21–21% of the AP exam. Key topics: Rococo: lightness, pastel palette, aristocratic leisure subjects, ornamental asymmetry, Neoclassicism: return to Greek/Roman forms, moral subject matter, linear clarity, response to Enlightenment, Romanticism: sublime, emotional intensity, exotic/historical subjects, gestural brushwork, Realism: working-class subject matter, rejection of idealization, social critique, Impressionism: broken brushwork, optical color mixing, modern leisure subjects, plein-air painting, Post-Impressionism: Cézanne (structure/plane), Seurat (pointillism), Van Gogh (expressive line), Gauguin (primitivism), Early twentieth-century movements: Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstraction, American art and architecture in the 19th–20th centuries: Hudson River School, Harlem Renaissance, Abstract Expressionism, Modern architecture: steel, glass, functionalism, International Style, Photography as art form from its invention through mid-20th century.
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