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CSET Visual Art History
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1. Greek and Roman -- focus on balance - harmony - symmetry
Gustave Courbet
Rembrandt
Classical Art
Raphael
2. Late 18th and early 19th century; revived classical forms and subjects and emphasized balance; viewed art as having a high moral purpose
Rococo Art
William Sidney Mount
Neoclassical Art
Boticelli
3. Rococo artist - The Swing
George Caleb Bingham
Baroque style
Jean Honore Fragonard
Gothic Art
4. Dramatic use of light and shade (chiaroscuro) - turbulent compositions - vivid emotional expressions
Northern Renaissance
Pantheon
Baroque style
Thomas Eakins
5. Two business partners who produced colored prints of everyday American life in the nineteenth century.
Thomas Eakins
Currier and Ives
Francisco Goya
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
6. Began in Italy in the 1400's
Gothic Art
Jean Millet
Renaissance Art
Jan van Eyck
7. (1859-19370) This African American artist is best known for his style of painting. He was the first African American painter to gain international acclaim. 'The Banjo Lesson.'
Raphael
Thomas Eakins
Pantheon
Henry O. Tanner
8. Found his subjects in the people and occupations of everyday life - one of the French painters of country life that settled near the village of Barbizon - 'The Gleaners' - 1857- oil on canvas
Realism
Jean Millet
Michaelangelo
William Sidney Mount
9. German artist - proud - Self - portrait (N. Renaissance)
George Caleb Bingham
Donatello
Albrecht Durer
Jean Honore Fragonard
10. This French painter was important to French Romantic art. He often used his painting to convey a political message - and he is best known for his painting depicting the socialist revolution of 1830: Liberty Leading the People.
Pieter Bruegel
Delacroix
Boticelli
Jan van Eyck
11. 1746-1828; Bullfight is an example of Romantic Art
Neoclassical Art
Jean Millet
Francisco Goya
Albert Bierstadt
12. Depicted FRENCH NOBILITY - and was PASTEL AND PLAYFUL. Post - Baroque (about 1720 to 1760)
George Caleb Bingham
Winslow Homer
Caravaggio
Rococo Art
13. After Italy - borrowed linear perspective from Italian - discovered oil paints to make light
William Sidney Mount
Northern Renaissance
Realism
Pantheon
14. Baroque painter - The Calling of St. Matthew
Caravaggio
Romantic Art
Boticelli
Gustave Courbet
15. American realist painter - The Gross Clinic - 1875
Albrecht Durer
Thomas Eakins
William Sidney Mount
Leonardo Da Vinci
16. A technique which made it possible to represent three dimensional objects on a flat surface in a systematic way - so that all the lines receding at right angles on the picture plane converge at a vanishing point on the horizon (Filippo Brunelleschi 1
William Sidney Mount
Linear Perspective
Henry O. Tanner
Winslow Homer
17. Late 18th to mid 19th c. - reaction against ordiliness of neoclassicism - imagination - romantic/natural subjects; emotional style
Albrecht Durer
Romantic Art
Leonardo Da Vinci
Delacroix
18. Was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers - best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.
Raphael
El Greco
Matthew Brady
Friedrich
19. Rococo artist - The Pleasures of Life
Friedrich
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Jacques - Louis David
Romantic Art
20. Has some aspects of Baroque style in self portraits; Self - Portrait - 1659 when Rembrandt is 53
Matthew Brady
Gothic Art
Neoclassical Art
Rembrandt
21. Known for his large landscapes of the American west - foremost painter of Westward Expansion scenes - part of Hudson River School - 'Storm in the Rocky Mountains' - 'Looking Down Yosemite Valley' - 'The Oregon Trail' 'Rocky Mountains - Lander's Peak'
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Albert Bierstadt
Classical Art
Caravaggio
22. German - was called 'Germanic Lord Byron' painted Wandering Above the Sea of Frog and Chasseur Forest
Classical Art
Rococo Art
Leonardo Da Vinci
Friedrich
23. French - the Stone Breakers (1849)
Pieter Bruegel
Thomas Cole
El Greco
Gustave Courbet
24. (N. Renaissance) used vibrant colors to portray lively scenes of peasant life - Peasant Wedding - from the Netherlands ('genre painting'
George Caleb Bingham
Albert Bierstadt
Romantic Art
Pieter Bruegel
25. The first coherent school of American art
Albert Bierstadt
Rococo Art
Hudson River School
Friedrich
26. Beauty and proportion of human body; length of body 8 times the head; Myron's Discobolus and Apollo Belvedere
Thomas Eakins
Classical Sculpture
Rembrandt
Classical Art
27. A Realist painter known for his seascapes of New England. Northeaster 1895
Jean Honore Fragonard
Henry O. Tanner
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Winslow Homer
28. David - Sistine Chapel (creation of Adam)
El Greco
Francisco Goya
Renaissance Art
Michaelangelo
29. An American realist artist - whose paintings depicted life on the frontier (Fur Traders Descending the Missouri)
Northern Renaissance
Henry O. Tanner
George Caleb Bingham
Hudson River School
30. Member of Hudson River School - painted The Oxbow
Jacques - Louis David
Albrecht Durer
Boticelli
Thomas Cole
31. Stone cathedrals - stained glass window - floor plan in shape of a cross - gargoyles - flying buttresses
George Caleb Bingham
Pantheon
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Gothic Art
32. Sculptor - Robert Gould Shaw adn 54th MA Regiment Memorial
Friedrich
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Delacroix
Realism
33. Renowned genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Depicted African - Americans with dignity/sympathy (e.g. Eel Spearing at Setauket 1845)
Baroque style
Northern Renaissance
William Sidney Mount
Realism
34. Works in Spain - but shows Italian (mannerist) influence in distortion and choice of colors. Lots of motion - dynamism in later paintings. View of Toledo. Baroque - like style
Gustave Courbet
El Greco
Jean Millet
Renaissance Art
35. A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
Jean Millet
Friedrich
Boticelli
Realism
36. Vitruvian Man - the Mona Lisa - the last Supper (dry fresco did not work well)
Francisco Goya
Leonardo Da Vinci
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Classical Art
37. Built by Romans (emperor Hadrian) from 125-128 CE - includes balance/symmetry (Greeks) and arches (Romans via Egyptians)
Boticelli
Pantheon
Leonardo Da Vinci
Classical Art
38. The Birth of Venus
Jean Millet
Boticelli
Francisco Goya
Jan van Eyck
39. St. George - poised for action - unique face
Donatello
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Albrecht Durer
Michaelangelo
40. French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825) - The Oath of Horatii - Death of Socrates - portraits of leaders of French revolution
Jean Honore Fragonard
Jan van Eyck
Jean Millet
Jacques - Louis David
41. Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (N. Renaissance)
Jan van Eyck
Currier and Ives
Jean Honore Fragonard
Delacroix
42. School of Athens (fresco depicting ancient Greek philosophers and Renaissance painters) - The Marriage of the Virgin (good example of linear perspective) - Cowper Madonna (gentle style)
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Classical Sculpture
Thomas Eakins
Raphael