Ch 23 Art Vocab and Notes

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members of the ____ movement dedicated themselves to making functional objects with a high aesthetic value

Arts and Crafts

IN what ways did Vincent van Gogh pioneer new approaches to Western painting?

1. He used non naturalistic color 2. he disregarded chiaroscuro and illusionistic modeling of form 3. he used thick and expressive brushstrokes

What is Symbolism?

A late-19th-century movement based on the idea that the artist was not an imitator of nature but a creator who transformed the facts of nature into a symbol of the inner experience of that fact. Making statements within their artwork.

What is modernism?

A movement in Western art that developed in the second half of the 19th century and sought to capture the images and sensibilities of the age. Modernist art goes beyond simply dealing with the present and involves the artist's critical examination of the premises of art itself. Modernismo French, "new art." A late-19th- and early-20th-century art movement whose proponents tried to synthesize all the arts in an effort to create art based on natural forms that could be mass produced by technologies of the industrial age. The movement had other names in other countries: Jugendstil in Austria and Germany, Modernismo in Spain, and Floreale in Italy. Cameras,

What is pointalism?

A system of painting devised by the 19th-century French painter Georges Seurat. The artist separates color into its component parts and then applies the component colors to the canvas in tiny dots (points). The image becomes comprehensible only from a distance, when the viewer's eyes optically blend the pigment dots. Sometimes referred to as divisionism. using dots to create art.

What is "Plein air" ?

An approach to painting much popular among the Impressionists, in which 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. Painting outside.

What is Art Nouveau?

French, "new art." A late-19th- and early-20th-century art movement whose proponents tried to synthesize all the arts in an effort to create art based on natural forms that could be mass produced by technologies of the industrial age. The movement had other names in other countries: Jugendstil in Austria and Germany, Modernismo in Spain, and Floreale in Italy. Functional art.

What is Nabis?

Hebrew, "prophet." A group of Symbolist painters influenced by Paul Gauguin. optical mixture The visual effect of juxtaposed complementary colors.

The French artist __________________ depicted many common subjects of the Impressionists but exaggerated his compositions into a more graphic style.

Henri Tolouse- Lautrec

_____ was one of the first romantic artist to depict the dark terrain of the subconscious

Henry Fuseli

What is a mosaic?

Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces (tesserae) of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors; also, the technique of making such works.

What is Japonisme?

The French fascination with all things Japanese. Japonisme emerged in the second half of the 19th century.

What is Post-Impressionism?

The term used to describe the stylistically heterogeneous work of the group of late-19th-century painters in France, including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, and Cézanne, who more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form, and color than the Impressionists did.

The Pointillism of Georges Seurat was influenced by:

his paintstaking research of optics and color theory

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unfolded color areas of the ______

japanese woodblock prints

The painter Claude Monet was interested primarily in the __________ effects of light.

optical

Where the majority of painters since the 15th century had been concerned to create the precise illusion of three-dimensional space in their paintings, Impressionist and post-Impressionist artists tended to emphasize:

the two dimensionality of the picture plane

which of the following ideas did vincent van gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night

the vastness of the universe

in Night Cafe the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing _____

vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity

Although Berthe Morisot's paintings were aligned with the Impressionist style and its common focus of leisure activities, she focused primarily on what subject matter?

women and children

What is local color?

An object's actual color in white light.

What is fin-de-siècle?

French, "end of the century." A period in Western cultural history from the end of the 19th century until just before World War I, when decadence and indulgence masked anxiety about an uncertain future. End of the old, and in coms the new

Mary Cassatt's work is exemplary of the influence of _____________ on late-19th century painting?

Japanese prints

_____ is sometimes described as the first modern architect

Louis henry sullivan

Which artist is known for fracturing into distinct fragments the unified and illusionistic picture plane.

Paul Cezanne

Which artist believed that non-naturalistic color had the capacity to communicate a deeper human experience than strict realism?

Vincent Van Gogh Paul Cezanne Paul Gauguin

which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane and color and their interrelationships and is credited with influencing the cubism movement

cezanne

Georges seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

his disciplined and painstaking application of the color tears of men like Delacroix, helmholtz, and chevreul

cassatt's style of work owes much to

japanese prints


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