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Intro to Design 3
Intro to Design - Chapter 3 New Ulm
Question | Answer |
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Gothic Art - 5th Century to 16th Century AD | It is especially known for the distinctive arched design of its churches, its stained glass and its illuminated manuscripts. |
Romanticism | A reaction to the unemotional Neoclassicism, these artists painted scenes that were emotional and had action with brilliant colors. |
Realism | A group of artists that felt they should portray political, social and moral issues. They rejected the rules of Neoclassicism and the drama of Romantics. |
High Renaissance | French word that means rebirth. Artists no longer worked for the church but for themselves or for Kings and Monarchs, even bankers and merchants. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael are examples. |
Baroque Art | Developed in Europe around 1600, as a reaction against the intricate and formulaic Mannerism that dominated the Late Renaissance. |
The Rococo Style | This was most popular in France, and is generally associated with the reign of King Louis XV (1715-1774). It is a light, elaborate and decorative style of art. |
Neoclassicism | A French art style and movement that originated as a reaction to the Baroque in the mid-eighteenth century, and continued into the middle of the nineteenth century. It sought to revive the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman art |
Impressionism | A light spontaneous manner of painting which began in France. The hallmark of this style is the attempt to capture the subjective impression of light in a scene. |
Post-Impressionism | An umbrella term that encompasses a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but took their art in other directions. |
Fauvism | Artists led by Henri Matisse, who painted and created with “emotion” using brilliant colors, bold distortions, and loose brushstrokes. Labeled “wild beasts” by the academy. |
Expressionism | A style in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist. |
Cubism | Developed between about 1908 and 1912 in a collaboration between Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. The key concept is that the essence of an object can only be captured by showing it from multiple points of view simultaneously. |
Surrealism | A style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible. |
Regionalism | An American term, it refers to the work of a number of rural artists, mostly from the Midwest, who came to prominence in the 1930s. |
Abstract Expressionism | A type of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. It non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no actual objects represented. |
Pop Art | Art created from images from mass media and advertising, it made people take a new look at everyday objects |
Op Art | A mathematically-themed form of Abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, moiré patterns, foreground-background confusion, an exaggerated sense of depth, and other visual effects. |
Photorealism | A movement which began in the late 1960's, in which scenes are painted in a style closely resembling photographs. |
Minimalism | Artwork reduced to one element, or to only geometric form. |