Art Appreciation Final - Chapter 17

Romanticism

19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason. Political themes of inhumanity and suffering often in the name of liberty

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.

Vincent Van Gogh

A Dutch expressionist who painted a "moving visions in his mind's eye, self-portrait and Starry night"

Jacques-Louis David

A French painter wh is known for his classicism and his commitment to the ideals of the French Revolution. His works include The Oath of the Horatii (17850 and The Death of Marat (1793).

Edgar Degas

A nineteenth-century French painter and sculptor. Among his preferred subjects were ballet dancers and scenes of cafe life.

Donatello

All of the following artists epitomize the High Renaissance EXCEPT

J.M.W. Turner

An English romantic painter of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, known especially for his dramatic, lavishly colored landscapes and seascapes. The slave ship.

Francesco Borromini

well known Baroque architect, known for S. Carlino.

Impressionism

Major Western artistic style that gained prominence in the second half of the 1800s and into the 1900s. Against Realism, visual impression of a moment, style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience, often very colorful.

Caravaggio

Master of early Baroque art, he influenced many other baroque artists with his use of dramatic lighting. Conversation of St. Paul is one example of his technique. perspective was used to control the eye level of the viewer.

Edouard Manet

Most controversial artist in Paris. Painted the Bar Scene, Launching on the grass. Olympia nude which comparable to Titian's Venus of Urbino

Theodore Gericault

Painted the Raft of the Medusa and the insane woman. visible brush strokes.

Michelangelo

Peter Paul Ruben's emphasis on anatomy and musculature, and sculptural approach to painted form in The Raising of the Cross reflect the strongest influence of which artist?

Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing

Rococo artist who painted The Swing

The Last Supper of Christ

What was the intended subject of this painting by Veronese?

the Dutch middle class

Which encouraged the shift toward genre and still-life painting in the seventeenth century?

Claude Monet

a French painter who used a impressionism called "super-realism," capture an overall impression of the thing they were painting. Sunrise and The Japanese footbridge.

Artemisia Gentileschi

an Italian painter; her work of art, Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes combined dramatic lighting with rich primary colors to enhance the visual experience.

Neoclassicism

contrary to Rococo art, a new artistic style foreshadowing Greek art, the revival of civic duty and rational simplicity/order. Smooth brush work

Baroque Art

17th century art full of emotion, energy, and movement. colors are more vivid and contrasting than in renaissance art. there is a strong presence of LIGHT in much of the artwork.

Rococo Art

Begins after the death of King Louis XIV and catered towards aristocrats due to being elegant, visible brush strokes and less naturalistic.

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish Baroque painter who studied Titian art. The raising of the cross is typically baroque in its use of an S-curve for Christ's body and the overall sense of movement.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Italian sculptor and architect of the Baroque period in Italy. His Cornaro chapel combined architecture, painting, sculpture, and lighting to create a theatrical experience.

Thomas Cole

Founder of the Hudson River school, famous for his landscape paintings. The Oxbow

Francisco Goya

French painter that shows Spanish execution by Napoleon's troops. Saturn devouring his son.

Marcel Duchamp

French painter who brought Dada to the U.S as well as creating kinetic sculpture and conceptual art

Diego Velazquez

Spanish painter and court painter for King Philip IV; his masterpiece Las Meninas used light to create drama and emphasis and help organize a complex composition

Jean-Antoine Watteau

This French Rococo artist is well known for his painting L'Indifferent.

classical mythology.

This painting reflects a Renaissance interest in

dramatic use of light

What characteristic of Baroque art can be seen in Caravaggio's The Conversion of St. Paul?

the Pantheon

What classical model is the basis for the Villa Rotonda?

the playful nature of the subject matter.

What distinguishes the Rococo style of Jean Honore Fragonard's Happy Accidents of the Swing from paintings int he Baroque period?

the single vanishing point

What feature distinguishes the type of linear perspective seen in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper?

a triangle

What geometric shape did Leonardo da Vinci employ to create a sense of stability in the figure of Christ in The Last Supper?

Rembrandt van Rijn

greatest Dutch artists of the period; painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants.

Dada

the artistic movement that rejected all traditional conventions