Art History Exam 2-Art Movements

Baroque 1600-1780

Intense Drama, deep color, dynamic movement, ornate, theatrical and realistic detail, drama and splendor.

La Meninas- Baroque

Art of the Dutch Republic 1600-1700

Protestant audience, portraits, still life, and landscapes, (nationalism/ cultural pride), meticulous detailed, natural color palette, focus on ordinary people, accurate observations

The company of captain Frans Banning Cocq

Rococo 1700-1800

Formal asymmetry, natural forms, sense of leisure, and sensuous surfaces and materials, soft pastel colors, intricate ornamentation, happy expressions (Women typically have flushed cheeks (blush))

The Happy Hazard of the Swing

Neoclassicism 1700-1800

Inspired by classical Greek and Roman examples, characterized by order of symmetry and restraint. Linear designs, smooth surfaces, subdued palette, simplicity, heroism

Oath of Horatii

Romanticism 1780-1870

The power of imagination, intense feeling, dramatic color, sublime power of nature

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Realism 1830-1890

Was made of create objective representations of the external world, meticulously detailed, naturalistic color palette, focus on ordinary people, accutate observations

The Gleaners

Impressionism 1860-1890

Used bright color, broken brush work, and capturing momentary effects of light, landscapes and scenes of everyday life. Essence of a subject, bright palette and no black, outdoors, visible, short, thick brush strokes

Impression: Sunrise

Post-Impressionism 1880-1900

Artists developed ideas and techniques that moved beyond academic convention and impressionism. Emotional expressions, simplified color and form, distinctive brush strokes, abstract tendencies, stylized,

The Basket of Apples

Symbolism

European art and literature, conveyed meaning using powerful, ambiguous symbols. Dream like imagery, stylized forms, heavily inspired by literature, simplified form

Guardian Spirit of the Waters

Art Nouveau 1890-1910

“New art,” organic shapes, curved lines, Asymmetry, decorative art, fluid designs

Tassel House (Stairway)

African Art 1860-1960

Innovative forms, experimental imagery, draw on deeply rooted historical traditions, focus on human from, symbolic meaning, conceptual representation, functional

Nikisi Nkonde