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Colonial Art
- Amutears/ Artists with no training
- Copying Europe art
- Portraits
- -Paint everything but put a blank face until recieved client
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Examples of Colonial Art
- John Singleton Copley's Paul Revere
- Benjamin West's The death of General Wolfe
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Romantic Art
- Color
- Content
- Passion
- Emotion
- Two Branches /Eastern and Western
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Examples of Romantic Art
- Eastern : Portrayed the leisurely eastern life;Hudson River school
- The declaration of Independence
- Western: Portrayed the rugged western life
- "primitive art"- doesn't fill in details
- Fur traders Descending the Mississippi
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Realism Art
- History not important
- Imagination is for dreamers
- Paint what is there
- Glorifies the middle class
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Realism Art Examples
- Winslow Homer's Breezing Up
- Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic
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Impressionism Art
- Emphasis shadow and color
- Tried to capture what the camera could not
- A blurred Image
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Impressionism Art Examples
- James Abbott Mcneill Whistler's Arrangement in Gray
- Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Thankful Poor
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Mary Cassatt
- Painted Woman Reading
- Woman Impressionist artist (Usually artists rejected women.)
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Futurism Art
- Lines of force
- Celebrating advancements in society
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Futurism Art Examples
Joseph Stella's Brooklyn Bridge
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Modernism Art
- Experiment
- Young artists
- Rejection of Victorian Norms
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Modernism Examples
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
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Georgia O'Keefe
- Painted Light coming on the Plains II and blue flower
- Modernist Artist
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Ash Can School Art
- Backyard/city/bar scenes
- City/Urban
- Despised by original artists who wanted everything pretty
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Ash Can School Art Examples
John Sloan's Hairdresser's Window
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Social Protest Art
- Result of red scare
- React against injustices in society
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Social Protest Art Examples
Ben Shahn's The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
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Grant Wood
- Painted Fall Plowing and American Gothic
- Social Protest Artist
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Harlem Renaissance Art
- African American Culture rediscovering
- "Black Power"
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Harlem Renaissance Art Examples
- Aaron Douglas' Noah's Ark
- Charles White's Preacher
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Abstract Expressionism Art
- Originates in New York
- Reflects highly personalized, large scale, personal style
- -Action Painting
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Abstract Expressionism Art Examples
Jackson Pollack's Number 1, 1950
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Action Painting
type of Abstract Expressionism in which paint is applied by sweeping gestures and smattering of paint by the artist (purposefully)
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Pop Art
- PLay on Cartoons and Comics
- Images from Media/advertisements/pop-culture
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Andy Warhol
- Painted Marilyn Diptych and 200 Campbell's Soup Cans
- Pop Art Artist
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Op Art
Movements and vibrations through spacial relationship.
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Op Art Examples
Frank Stella's Bijoux Indiscrets
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Color-field Painting
- Artistic Movement
- effects of large areas of color ether poured or stained onto the canvas
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Color-field painted Examples
- Mark Rothko's Green and Maroon
- Ellsworth Kelly's Red Blue Green
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Conceptual Art
- Artistic idea vs actual execution
- the Process
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Photo Realism Art
- As sharp as a photograph
- Copy the camera perfectly
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Puritanism / Colonialism
- Knowledge comes from grace and scripture
- World view is God-directed
- Social View is theocratic
- Self concept is one of self loathing and self-consciousness.
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Revolutionary
- Knowledge is derived through the senses and reason
- World view includes natural laws which are discoverable
- Social view is democratic; common man is more moral than "divine" ruler
- Self-concept involves membership in a community of good citizens
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Romantic Liturature
- Knowledge involves intuition and imagination
- World view is self-directed; people only know through their own mind
- Social view involves autocracy of the soul;emphasis on the individual
- Self-concept is based on self-discovery of the real you
- Exalt wild / natural, scorn urban / artifical
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Transcendentalism
-A form of Romantic writing
- Living close to nature
- dignity of manual labor
- strong need of intellectual companionshop and interests
- great emphasis on "spiritual living"
- people's relationships with god are personal
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Anti Transcendentalism
-A dark form of Romantic writing set against the positive tone of the Transcendentals
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Realism
- Stresses reality as it appears through observation
- Social Awareness
- Written in the vernacular / dialect of the setting
- Absolute opposition to sentimental fiction
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Modern
- Attempted objectivity; frankness
- Philosophy of determinism
- Pessimism
- Projected of "Strong" Characters
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Harlem Renaissance
- Included within the modern era
- resulted from the Great Black Migration
- Celebrated African American vitality
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Contemporary Liturature
- a greater variety of literary styles
- Often involved social commentary as the second half of the 20th century included the cold war, civil rights movements, the gender revolution etc.
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Beatnik
- Included within the contemporary era
- Criticized middle class values
- Viewed life as temporary
- Feelings in the moment
- Social Critizism
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Scifi/Fantisy
- Usually based off of science
- setting now based in this world
- -Variation of different characters
- Time Manipulation
- Salvation or destruction of the human race
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Colonial Era Music
- Music was simpler
- Tended to have a religious bent to it
- Old Hundredth -Pilgrims from Holland
- Green Sleeves -British Origin
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Revolutionary War / Post - Colonial era
- War music - loyalist or patriot audience
- Johnny has gone for a solider
- Moving west songs
- Negro Spiritual and slave songs
- Follow the Drinking Gord
- Folk music
- Old folks at Home
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Stephen Foster
The country's first great songwriter, publishing over 150 "household" songs
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Civil war to the New Century
- Civil war songs
- Just before the battle mother
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J.P. Sousa
- "the march king"
- became leader of U.S. marine band in 1880
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New Orleans
Jazz home town
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Nashville
- Country Home town
- Grand Ole Opry
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George Gershwin
- wrote Rhapsody in blue
- "Experiment in modern music"
- included elements of jazz and other genres
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Elvis Presley
- Social Phenomimim
- Rock and roll artist
- Thats all right
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Bob Dylan
- Blowin in the wind
- Betnik era
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Print
Newspapers appeared in the 17th century in 1625
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Benfralden
first person to use images in newspapers in an effort to capture the attention of readers
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Branding
technique used to make a product stand out and be more desirable
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Veggie Compound
Upheld theory that the more you advertise the more you sell
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Reason Why Advertising
Gives them a reason why they need it
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KDLA
- First radio station
- Pittsburg
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Television
- Plays to our emotion
- Did not begin to enter American homes until After WWII
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Hard sell
direct and often times repeated the same expression over and over and over
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Diego Rivera
Artist who made a mural for Rockefeller that encluded Lenin's Face
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The sexual Revolution
- New Views of sexual behavior
- more freedom to make personal choices
- Open to discussion of sexual topics
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Woodstock
Largest peacefull gathering to listen to music
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The Jazz Age
- Radio and African migration to cities
- improvisation
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Jazz Clubs
- In the harlem
- District on northern end of New York City
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Duke Ellington
- Excellent Pianist
- Greatest Genious band leader / arranger / composer
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The Lost Generation
- Writers belief in the 1920s
- Lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values
- Ex F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Alain Locke
"the new negro"
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