In the Renaissance, an emphasis on education and expanding knowledge, the exploration of individual potential and a desire to excel, and a commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty
What is humanism
100
An early photographic process in which negatives were made using paper coated with silver iodine
What is a calotype
100
A style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, esp. in terms of the shifting effect of light and color and visible brushstrokes.
What is impressionism
100
an art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
What is dada
100
Irregular Pearl (Portuguese) perceived deficiencies in comparison to Renaissance Art
What is baroque
200
A development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act.
What is abstract expressionism
200
The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.
What is sfumato
200
a three- petaled iris and the royal flower of France.
What is fleur-de-lis
200
A movement that grew out of Abstract Expressionism, in which large stained or painted areas evoke aesthetic and emotional responses.
What is color field painting
200
A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images
What is surrealism
300
The revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music
What is neoclassicism
300
the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
What is linear perspective
300
a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 Although short-lived it had an important influence on subsequent artists, esp. the German expressionists. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.
What is fauvism
300
ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified.
What is a ready made
300
Of or characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century Continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork.
What is rococo
400
- A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”
What is post modernism
400
The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting
What is chiaroscuro
400
is French for "end of the century". The term sometimes encompasses both the closing and onset of an era, as it was felt to be a period of degeneration, but at the same time a period of hope for a new beginning.
What is fin de siecle
400
An artistic movement begun in Italy in 1909 that violently rejected traditional forms so as to celebrate and incorporate into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology.
What is futurism
400
A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers
What is the enlightenment
500
meaning dark and gloomy, a style of painting in which light is rendered in great contrast to dark to create a dramatic effect.
What is tenebrism
500
a trend in sculpture and painting that arose in the 1950s and used simple, typically massive, forms.
What is minimalism
500
a type of landscape painting that depicts outdoor gatherings of men and women, dressed in fashionable contemporary clothes and engaging in dance, flirtation, conversation, or music-making; the setting may involve architectural ruins.
What is fete galante
500
20th century artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established conventions in their work.
What is avant garde
500
A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability