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What is meant by “Rococo” in this lesson?Rococo, Academies, and Art Markets
Rococo describes varied decorative and pictorial practices often associated with lightness, ornament, and intimate settings.
What is meant by “Salon” in this lesson?Rococo, Academies, and Art Markets
A salon can refer to an exhibition or social setting, with meaning specified by context.
What is meant by “Academy” in this lesson?Rococo, Academies, and Art Markets
An academy organizes instruction, standards, or professional authority in a historical setting.
What is meant by “Art market” in this lesson?Rococo, Academies, and Art Markets
An art market connects production, exchange, patrons, and collectors.
What is meant by “Public criticism” in this lesson?Rococo, Academies, and Art Markets
Public criticism discusses and evaluates art for particular audiences.
What is meant by “Genre hierarchy” in this lesson?Rococo, Academies, and Art Markets
A hierarchy ranks subjects or media under an institution's values rather than a universal truth.
What is meant by “Neoclassicism” in this lesson?Neoclassicism and Civic Imagery
Neoclassicism draws on selected ancient forms through particular modern intellectual and political settings.
What is meant by “Archaeological influence” in this lesson?Neoclassicism and Civic Imagery
Archaeological evidence changes knowledge and use of earlier visual cultures.
What is meant by “History painting” in this lesson?Neoclassicism and Civic Imagery
History painting addresses significant narratives under historical genre definitions.
What is meant by “Civic virtue” in this lesson?Neoclassicism and Civic Imagery
Civic virtue is a valued public-duty ideal represented through context-specific imagery.
What is meant by “Classical quotation” in this lesson?Neoclassicism and Civic Imagery
Quotation deliberately recalls an earlier visual form or work.
What is meant by “Political-context limit” in this lesson?Neoclassicism and Civic Imagery
A limit prevents inferring political meaning from style alone.
What is meant by “Romanticism” in this lesson?Romanticism and Representation
Romanticism includes diverse practices emphasizing emotion, imagination, or intense experience in historical contexts.
What is meant by “Sublime” in this lesson?Romanticism and Representation
The sublime concerns experiences of overwhelming scale, power, or awe in relevant theories.
What is meant by “Expressive color” in this lesson?Romanticism and Representation
Expressive color uses relationships to support effects beyond literal description alone.
What is meant by “Landscape meaning” in this lesson?Romanticism and Representation
Landscape meaning relates represented nature to cultural, political, or personal contexts.
What is meant by “Historical imagination” in this lesson?Romanticism and Representation
Imagination reconstructs or interprets past events through artistic choices.
What is meant by “Orientalism critique” in this lesson?Romanticism and Representation
Critique examines exoticizing representations and their links with unequal power rather than accepting them as neutral records.