Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable
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The three David’s Why do we create art? There are many reasons for the creation of art itself‚ whether it be to tell a story or to express ourselves. Art is always changing because it has a way of developing over time‚ just like people do. Going back to the Early Renaissance‚ Donatello created a sculpture of David by recreating a scene from the Bible. As time passed Michelangelo created a newer version of David that wasn’t so youthful and had more detail than Donatello’s David. Sculpting had evolved
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capture everyday life events‚ I will compare the similarities‚ while exhibiting their different styles related to different time periods. Judith Leyster was known for pictures of everyday life and portraits in her Baroque/Dutch Golden Age style artwork. As reported by Mind Edge‚ “The Baroque movement of the 17th and early 18th century was known for its religious focus and its elaborate and extensive ornamentation‚ advanced by the Catholic Church during the Counter-Reformation as an artistic response
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to compare the High Renaissance painting‚ Peasant Wedding Feast‚ to the Baroque Fresco‚ The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne‚ there are many differences to note. Beginning with Wolfflin’s first idea of linear versus painterly‚ one can see that each figure in Peasant Wedding Feast has a clear outline‚ which especially shows on the apron of the servant‚ and are each a distinct figure. On the other hand‚ Caracci’s work in the Baroque style is painterly‚ showing no distinct lines but instead using the loose
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While St. Peter’s colonnade designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini displayed Classical designs on the large scale‚ the basilica contains an altarpiece by Bernini symbolic of The Baroque period. Bernini’s The Ecstasy of St. Theresa portrays key characteristic of The Baroque style: mainly‚ theatrically and paradoxical/complex sentiment. Aesthetically‚ the altarpiece catches the eye with its life-size scale and strategic lighting. The detail etched into the marble of each figure draws the viewer in to the
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History of Art Final Paper I think the most important part of art is understanding how styles developed over the years and what influenced those developments. Some art movements develop based on political context‚ while others are created as a contrast to the current popular art movement. From a historical standpoint‚ I feel that portraiture is the best way to capture the essence of everything throughout the past. If I were an art director‚ I would choose to a portraiture display to show the progression
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the concert excerpts‚ construct a comparison of these two concerts. For this assignment I chose to compare and contrast two concerts. The first concert is from the modern era‚ while the other is a Baroque Era concert originating from the 17th Century preformed by a modern day orchestra. The Baroque Era Concert takes place in a large modern day Lutheran Church in front of a small crowd of well dressed onlookers. The second concert that I chose for this assignment is a modern day rock concert from
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paintings during the Renaissance‚ and Baroque. Since the Renaissance‚ the nude has remained an essential focus of Western art. Whether approving or modernizing classical ideals‚ artists from the seventeenth century to today have honored the nude form and made it an endlessly compelling means of creative expression. The fascination of the continued classical relic was approached from Baroque artists from the nude to the antique tradition. Among the Baroque era‚ the nude figure in art became much
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for his artistic style and his personified figurative sculptures. Bernini‚ became the first artist to portray a sense of physical intensity and passion in his sculptures. The artist was well-known for the creation and development of the Baroque art style. Baroque art is profoundly linked to the religious and political influences of 16th and 17th century Italy. Bernini‚ was an artist known for carving his sculptures in ways that had not been previously experienced by the church and other artist of
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Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting was made in Italy in either the year 1635 or 1636. The medium that Poussin used was oils on canvas‚ and the size of the painting is roughly around 38 by 42 inches. This painting is considered to be included the Baroque period. (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Along side of the painting on display is a short description label accompanying it‚ which reads; “The subject of this grand mythological painting remains a topic of lively debate: some see the birth of Venus
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