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| Question | Answer |
| Romanticism | a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules |
| r. 1804-1814, 1815 | Napoleon |
| r. 1814-1824 | Louis XVII |
| Sublime | the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic |
| Luminism | an American landscape painting style of the 1850s to 1870s, characterized by effects of light in landscape, use of aerial perspective and the concealment of visible brushstrokes |
| Odalisque | a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially in that of the sultan of Turkey |
| Orientalism | the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world |
| En plein air | the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look |
| President 1848-52; Emperor 1852-1870 | Napoleon III |
| Realism | the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions |
| Impressionism | seeks to re-create the artist's or viewer's general impression of a scene |
| Pointillism | a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image |
| Primitivism | a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate "primitive" experience |
| Daguerreotype | made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor |
| Calotype | a sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was exposed to light in a camera obscura; those areas hit by light became dark in tone, yielding a negative image |
| Spirit Photography | a type of photography whose primary attempt is to capture images of ghosts and other spiritual entities |
| Symbolism | expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations |
| Fauvism | emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism |
| Futurism | emphasized speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city |
| Dada | movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war, often nonsensical |
| Surrealism | expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control |
| Uncanny | an instance where something is simultaneously familiar and foreign, resulting in a feeling of discomfort |
| Photo Montage | the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image |
| Soviet Realism | According to the state, all forms of art should: -Be supportive of Soviet workers -Be free from abstractions -Idealize or romanticize Soviet life |
| Abstract Expressionism | often characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity |
| Impasto | technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface in very thick layers |
| Stain Painting | diaphanous color by means of thinned-down oils allowed to soak into the raw canvas |
| Assemblage | usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate |
| Encaustic | consists of natural bees wax and dammar resin (crystallized tree sap) |
| Western Photography Guild | "beefcake" magazine |
| Viennese Actionists | a violent, radical, and explicit form of performance art that developed in the Austrian capital during the 1960s |
| Woman House | a feminist art installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro |
| Rhythmic Montage | a montage in which the key factor deciding cuts is the music |
| Intellectual Montage | a montage that evokes intellectual thought, perhaps by contrasting ideas |
| Low Brow | a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comics, punk music, tiki culture, and hot-rod cultures of the street |
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