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Art History - Coggle Diagram
Art History
Neoclassism
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Emphasis on lines, not colour; no traces of brushstrokes
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Renaissance (1400s)
Chiaroscuro
(it. 'light-dark') Contrasts of light to achieve illusion/sense of volume/depth for three-dimensional forms
Tenebrism: Extreme form, violent contrast of dark and light (some areas totally black, allowing one/two areas to be strongly illuminated by comparison)
Work
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa
Contrapposto
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Example: Michelangelo, David
Realism
Social condition, truth about work, and mundanity of everyday life: Meaningfulness of the ordinary, social criticism
Rejection of Romanticism and idealised beauty: Portraying peasants/working class instead of gods/supernatural/heroes of antiquity
Impressionism
Like Realism, but without social criticism
Subject: Pleasures of life, non-event instead of grand narrative
Romanticism
Work
Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa ('Le Radeau de la Méduse', 1819) 
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Dramatic/Emotional: Fear, pain, hope and madness
Political: Ambiguity of whether men on the raft were to be rescued or not, symbol of oppression
Composition: Two overlapping triangles - Mast/Drapery (dead) contribute to effect of forward thrust and directs focal point to dynamic waving (hope)