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Architecture:

• Harmony of proportions

• symmetry

- possibly idealized soft textures

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• Imitatio Chrsiti

• emphasis on linear perspective

• revival of classical architectural forms like Corinthian capitals (even in painting)

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Painting:

• Linear perspective, linear brushstroke, overly emphasized musculature

• Superhuman bodies, now placed in various poses

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Historical Context:

• The Protestant Reformation

• Printing press invented

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• "expression of cultural crisis" OR "product of an elite classes identity and taste"

• distortion of proportions with elongated, attenuated figures

• jarring colors, compression of space on shallow plane

• reject serenity and confidence of High renaissance

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• grandiose attitude all around

• dramatic lighting & sweeping gestures

• nature's secrets

• "style of absolutism"

• new scientific discoveries

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Architecture:

• classical vocab.

• perfection --> oval/ellipse

• steeper profiles --> punctuate the sky

• "design principles based on amorphous shapes that used classical ornamentations but not its principles

Painting:

• propaganda towards Papacy

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Historical Context:

• shift to the "immoral"; depicting life and pleasure/leisure/drama of aristocracy rather than "moral" values

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• transition back to moral art (based on antiquity)

• "awe-inspiring"

Paintings:

• idealized figures

• linear brushstrokes

• escape to classical past (common theme)

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Historical Context:

• Industrialization

• “anywhere but here, anytime but now”

• unnatural forms emphasizes the disturbing story

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Romanticism:

• attitude, not style

• liberation through creative freedom

• chaos; response to violence & ugliness of the world

• created for the artist

• morality not prioritized

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Historical Context:

• Industrialization

• “anywhere but here, anytime but now”

- desaturated & limited color palette

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Historical Context:

• invention of photography influenced the use of cut-off figures

• Marx's (socio-economic) Communist Manifesto

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Paintings:

• short, choppy brushstroke

• seeking instantaneity

• complimentary colors

• flattened canvas

Historical Context:

• invention of oil paints in tubes

• Haussmannization of Paris

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• “flattening of the canvas”

• fin de siecle

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• meaning in gestures

• grotesque physical and psychological tensions (German)

• intensity, erupting emotions, compositional furor

• neurotic & disturbing visual imagery (Austrian)

- variety in texture & pattern

- limited color palette 

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• "innovative style" --> new way to think about art

• abstraction --> analysis of the language of painting

• reflection

• "use of conflicting styles"

Historical Context (early 20th century):

• self-referential

• expressionist art trend

• formalist art trend

- the tone being mocking (given the dada movement), but possibly also saying another emotion given the title (its giving bitter)

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• level order though "nonsense"; random

• tabula rasa (goal)

• fresh understanding of the world

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Context:

• Dada did not refer to itself at an art movement; anti-art

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Historical Context (early 20th century):

• self-referential

• expressionist art trend

• formalist art trend

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• abstract gesture painting

• metaphoric process

• innermost feelings

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• lacks evidence of artist's touch

• unconventional materials used

• exploration of new characterization in art

• "no reference to things beyond themselves"

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• included expressionism & modernism in architecture

• historicism & conventional revivalism --> eliminate distinction of form and function

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• performance art

• rejecting abstract expressionism?

• three dimensional volume using flat dots & flat black lines

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Historical Context:

• shift to the "immoral"; depicting life and pleasure/leisure/drama of aristocracy rather than "moral" values

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Historical Context:

• shift to the "immoral"; depicting life and pleasure/leisure/drama of aristocracy rather than "moral" values

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Romanticism:

• attitude, not style

• liberation through creative freedom

• chaos; response to violence & ugliness of the world

• created for the artist

• morality not prioritized

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Historical Context:

• Industrialization

• “anywhere but here, anytime but now”

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Other Notes:

• gothic articulation (depending on the culture)

• classical plan

• placed here, because this one's date is confusing

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• view of permanent revolution

• manifestation (acceptance of modernity)

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Context:

• result of Cubism

• Futurist Manifesto

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Historical Context (early 20th century):

• self-referential

• expressionist art trend

• formalist art trend

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• dynamism

• propaganda

• utopian thematics; new society

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Historical Context (early 20th century):

• self-referential

• expressionist art trend

• formalist art trend

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Historical Context (early 20th century):

• self-referential

• expressionist art trend

• formalist art trend

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• expresses absence of control

• exploration of unconscious mind

• influence of Freud's thoughts on dreams, etc.

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• utopian; radical

• embodied universal harmony; universal order

• spiritual

• NO national identification

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• the idea becomes the piece

• scale of work

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• gender identity & issues

• women's issues; violence towards women; homage to women

• designed to support women; redefined aesthetic of value in contemporary art

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• encompassing history in nature

• (sometimes) politically motivated

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• slow, stillness, in the moment, a-temporal, emphasis on current

• Meditative quality

• zazen meditation “just sitting”

• practices: tea ceremony, calligraphy, painting, flower arranging, gardening, art

• simplicity; active self-restraint

• seek truth, truth about self, and nature of things

• personal expression of meditation-induced insights

• pleasure quarters of Edo

• flattening of pictorial space via isometric perspective

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Romanticism:

• attitude, not style

• liberation through creative freedom

• chaos; response to violence & ugliness of the world

• created for the artist

• morality not prioritized

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Historical Context:

• Industrialization

• “anywhere but here, anytime but now”

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• Romanticism:

• attitude, not style

• liberation through creative freedom

• chaos; response to violence & ugliness of the world

• created for the artist

• morality not prioritized

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Historical Context:

• Industrialization

• “anywhere but here, anytime but now”