LESSON 4; RENAISSANCE

• literally means “REBIRTH”. About the early 1400s, there was a revival of interest in the art, architecture, literature and culture of the classical world?

  RENAISSANCE
• This period lasted for about three hundred years, where major technical innovations in painting, such as the introduction of oil painting, foreshortening, and single-point perspective, date from this period?

  RENAISSANCE PERIOD
• Italian painter, writer, historian & architect, more famous for his biographies of Italian artists, Most of our knowledge on the renaissance artists comes from him. who is this person?

  GIORGIO VASARI
• will lead us to explore the beginnings of middle-class life in cities and the discovery of the self in self portraits. He is?

  JAN VAN EYCK
• Secular art from the Protestant Netherlands, 17th century, prioritized?

  PORTABLE ART
• Short, quick brushstrokes, separation of color, sketch-like finish, modern subject matter?

  IMPRESSIONISM ART
• can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Developing in Paris in the 1860’s its influence spread throughout the Europe and eventually the United States

  IMPRESSIONISM
• The impressionists aimed to capture the momentary, sensory effect of a scene – the impression objects made on the eye in a fleeting instant. To achieve this effect, many impressionist artist moved from the studio to the streets and countryside, painting?

  EN PLEIN AIR
• The PLEIN AIR PAINTING key features' the impressionist loosened their brushwork and lighted their palettes to include PURE, INTENSE COLORS
• is a term used to describe the reaction in the 1880’s against impressionism?

  POST IMPRESSIONISM
• Post impressionism extended impressionism while rejecting its limitations, they continued using vivid colors, often thick application of paint and real-life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize GEOMETRIC FORMS, distort form for expressive effect and use unnatural or arbitrary colo
• It should place emphasis on symbolism, communicating messages from the artist’s own subconscious. Postimpressionist perceived it as a way to convey feelings?

  EMOTIONAL SYMBOLISM
• It employed an artificial color palette as a way to portray their emotion drive perceptions of the world around them. Saturated hues, multicolored shadows and rich ranges of color are evident in most postimpressionist paintings?

  EVOCATIVE COLOR
• Post impressionist pieces feature discernible, broad brushstrokes?

  DISTINCTIVE BRUSHSTROKES
• is also considered a post-impressionist painter, searching for personal expression through his art, often through circular brushstrokes and dark tones, one of his famous work is THE STARRY NIGH, CAFE TERRACE AT NIGHT, and STARRY NIGHT OVER THE RHONE?

  VINCENT VAN GOGH
• They relied on the viewers eye to blend the colors that appeared on the canvas?

  NEO IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS
• Neo-Impressionism was led by GEORGES SUERAT, who was its original theorist and most significant artist, and by PAUL SIGNAC, also an important artist and the movement’s major spokesman.
• was both an artistic and a literary movement that suggested ideas through symbols and emphasized the meaning behind the forms, lines, shapes and colors?

  SYMBOLISM
• The most important art of symbolist is DEATH AND THE MASKS by JAMES ENSOR
• is characterized by its used of a long sinuous organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters and illustration?

  ART NOUVEAU
• The two greatest graphic artists of the Art Nouveau movement are JULES CHERET and ALPHONSE MUCHA
• Colorful Art Nouveau GLASSWARE are EMILLE GALLE and LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
• is a style of painting that flourished in France around the turn of the 20th century?

  FAUVISM
• They used pure, brilliant color, aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas?

  FAUVE ARTISTS
• Distortion of form, strong use of colors?It is an artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person

  EXPRESSIONISM ART
• sought to express inner life, often via the painting of harsh and realistic subject matter?

  EXPRESSIONIST