LECTURE 10 Baroque Period has now moved into France Louis XIV Had absolute power and chose to move art “capitol” to Versailles from Paris If you refused he would have you arrested and executed Extreme Dictatorship Power back to the Monarchy Any powerful beings had to live in Versailles CENTRALIZATION OF POWER Hierarchy of the Genres History Painting Portraiture Genre Painting Landscape Still Life Intellect Superior to Skill Drawing Superior to Color Establishment of the Salon (Contemporary Art Exhibition
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Ingres‚ Portrait of the artist granet‚ 1807Brightly illuminated face Astute posture Ornate background (open air of Rome) Important subject matter (Granet) Represents the Artist as a member of the dominate culture/community David’s model of civic virtue: Oath of the Horatii between the Hands of their Father‚ 1785 * In many respects this work corresponds to the standards – clear articulation of form and space‚ smooth surface‚ large scale‚ something like a compositional triangle‚ story of the
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Flora‚ Neil Kenneth R. BSENG4A Romanticism A Movement Across The Arts Romanticism -(also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that
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failures in competitions and finding more discouragement than support‚ he attempted suicide by avoid eating food. After he won the Prix de Rome Prize in 1774‚ he went to Rome for further investigations on neoclassical ideas. In 1784‚ he completed Oath of the Horatii‚ which makes him a
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Divine Myth; “True myths” or “myth proper”. Stories in which the main characters are super natural beings. Generally explain some aspect of the world Example would be Zeus over throwing his father and the related stories; creation of myths and of the ancient greeks Nyx (Night): the abstract concept of night given to a few human characteristics. Union of Nyx and Erebus (Darkness) produced their opposites‚ aether ”Radiance” and herma “day” Legends (Sagas) Latin word is Legenda “something that
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vol. 3rd Ed.‚ pg. 178) Returning to the more heroic themed base art‚ Neoclassicism focused mainly on stories and history‚ and later themes about the social order with another French Revolution approaching. Jacques-Louis David ‘s (1748-1825) Oath of the Horatii {Figure 16.13} is a perfect example of revisiting the stories of the
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of certain scenes. Examples of this are: (a) in Live Flesh! When Victor is watching TV in prison and sees Elena and David celebrating David’s new career‚ there is a close up of Victors face conveying his hurt accompanied by music in-keeping with Victor’s frame of mind. This increases the impact for the viewers as the music is in contrast with Elena and David’s joy. (b) in Talk to Her the same tense‚ measured music is used during several scenes to denote their importance in the narrative (when
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Rococo was an art style that originated in France in the mid-17th century. Rococo itself evolved from the earlier Baroque period‚ and shared several elements with it. Indeed‚ Rococo is often referred to as Late Baroque for this reason. Both placed a heavy emphasis on ornate‚ highly sculpted detail and ornamentation‚ especially in regards to architecture and sculpture. Likewise both featured artwork rooted in more realistic depictions of people. However‚ they were also different in several important
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show adventure. From the beginning of the book‚ it is clear that Huck loves adventure. Huck agrees to join Tom Sawyer’s robber gang. “Now‚ we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath‚ and write his name in blood.”(13) When Huck and Jim are on the Mississippi River‚ Huck is eager to do something adventurous so he tries to dress up like a girl and go into town. “I reckoned I would slip over the river and find out what was going on…couldn’t
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depict the darker and more mysterious aspects of life in his artwork. As a Romanticist‚ Gericault attempted to communicate intense human experience through his paintings; his piece Madwoman with a Mania of Envy‚ for example‚ is one of several of Gericault’s portraits of the insane possessing a peculiar hypnotic power (Gardner 654). Originally‚ the series was not intended for public display‚ but instead were painted by the request of a friend—psychiatrist named Etienne-Jean Georget. Modeling his
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