***Thank you to VALERIE WHITE of Vista High School, for all her help. All APAH content and information made possible from her hard work.
Also, thank you to Dr. Robert Coad for his guidance and materials.
Also, thank you to Dr. Robert Coad for his guidance and materials.
ARTWORKS Realism The Stone Breakers Nader Raising Photography... Olympia The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel The Horse in Motion Impressionism The Sainte-Lazare The Coiffure The Starry Night Where Do We Come From? Mont Saint-Victoire Symbolism The Scream Art Nouveau The Kiss Architecture Carson Pirie Scott Sculpture The Burghers of Calais |
VOCABULARY Aquatint Avant-garde Caricature Drypoint Japonisme Lithography Modernism Plein-air Positivism Skeleton Zoopraxiscope |
KEY IDEAS
- Realism was based on the theory of being positive (positivism)
- Japanese art had a profound impact on late 19th century painting.
- Impressionist art is all about painting "en plein-air"
- Symbolist painters seek to portray mystical personal visions.
- The Skyscraper is a new type of building due to technological advances
- Art Nouveau unifies painting, sculpture, and architecture with curvilinear lines and organic forms and motifs.
- Artists were inspired by the past but rejected the tradtional subject matter.
- Almost all artworks are purely secular with no religious symbolism or intent.
HISTORY
- Europe was in a move from aristocracies to democracies = Revolutions in Sicily, Venice, Germany, Austria, and Lombardy.
- Franco-Prussian War of 1870
- Concept of positivism fueled by Comte (knowledge must come from proven ideas based off science)
- Darwin and Marx = Human evolution and social equality
- Invention of telephones, motion pictures, bicycles, and cars!
- The avant-garde
- New excavation begins in Greece, Turkey, and Europe