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Everyday objects made to be distorted.
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Notable work: The Persistence of Memory (1931)

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Jacques-Louis David

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A large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and the public, and remains one of the best known paintings in the Neoclassical style.

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Famous painter renowned for inventing many new styles and being one of the first Modern artists. Enjoyed painting leisure activities like the circus.

I and the Village - 1911

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New art form that emphasized the new inventions and leisure activities of the time with cars, the industrial city, and carnivals. Most futurist art witnessed a complete break apart from reality with very hectic images.

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Credited for creating cubism, Picasso experimented in many different styles throughout his life.

Le Rêve - 1932

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This new art style completely broke the perspective movement of the Renaissance art. Cubists focused on geometric shapes that interlocked to create new images

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Used vivid colors that varied from the actual colors in real life. Spontaneously distorted his characters to create emotion.

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Below is "Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by Seurat. He is shown to be very expressionist in his dot structure in his painting.

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Fauvists used vivid unnatural colors. This style flourished in Paris.

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Well-known abstract painter who did "action painting" or "drip painting." Struggled with alcoholism.
Notable work: No. 5 (1948

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner-Flight of the Valkyries

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Used very heavy brush strokes with lots of paint to create dramatic feel. Van Gogh was a crazy man who cut off his own ear.

Starry Night  1889

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The Happy Accident of the swing is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the rococo era, and is Fragonard's best known work

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Expressionism was a school of interpretive art that was styled by pointalism, or dotism. Pointalism had a dot structure and texture.

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Liked dark colors to paint gloomy moods into his images

Pyramid of Skulls 1901

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Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism; from Greek is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity

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Rococo is a highly ornamental and theatrical style of decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and frescoes to create the illusions of surprise, motion and drama. It first appeared in France and Italy in the 1730s and spread to Central Europe in the 1750s and 1760s. It is often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement

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Resembled impressionist art while being more extravagant and slightly more disconnected from reality. Post Impressionists focused more on the emotions behind the painting than the actual image.

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Fascinated with light and lily ponds.

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Founder of abstract painting. Approach was spiritual and philosophical. Sensitive to color and sounds.
Notable work: Painting with White Boarder

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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture sculpted out of marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. David is a 17.0 ft marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.

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Famous for his interest in Dancers and Movement

The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse), 1873–1876

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1880- Oil Painting

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Greek and Roman art was similar to early civilization art in the sense that it was two dimensional and largely focused on religion. However, the classics also started to depict images and scenes through three dimensional statues.  Below is an Etruscan painting and to the left is a statue of a muse

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The School of Athens was a fresco painted by Renaissance painter Raphael. It depicts all of best known classical thinkers. These include Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, Archimedes and Socrates. This personifies the obsession of the Renaissance of the classics and imitating the work and learning of the antiquity.

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French painter who is credited with leading  the development of Impressionism. His paintings have a fuzzy feeling to them that slightly disconnect them from reality. His favorite color is red.

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Exhibit 4- Rococo and Neoclassicism: Art Styles of the Enlightenment 

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Exhibit 4- Rococo and Neoclassicism: Art Styles of the Enlightenment 

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While generally reflecting reality, impressionist art was slightly faded from the real world.

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Modernism began in the late 1800's and is still relevant today. It included a changing in the traditional techniques and purposes of making art and was used for individual expression. Instead of portraying a precise image of a subject, it focused on expressing emotions. It made the viewer feel emotions while looking at it. A new branch of modern art was abstract art, a concept that art should speak directly to the soul and avoids visual reality. It focused on colors.
Bauhaus (School of Building) - German art school

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Sviatoslav Richter plays Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor

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Eugène Delacroix: The Death  of Sardanapalus

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Eugène Delacroix: The Death  of Sardanapalus

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Joseph Malford William Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway

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Joseph Malford William Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway

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Caspar David Friedrich : Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon

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Caspar David Friedrich : Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon

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Created by Leonardo da Vinci and is a great example of Renaissance art using oil paints and depicts the wife of a wealthy Flouenchian merchant. It is one of the most recognized paintings throughout history.

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Exhibit 3- The Artistic Movement of the Renaissance.

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Exhibit 3- The Artistic Movement of the Renaissance.

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1. Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of the period of European history, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about the 13th century. The advancements in art evolved, in parallel to developments in philosophy, literature, music, and science. Renaissance art took as its foundation the art of Classical works of the Greeks and the Romans. Renaissance art, with Renaissance Humanist philosophy, spread throughout Europe, affecting both artists and patrons with the development of new techniques and objectives. Renaissance art marks the transition of Europe from the medieval period to the Early Modern age.

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Interpretive art rose after the invention of the camera. With the ability to take an exact photo of the world around them, artists not longer were inclined to paint exactly how things looked in real life. This change lead artists to focus on their own interpretation of reality and the emotions behind the painting. Impressionist art varied in form among the different artists.

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The art of the Middle Ages was heavily focused on religious and Christian themes. Egg-based tempera paint was used in the art pieces. This art can be identified by the two dimensional style and the cracked surface of the paintings. Below is one of the many paintings of Madonna by Lorenzo Monaco.

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Mesopotamian and Egyptian art were the first examples of early civilizations art. It was mostly centered around religious themes and were frequently accompanied by hieroglyphs. The piece pictured below is an example of Ancient Egyptian art.

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Special Thanks to all our fabulous employees!

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(Exit)   (Acknowledgements)   (Entrance)
YOU ARE HERE
Exhibit 8                         Exhibit 1
(Gift Shop)
Exhibit 7                               Exhibit 2
(Bathroom)
Exhibit 6                             Exhibit 3
(Cafe)
Exhibit 5              Exhibit 4

Exhibit 1 - Early and Classical Civilizations
Exhibit 2 -  Middle Ages
Exhibit 3 - Renaissance
Exhibit 4 - Enlightenment
Exhibit 5 - Romanticism
Exhibit 6 - Realism
Exhibit 7 - Interpretive Art
Exhibit 8 - Modern Art

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Realism, an art movement that was developed after 1850, was the belief that the world should be viewed realistically, and was closely related to the materialistic outlook of the century. The literary Realists rejected Romanticism, and wanted to portray realistic characters instead of Romantic heroes, with accurate descriptions rather than flowery language. This led to a decreased interest in poetry and a combination of everyday life with the examination of social questions in novels and prose. French author Gustave Flaubert perfected the Realist novel with his Madame Bovary, a straightforward description of a small French town. William Thackeray and Charles Dickens focused on reality and the life of the working classes during the Industrial Age in Britain. Realist art stressed the depiction of the everyday life of ordinary people. Gustave Courbet portrayed factory workers, peasants, and the wives of saloon keepers, such as in his The Stonebreakers, which showed the misery of road builders, with browns and grays to convey the drudgery. Jean-François Millet was preoccupied with scenes from rural life, although his art still contained aspects of Romantic sentimentality. For example, in his The Gleaners, he depicts three peasant women gathering grain in a field to show the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. In music, artists used new methods of using music to express literary or pictorial ideas. Two renown artists from this times are Liszt, and Wagner, the former of which invented the term symphonic poem, to refer to his orchestral works that were based on literary or pictorial ideas. Wagner transformed opera with his concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, or "total art work".

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Romanticism emerged at the end of the eighteenth century to challenge the Enlightenment's preoccupation with reason in discovering truth. The Romantics tried to balance the use of reason by stressing the importance of intuition, feeling, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing. The Romantics also stressed individualism, an interest in the unique traits of each person. This led to a rebellion against middle class norms, which in turn led to the development of the hero and a revival of medieval Gothic architecture and literature. Thomas Carlyle, a British author,  stressed that history was largely determined by the actions of heroes. An example of Gothic literature can be found in the work of Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. However, poetry ranked above all other literary forms because they believed it was the direct expression of one's soul. Examples of Romantic poets were Percy Bysshe Shelley, who wrote Prometheus Unbound,  and Lord Byron, who wrote Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. In addition, Romantics emphasized the importance of nature, and followed pantheism, where they identified the great force in nature with God. This led to a critique of mechanic materialism of the eighteenth century, which had reduced nature to a cold object of study. In visual art, Romantics shared two fundamental characteristics. One was the belief that art should mirror the artist's impression of the world, and the other was an abandonment of the classical restraint for warmth, emotion, and movement. The German painter Caspar David Friedrich painted landscapes that conveyed mysticism and transcended literal observations. The English painter Joseph Malford William Turner attempted to instead convey the moods of nature using light and color, anticipating the impressionist movement. French painter Eugène Delacroix was known for his exotic paintings, with a significant use of color and light. In music, both Beethoven and Chopin were significant composers. They both aroused intense emotion through their numerous symphonies and nocturnes.

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Thank you for joining us at the Legion of AP Euro! We have a lot of special exhibits that we hope you will enjoy, and that are  organized in chronological order. Feel free to wander and lose yourself in our amazing art as well.