Section B: Europe and the World
Free Leaving Cert Art notes for Section B: Europe and the World. Browse 6 topics and read online without an account.
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Modernism (c. 1900-1960s)From the Renaissance until about 1900, most Western painters tried to make an artwork look like a window through which you observed the physical world.Post- 1960s ArtAfter 1960, artists stopped treating fine art as something separate from ordinary life.Realism, Impressionism and Post-ImpressionismIn the mid-nineteenth century, French art was strictly policed by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and its annual juried exhibition, the Salon.Romanesque and GothicThis topic explores five centuries of western European visual culture from roughly 1000 to the 1500s, shaped by the architectural and artistic dialogue…The Baroque (c. 1600-1700s)To understand Baroque art, you have to look at the two very different religious and economic situations that fuelled it across seventeenth-century Europe.The Renaissance (c. 1300- 1600s)Under the Visual Studies Framework, every topic enquiry is grounded in three essential questions: What was created? How was it created? and Why was it created?
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