5853469022 | Realism | - An 1850's art movement from France - Realists rejected romanticism + neoclassicism (late 1700's to early 1800's) | 0 | |
5853483581 | Features of Realism | - An objective reality (true to life) - Focused on honesty/accuracy - Subjects in art appear as they do in everyday life - No embellishment | 1 | |
5853491253 | Realism Artists | - Gustave Courbet - Thomas Eakins - John Singleton Copley | 2 | |
5853500204 | Realism Authors | - John Steinbeck - Mark Twain - Upton Sinclair | 3 | |
5853503796 | Impressionism | - 1860's after the Paris World's Fair - Accurately + objectively recording of visual reality in terms of *transient* effects of color + light - Term comes from Monet's "______________ Sunrise" | 4 | |
5853520372 | Features of Impressionism | - Visible brush strokes - Unusual angles Light + changing light - Considered radical - Very open composition/movement - Unmixed color/Not smoothly blended - How the *eye* views the subject - NOT a re-creation of the subject | 5 | |
5853536871 | Impressionism Artists | - Claude Monet - Mary Cassatt - Pierre Auguste Renoir | 6 | |
5853548889 | Impressionism Authors | - William Wordsworth - William Blake - Mary Shelley | 7 | |
5853552103 | Abstractionism | - Morally loaded themes (rebellion = a disgust w/society) - Emphasis is on individual, spontaneity, mood, feelings, and revolt (w/o being an actual representation) | 8 | |
5853572163 | Features of Abstractionism | - Uses form/color/line to create composition existing independently of visual references to the world - No concrete objects (at least none that are recognizable) | 9 | |
5853576277 | Why Abstractionism? | - Artist felt they needed a new kind of art to encompass changes in Science/Technology/Philosophy - Reflects diversity/turmoil of Western society | 10 | |
5853584853 | Abstractionism Artists | - Wassily Kandinsky - Jackson Pollock - Theo Van Doesburg | 11 | |
5853593124 | Abstractionism Authors | - Camus - Beckett - Anais Nin | 12 | |
5853598175 | Surrealism | - Imagination of the unconscious - Positive expression - Unification of the unconscious + conscious - Where dreams + fantasy are joined to the rational everyday world in an absolute reality = surreality - Andre Breton = "Manifesto of Surrealism" | 13 | |
5853607320 | Features of Surrealism | - Surprising/spontaneous/unexpected/irrational | 14 | |
5853614962 | Surrealism Artists | - Salvador Dali - Picasso - Joan Miró | 15 | |
5853619766 | Surrealism Authors | - E.E. Cummings - Flannery O'Connor - Barbra Guest | 16 |
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