Arts History qwuiz 2 terms

Arts and Crafts

international design and aesthetic philosophy, began as a moral, social, and artistic protest against the Industrial Revolution.

Aestheticism

Art for Art's Sake: Adherents believed that art should exist purely for its own beauty and sensory pleasure, rejecting the idea that it needed a moral, political, educational, or utilitarian purpose.

Gesamtkunstwerk

is a German term meaning a "total work of art". It describes an aesthetic ideal where various distinct art forms—such as music, drama, poetry, visual design, and architecture—are merged into a single, cohesive, and immersive whole.

Art Nouveau

flowing, organic lines, asymmetrical "whiplash" curves, and motifs resembling plant stems, vines, flowers, and insect wings.Aims to unify fine art and everyday functional design, blending

Modernismo

blended French Symbolism, Parnassianism, and Romanticism, focusing on musicality, rich sensory imagery, exotic settings, and formal perfection. ate 19th- and early 20th-century cultural and artistic movement in the Spanish-speaking and Lusophone worlds

Ensanche

planned urban expansions that transformed major Spanish cities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Cloisonism

a late 19th-century post-Impressionist painting style characterized by bold, flat areas of vibrant color separated by thick, dark contours

The Nabis

vibrant pigment straight from the tube onto the canvas rather than mixing realistic tones.Flat perspective, expressive brush strokes

ethnography

a qualitative research method and social science discipline that studies individual cultures, societies, or groups from the "inside" perspective of the people being studied

Odalisque

an enslaved chambermaid or female domestic attendant in an Ottoman Turkish seraglio (such as the sultan's harem)

anti-naturalism

If both philosophical naturalism ( nature is all that exists, with no God or supernatural reality) and evolutionary theory are true, the probability that human cognitive faculties (reason, perception, memory) are reliable is low or unknowable.

Empirical

based on, or derived from, observation, experience, or experimentation rather than on theory, pure logic, or speculation

positive vs neagative space

Positive space refers to the primary subject, object, or area of focus in a work of art.Negative space is the empty or open area that surrounds, frames, and passes between the subjects of an artwork.

Parallax

the apparent shift in the position of an object when it is viewed from two different points of view or lines of sight

Materialism

the view that physical matter is the fundamental reality of the universe

Techniques of the self (Foucault)

the specific, voluntary practices by which individuals act upon their own bodies, minds, souls, and lifestyles to transform themselves and attain a state of happiness, purity, wisdom, or perfection