Romanticism
Which French historical figure glorified his role as emperor and ushered in a transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Which school of painting starts in France, looks at the least privileged people in society, and includes paintings like The Gleaners by Millet?
The Barbizon School.
Edward Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere and Claude Monet's Water Lilies are examples of art from which movement?
Impressionism.
Futurism
Which art movement features action painting, large scale, and includes the works of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner?
Abstract Expressionism
The Statue of Liberty and Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix are examples of what kind of symbolic technique?
Personification: The representation of abstract ideas, emotions, or inanimate objects as human figures
The Hudson River school comes from what country/geographic era?
The United States. Particularly the Northeast, including New York state, Massachusetts and New England.
Which artist was strongly influenced by the Impressionists, but was not popular during his life? He was also known for his use of the colour wheel, heavy linework, and strange assortment of personal tastes.
Vincent Van Gogh.
Which art style represented luxury, glamour and technological progress in post-World War 1 America?
Art Deco
Richard Hamilton's Just What Is It That Makes
Today's Home So Different, So Appealing? uses what technique to create the final image?
Collage
What is the Sublime?
Greatness beyond calculation, measurement or imitation. Illogical and literally awesome, blowing you away in the sense that's almost frightening.
What does en plein air mean?
It is French for "done outside". The finished painting is completed outdoors and needs to be done quickly.
Which art movement radically distorts it’s subject matter in order to evoke moods or ideas?
Expressionism
Which type of art works with moving, non-traditional materials? The artist's goal is that the experience is never fixed.
Kinetic Art
Lawren Harris, Emily Carr, Frederick Varely and Tom Thomson are all associated with which school/group of art?
The Group of Seven, a.k.a the Algonquin school. (Technically, Carr and Thomson were not part of the main seven.)
The Arc de Triomphe and Medieval City on a River by Schinkel reclaim the art and culture of which group?
The Goths (or the Gothic).
How does the invention of the photograph change composition and challenge the Academy?
Early photos are still composed like classical paintings. Photos are accurate, more accurate than what a painter could do. The creation of the Daguerreotype means that untrained people can capture reality.
19th century scultpture focuses more on ____ rather than accurate representation?
(multiple answers can work here!)
Materiality, speed, smaller size
Which movement is split into two major types, analytic and synthetic? What's the difference between the two types?
Cubism. Analytic Cubism is the first wave and involves fragmenting and overlapping simple forms. Synthetic Cubism uses different materials and brings in collages.
Which art movement chooses pre-existing symbols and includes images from mass culture?
Pop Art
What are the key characteristics of Romanticist ideology?
Free play of emotions and creativity; unreason/irrational. Sensitivity, feeling, freedom and spontaneity. Critique of Enlightenment values.
How does Realism reject Romanticist ideals?
Romanticism emphasizes imagination, the sublime beauty of nature, and often idealizes the past or “exotic” subjects. Conversely, Realism focuses on the detailed depiction of everyday life, ordinary people, and contemporary social realities.
How do Modern art and modernity challenge the purpose of the Academy?
If the whole purpose of the academy is timelessness, then the whole purpose of modernity is that it is of right now. The Academy is no longer the authority on what is good vs. bad art, or who can be a succesful artist.
According to Marcel Duchamp, what is art and who makes that determination?
Marcel Duchamp believed that art institutions, rather than the academy, were the new gatekeepers of art. Therefore, art is whatever the institution accepts.
What are some key characteristics of Post-Modernism?
Self-conscious creative process. Engagement with context/the viewer. New and/or traditionally marginalized voices. Complete freedom from modernist rules. Return of representation. Internationalization of the art world. Social criticism and shock.