APAH Unit 5

Romanticism

19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason

Symbolism

an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.

Baroque

An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements

Realism

A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be

Manifest Destiny

A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

Burin

A pointed tool used for engraving or incising.

Woodcut

A print of an image that has been carved in wood

Japonisme

A style in French and American nineteenth-century art that was highly influenced by Japanese art, especially prints.

Neoclassicism

A style of art and architecture that emerged in the later 18th century. Part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures, Neoclassicism was characterized by the utilization of themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome.

Impressionism

An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing

Shutter Speed

The amount of time the shutter inside the camera is open to expose your photo.

Rococo

Very elaborate and ornate (in decorating or metaphorically, as in speech and writing); relating to a highly ornate style of art and architecture in 18th-century France

camera obscura

a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface

Zoopraxiscope

a device that projects sequences of photographs to give the illusion of movement

daguerrotype

a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.

Vanitas

a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.

Expressionism

a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

Dry point

printmaking where the design is scratched into the steel plate with a hard, steel tool

mana

religious power or energy that is concentrated in individuals or objects

Post-Impressionism

the work or style of a varied group of late 19th-century and early 20th-century artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. They reacted against the naturalism of the impressionists to explore color, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artist, a concern that led to the development of expressionism.