AP Art History

19th Century Art

Romanticism - to evoke emotion and create a feeling for the viewers (used to change people views on events or to get them to follow their ideals)

Realisim - everyday events no emphasis at all no need to evoke emotions

Impresionisim - uses of color to push art one step further from realisim into portraying light and how it affects mood (can only experience them from farther away up close it Is just dots

  •  heightened color - make it lighter or make it softer how is the color effecting the image

Post impressionism - period in time where artist were like what else can I do they did outlines, make no tints, leave all texture, leading eyes, brighter color, flattening of picture frame,

Art Nouveau architecture and art history - in between the 2 world wars

  • interior design

  • jewerry

  • arcetectural design

  • curvilinear

Antonio Gaudi

fauvisim - translated to wild beasts

  • beastly colors

  • right out of the tube colors

  • no lighter colors all darker

  • using line

  • wild beastly color

Cubisim - use of shapes and other sharp lines that create an over exaggerated fractioned image that makes sense or does not

dada - meant to corrupt the original art movements meant to offend the people but this backfired and others began to appreciate it

  • did it as a protest against wars

  • obserdatives

surrealism - deam like imagery makes sense but does not make sense like in a nightmare meant to feel uncomfortable

expresionisim - meant to express a severe emotion and alter reality something inside your self that the artist wants the viewer to feel and see

  • difference between fauv - no one is trying to introsepect they are not attaching the strong emotions that expressionism is trying to portray.

abstract expressionism - no representation form of an object or person it is simply aggressive lines and colors

pop art - taking popular culture and turning it into an exaggerated almost comic like art

op art - using lines to create visual illusions and painting fooling the eye something simple that looks complex

heart art - using nature to create works of art

20th Century Art