ARTH 1520 Study Guide - Final Guide: Georges Seurat, Wassily Kandinsky, Fauvism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 1520
• Professor: Martina Meyer

Document Summary

John locke an english philosopher and physician, considered one of the first of the. British empiricists. empiricism is collecting data, and drawing conclusions from empirical fact. Simultaneous with rococo, but very different/also to ask questions and compile information) Isaac newton insisted upon empirical observation, rational evolution, and logical consideration in mathematics and science. Romanticism an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Winckelmann the leading theoretician of neoclassicism, as his secretary and librarian, he became an expert n classical art while working in dresden where the french rococo style that he deplored was still fashionable. Wolfgang von goethe recognized as one of the greatest and most versatile european writers and thinkers of modern times, and profoundly influenced the growth of literary romanticism.