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IART 118
Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the Medici | a single family that led Florence as the cultural center of the Renaissance |
| humanism | the belief of the worth and dignity of the individual |
| Filippo Brunelleschi | greatest architect of the Early Renaissance |
| linear perspective | allows the picture plane to function as a window |
| Masaccio | an early renaissance painter that carried the naturalist impulse |
| Botticelli | unconcerned with the representation of deep space |
| Neoplatonism | sought to revive Platonic ideals |
| High Renaissance | focus shifted from Florence to Rome |
| Michaelangelo | painter and sculptor. scultped neoplatonically and revealed the human ideal |
| Da Vinci | a painter and sculptor. Epitome of the Renaissance |
| sfumato | intentional supression of the outline of a figure in a haze |
| Raphael | painter. everything measured and rendered in careful perspective. uses a competing focal point |
| Titian | favored paintings with complex iconography. classified his paintings as poetry |
| mannerism | manner of style. suggesting affection |
| Parmigianino | painter that emphasized perfect figures that have become unreal. |
| Counter Reformation | religious art should be directed toward clarity, realism and emotion |
| Caravaggio | religious painter whose work established the major direction of painting in the Baroque arts |
| tenebroso | light and dark contrast strongly. spotlight effect |
| Bernini | sculptor and architect. fused classicim with drama and emotion |
| Poussin | represents the classicizing and restrained tendency |
| Rubens | painted that combined the styles of the North and South |
| French Academy | defined absolute standards of the art of the period |
| Bach | grand master of Baroque music for voices and instruments |
| fugue | composed of three or four independent parts. one part states a theme that is imitated in succession |
| Enlightenment | European emphasis on the minds power to reason |
| Jaques Louis David | returned to the Poussin mode. liner representation |
| Neoclassical | iconography, objective experience |
| licked surface | brush strokes are virtually invisible |
| Romanticism | countertendency to the neoclassical style.subjective experience |
| Delacroix | painter. loose and physical painting style. explores the internal motions of the body |
| Realism | photographic intensity or replication |
| Courbet | refused to idealize working life. A realist |
| Modernism | important idea of avant garde |
| Manet | realist painter. painterly style |
| Bachanal | classical iconography in which nymphs and satyrs frolic outdoors |
| Wagner | musician. made it express a wide range of experience. Created musical drama. |
| Impressionism | convey a sense of natural light. begins with white canvas |
| Monet | Impressionist painter |
| Renoir | Impressionist painter. painted outdoors. figures are not stiff |
| Debussy | musician. mixed musical tones. suggestive harmonies |
| Post Impressionism | an attempt to improve and extend impressionism. more personal interpretation and expression |
| Cezanne | painter. created tension between the 3D subject and the 2D surface |
| Seurat | painted more intellectually and scientifically |
| Pointillism | mathematical application of paint to canvas |
| Van Gogh | painter that contrasted Seurat |
| Cubism | depiction of objects in reduced geometric form |
| German Expressionism | liberation of color and celebration of sexuality |
| Abstraction | based on the artist's conception of things |
| Matisse | leader of the Fauves. used unnatural colors |
| Picasso | painter. high degree of realism and abstraction. style is primitive |
| Kandinsky | painter. goes for more of a feeling than meaning |
| Stravinsky | most influential composer of modern era |
| The Rite of Spring | most spectacular Stravinsky piece. Ballet score |
| Dada | nonsense word. yes, yes to life. after the impact of war. anti art. embodied imagination and irrationality |
| Duchamp | an important Dadaist. |
| Surrealism | fascination with the realm of dreams |
| De Stijl | represents an affirmative hopeful approach |
| Mondrian | lead painter of De Stijl. nonobjective abstraction |