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HUM#3 Terms
Victorian through Modern
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Paris Salon | The paris academy annual salon art exhibit |
| Salon des Refusés | Salon of rejects. "Indie" impressionist stuff. Their own art exhibition that isn't academy art |
| en plein air | Term for painting outside, on site |
| impasto | Application of thick, heavy, usually unblended paint on canvas. Typically used by Van Gogh |
| pastels | soft delicate shade of color. Used by Degas and Renoir. |
| Crystal Palace | a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 |
| Great Exhibition | international technology fair in London. |
| Guild movement | political movement advocating workers' control of industry through the medium of trade-related guilds |
| Pre-Raphaelites | Young group of painters and poets (men) who studied works of art by Raphael and earlier italian painters. Goal to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues. Usually characterized by thick wavy hair |
| Paris exposition | Worlds fair. Height of french society. Included the Palace of machines, Colonial "villages", electric lights, and the eiffel tower |
| fin de siècle | End of the century art |
| Art Nouveau | Art characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms. |
| Symbolism | Using symbols and symbolic art |
| chromatic scales | Expanding color wheel, newer colors, use of color |
| pointillism | a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye. |
| primitif | Society where people live in a simple way. Ex. Tahiti |
| Apollonian | Used by Nietzsche. Idealized, rational, sculpture |
| Social Darwinism | Natural selection and survival of the fittest. |
| eugenics | The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to improve the qualities of the human species or a human population. A method of improving the human race. Perverted by the Nazi's. |
| colonialism | obtaining political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. |
| klezmer music | Jewish folk music used by Mahler in his music |
| polyrhythms | a rhythm which makes use of two or more different rhythms simultaneously. |
| polytonal | two or more different tonalities or keys |
| atonal | Music not writen in any key or mode. Used by Schoenberg. "Madonna". |
| twelve-tone system | Using all 12 tones from the chomatic squal fairly equally |
| psychoanalysis | Used by Freud. Psychological theory which aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind |
| id | the seat of instinctive desire. innate instinctive impulses and primary processes |
| ego | The part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity. Seeks to satisfy needs in socially acceptable ways |
| superego | Conscience or moral basis for self. A self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers. |
| sublimation | Redirects primal impulses into constructive social behavior. |
| Oedipus complex | Male version. Used by Freud. Describe a child's feelings of desire for his or her opposite-sex parent and jealousy and anger toward his or her same-sex parent |
| Electra complex | Female version. Used by Freud. Describe a child's feelings of desire for his or her opposite-sex parent and jealousy and anger toward his or her same-sex parent |
| archetypes | Common denominators in nearly every culture/society. Used by Jung |
| collective unconscious | Used by Jung. The part of the unconscious mind which is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind, as distinct from the individual's unconscious. |
| Nickelodeon | A movie theater with an admission fee of one nickel. |
| collage | a piece of art made by sticking and combining various different materials together. Coined by Braque and Picasso |
| gyre | Whirl, spiral, vortex. Used in "The Second Coming" by Yeats to describe the complexities and downward spiral of war |
| stream of consciousness | a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous uninterupted flow. Used by Virginia Woolf |
| imagism | Movement in poetry with the use of free verse, common speech patterns, and clear/precise concrete images |
| intertitles | Also known as titlecard. The words that appear on screen during a silent movie |
| pan shot | rotating a camera on its vertical or horizontal axis in order to keep a moving person or object in view or allow the film to record a panorama |
| long shot | In film, a view of a scene that is shot from a considerable distance, so that people appear as indistinct shapes. |
| iris shot | a technique frequently used in silent film in which a black circle closes to end a scene. |
| closeup shot | Close range shot in film |
| cross-cutting | an editing technique used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same place. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions |
| flashback | a transition in a story to an earlier time, that interrupts the normal chronological order of events. |
| readymades | ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified slightly to make 'art' (ex. the urinal). Coined by Marcel Duchamp. |
| photomontage | the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. |
| montage | the process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole. |
| cantilever | a long projecting beam fixed/anchored at only one end, used in archetecture |
| Dionysian | Used by Nietzsche. Emotional, physical, music |
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