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Test Dialogue
What
did you learn about
what you need to avoid when you
tackle the MC questions?
how best to approach MC
questions?
the topics that you are strong &
weak in
A revival of interest in Classical
Art
Chiaroscuro
 Portraiture
Perspective
 Natural
Red
& Blue
Triangles
landscapes
 3-D Sculpture
 Individualism
 Humanism
Italian Renaissance –
Catholic Patronage
Quattrocento (1400s) –
FLORENCE, Medici’s
Cinquecento (1500s) - ROME
Bramante’s
Raphael’s School ofTempietto
Athens
Brunelleschi
Florence
Michaelangelo’s
Pieta
Renaissance Artist Names
Brunelleschi
Donatello
Leonardo
da
Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
End of the Renaissance or
Beginning of the Baroque
 Instability
that
exaggerates or
fantasizes the
human form
 Historical Time
Period:
Reformation &
Counter
Reformation
 emotionalism,
elongated human
figures, strained
poses, unusual
effects of scale,
lighting or
perspective, vivid
often garish colours.
Mannerism Artists
 Bronzino
 Correggio
 Durer
 El
Greco
 Parmagianino
 Pontormo
 Phillip II of Spain builds Escorial
The Holy Trinity
(1577) by El Greco.
Hendrick Goltzius Bust of a
man with a tasseled cap, 1587
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(d. 1593) Spring
Music:
Monteverdi
(Modern Opera)
Ornamentation
& curved
rather than straight lines
Absolutism (Palaces) – Louis
XIV’s Palace of Versailles
 Sought
to Overwhelm the Viewer
 Grandeur
 Richness
 Drama
Baroque Subjects
Landscapes
Scenes
of everyday life
Dutch Baroque Painting:
 Scenes
of
 maritime trade,
 banking,
 commerce,
 portraiture &
 Still-lifes
 Rembrandt
Rembrandt’s “Anatomy
Lesson”
Rembrandt’s Night
Watch
English Baroque Painting
Inspired by Dutch
Emphasizes Portraiture
French Baroque Art
Louis
XIV moves the center of
art from Rome to Paris
French Academy
Centralization
of art in the
service of the state “la gloire de
la France!”
Baroque
Artists
Bernini
Caravaggio
Poussin
Rembrandt
Musicians
Bach
Handel
Vivaldi
Art is lighter & less formal
compared to Baroque
Increased focus on nobles
Increased participation &
patronage by Bourgeoisie
Rococo Artists
Boucher
Fragonard
Hogarth
Rigaud
Watteau
Francois Boucher, The Fountain of
Love
The Swing 1787
Watteau, Jean-Antoine
The Embarkation for
Cythera
Frederick the Great builds Sans
Souci
Transition period towards
Romanticism
Looked
to ancient Greece
& Rome for inspiration
(courage, sacrifice, love of
country)
Neoclassical Artists
 Canova
 Jacque
Louis David
 Goya
 Gros
 Ingres
 Vigee
Le Brun
"La Colère d'Achille"
("Wrath of Achilles") by
French painter Michel
Martin Drolling 1810
David’s “Death of Socrates”
Neoclassical Musicians
Beethoven
Haydn
Mozart
Rossini
Schubert
Glorification of
 the
past
 Nature
 Patriotism
 Heroism
 Supernatural
 Cute peasants
 Emphasis on FEELING, not reason
Romanticism Artists
Corot
Delacroix
Gericault
Millet
Rousseau
Rude
(3) Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon
Romanticism Musicians
Beethoven
 Brahms
 Chopin
 Dvorak
 Liszt
 Mendelssohn
 Rossini
 Schubert
 Schumann
 Tchaikovsky
 Wagner

Ludwig van Beethoven
One
st
1
of the
composers
to elicit inner human
emotion through music
th
9
Symphony (Ode to Joy),
Moonlight Sonata,
Furelise
Frederic Chopin
Wrote
several piano works
that highlighted Polish folk
songs & dances
Richard Wagner
 German
nationalist composer who
strongly emphasized Germanic
myths & legends in his operas
Peter Tchaikovsky
Great
Russian
compose
r
Depiction of real people &
events.
 Portrays
peasants & workers who are
not cute
 Based on FACT not emotion
 Grittier & w/ more attention to social
problems & social context
Realism Artists
Courbet
 Daumier
 Eiffel (designed the Eiffel Tower)
 Haussmann
 Millet

c) The Stonebreakers
Courbet – The Source
b) The Gleaners
Use of new subject matter & a
new way of looking at the world
Everyday life of middle class becomes
acceptable subject for high art
 Outdoor paintings helped them play w/
light
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Impressionistic Artists
Cezanne
Degas
Money
Munch
Renoir
Variety
of styles that use
impressionism as a
jumping off point
Pointillism – viewers’ eyes
mix small dots of colors
Most famous PostImpressionistic Artist

Vincent Van Gogh
Symbolism
1890-1914
Decadent
Eerie
supernaturalism, dreams
& very decadent
Example: Munch’s “The Scream”
Modern Art
 Influenced
by Freud, Einstein, WWI
and II and atomic age
Movements & People
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Cubism
Expressionism
Futurism
Dadaism
Surrealism
Social realism
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Boccioni
Dali
Duchamp
Kandinsky
Matisse
Picasso
Pollack
Warhol
Distortion
& use of color to portray emotion
Expression over detail
Objects fade away & replaced w/ abstraction
Munch (1893) – the
Scream
Kandinsky (1913) – Composition
VII
Broke
images down to simpler forms & then
reassembled for different perspectives
Influenced by theory of relativity
Picasso
Picasso (1937)- Guernica
Nude Descending a Staircase (1913) by Marcel Duchamp
Dali (1930) – The Persistence
of Memory