Going Through the Movements
This movement, which emerged in 1870, focused on capturing light and fleeting moments through loose brushwork.
What is Impressionism
This Dutch Post-Impressionist artist is famous for Starry Night and Sunflowers.
In Monet's Impression, Sunrise, the artist focused on capturing these two artistic elements rather than realistic detail.
What are light and color?
This major global event at the beginning of the 1800s caused people to feel disconnected from nature and drove Romantic artists to paint dramatic landscapes.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Romantics believed that instead of cold rationality, art should express individualism and this.
What is emotion?
Romanticism emerged as a reaction to the cold rationality of which intellectual movement?
What is The Enlightenment?
Known for painting water lilies multiple times to show how light changes them.
Who is Claude Monet?
Van Gogh's Starry Night uses swirling, exaggerated brushstrokes to express this, instead of reality.
What is emotion?
Scientists made discoveries about how this works and how it effected our psycological and physiolgical state. The studies on this directly influenced Impressionist artists' use of color.
What is Light? (Or color theory)
Realist artists rejected idealization and instead focused on depicting this kind of life and people.
What is ordinary? (everyday)
This Post-Impressionist movement (1880-1910) explored the unconscious mind through dream-like imagery and symbolism.
What is Symbolism?
This Realist painter shocked society by painting ordinary workers and peasants, such as in The Stone Breakers.
Who is Gustave Courbet?
Courbet's The Gleaners depicts ordinary peasant women working in a field. This is characteristic of which movement?
What is Realism?
Critics initially rejected Impressionism because they thought the paintings didn't follow academic rules and appeared to be this.
What is unfinished?
Impressionists believed that capturing a fleeting __________ of light and color was more important than painting every detail realistically.
What is a moment (or impression)?
Realism developed in the 1840s partly in response to which technological invention that could capture realistic detail?
What is Photography?
This Romantic artist painted dramatic landscapes like Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, emphasizing emotion and nature.
Who is Caspar David Friedrich?
Romantic paintings often featured dramatic natural scenes with dark colors and intense emotion to convey a sense of this.
What is awe (or mystery/wonder)?
This invention in the mid-1800s forced painters to reconsider what they were doing and ultimately led them to focus on light and emotion instead of realistic detail.
What is Photohraphy?
Post-Impressionists moved beyond observation to emphasize this type of expression.
What is personal?
The two movements that both emerged and overlapped during the 1880s-1910 period.
What are Post-Impressionism and Symbolism?
This Post-Impressionist artist developed a geometric approach to form and famously said, "Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone."
Who is Paul Cézanne?
$500: Post-Impressionist artists used bold, sometimes exaggerated color and form to move beyond __________ and toward personal __________.
What is observation/interpretation (or reality/expression)?
The rise of this type of culture in the late 1800 (people taking trains to the countryside) influenced the subjects Impressionist artists chose to paint.
What is modern leisure (or tourism/recreation)?
Symbolist artists used these two types of imagery to explore the unconscious mind and spiritual truths beyond the material world.
What are mythological and dream-like?