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What did you learn aboutwhat you need to avoid when you tackle the MC questions?
how best to approach MC questions?
the topics that you are strong & weak in
AP EURO ART
Renaissance1300-1600
A revival of interest in Classical Art
Chiaroscuro Perspective Red & Blue Triangles
Portraiture Natural
landscapes 3-D Sculpture Individualism Humanism
Italian Renaissance – Catholic PatronageQuattrocento (1400s) –
FLORENCE, Medici’s
Cinquecento (1500s) - ROME
Bramante’s Tempietto
Michaelangelo’s
Pieta
Brunelleschi Florence
Raphael’s School of Athens
Renaissance Artist Names
Brunelleschi Donatello
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo Raphael
Mannerism1520-1600Historical Time Period: Reformation & Counter Reformation
End of the Renaissance or Beginning of the Baroque Instability that
exaggerates or fantasizes the human form
Historical Time Period: Reformation & Counter Reformation
emotionalism, elongated human figures, strained poses, unusual effects of scale, lighting or perspective, vivid often garish colours.
Mannerism Artists Bronzino Correggio Durer El Greco Parmagianino Pontormo Phillip II of Spain builds Escorial
The Holy Trinity (1577) by El Greco. Hendrick Goltzius Bust of a
man with a tasseled cap, 1587
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (d. 1593) Spring
Music: Monteverdi (Modern Opera)
Baroque1600 – 1750Historical Context: Absolutism, Sci Rev’n, English Civil War & Restoration
Ornamentation & curved rather than straight lines
Absolutism (Palaces) – Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles
Sought to Overwhelm the ViewerGrandeurRichnessDrama
Baroque Subjects
Landscapes Scenes of everyday life
Dutch Baroque Painting: Scenes of
maritime trade, banking, commerce, portraiture & Still-lifesRembrandt
Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson”
Rembrandt’s Night Watch
English Baroque Painting Inspired by Dutch Emphasizes Portraiture
French Baroque Art
Louis XIV moves the center of art from Rome to ParisFrench Academy
Centralization of art in the service of the state “la gloire de la France!”
Baroque Artists Bernini Caravaggio Poussin Rembrandt
Musicians Bach Handel Vivaldi
Rococo“Boroque run amok”
1700-1789Historical Context:
EnlightenmentEnlightened Despotism
Philosophes
Art is lighter & less formal compared to Baroque
Increased focus on nobles Increased participation &
patronage by Bourgeoisie
Rococo Artists
Boucher Fragonard Hogarth Rigaud Watteau
Francois Boucher, The Fountain of Love
Watteau, Jean-AntoineThe Embarkation for Cythera
The Swing 1787
Frederick the Great builds Sans Souci
Neoclassicism1770-1820Historical Context:French Rev, Napoleonic wars & Beginnings of Nationalism
Transition period towards Romanticism
Looked to ancient Greece & Rome for inspiration (courage, sacrifice, love of country)
Neoclassical Artists
Canova Jacque Louis David Goya Gros Ingres Vigee Le Brun
"La Colère d'Achille" ("Wrath of Achilles") by French painter Michel Martin Drolling 1810
David’s “Death of Socrates”
Neoclassical Musicians
Beethoven Haydn Mozart Rossini Schubert
Romanticism, Naturalism & the Barbizon School1800-1850
Glorification of the past Nature Patriotism Heroism Supernatural Cute peasants Emphasis on FEELING, not reason
Romanticism Artists
Corot Delacroix Gericault Millet Rousseau Rude
(3) Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon
Romanticism Musicians Beethoven Brahms Chopin Dvorak Liszt Mendelssohn Rossini Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky Wagner
Ludwig van Beethoven One of the 1st composers to
elicit inner human emotion through music9th Symphony (Ode to Joy),
Moonlight Sonata, Furelise
Frederic Chopin
Wrote several piano works that highlighted Polish folk songs & dances
Richard Wagner
German nationalist composer who strongly emphasized Germanic myths & legends in his operas
Peter Tchaikovsky
Great Russian composer
Realism1850-80Historical Context: Industrial Progress & Trains, Real Politik
Depiction of real people & events.
Portrays peasants & workers who are not cute
Based on FACT not emotion Grittier & w/ more attention to social
problems & social context
Realism Artists
Courbet Daumier Eiffel (designed the Eiffel Tower) Haussmann Millet
c) The Stonebreakers
Courbet – The Source
b) The Gleaners
Impressionism1870-1905Historical Context: La Belle Epoque
Use of new subject matter & a new way of looking at the world
Everyday life of middle class becomes acceptable subject for high art
Outdoor paintings helped them play w/ light
Impressionistic Artists
Cezanne Degas Money Munch Renoir
Post-Impressionism
Variety of styles that use impressionism as a jumping off pointPointillism – viewers’ eyes mix small dots of colors
Most famous Post-Impressionistic Artist Vincent Van Gogh
Symbolism
1890-1914 Decadent Eerie supernaturalism, dreams &
very decadentExample: Munch’s “The Scream”
Modern Art
Influenced by Freud, Einstein, WWI and II and atomic age
Movements & People
Cubism Expressionism Futurism Dadaism Surrealism Social realism
Boccioni Dali Duchamp Kandinsky Matisse Picasso Pollack Warhol
EXPRESSIONISM Distortion & use of color to portray emotion Expression over detail Objects fade away & replaced w/ abstraction
Munch (1893) – the Scream Kandinsky (1913) –
Composition VII
CUBISM Broke images down to simpler forms & then
reassembled for different perspectives Influenced by theory of relativity Picasso
Picasso (1937)- Guernica
Nude Descending a Staircase (1913) by Marcel Duchamp
Dali (1930) – The Persistence of Memory