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Best-known artists: Jean Millet and Theodore Rousseau. Baroque: Dominate style in western European art and architecture from late 16thC to mid- 18thC. Started in Rome, with the reassertion of Roman Catholicism in the Counter-Reformation, and then spread to northern Italy and other parts of Europe. Its hallmarks were spectacle, Theatricality, movement, ornamentation and the uniting of the arts in a common purpose - to elicit an emotional, sensual response from the viewer and a spiritual involvement as well. Highpoint: the sculptural work of Gianlorenzo Bernini. in Rome. in the period of High Baroque (c. 1630-80). French Baroque was more concerned with glorifying the state of King Louis XIV than the church. The finest non-Italian Baroque artist was probably Peter Paul Rubens, working from his base in Antwerp. Late Baroque is almost indistinguishable from Rococo. Bas-relief: Sculpture that projects only slightly from its background; low relief. Bauhaus: The most famous 20thC school of art. Craft and design - dedicated to fusing all the arts founded in Weimar, Germany. in 1919, then moved to Dessau in 1925 and Berlin in 1932. Often seen as mainly significant for its contribution to design, its most lasting influence lay in the bringing together of artists (such as Kandinsky and Klee), architects and craftspeople. Closed by the Nazis in 1933 (by which time it had acquired a politically left-wing reputation). Berliner Sezession: From the German 'Berlin Secession' : group of painters, who left the establishment Association of Berlin Artists in 1889 after a controversial exhibition of paintings by Edward Munch. Bestiary: Natural history book in the Middle Ages, with references to real and fantastical beasts, and theological text: the images later influenced artists and architects. Binder: Ingredient - oil for oil paint, gum Arabic for watercolors - mixed with pigment to make the paint stick to a surface. Abstract page break: Surrealism art painting pictures / modern digital surreal life, / 2D 3D arts studio graphics, free wallpapers backgrounds screensavers / , poesia posguerra surrealismo artist gallery, neo post surrealist history definition emoma surrealismus, dada and surrealistic expressionism images, Salvador Dali, Magritte, Ernst, Bosh, Giger, Vasarely, Escher, Savinio, De Chirico, Bruegel, Chagall, Miro, Man Ray, Modigliani Victor Vasarely, Boris Vallejio. Bistre: Brown pigment made from soot used as a brown wash for drawings and watercolours especially in the 16thC and 17thC. Blaue Reiter, Der: German for 'the Blue Horseman', describes a group of artists who were brought together by Kandinsky and Franz Marc in Munich in 191 1, with the aim of exhibiting, writing and generally establishing Modernism (and its spiritual implications) in Germany. Died with the First World War. Block printing: Priming by use of carved blocks of wood, metal or leno. Book of hours: Devotional book of prayers, dating from the late Middle Ages, for use at holy 'hours' and often illuminated or decorated with embellished initials, patterns or illustrations. Bottega: Italian for shop' or 'workplace', adapted to mean the workshop or studio of a master artist and in particular that portion of it used by pupils and assistants. Broken colour: Technique of applying color in small brushstrokes, that will blend when viewed at a distance. Bronze: Easily worked metal, used for sculpture by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, which then went out of' favor in the Middle Ages and was revived in Italy in the 15thC; it acquires a greenish patina over time - today achieved by chemical means. Modem bronzes are usually made by the 'lost wax' (or cire perdue) process - which involves the making of a wax shell of the actual size of the hollow bronze sculpture, which is then melted away, the word is also used as a synonym for 'work cast in bronze'. Brush drawing: Drawing in ink with a fine brush. Brushstroke or brushwork: In oil painting, the marks made with brushes are like a signature, and produce an individual texture as well as an aesthetic value. Has been called 'one of the painter's most powerful tools in the creation of his own world' Bust: A sculpture, the subject matter of which 's a portrait of the head and shoulders of a figure. Byzantine art: the art of Byzantium (the name of the Eastern Roman Empire with its capital city at Constantinople from 324 AD, which continued with interruptions. Notably the 'iconoclastic' age in the 8thC and 9thC - up to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Stylisation and the sense of 'monument' are its defining features; characters and stories from Christianity or from Imperial life, its subjects usually in mosaics and frescoes. 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