Art History Keywords

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Keywords, concepts and summaries that relate to art history.
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Iconography Visual images and symbols used in a work of art/the study or interpretation of these.
Perspective The way in which someone views something.
Patronage Support from someone who provides financial and/or social support.
Idolatry The worship of idols.
Iconoclasm The rejection/ destruction of religious images as heretical
Censorship Suppression/prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
Reformation 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Catholic Church ending in the creation of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
Protestantism 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Catholic Church ending in the creation of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
Genius Exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability.
Authorship Writer of a book, article, or document, or creator of a work of art.
Originality To think independently and creatively/ being novel or unusual.
Cabinet of Curiosities Rooms w/ notable collections of objects
Global Markets Products or services that were available in the worldwide market.
Collecting Bring or gather together things.
Commodities Raw material, agricultural product, thing that can be bought and sold.
Consumer Culture Where social status, values, and activities center on the consumption of goods and services.
Arts and Crafts Movement Social/artistic movement in 2nd ½ of 19th cen. emphasizing return to handwork, skilled craftsmanship, and attention to design in the decorative arts v.s.mechanization and mass production of Industrial Revolution
Black Mountain College Experimental school became a crucible for mid-20th century avant-garde art, music, and poetry.
Mass Production Producing large quantities of a standard thing w/ automated mechanical process.
Academy Society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that promote/maintain standards in a particular field.
Canon General law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged.
Genres Category of artistic composition ex/ history, landscape, portrait etc.
Absolute Monarchy Total control of power by a monarch.
Versailles Palace/ grounds built by Louis XIV (playground for aristocracy.)
Rococo Relating to an artistic style of 18th cen w/ fanciful curved asymmetrical forms and elaborate ornamentation. (not history genre based.)
Neoclassicism Revival of a classical style in art, literature, architecture, or music.
Romanticism Move emphasis on inspiration, subjectivity, and primacy of individual.
Fascism Way of ruling that advocates total control of the ppl. (think Germany 1930's)
Nationalism Supporting a nation that makes one feel superior towards other nations. (Extreme patriotism.)
International Modernism Describes a style that is meant to be international/universal. Ex/ Bauhaus, Gurnica.
Communism Political theory advocating a society in which all property is publicly owned and no such thing as class.
Feminism Advocacy of women's rights on the basis of = of the sexes. (Think 2nd wave feminism) Ex/ Judy Chicago.
Agrarian Relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.
Mestizo (in Latin America) a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.
Orientalism Representing Asia, and Middle East, in a stereotyped way (colonialism)
Primitivism Ideology, seek to embrace/occupy other ppls culture.(Native American)
Hybridity Combo of things that create a new thing.
Encyclopedia Books w/ info on many subj/many aspects of 1 subj arranged alphabetically.
Enlightenment Intellectual movement of the late 17th-18th cen emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
Haussmannization Forcible reconstruction of cities to enhance beauty and impose order. (Paris, wider streets, Georges Eugene Haussman.)
Colonialism Taking control of a region to extract resources/ settling in said region.
Post-Colonialism The lasting impact of colonization in former colonies.
Pygmalion and Galatea Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture. He prays to goddess Aphrodite (aka Venus) to bring the sculpture to life for it to be his wife.
Gertrude Stien American novelist, poet, playwright, art collector, and patron of Picasso.
Georgio Vasari Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous for Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the founder of art-historical writing
Leon Batista Alberti Italian renaissance humanist who wrote the first guide book for artists called "On Painting" that taught perspective and praised artists skill. Ex/ gold leaf v.s. painting gold.
Cesare Ripa Italian Iconographer who wrote the book Iconologia.
Martin Luther German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.
Louis XIV, XV and XVI Kings of France that built Versailles and instigated the French Revolution. (think genre paintings, rococo, and Oath of the Horattii)
Diderot Enlightenment thinker, wrote the first encyclopedia. (Hated the Rococo)
Adolf Hitler Fascist leader of Germany in 1930's and 40's. Organized the Great and Degenerate art exhibitions as well as the Nuremberg rallies.
Paul Schultze-Naumburg German architect, painter, publicist and politician. Wrote the book Art and Race which basically said that ppl who made modern art were mentally ill, or criminals.
José Vasconcelos Minister of Education in Mexico in the 1910-20s that sponsored/ organized the Mexican Mural Movement.
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