Thursday, July 21, 2011

Quick over view of Movements 1500-Impressionism

Northern Europe Baroque, 1500-1600. 

  • Reubens, Elevation of the Cross. 1610-1611
  • Rembrant, Self Portrait. 1628
    • Subtractive, eyes obscure, removes windows to the soul, explores other avenues besides traditional, chiaroscuro, tenebrism.

Rococo, 
  • Fragonard, The Swing. 1766
    • Trivial, frivolous, sexual content, non-political, non-religious, just directed towards higher class.

Neo-Classical, late 1700's
(Idealism, lack of emotion)
  • Jacques Louis David, Marat Assassination, 1793
    • Historical, close friend, personal, relieving how he was murdered. 
  • Jacques Louis David, The oath of Horatii, 1784-1785
    • one point linear perspective, conservative political pa
  • Ingres, Grande Odalisques, 1814
    • Reclining nude, s shape for seduction, manneristic influences

Romanticism, 1800's
  • Theodore Gericault, The Raft of medusa, 1818-1819
    • Dramatic lighting, awe, majestic, evoke emotion, personal intense expression, Man of colour is the hero, royalists leave crew to die 4 miles out to sea, response to neo-classicism.
  • Delacroux, Lady Liberty, 1830
    • Captures passion and energy, depiction of allegorical personification of liberty. 
  • Goya, 3rd of May, 1814-1815
    • Faceless mean french, no emotion. The man is focal point, defenseless, Christ pose, painterly, brush strokes seen.

Realism, Late 1800's
  • Daumier, The third class Carriage, 1863-1865
    • depicting the real, the everyday and mundane.
  • Millet, The gleaners, 1857
    • lack of vibrant colour, non-pretty/happy, attention drawn to the gleaners.
  • Repin, Barge haulers on the Volga, 1870-1873
    • Shows a story what is to come for the younger man, celebrates and condemns man at the same time.

Impressionism, late 1800's
(Cpature the fleeting movement, en plein air)
  • Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass, 1864
    • two nude woman, two well dressed men. Manet's aim was to have a reassesment of what should be considered art for the salon.
  • Manet, Olympia, 1863
    • exploring racial divisions, meets viewers eyes with indifference
  • Monet, Impression Sunrise, 1872
    • Clear brushstrokes, Painting to define impressionism, impression of a painting
  • Degas, L'Anbsinthe, 1876 

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