| Art 100 | ||
| Art Appreciation | ||
Lecture and Reading Notes |
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Chapter 20: Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
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Key Images |
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| Jacques-Louis David. Oath of the Horattii. 1784. | ||
| Francisco de Goya. The Third of May 1808. 1814. | ||
| Eugene Delacroix. The Death of Sardanapalus. 1827. | ||
| Gustave Courbet. The Stone Breakers. 1849. | ||
| Edouard Manet. Luncheon on the Grass. 1863. | ||
| Claude Monet. Impression Sunrise. 1872. | ||
| Georges Seurat. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. 1884 – 1886. | ||
| Vincent Van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889. | ||
Key Terms |
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| The Academy | Impressionism |
Realism |
| Avant-Garde | Neoclassicism | Romanticism |
| En Plein Air | Photography | The Salon |
| Expressionism | Pointillism | Salon Des Refuses |
Formalism |
Post-Impressionism |
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Questions to Consider |
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| What three revolutions launched the period of great social and technological change we call the modern age? | ||
What important shift in thought occurred during the Age of Reason? |
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| What role did Jacques Louis David play in the French Revolution and the emergence of Neoclassicism? | ||
| What artistic style was Neoclassicism in direct opposition to? What basic beliefs did it hold? | ||
| For what reasons did an interest in landscape emerge in Europe and America during the 1800s? | ||
| What was so dissatisfying about art to the Realists, and how did they attempt to change this? | ||
| What important event occurred in 1874, and how did it change the course of western art history? | ||
| What was so controversial and unacceptable about Manet's Luncheon on the Grass 1863? | ||
| From where was the term "Impressionism" coined? Why did this group of artists adopt the term? | ||
| What Renaissance conventions did the Impressionists ignore? | ||
| What does the term "Post-Impressionism" refer to? | ||
| In what ways did the Post-Impressionists build upon and react to Impressionism? | ||
| What was important about Seurat's painting technique? | ||
| What elements of Impressionism particularly influenced Van Gogh? | ||
| What strong desire motivated Van Gogh? | ||
| What was Gauguin highly critical of? How did this influence his artwork? | ||
| How were Van Gogh and Gauguin's uses of color important influences on twentieth-century painting? | ||
| How did Gauguin set out to rejuvenate European art? How did Gauguin think of the artist? How did he think about art? | ||
| How did the invention of photography affect the direction of Western art? | ||
As the nineteenth century progressed, what did artists seek to do? What was the artist's new task? |
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