art final characteristics
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 19th century epic-making events | 1. emergence of social problems with machine production 2. the industrial revolution 3. karl marx and the communist manifesto 4. charles darwin's theory of evolution 5. the victorian era 6. invention of the camera and tube pigments 7. the advent of the telephone and automobile 8. the american civil war 9. admiral perry opens japan for diplomacy 10. migration and immigration on a vast scale 11.drive for women's suffrage |
| implications of the industrial revolution | 1. inventions, technological innovations 2. large scale machine production 3. agricultural workers move to urban factory centers 4. led to the exploration and a laboring population 5. a canal system was developed in england and western europe to transport industrial coal |
| implications of newly invented photography | 1. it challenged traditional modes of pictorial representation 2. photography became a enormously useful tool for recording the centuries discovories 3. it was perfectly suited to an age that saw artistic patronage shift from the elite to a broader base of support |
| realism | 1. images thought to be unsuitable for artistic representation 2. it challenged heroic and idealized subjects of the past 3. paintings that reveal the human condition |
| the academics | 1. its purpose to teach officially sanctioned styles 2. exerted great control over the art scene 3. patronized by the court and aristocracy 4. annual exhibitions in france called "salons" |
| pre-raphaelite brotherhood | 1. painters whose work stands out as the most intensely romantic aspect 2. illustrated stories of morality, religion, and compassion 3. expressed an appreciate for the spirituality and idealism of the middle ages and early renaissance |
| african-american artists experience | 1. the hardships of slavery and racial hate were seldom recorded 2. painted subjects were those accepted by the whole community 3. to study in european meant freedom from racial hate and prejudices |
| victorian age | 1. queen victoria helped restore the prestige of the british crown 2. queen victoria's reign exerted influence in experimental and intellectual movements in art and architechture 3. an eclectic era diverse in everything from fashion design to victorian architechture |
| impressionism | 1. a camera for light and atmosphere 2. the recording of exquisite light and color sensations 3. an attempt to capture immediate perceptual experiences 4. broken, comma-shaped dabs of color 5. recognition of japanese art matured impressionists gift for design |
| japanese woodblock prints | 1. japanese art and culture appealed to parisian society offering both beauty and exoticism 2. the flatness of the prints interested artists wishing to call attention to the picture plane 3. japanese prints offered artists new ways to liberate themselves from past academic experiences |
| conditions for the 19th century female artist | 1. an increased availability of new professional artistic training schools. 2. impressionism was the first modern movement in the history of art in which women were significant in number 3. the pressure to live traditional domestic lives continued to remain strong |
| post impressionism | 1. often, a more theoretical approach to imagery 2. subordinate color sensation for a more formal structure 3. the social image of the modern artists emerges 4. sought a liberation from past academic practices |
| 19th century sculptural environment | 1. the sculptors profession remained firmly a male pursuit 2. sculpture was not readily adaptable to capturing the optical sensations many painters favored 3. the perception that sculpture was manual labor was widespread |
| auguste rodin | 1. acknowledged giant of 19th century sculpture 2. first sculptor of genius since bernini 3. he sculpted the human figure to personify various emotions and ideas |
| symbolism | 1. artists who rejected impressionism as too naturalistic 2. artists who abandoned the optical world for a realm of free imagination 3. artists who divorced themselves from conformity 4. employed various symbols for personal expression and subjective emotion |
| art nouveau | 1. a protest movement against industrialization and mechanization 2. the natural forms of nature are the preferred motif 3. a decorative style in the 1890s 4. Offered fresh new design approaches to synthesize the visual arts |
| importance of the eiffel tower | 1. first truly large-scale industrialized construction project 2. for the first time in history. abstract engineering forms were the goal 3. the importance for future architecture: no cosmetic embellishment |
| skyscraper innovations | 1. steel skeletal construction 2. the elevator |
| implications of the skyscraper | 1. satisfied the need for centralization 2. reflected a new era of design and construction 3. provoked a re-evaluation of past architectural forms 4. skyscrapers would offer a new symbol of modern corporate america |
| antonio gaudi's architecture | 1. a new conception of architecture and nature 2. a disregard for conventional architectural protocol 3. emphasized the sculptural quality of buildings 4. decoration allowed to take free form |
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