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🎭Art History II – Renaissance to Modern Era
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242 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Art History II – Renaissance to Modern Era exam

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A

Acrylic
Acrylic paint
Agnes Martin
Alberti
André Breton
André le nôtre
André Masson
Andy Warhol
Anti-art
Anti-traditionalism
Antoni Gaudí
Apollo Belvedere
Arbitrary color
Armand Guillaumin
Armory Show 1913
Arshile Gorky
Austrian Modernism
Authenticity
Authenticity debate
Automatism

B

Baldacchino
Barbara Kruger
Barnett Newman
Beethoven Frieze
Berthe Morisot
Biomorphic forms
Botticelli's Birth of Venus
Bourgeois patronage
Brunelleschi's Dome

C

Camille Pissarro
Carolee Schneemann
Caspar David Friedrich
Charles Baudelaire
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Château de chambord
Cincinnatus
Cindy Sherman
Civic virtue
Clarity of Form
Classical antiquity
Classical columns
Claude Lorrain
Claude Monet
Clement Greenberg
Color harmony
Color perspective
Color relationships
Color sphere
Color symbolism
Complementary colors
Composition VII
Cubist manifesto
Cut Piece
Cut with the kitchen knife

D

Dada Berlin
Dada Manifesto
Damien Hirst
David
Deconstructivism
Decorative arts
Distortion of form
Divine proportion
Documenta
Dome
Donald Judd
Dorothea Tanning

E

Edgar Degas
Edvard Munch
Egon Schiele
Emil Nolde
Environmental art
Ephemeral art
Everyday subject matter
Expressionist Manifesto