AP Art History Terms 3

Casta paintings

Paintings that illustrate the mixing ethnicities in the New World ( usually from colonial Mexico)

Rococo

style in interior design, the decorative arts, painting, architecture, and sculpture that originated in Paris in the early 18th century but was soon adopted throughout France and later in other countries, principally Germany and Austria. It is characteriz

Fete Galante

a term referring to a category of painting specially created by the French Academy in 1717 to describe Antoine Watteau's variations on the theme which featured figures in ball dress or masquerade costumes disporting themselves amorously in parkland settin

Satire

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

Enlightenment attitude

Smile of reason. Washington's statue of self possession

Revolutionary ideals

Liberty, equality, brotherhood

Very bad

Revolutionary attitude toward the monarchy and the church

Sublime

Unstoppable forces of nature. That which inspires fear, pity, and awe

David vs Ingres

Line vs color. Color and emotion is more important. Line is more important.

Palladian architecture

Monticello and University of Virginia (Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio)

Romantic classical vs High Romantic

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It's all Goya's Fault

Mr. A's words of wisdom on Goya's introduction of ugly art and the use of art to expose inhumanity.

Man's inhumanity to man

Art as the expose of human hypocrisy.

Etching

Rembrandt

Aquatint etching

Goya. Softer. Layer of thin web of lines.

Anywhere but here, anytime but now

Romantic exoticism. Interest in other places and time periods. European artists were interested in antiquity, the turkish

Spilled religion

Religion in the 19th century was almost totally destroyed by the French revolution. They deeply questioned the church.

Subjectivism

the doctrine that knowledge is merely subjective and that there is no external or objective truth

Exoticism

Taste for exotic things.

Patronage base of the Romantic period

not the church or aristocracy

Storm and Stress

Sturm und drang. A proto-Romantic movement in German literature in which individual subjectivity and extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment

El sueno de la razon produce mostruos

Goya. The sleep (Dream) of reason produces monsters. Favorite metaphor of modern artists.

Action/Reaction sequence

Rococo artists reacting to baroque artists. Romantic classical reacting to Rococo artists.

Romantic Landscape painting

Scientific (constable) and sublime (Cole)

Historical style in architecture

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New technology

Camera Obscura, daguerreotype, calotype