Liberty Leading the People “Every image embodies a way of seeing‚ our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing” (Berger 142). In other words‚ Berger is saying if ten people look at the same piece of art each interpretation is going to be just as unique and different as the person looking at it. Based on one’s knowledge of the artist‚ time period‚ and the painting itself gives a whole different perspective than someone who doesn’t know any of the history. Also
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career in the salons and concert halls of Paris was marked by his occasional long withdrawals from public performance‚ for personal reasons. Although he had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the Parisian artistic world‚ including Eugène Delacroix and George Sand‚ from 1848 he began to adopt a reclusive life style‚ while continuing with his compositions‚ virtually all of which are for the keyboard. During this period he published‚ among other works‚ his collections of large-scale studies
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In the times surrounding the French revolution‚ the people suffered from hunger and were very angry for it‚ all the while being in a state of poverty. Who else was there to blame other than the aristocracy that ruled the country. To get the minds of the people away from the tragedy that was becoming of France and to commemorate the revolution‚ artists took it to heart to paint works of art that would either create a sense of maturity in the people or give remembrance to a bloody time. During
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painting style speaks the same pain that they went through. The smoke bloody air hover over francs streets‚ standing on piles of killed people that where dragged from bed‚ stands lady of liberty holding the flag high‚ striving for freedom. Eugène Delacroix done a great job in painting the scenery and captured the emotion of Liberty Leader. Looking at the picture you can see the movement of the people running‚ falling and the bombing sounds of gun shots. You can almost
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19th Century Art: Romanticism Also depictions of ruined churches‚ shipwrecks‚ massacres and madness Artists include Eugene Delacroix‚ Théodore Géricault‚ Caspar David Friedrich‚ and John Constable “The Wanderer Above the Sea Fog” (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich(1774-1840)‚ Oil‚ 98 × 74 cm‚ Kunsthalle‚ Hamburg “Liberty Leading the People” (1830) by Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) Oil‚ 260 x 325 cm‚ Musée du Louvre‚ Paris 19th Century Art: Realism
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Turner in England and Caspar David Friedrich in Germany -Romantic painters like Theodore Gericault in France emphasized vibrant color and swirling lines without the sharp outlines and balanced composition so important to their predecessors. – in Eugene Delacroix paintings‚ he drew exotic scenes from the past Musicians – Romantic values came together with particular power in music‚ admired for its ability to communicate an ineffable understanding deeper than words. - Beethoven brought a self-conscious
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Neoclassicism‚ an 18th century art and architecture movement‚ looked to Greek and Roman art for models of harmony‚ idealized realism‚ and reason and drew on Enlightenment thinking. Neoclassical art‚ therefore‚ closely resembles the art of classical antiquity. Neoclassical Literature • Neoclassical playwrights turned to subjects based on classical myths and adhered to classical unities of time‚ place‚ and action. Neoclassical theater was characterized by grandiosity and opulence; this was reflected
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Fine Art Unit 1 Study Guide · Description of David‚ by Italian Baroque artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini’s patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese · What are Italian Baroque characteristics of Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers? The fountain served as a public emblem of the Catholic Church’s dominance and authority. · Caravaggio’s paintings depart from Renaissance traditions to reflect the Italian
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1803: Romanticism welcomes Christianity. 1813: The Waltz accepted introducing a new era socializing and new music. 1813: Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice. 1814: Fall of Napoleon‚ Monarchy restored by Louis XVII.I 1814(-1879): Eugene Viollet-Le-Duc (architect) was born. 1815: The Romantic Style rapidly started to influence the French lifestyle. 1818: Shakespeare’s work goes public after censored for years. 1819: Queen Victoria of Britain was born. 1821: Napoleon Died
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late 19th century time period. Radicals in their time‚ early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting. They began by giving colours‚ freely brushed‚ primacy over line‚ drawing inspiration from the work of painters such as Eugène Delacroix. They also took the act of painting out of the studio and into the modern world. Previously‚ still lifes and portraits as well as landscapes had usually been painted indoors.[1] The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and
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