Definitions
- curator - A person in charge of a museum
or art gallery who selects what will be exhibited.
- art movement/art period - A particular style
of art during a specific duration of time.
- cubism - A revolutionary movement begun
by Picasso and Braque in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic
vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints.
- impressionism - A late-nineteenth-century
French school of painting. It focused on transitory visual impressions, often
painted directly from nature, with an emphasis on the changing effects of
light and color. Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro were important impressionists.
- Renaissance - Meaning "rebirth" in
French. Refers to Europe c. 1400-1600. Renaissance art which began in Italy,
stressed the forms of classical antiquity, a realistic representation of
space based on scientific perspective, and secular subjects. The works of
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael exemplify the balance and harmony of
the High Renaissance (c. 1495-1520).