History Test #2
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- Neo Classicism
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A return to the styles of Rome & Classical art
Ex: Jacques Louis David - Romanticism
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The focus of emotion over reason. Gathering inspiration from mythical heroes and breaking apart from typical late 18th century rules.
Used nature, beauty, lighter colors - Realism
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The idea that paintings and writings should reflect reality rather than imagination
Ex: Dickens, Tolstoy - Impressionism
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The focus on colors, lighting, and overall human emotion.
Ex: Monet (repeated paintings just so he would get different perspectives in terms of light and color)
Degas (less definition natural light, layers, light colors, capturing moments) - Post impressionism
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Depict chao and complexity
Ex: Van Gogh (misery, intense colors, distorted) - Charles Darwin
- Darwin's theory of evolution started that certain animals are extinct because the growth of the animals are faster than the growth of resources
- Gregor Mendel
- Introduced the world to genetics by determinging that tiny particles pass on characterisitcs to the next generation and those particles are called genes.
- Edward Jenner
- Jenner found out that dairy workers that caught cowpox never received smallpox, and based on that theory, he gave the world's first vaccination.
- Louis Pasteur
- Obtained advanced knowledge on bacteria and germs, determined that bacteria are living organisms and capable of reproducing.
- John Dalton
- Discovered that atoms are the basic unit of matter and elements are made up of atms. All atoms are identical within an element and original compared to all other elements.
- Marie Curie
- Worked with Pierre Curie to discover radium, a radioactive element that produces electricity.
- Pierre Curie
- Worked with Marie Curie to discover radium, a radioactive element that produces electricity.
- Ivan Pavlov
- Discovered that human actions are natural and prompted by stimuli but could be altered after training.
- Sigmund Freud
- Claims that actions are controlled by other forces and led to the advance of psychoanalysis.