Painting Part1

ROCOCO PAINTING

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17th century - 18th century evolving from the Baroque era. Rococo comes from the word “rocaille” - This was a time full of optimism in French society and French politics. The style of the art- reflects the joy and optimism of the times.

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Rococo painters were Jean Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher & Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

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Style -It was meant to appeal to the emotions and themes- related to mythology, romance, fantasy and everyday life.

Rococo Painting was light, entertaining and ornamental • Rococo is often considered the •

Rococo is not concerned about religious matters, it is an eminent aristocratic art. • The elements that stand out in this movement are gracefulness, femininity, light and furtive colors • "feminized" version of the Baroque style, • It is associated with the aristocracy. •

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the paintings depict a peaceful natural setting with feathery trees and sprays of foliage. Often, statues are depicted in these natural "parks“ (for example, Venus and her son Cupid may approve of the flirtations going on).

Best Paintings Of The Rococo & Most Influential Painters Of The Rococo Movement

Watteau (1684– 1721) •First

great Rococo painter. •One of the main figures of the Rococo movement. •He had a great influence on later painters, including François Boucher (1703–1770) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) •Watteau’s work emphasizes the care free attitude of the times through his idyllic paintings. •His work is know to epitomize the Rococo movement. •Rococo pieces are noted most for the light colors, curvaceous forms, and graceful lines and

Pilgrimage to Cythera 1717

CYTHERA •The

painting represents a group of happy go lucky people starting a pilgrimage to Cythera (the city were Venus was born) in search of love. •Watteau’s style mixed a lot of reality & fantasy in his work. • Reality was represented in the form of the aristocratic outings of the time, like that of going on picnics, hunts, or even boat rides.

Jean-Honore Fragonard (17321806)

The Swing

THE SWING Is a good example of the frivolity, eroticism and gallantry of the paintings of the time. •The painting shows intricate detail & ornamentation as was quite common to the Rococo period. •

Francois Boucher (1703-1770) •One

of the most renowned portrait artists •Boucher is also known for his wonderfully designed tapestries. •He portrayed mainly members of the aristocrat society, dressed with sophisticated clothes.

Marquise de Pompadour 1756

MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR The painter paid attention to all the details in the fashions of the time and the decorative styles. •This is a typical Rococo portrait. The aristocratic woman, Louis XV's mistress, is elegant, beautifully dressed and coifed, and has the necessary lap dog. (Aristocratic males have large hunting dogs, poor people have mutts, and "ladies" have small

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NEOCLASSIC PAINTING

Neo- Classicism Neoclassicism

is an art style that affected the visual arts, literature, music, theatre, and architecture in the mid 18th and 19th centuries. What Neoclassicism embodies was the classical and the art of the ideal. Most important exponent, Jean Jacques David

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opposed to Rococo (frivolity & opulence), the Neoclassical style was simple & austere (Roman values) depicting society’s rebellion against the lifestyle of nobility and the need of a democratic society. During Neoclassicism and especially during the French Revolution, virtues and values traditionally associated to Ancient Rome such as heroism,

Representative Painting from Neoclassicism & its Most Influential Painters

Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) •Introduced

the neoclassical style in France •The most noted painter of this period

The Oath of Horatii 1785

HORATII •It

was considered to be the ideal of the new school of art. •A style based on the ideas of a return to the classical. •Every line and color is minimalist and there are no unneeded brush strokes or anything that might denote femininity.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres •He

is David's most talented and well known student, remained faithful to the Neo-Classic structure, if not the ideal.

Grande Odalisque

ODALISQUE •Is

a strange mixture of artistic allegiances. •The structure is Neo-Classic in its simple classical elements: closed outline, compact composition, clarity and simplicity of design.

The Death of Marat

MARAT •In

the Death Of Marat, David uses the classical elements: closed outline, compact composition, clarity and simplicity of design, to create a dramatic and psychologically powerful statement. •Marat, a personal friend of David and a leading revolutionary radical, was killed in his bath by a supporter of the monarchy, one Charlotte Corday. Here David has created a visual symbol/martyr of the

ROMANTIC PAINTING

Romanticism mid/end

18th until the 19th

century. It was a movement that revolted against the rationalism of Neoclassicism, which gave great importance to feelings. Romanticism is a way to feel and express nature, life and

Romanticism

art is not signaled out in just one style, technique or attitude but rather characterized by being imaginative, emotional and a dream-like quality about the romantic artist’s paintings. The most important characteristics of Romanticism came as opposition to Neoclassicism.

Subjectivism

- objectivism. importance of order, rules, rationality and perfection from Neoclassicism - Feelings, passion, imagination, creativity, originality and imperfection French Eugene Delacroix, the English William Turner, and the Spanish Francisco Goya.

Representative Romantic Painting & Best Romantic Painters: Delacroix, Goya & Turner

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

THE SEA OF FOG •Also

known as “Wanderer Above the Mist”. •painted by Caspar David Friedrich in 1818, an oil on canvas work that is quite symbolic of romanticism. •This painting is a powerful statement of loneliness and difficulties experienced by people who are intellectuals.

Eugene Delacroix •a

true Romantic artist, with his exotic subjects, vibrant colors, and emotions that he truly defined Romanticism through his paintings. •His bright and beautiful colors inspired artists around him and still amaze people who look at his work today. •He illustrates swirling emotions in his works such as death, agony, love, life or

Death of Sardanapalus

SARDANAPALU S •His

subject was taken from literature from the poet Lord Byron that he admired greatly. •His work showed a burst of emotion in the dying and agonizing figures he portrayed.

Francisco Goya •His

paintings are full of obscure images and change of tonalities expressing great drama. •He portrayed the horrors of the war, through images full of suffering; pain and death, were the victims were always common people.

The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid

Joseph Mallord William  Turner (1775-1851)  •He

was also known as the painter of light. •English landscape painter, renowned for his vibrant and dramatic treatment of natural light and atmospheric effects in land and marine subjects, and whose work had a direct influence on the development of impressionism.

“The Fighting Temerarie”

TEMERARIE •One

of his most important and beautiful paintings was titled “The Fighting Temerarie”. •Turner always referred to this painting as “My Darling”. He never sold it and was emotionally attached to it.

Expressi onism

• 1905 to 1940's

• Expressionism is a style in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist. The movement is especially associated with Germany, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism. • In the mid-20th century, Abstract Expressionism (in which there is no subject at all, but instead pure abstract form) developed into an extremely influential style in the United States.

• It is a term used to denote the use of distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect, which first surfaced in the art literature of the early twentieth century. When applied in a stylistic sense, with reference in particular to the use of intense colour, agitated brushstrokes, and disjointed space. Rather than a single style, it was a climate that affected not only the fine arts but also dance, cinema, literature and the theatre.

• Unlike Impressionism, its goals were not to reproduce the impression suggested by the surrounding world, but to strongly impose the artist's own sensibility to the world's representation.

Portrait of Dr. Gachet

cent van Gogh

Starry night

Madonna Scream

Edvard

Dadais m

• (1916 - 1924)

• Dada began as an anti-art movement, in the sense that it rejected the

way art was appreciated and defined in contemporary art scenes. • Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, the movement was a response to World War I. It had no unifying aesthetic characteristics but what brought together the Dadaists was that they shared a nihilistic attitude towards the traditional expectations of artists and writers. • The word Dada literally means both "hobby horse" and "father", but was chosen at random more for the naive sound. What After finding its origins in Zurich, the Dada movement spread the Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, some parts of Russia, and New York city.

• In Zurich, the movement was centered in Hugo Ball’s Cabaret Voltaire, where many of the founding Dadaist gathered to express their ideas. Neutral during both World Wars, Switzerland was an ideal place for objectors to the war, those avoiding military service, and those who wished to find a place for free expression. • Other elements integral to the Dada movement were the non-attempt to underlie work with any reference to intellectual analysis. Dada was also a reaction the bourgeois Victorian values of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The work was also absurd and playful but at times intuitive and even cryptic. Methods of production were unconventional, employing the chance technique, and found objects. Dadaists rejection of these values was an attempt to make a statement on the social values and cultural trends of a contemporary world facing a devastating period of war.

Mona Lisa

Leonard o da Vinci Last supper