This is the Movement Chracteristics Page

In this portion of the Mid-term exam you will be given a list of the five cultural movements or periods we have looked at (Pre-columbian; Encounter and Conquest; Colonial Baroque; Independence and Neoclassicism; Romanticism). You will then be given a series characteristics and will be asked to associate them with the appropriate movement or period. If you would like to see the answers to the characteristics below click on the "Answer" pop-up box.

Idealization of exotic types, especially in the countryside

Art included many illustrations for the chronicles

Art was mainly religious

Is rigid, rational, objective

In general, the authors are anonymous

Conflicts between "civilization" and "barbarism"

Early cultural mestizaje

Sentimental, subjective, individualistic

Hated straight lines

Great profusion of details

A need to seek new intellectual models

Triumph of the heart over the mind

Storms of nature reflect storms of emotion

Painting at the service of science

Influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment

Many chronicles

Word plays

Based mainly on the oral tradition

Little sentiment: the mind controls the heart

Coincided with the end of the Middle Ages