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Delacroix - answer This French painter was important to French Romantic
art. He often used his painting to convey a political message, and he is
best known for his painting depicting the socialist revolution of 1830:
Liberty Leading the People.Expressive brushstrokes, led to romantic
movement.
Giorgio Chirico - answer Widely-known for his contributions to the world of
metaphysical painting, which greatly influenced some Italian artists during
the early 20th Century. Metaphysical works tend to portray some
alternative reality of the unconscious mind.
Jacob Lawrence - answer Regionalist painter that learned his art in Harlem
during the 1920s and used simple flat colorful shapes to tell stories of
hopelessness.
Discuss the style, inso and ideal of roman portraiture - answer detailed
realism, very common of late roman portraiture.
14 ad statue of Emp Augustus from The Villa of Livia at Prima Rota.
-later work emphasized the experience and character of the subject,
expressionistic style altered facial features
-more symbolic rendering of the subj matter
Forum of Pompeii - answer regular elongated rectangle, 38 times 142
meters and was built with surrounding colonnades
space and mass
between fourth and second centuries bc
temple of zeus was precisely on the northern end of the axis
Basilica, southwest part of the forum, vast enclosed space
, Archaic greek style & it's elements - answer -emerged in 7th century bc,
oriental influenced geometric period.
-renewed freshness and freedom of expression
-painting: figures were often black over ed clay, black areas would be
embellished in purple or white to draw attention. etched with a needle.
often on circle surface
-sculpting human form, - rigid, stiff, free standing, life sized figures
-end of period, stylistic, beards and hair of male figures were sculpture
with textured embroidery and female figs conservative with small hints of
body
Roman Decorative Painting - answer *Very little survived to present day -
most known of this period comes Herculaneum and Pompeii.
*walls are made to appear as if they are constructed or multicolored
marble slabs
*Architecture, scenes and landscapes behind painted columns were
common.
*examples large frieze painting Odyssey landscapes on display in Vatican
and Dionysiac rites in the Villa of the Mysteries of Pompeii
roman mosaic art in imperial rome - answer tesserae copy - 4th century bc
free painting of alexander faun at pompeii. carpet patterns exhibit
geometric designs
-incorporating figs common
-4 century AD wall and ceiling inspired christian and byzantine era art.
mosaics were a prolific art form throughout much of the empire
Neoclassicism (c. 1780-1820) - answer -revival of classicism in painting
sculpt and architecture and furniture,
-rxn against rococo
-faith in logic
-artists during period: David, Ingres
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784 - answer -neoclassicism
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