SELF ORIENTATION PROGRAMME JANUARY 2013 Introduction to the Arts in France FRENCH CULTURE AND CIVILISATION A very rich cultural heritage Architecture Literature Music Painting/Sculpture Cinema Architecture From vestiges of Roman Roman amphitheatres still in use today Lyon (Fourvière) Orange buildings e.g. many 2000 years old Roman amphithéâtres still in use today To ultra modern designs such as the Centre Pompidou in Metz Cathedrals Notre Dame de
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Philip Johnson’s Glass House: Beyond Mies and the Modern Movement Philip Johnson (b. 1906) began his career in the 1930s as a critic and curator. In 1932‚ during his time at The Museum of Modern Art‚ he oversaw an exhibition he titled The International Style‚ which featured the work of the avant-garde architects‚ designers and theorists of Europe led by Le Corbusier‚ Walter Gropius and his mentor‚ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It was Johnson and this exhibition that helped to define and articulate
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Lodovico Ariosto Lodovico Ariosto is one of the great humanists of the Renaissance. He was poet from Italy who had a large impact on the Renaissance. Ariosto was born September 8‚ 1474 in Reggio Emilia Italy. He grew up in a neighboring city Ferrar and had a good education. His first teacher was Luca Ripa‚ who was a humanist and he taught Ariosto grammar and rhetoric. Ariosto’s father forced him to study law and he didn’t like it all‚ but his education came to an end when his father died in 1500
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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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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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David was the virtual art dictator of France for a generation. Extending beyond painting‚ his influence determined the course of fashion‚ furniture design‚ and interior decoration and was reflected in the development of moral philosophy. His art was a sudden and decisive break with tradition‚ and from this break "modern art" is dated. David studied with Vien‚ and after winning the Prix de Rome (which had been refused him four times‚ causing him to attempt suicide by starvation) he accompanied
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Chapter 16 SECTION ONE: -Who were three major Greek scientists that inspired 16th century Europeans? What/ fields were great scientific advancements made that these scientists represented? Aristotle in physics‚ Ptolemy in astronomy‚ and Galen in medicine. -Why did European scientists have to make adjustment to ancient theories? Scientists did not want to abandon theories. Rather‚ they adjusted them. They were forced to do this because they began to notice things that contradicted ancient theories
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Annibale Carracci was born on November 3‚ 1560 in Bologna. In all likelihood he was first apprenticed within his family. His cousin Ludovico Carracci along with Annibale’s brother Agostino‚ opened a painter’s Academy. The 17th century critic Giovanni Bellori praised Carracci as the epitome of Roman Baroque. While the Carraccis laid special emphasis on draftsmanship‚ they also worked in a style mediating between the Florentine emphasis on linear drawing and the Venetian attention to the glimmering
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Augsburg --- Thirty Years’ War --- Peace of Westphalia 9. Hernando Cortez ---Corregidores ---Mercantilism 10. Absolutism ---Cardinal Richelieu --- Fronde 11. Constitutionalism --- Charles I of England --- Oliver Cromwell 12. Moliere --- Racine --- Poussin 13. Prussian Junkers --- Frederick William the Great Elector --- Frederick the Great 14. Ivan the Terrible --- Mongols --- Peter the Great 15. Baroque --- Bartolomeo Rastrelli --- Absolutism 16. Frederick the Great --- Catherine the Great --- Maria
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individual who contributed to the movement that effectively drifted from only painting English landscapes‚ however he used that tradition to influence his own works. Artists that influenced his personal style of painting include Claude Lorraine‚ Nicolas Poussin‚ and Salvator Rosa. In 1870 von Guerard was appointed first Master of the School of Painting at the National Gallery of Victoria‚
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