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| Le Romantisme | 19th, broke with discipline and rules of classicism, feeling, color, themes included history, middle ages, Orient, surnatural |
| Le Realisme | 19th, reaction against romanticism and classicism, daily life, nature as it was seen without idealizing it, themes included political and social caricatures |
| L'impressionnisme | late 19th, and early 20th century, translate visual sensations into paintings, light was essential element, subjects chosen from modern life, few details, same scene might be painted at different times of day to show the affect of life |
| Georges Seurat | developed le pointillisme |
| Surrealism | early/mid 20th, against all forms of order and any type of convention, painted instinctively, free association of dreams and ideas |
| Edgar Degas | painted dancers of the Opera |
| Claude Monet | painted, Impression: Sunrise, gave name to Impressionist movement |
| Henri Matisse | famous for his "cutouts" |
| Paul Gauguin | painted Breton and Tahitian themes |
| Henri Toulouse-Lautrec | painted music halls and circus posters |
| François Rude | Romantic sculptor, sculpted, "La Marseillaise" |
| Gallo-Roman Architecture | arches, colisseums, amphitheaters, and aqueducts (from period of Roman Empire) |
| Gothic Architecture | Style of churches from the 12th to 15th centuries, used pointed arches, stained-glass, flying buttresses, gargoyles, tall naves, and alot of sculpures |
| Renaissance Architecture | Italienate, built many large "chateaux" especially in the Loire Valley |
| Post Impressionism | late 19th and early 20th, reaction against impressionism, avoided photographic representation by deforming nature/body |
| Edouard Manet | one of the founders of Impressionism, began as a naturalist |
| Paul Cézanne | "father" of modern art, distored objects to give impression of 3D |
| Le Corbusier | leader of the modern school of architecture in the 20th century, noted for urban dwellings |
| L'ecole de Barbizon | a group of artists that were named after a village outside of Paris that were Naturalist artists |
| Auguste Renoir | painted girls and women with round faces and rosy cheeks |
| Honoré Daumier | paintings included social commentary and political caricatures |
| Jean-Antoine Houdon | realistic sculptor that made busts of Washington, Voltaire, and Franklin |
| Auguste Rodin | modern sculptor who sculpted "The Thinker' |
| Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi | sculpted The Statue of Liberty |
| Eugène Delacroix | Romantic period,painted with historic, oriental, Middle Ages themes |
| Jacques-Louis David | official painter of Napoleon, Neoclassicist |
| Pablo Picasso | born in Spain, most famous modern painter, "blue period" as well as cubism |
| Georges Braque | artist who started cubism |
| Cubism | early to mid 20th, represented objects in distorted, geometric forms |
| Fauvism | early 20th, reacting against impressionism, painted at will, "wild beasts" |
| Jules Hardouin-Mansart | architect under Louis XIV and helped build the Palace at Versailles |
| Eugène Viollet-le-Duc | architect who restored Middle Ages buildings such as Notre Dame de Paris |
| Vincent Van Gogh | very famous for his paintings including "Sunflowers", thick paint, movement, expressed his emotions on canvas (Post Impress) |
| Mannerism | Mid-late 16th c, after High Ren. in Italy, complex poses, artificial compositions, elongated figures |
| Ecole de Fontainebleau | Renaissance painters, developed "boudoir" painting |
| Fouquet and Quarton | well-known early Renaissance painters |
| Musée du Louvre | begun in 12th c, classic antiquities thru mid 1800s, originally a fortress then a palace, glass pyramid |
| Musée d'Orsay | originally built as train station, art from 1848-1914, impressionists |
| Centre Pompidou | Modern art museum, "inside-out" architecture, also National Library |
| Musée Marmottan | contains many works by Claude Monet as well as other impressionist |
| Musée Rodin | contains famous sculptor's works, including "Le Penseur", as well as works by Camille Claudel-his student & lover |
| Musée de l' Orangerie | located in Tuileries gardens near Louvre, houses the "360 degree" paintings of Monet's Waterlilies |
| Musée de Cluny | medieval art & artifacts included here, former abbey build on Roman baths |
| Grottes de Lascaux | caves in SW France where prehistoric paintings were found |
| Dolmens & Menhirs | clustered & free-standing celtic-period stones found mostly in Bretagne |
| Tapisserie de Bayeux | tapestry (legend says it was made by Reine Mathilde, wife of Guillaume le Conquérant) depicting the Battle of Hastings |
| les Illuminations | decorations at the beginning of or within many religious manuscripts |
| Les Vitraux | stained glass windows in churches, used for decorations & to tell stories of the bible |
| Les mosaïques | small pieces of stone, glass, marble,etc. put together to form a picture, often used in flooring of old buildings |
| Les fresques | paintings made directly into wet plaster, esp. in churches |
| Surrealism | 20th c.,opposed real pictures with illogical locations/positions |
| Henri (le Douanier) Rousseau | primitive surrealist, was customs agent by day, painted in spare time |
