Unit 10 Vocab

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Albumen print

First commercially available photo method using egg white and salt on paper, coated with silver nitrate, and exposed to light

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Aquatint

Metal plate covered in wax, drawn into, submerged in acid, resin sprinkled, heated, and dipped in acid to create watercolor-like effect

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Art Deco

Style descended from Art Nouveau, characterized by streamlined, elongated, and symmetrical design

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Art for Art's Sake

Concept expressing the inherent value in art, even without a moral, historical, or didactic message

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Art Nouveau

Art style focusing on decorative and natural, organic forms to create elegant and curvilinear designs

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Avant-garde

Innovative artists rejecting traditional approaches in favor of experimentation

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Chicago Style

First major modernist architectural movement in the US, characterized by steel-frame construction and simple, grid-like aesthetic

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Collodion method

Wet-plate photography technique using light-sensitive collodion on glass, allowing short exposure time but requiring wet development

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Dry glass plate method

Photography technique using light-sensitive gelatin on glass, allowing dry development

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Fenestration

Arrangement of doors and windows on a building's elevation

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Form follows function

Design principle where the function of a building determines its design

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Haussmanization of Paris

Urban development in Paris including widening boulevards, fenestrated buildings, modern bridges, and train stations

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Japonisme

Attraction to and interest in Japanese art, influencing Impressionists

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Lithograph

Printmaking technique using a flat stone surface, oil-based crayon, and water to repel ink

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Pastiche

Artistic work imitating that of another artist, work, time period, culture, or style

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Plein-air

Painting in the outdoors to capture light and atmosphere, practiced by Impressionists

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Skeleton

Supporting interior framework of a building

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Synesthesia

Union of senses where one sense causes a sensation with another

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Toilette

A woman doing her hair and makeup, a common Old Master painted subject

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Zoetrope

Device that projects sequences of photographs to give the illusion of movement, assembled from a magazine

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Allegory

Pictorial device revealing a larger moral or political idea

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Burnishing

Printmaking technique using a burnisher to polish, make corrections, or lighten the color of a metal plate

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Daguerreotype

Early photograph with a shiny surface and no negatives, developed by Louis Daguerre

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Drypoint

Printmaking technique where an artist scratches directly into a plate with a stylus to create textured lines

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Gothic Revival/Neo-Gothic

19th-century architectural movement to revive medieval Gothic architecture, predominantly English

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Hammerbeam roof

Decorative open timber roof typical of English Gothic architecture

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Hudson River School

New York City-based landscape painters influenced by Thomas Cole

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Manifest Destiny

19th-century American attitude that the US was destined to stretch from coast to coast

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Odalisque

Woman in a harem

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Orientalism

Imitation, interest in, or depictions of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures, popular in 19th-century Europe

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Pinnacle

Gothic architectural ornament, small tower placed at the corners of larger towers

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Sublime

Inspiring great admiration or awe in the extraordinary, powerful, and dramatic

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