism   Spontaneous personal expression in large abstract paintings  
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Abstract Expressionism Artists   Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, & Robert Motherwell  
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Minimalism   Nonrepresentational style of sculpture & painting stripped down to its simplest visual elements (geometric shapes)  
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Minimalism Artists   Frank Stella & Donald Judd  
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Pop Art   Drew from popular mass culture  
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Pop Art Artists   Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, & Claes Oldenburg  
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Objective   Assumed to be free from personal considerations, emotional perspectives, etc.  
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Subjective   Assumed to be heavily, if not entirely, influenced by such personal considerations  
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Art Therapy   Acts as healing agent for society's general illnesses  
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Expressionism   School of art in which the work emphasizes the artist's feelings or state of mind  
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The Reformation   Abrupt end to relative unity of Western Christendom under the Roman Catholic Church because the growing sense of corruption and administrative abuse; images became effective tools for disseminating negative portrayals of the church  
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Dadaism   Art objects in unconventional forms produced by unconventional methods; reflected a cynical attitude toward social values, irrational, absurd, playful, emotive, intuitive, and often cryptic  
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Dadaism Artists   Francis Picabia, Jean Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Man Ray  
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