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Art and its patronage differed in Holland
- 1. Art was done for protestant merchants.
- 2. Wealthy families commissioned their interests.
- 3. Without church commissions, artists competed for sales on their work.
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Rococo 1st 1/2 of 18th Century Characteristics.
- 1. A love of the elegance in both style and subject matter
- 2. An age of craftsmanship and luxurious living
- 3. An idyllic world without ugliness
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An aristocratic party
fetes galantes
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View paintings, pictorial souvenirs
veduta
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French Neoclassical Characteristics
- 1. A return to reason and morality
- 2. Often, classical appearing subject matter
- 3. Heroic portrayals and self-sacrifice
- 4. Napoleon proclaims his empire
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Churches counter reformation demand of the arts (3)
- 1. Art was used as a catalyst to proper religious propaganda
- 2. The purpose was to educate the public with new simplified ideals
- 3. Art was to make Christian principles accessible and understandable
- 4. To encourage the viewer to identify with christian suffering and redemption
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The changing rules for women (5)
- 1. The only opportunities for intellectual and artistic pursuits, for women in the middle ages, were monasteries
- 2. As long as the 15th century craft guilds began to exclude women
- 3. Art works that can be assigned to specific women are rare
- 4. Women were excluded in order to protect the economical status of male masters and journeymen
- 5. Women artists have long been overlooked in the arts because of long standing cultural prejudices and widely accepted stereotypes
- 6. Women first emerged as serious artists when exposed to the workshop skills of established fathers, husbands, or other male relatives.
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A kind of intaglio printing employing acid
Etching
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Realistic depictions of the common place, domestic theme
Genre
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A term describing paintings (particularly 17th century Dutch still-lifes) that include references to death
vanitas paintings
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Romanticism (characteristics 4)
- 1. Understanding through feeling, not through reason
- 2. All that shocks and horrifies
- 3. Coax's out your emotion
- 4. Painted landscapes reveal exulted aspects of nature
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A direct attack of paint on canvas
Alla Prima
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When the artworks appearance of visual elements is dissimilar
asymmetrical
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17th century Baroque Social Issues (4)
- 1. Baroque art expresses the art of the counter-reformation
- 2. Protestantism is on the defensive
- 3. End of confident humanism of the renaissance
- 4. The Baroque style was in many respects created by the popes of Rome
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Baroque Visual Characteristics (4)
- 1. Turbulent compositions
- 2. Exaggerated emotions
- 3. Often, extreme light and dark effects
- 4. Displayed dynamic movements, energy and tension
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Baroque architectural characteristics (4)
- 1. Richly decorated surfaces
- 2. complex geometric forms
- 3. undulating walls
- 4. theatrical lighting with mysterious shapes and deep recesses
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A canopy on columns over an alter
Baldacchino
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The underlying story or meaning of a work of art
Content
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An agreed upon method of portraying things
Convention
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The visible results: the lines, shapes, textures, values, and colors in a work of art
Form
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The study of themes and symbols in a work of art
Iconography
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An equal distribution of elements around a central point
symmetry
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exaggerated and violent contrasts of light and dark
tenebrism
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Employing mirrors and reflective metallic objects
Optics
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