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Enlightenment Movements
Rococo and Naturalism
Romanticism and Realism
Impressionism and Photography
100
A movement that emerged in mid 19th century France, artists represented the subject matter if everyday life (especially subjects that previously had been considered inappropriate for depiction) in a relatively naturalistic mode.
What is Realism?
100
A style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700; interior features lavish decoration.
What is Rococo?
100
Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.
What is Sublime?
100
Revival of the Gothic style in architecture, especially in the 19th century.
What is Neo Gothic?
200
A late 19th century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting movement, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions.
What is Impressionism?
200
A new way of thinking critically about the world and about human kind, independently about religion, myth or tradition.
What is Enlightenment?
200
Extract (information) from various sources.
What is Glean?
200
The critique who disdained the materialism and ugliness of the industrial world.
Who is John Ruskin?
300
The style of painted of sculptured representation based on close observation of the natural world that was at the core of the classical tradition.
What is Naturalism?
300
A “Dark Room”. An ancestor of the modern camera in which a tiny pinhole, acting as a lens, projects an image on a screen, the wall of a room, or the ground-glass wall of a box; used by artists as an aid in drawing from nature.
What is Camera Obscura?
300
A member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people.
What is Populist?
300
An artist sketches outdoors to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color. The artist then takes the sketches to the studio for reworking into more finished works of art.
What is En Plein Air?
400
A Western cultural phenomenon that gave precedence to feeling and imagination over reason and thought.
What is Romanticism?
400
One of the figures in the forefront of the Enlightenment because he questioned the idea of the divine right of the kings.
What is Rousseau?
400
The middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
What is Bourgeoisie?
400
A photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal.
What is Daguerreotype?
500
A style of art and architecture that emerged in the 18th century as part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures.
What is Neoclassicism?
500
A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society.
What is Fete Galante?
500
A printing technique in which the artists used an oil-based crayon to draw directly on a stone plate and then wipes water into the stone. When ink is rolled onto the plate, it adheres only to the drawing.
What is Lithography?
500
A device invented my Eadweard Muybridge in the 29th century to project sequences of still photograph images; a predecessor of the modern motion picture projector.
What is Zoopraxiscope?