ARTH 1520 Final: ARTH 1520 Final Exam Notes
19 Feb 2017
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Chapter 30 eighteenth and nineteenth century art in europe and north. Rococo painters used loose brush strokes, pastel colors, and flowing lines and forms in their compositions, regardless of a painting"s subject matter. Many rococo paintings are asymmetrical, meaning the design or overall composition is off- center: each of these elements helps to create a sense of motion and playfulness within a painting. Rococo artists often painted mythological scenes set in utopian landscapes, portraits, and depictions of love. The thinkers of the enlightenment, influenced by the scientific revolutions of the previous century, believed in shedding the light of science and reason on the world in order to question traditional ideas and ways of doing things. Locke argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds. He claimed that, on the contrary, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) until experience begins to write on it.
