Baroque
R'N'R'
Realism
19th Century
Abstraction
100
The Baroque era differed from the Renaissance chiefly because of the conflicts between these entities.
What are Empires?
100
These works were celebrations of joy, gaiety, romance and frivolity.
What are Roccoco works?
100
This style is characterized by an emphasis on the entire subject including both positive and negative characteristics.
What is Realism?
100
This late nineteenth century style sought more and more brilliant color.
What is Post-Impressionism?
100
Natural form was attacked by these abstractionists lead by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
What is Cubism?
200
Baroque art appealed largely to this quality of the human condition.
What are emotions?
200
This Rococo painter invented a new genre of painting called the fete galante. Paintings of this genre generally depicted members of the nobility in elegant contemporary dress enjoying leisure time in the countryside.
Who is Jean-Antuine Watteau (1684-1721)?
200
This artist most forcefully exhibits the qualities present in the Realism movement.
Who is Gustave Courbet?
200
The works of this artist feature small dots of complementary colors that blended in the eye of the viewer also known as optical mixing.
Who is Georges Surat?
200
This form of abstractionism views a subject from many perspectives simultaneously.
What is Cubism?
300
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe were a time when society was governed by a ruling class that believed that it's power was granted by this supernatural intervention.
What is divine right?
300
This Rococo painter was the favorite painter of Madame Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. His works often transformed the characters of classical myth into scenes of courtly gallantry. He had an emphasis on nudes.
Who is Francois Boucher?
300
This work from the study notes shows ordinary workmen repairing a road at the official government sponsored Salon.
What is the Stonebreakers (1849-50)
300
This young Dutch painter used theories of contrasting color and heavy application of paint to create paintings to portray the inner human emotions.
What is Vincent Van Gogh.
300
These artists were influenced by African art and reacted against naturalistic or sentimental works.
Who are the Cubists?
400
It was the patronage of this class that gave rise the great works of the Baroque.
What is the wealthy ruling class
400
The French revolution ushered in a new era of democracy in Europe. In an attempt to hearken back to the ideals of classical Greece and Rome, artists developed this style.
What is neoclassicism?
400
This artistic movement was a close cousin of Realism in that it took the subject matter of the Realists and diffused it with soft light and blurry lines.
What is Impressionism?
400
In this painting by Van Gogh intense jarring yellows, greens and reds give a poolroom (a place of vice) a cynical character.
What is Night Cafe?
400
A group of artists calling themselves Die Brucke took brilliant arbitrary colors and combined them with the intense feelings of Edvard Munch to found this new artistic movement.
What is Expressionism?
500
This word means a richness of color with heavy ornamentation.
What is Baroque?
500
Eugene Delacroix was a proponent of this style hearkening back to the emotional emphasis of the Baroque but concentrating on exotic or melodramatic elements with themes of foreign settings, violence involving animals and historic subjects.
What is Romanticism?
500
This Impressionist is famous for his Salon paintings emphasizing light and contrasting colors.
Who is Edouard Manet (1832-83)
500
This successful stock broker left his wife, children and career to pursue art.
Who is Paul Gauguin?
500
This artist invented a new category of artworks referred to as "ready-mades" in which ordinary objects were given a new context.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
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