The rococo style became exceptionally fashionable in the early eighteenth-century court world following the reign of Louis XIV. Rococo comes from the French word rocaille‚ which refers to rock and shell garden ornamentation. Rococo art‚ an evolution of the baroque style‚ pays significant attention to the sensual curves and soft-hued colors of garden-like elements inspired by flowers‚ vines‚ and shells. The bourgeoisie in the eighteenth-century increasingly favored these more delicate patterns of
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Baroque – There were two key stylistic traits of Baroque art. The first of these traits was to give the paintings a sense of grandeur or sensuous richness. The other key stylistic trait was to have a strong emotional content. Other stylistic traits are naturalism and classicism but these are not key traits like a sense of grandeur and emotion. The Baroque painters wanted to evoke emotional feelings in the people viewing their work. And they wanted it to be dramatic. Baroque took place from around
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Baroque Art in Europe and North America Throughout this research paper the topic is going to be along the lines of the Baroque Art in Europe and North America‚ which comes from chapter nineteen of our Art History book. The main purpose is to review major ideas and principles in this chapter by writing an analysis of certain points that were highlighted. For example‚ certain techniques that were used to define the Baroque Art‚ major sculptures‚ architectures‚ and paintings‚ and also just some
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Notes - Sept 15‚ 2013 The Art Institute of Chicago Building was 1893 structure built as the World’s Congress Auxiliary Building and was built for the Columbian Expo. 5The Art Institute of Chicago opened as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts on May 24‚ 1879. Chicago is a young city. 1577 painting… Artist moves with color El Greko‚ born Doménikos Theotokópoulos‚ was a painter‚ sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname‚ a reference to his national Greek
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In each period of art history‚ there is a story. For Baroque art‚ the story is why the period has been classically misunderstood. In the early 1600s‚ artists and intellectuals worked in academies to explore humanism begun in the Renaissance‚ classical thought (i.e. Plato and Aristotle)‚ and new trends in human thought and expression. But why does the word “Baroque” have a negative history? The original translations of this word include Italian for “tortuous medieval pedantry” and Portuguese for “deformed
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Mrs. Gratz January 4‚ 2015 Challenge II Baroque Art: What is it and why do we care about it? The Baroque is often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear‚ easily interpreted detail to produce drama‚ tension‚ exuberance‚ and grandeur in sculpture‚ painting‚ architecture‚ and music. The style began around 1600 in Rome‚ Italy and spread to most of Europe. It’s defined as “a style of European architecture‚ music‚ and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed
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To many‚ Baroque art was a period of art history that could be interpreted in many different ways. To Robert Neuman‚ Baroque art was simply put as an art style that wanted to bring art to life and to really immerse the viewing audience in the work. Baroque art was an art that was so real‚ you felt as if you could reach into the painting and pull an object out of it or touch the smooth surface of a sculpture and feel real skin. It was art that pushed the boundaries between real and unreal as well
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The term Baroque means an irregularly shaped complex form. It came from the irregularly shaped pearl meaning unnatural and strange. This is completely different‚ from a description of the music of the time. Musical styles greatly different from artistic styles of the time making it virtually impossible to draw parallels between the two. Instead‚ one needs to draw independent conclusions about Baroque music. One example which we heard in class was Handel’s oratorio called Solomon‚ Act III. The
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Baroque: Protestant vs. Catholic Before the purity of Neoclassicism‚ even before the carefree artists of the Rococo era‚ there was the dramatic and emotive Baroque. The term "baroque" is said to have been derived from the Portuguese word for an irregular pearl‚ and is certainly an adequate description. In the wake of what has become known as the Protest Reformation‚ the Catholic Church held the infamous Council of Trent. This eighteen year deliberation addressed several aspects of Catholicism
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greatest and most influential periods of Italian art…”‚ the Renaissance and the Baroque periods were ones that relied heavily on the Classical art style‚ along with its ideals (Mules‚ n.d.). It affected art all the way through the 1700s‚ up until a new wave of artists decided to get brave and try new things. One on the ways that showed the Classical tradition was still alive was that they still used the Church as the biggest influential patron of art. Many paintings and sculptures pictured holy/religious
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