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"Afternoon of a Faun": twilight state (btwn awake and asleep), fantasizes about nymph, dreamy atmosphere (blurry, vague, colorful), translation distorts it (doesn't convey all color), erotic implications
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"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun": Debussy, using orchestra like giant pallette of color, rich harmony, trying to convey what Mallarme was doing in his poetry
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Basket of Apples: Cezanne, looking @ still life from multiple perspectives, dark outline around objects
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Cezanne-major traits: right @ threshold of modern art, all shapes of worls can be reduced to cone, sphere, or cylinder, sometimes painted things at dif stages
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Day of the Gods: Gauguin, reflected light interpreted as color- color is broad, flat(no modeling), very saturated, ppl look like they are just stuck on painting like stickeres, no desire to be 3D
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Did music have more of less possibilities in impressionism than lit?: more
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Gauguin-main traits: rejected French scene in favor of living in tropics, no desire to be 3 D at all, no modeling of color, very saturated
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Literary impressionist: poet- Mallarme wrote "Afternoon of a Faun"
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Mont Ste. -Victoire: 1st painted in 1885-impressionist traits, then several times, then in 1902- landscape becoming fragmented into dif geometric shapes, foreshadows Picasso's and the other Cubists' work, prog. took place over stages
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Musical impressionist: Claude Debussy (french)
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Pointilism: used by Seurat,paint placed on canvas by fine dots(points) of paint, stil able to use broken color, rich color when up close (@ dist pulls 2gether)
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Post-Impressionist painters: Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne
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Seurat- trait that made dif from other impressionists: Pointilism- paint placed on canvas by fine dots(points) of paint, stil able to use broken color, rich color when up close (@ dist pulls 2gether)
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Starry Night: Van Gogh, vivid color(saturation- often raised on TV programs like golf), purity, vividness
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Sunday afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte: Seurat, painterly, 2D, color, ppl @ leisure, lacks detail, blurry, pointilism
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The Ballet of Nijinsky: 1912, to music of Debussy, stage painted like an impressionist canvas, faces profile of frontal to make it 2D, dancers move horizontally, erotic themes
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The Ballet of Nijinsky was danced to _______'s music and therefore modeled after_______'s poem.: Debussy, Mallarme
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Van Gogh-main traits: colorful, painterly, didn't use brush-used knife (spread paint on canvas), saturation
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What dancer/choreo took Debussy's music and did a ballet to it?: Nijinsky (1912)
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What is a faun?: a creature from mythology that is half man and half goat
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Wheat Field w/ Crows: Van Gogh, painterly, colorful
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Which painter interpreted color as reflected light?: Gauguin
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Which painter painted the same thing at different points of their career?: Cezanne
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Which painter used a knife to spread paint on the canvas?: Van Gogh
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Which painter used the technigue of pointilism?: Seurat
