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Roccoco
A style that developed in France then spread across Europe. Its trademark is its refined, fanciful, sensual and often embellished look in both painting and architecture. -
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Art of the Americas
Art often has the dual purpose of being aesthetically interesting and spiritually/ritually inteegral to the culture. The act of making art is often ritualistically important.
Art of the Americas differs greatly in style and purpose. From the Aztec statues of gods and remnants of the Inca Empire to the North American natives intricate beadwork and totem poles, artwork is extremely culturally diverse. -
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Art of the Pacific Cultures
Art often has the dual purpose of being aesthetically interesting and spiritually/ritually inteegral to the culture. The act of making art is often ritualistically important.
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Statue of Goddess Coatlicue
Actually made in 1500s, a statue of the Aztec goddess is "powerful and unsettling" -
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pilgrimige to the Island of Cythera
Greatest proponent of Roccoco style, his idyllic scenes carry aspects of vanitas and the fleeting quality of human happiness. (Stokstad) -
Froncois Boucher
Girl Reclining
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism was essentially a revival of Classical trends and focused on the idealized. Human figures were idealized and content focused on moral and civic virtue. It was used to promote the virtues of democracy and republicanism and was thought to embody uiversal standards of taste and beauty. -
Jean-Honore Fragonard-Roccoco
Shows frivolity and humour that was common in Roccoco
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Jaques-Louis David
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Adelaide Labille-Guiard
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Romanticism
Romanticism takes themes from stories and poems and was more individual and private as opposed to Neoclassicism which was more public. It reflected changing social values, patriotism, emotional expressiveness and dramatic subject of anything from literature to the imagination. -
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Realism
Realism was a critical shift in subject matter as poor and lower class people began to e portrayed. Paintings depicted peasants going about their daily, and often difficult tasks. -
Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Impressionism
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Claude Monet
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Post Impressionism
Does not share a single style of painting but were all infuenced by Impressionism-style ranges from Seurat's pointilism to Van gogh's expressive impasto techniques. -
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MODERNISM
Encompasses Post Impressionism, Expressionism, fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealist, and International Style -
Georges Seurat
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Expressionism
Flat, colourful, expressive paintings where the colour was as important as the subject. Radical because of the incorporation of colour into portraiture etc. -
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Fauvism
"Wild beasts"-Fauvism used explosively bright colours and blunt brushstroke -
Henri Matisse
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Cubism
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Georges Braque
Violin and Palette -
Pablo Picasso
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Three Nudes
Expressionism in Germany-member of "Die Brucke" -
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Dada
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Marcel Duchamp
Fountain -
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Bauhaus
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International Style
Architecture that stemmed from the Bauhaus movement. It didn't associate historically and used volume, regularity, and harmonius aesthetics. -
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Surrealism
Surriealism used dream imagery and the irrational and disorderly to fuel their work -
Salvador Dali
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POSTMODERN
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Abstract Expressionism
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Jackson Pollock
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Moai Ancestor Figures
1000-1500 CE these figures are still there today -
Pacific Arts Festival
