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IART 118
Final Exam
Question | Answer |
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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 |