What are two similarities between these two architectural wonders?

They could both be disassembled and reassembled., They were both designed for world exposition fairs.

How does the technique used embody the ideas behind the period style?

Optical mixing mimics momentary views of light, space, time.

What is formal composition?

Objects fully appear within the format, carefully arranged.

What is NOT an attribute of this art work? (name artist)

It is an open composition., The two lovers are in a lustful, grabbing pose.

How the treatment or expression of an element represents a larger idea....which is false?

Loose brushstrokes give ideas of imagination and emotion.

What is one technique used by David to create a sense of space in the painting we see here?

Overlapping objects, Use of orthagonals and perspective

Subject matter of the work (Artist).

Journalism:Spanish citizens killed by French soldiers. Goya

Name the artist and title.

Delacroix- Liberty Leading the People

What is NOT a characteristic of the Romantic period of art?

Subjects treated with a high sense of realism and tradition.

How does this painting represent the epitome of the Romantic movement?

Fluid, visible brushstrokes, A blend of real and arbitrary subject matter., Painting of a contemporary theme.

Artist, title, period style.

Courbet, Stone Breakers, Realism.

What compositional techniques were used in this painting? Name artist as well.

Pyramid(s), Targeting, Gericault

Why is this painting significant?

It is journalistic., It is considered a precursor to abstraction., It is an example of the depiction of the sublime in art.

How did this art work embody the characteristics of its period style?

informal skewed composition influenced by camera POV/crops, high key values with optical mixing

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1
What are two similarities between these two architectural wonders?
They could both be disassembled and reassembled.
They were both designed for world exposition fairs.
They both used iron and glass to structural advantage.
They were designed by the same architect.
2
How does the technique used embody the ideas behind the period style?
No horizon means that we see an open composition.
Leisurely views of recreational land.
Water lilies show appreciation of nature.
Optical mixing mimics momentary views of light, space, time.
3
What is formal composition?
A 3-Dimensional sculpture
A painting where everyone is dressed up in fancy clothes.
Objects fully appear within the format, carefully arranged.
Objects appear to run off the edges of the format.
4
What is NOT an attribute of this art work? (name artist)
It is carved from a single piece of marble, enhancing unity.
Blend of polished & rough marble create contrast of texture
It is an open composition.
The two lovers are in a lustful, grabbing pose.
5
How the treatment or expression of an element represents a larger idea....which is false?
Details in shallow space show toil; far blue patch of hope.
Low key values push subject down on canvas and symbolically.
Hard lines and flat lighting for harsh reality.
Loose brushstrokes give ideas of imagination and emotion.
6
What is one technique used by David to create a sense of space in the painting we see here?
Value contrast and strong side lighting
Overlapping objects
Use of orthagonals and perspective
Decreasing colour intensity the further away something is
7
Subject matter of the work (Artist).
The artist is painting from observation. Bertin
Lighting almost arbitrary, lighting two sides @ once (Monet
History painting depicting a medieval war in Spain. (David)
Journalism:Spanish citizens killed by French soldiers. Goya
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Name the artist and title.
Claude Monet- Pandemonium
Daumier - Rue Trasnonian
Jacques-Louis David - Eve of the Revolution
Delacroix- Liberty Leading the People
9
What type of architectural style do we see here?
Georgian
Doric
Classical
Ionic
10
What is NOT a characteristic of the Romantic period of art?
Themes became subjective and focused on emotion, fantasy.
Architecture was eclectic, numerous styles in one building.
Subjects treated with a high sense of realism and tradition.
Paintings were journalistic, depicted contemporary themes.
11
How does this painting represent the epitome of the Romantic movement?
Fluid, visible brushstrokes
The lady has no top on; features influenced by Michelangelo.
A blend of real and arbitrary subject matter.
Painting of a contemporary theme.
12
Artist, title, period style.
Courbet, Stone Breakers, Realism.
Goya, Rock Breakers, Romanticism.
Rodin, Blood Sweat and Tears, Realism.
Manet, Working Peasants, Neoclassicism.
13
What compositional techniques were used in this painting? Name artist as well.
Pyramid(s), Targeting, Gericault
Open composition, Contrast, Ingres.
Diagonals, Placement, Monet.
Flat lighting, Overlap, Delacroix.
14
Why is this painting significant?
It features historical subject matter.
It is journalistic.
It is considered a precursor to abstraction.
It is an example of the depiction of the sublime in art.
15
What is NOT a characteristic of Neoclassical art?
An emphasis on reason and morality.
A return to antiquity in subject matter
Fluid, visible brushstrokes.
Heroic, ideal proportions
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How did this art work embody the characteristics of its period style?
flat lighting and tasteful nudity
artificial light and allegorical figures
informal skewed composition influenced by camera POV/crops
high key values with optical mixing
17
rue Trasnonian's C of I is created by targeting, contrast, isolation, placement. (Artist?)
True. (Kollwitz.)
True. (Daumier.)
False. (Degas.)
False. (Goya)
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What style of building do we see here?
Neo-Gothic
Georgian
Intricate
Palladian

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