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What is meant by “Realism” in this lesson?Realism and Photography: Realism describes varied practices emphasizing contemporary subjects and challenging some idealized conventions.
What is meant by “Everyday subject” in this lesson?Realism and Photography: An everyday subject represents ordinary activity with meanings shaped by its context.
What is meant by “Photography” in this lesson?Realism and Photography: Photography makes images through light-sensitive processes or their digital successors.
What is meant by “Framing” in this lesson?Realism and Photography: Framing selects what is included and excluded from an image.
What is meant by “Documentary claim” in this lesson?Realism and Photography: A documentary claim presents an image as evidence but requires provenance and contextual checking.
What is meant by “Representation and power” in this lesson?Realism and Photography: Representation can reinforce or challenge social relationships through whose experiences are depicted.
What is meant by “Impressionism” in this lesson?Impressionism: Impressionism identifies a varied movement associated with modern life, light effects, and independent exhibitions.
What is meant by “Broken brushwork” in this lesson?Impressionism: Broken brushwork uses distinct marks that contribute to perceived forms and color relationships.
What is meant by “Plein-air practice” in this lesson?Impressionism: Plein-air practice makes work outdoors but does not describe every stage of every painting.
What is meant by “Optical effect” in this lesson?Impressionism: An optical effect arises from how colors and marks interact in viewing.
What is meant by “Modern leisure” in this lesson?Impressionism: Modern leisure subjects depict historically changing recreation and public life.
What is meant by “Movement diversity” in this lesson?Impressionism: Diversity recognizes differences among artists grouped within a movement.
What is meant by “Post-Impressionism” in this lesson?Post-Impressionist Approaches: Post-Impressionism groups varied later-nineteenth-century responses to Impressionism rather than one uniform program.
What is meant by “Expressive brushwork” in this lesson?Post-Impressionist Approaches: Brushwork can organize movement, texture, and emotional effects.
What is meant by “Structural color” in this lesson?Post-Impressionist Approaches: Color relationships can organize volume or space through selected contrasts.
What is meant by “Pointillist technique” in this lesson?Post-Impressionist Approaches: Pointillist techniques use discrete color marks within specific artistic theories and practices.
What is meant by “Symbolist context” in this lesson?Post-Impressionist Approaches: Symbolist contexts emphasize suggestion, imagination, or inward experience through varied forms.
What is meant by “Biographical limitation” in this lesson?Post-Impressionist Approaches: A limitation prevents reducing a work's explanation to one dramatic event in an artist's life.