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1. An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control. It focused on subject matter such as fear, trauma, repression, and more, and the manifestation of these as interior damage of the soul.

2. 1. Column is flush to stylobate
2. Wide column with plain capital
3. Uses triglyphs in the entablature

3. An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes. It bases itself in primal imagery. In concept, it studies expressionism and formalism in technique. It focuses in emotionally-charged non-objective imagery, a compression of experience.

4. artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers. It is a disrespectful subversion of traditions, standards, and sacred monuments of the old culture. It rejected the old model and desired to invent culture ignited.

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11. A later phase of Cubism, in which paintings and drawings were constructed from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials to represent parts of a subject, in order to engage the viewer with pictorial issues, such as figuration, realism, and abstraction.

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14. 1. Early 1700's (after death of Louis XIV)
2. Self-indulgence, hedonism
3. Results in French Revolution 1789
4. Soft colors
5. Young romance
6. Excessively ornamental
7. Superb craftsmanship

15. a curved triangle of vaulting formed by the intersection of a dome with its supporting arches. (Onion domes)

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19. Romantic artist. German romanticism - symbols of death in his paintings. Ruins, landscapes, all suggestive of the decline of the Church and the rise of Nature as a spiritual influence in society.

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21. an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.

22. 1. Elongated figures
2. Odd coloring
3. Spatial complexity
a. No clear delineation between foreground, mid, and background.
4. Art as the teacher
a. Studying off other artists as opposed to live models/nature (2D to 2D)

23. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing. The objective was not photorealism. The first Impressionistic painting was described by some as akin to the embryonic stages of wallpaper. It founded the idea of the starving artist. As a whole, it tended to be a study of lighting effects and a representation of atmospheric conditions.

24. A Spanish painter of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among his works is a series of paintings and etchings that powerfully depict the horrors of war.

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