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18th CENTURY ART

NEOCLASSICISM

ROMANTICISM

The Enlightenment

CONTENT: What do you see?

FORM: The details (what you see more exactly). How the artist delivers the content.

CONTEXT: Everything NOT observable.

FUNCTION: The intended purpose of the work.

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APAH 250 Images:
101. The Swing, Jean Honoré Fragonard
98. The Tete a Tete (from Marriage a la Mode), William Hogarth
100. A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, Joseph Wright of Derby

NEOCLASSICISM

APAH 250 Images:
103. The Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David
105. Self Portrait, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun
107. Le Grande Odalisque, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
102.  Monticello, Thomas Jefferson
104. George Washington, Jean-Antoine Houdon
Enlightenment/NeoClassicism Unit Sheet Part 1
Enlightenment/NeoClassicism Unit Sheet Part 1

ROMANTICISM

Romanticism Unit Sheet Part 2
APAH 250 Images:
106. And There's Nothing to Be Done (Y no hai remedio), Francisco de Goya
* The Third of May 1808, Francisco de Goya
* Raft of the Medusa, Théodore Géricault
108. Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix
111. Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), Joseph Mallord William Turner
* The Haywain, John constable
109.  The Oxbow, Thomas Cole
* Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, Albert Bierstadt
* Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Church
112. Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
Romanticism Unit Sheet Part 2

Key Ideas: Rococo

  • 1700-1750
  • Shift of power to the aristocrats paralleled in Baroque and Rococo.
  • French Royal Academy set the taste for art in Paris
  • Strong Satirical paintings
  • Epitome: paintings that show aristocratic people enjoying leisures
  • Rococo comes from the French words rocaille and coquilles. Rocaillemeans stone and coquilles means shells. So "rococo" is a combination of the two French words, thus meaning "stone shells".AP

Key Ideas: Neoclassicism 
(the start of the Enlightenment)

  • 1750-1815
  • Enlightenment brought about the rejection of royal and aristocratic authority
  • Supported by Napoleon in order to associated himself with the successes of the Ancient Roman's Empire.
  • Jacques-Louis David becomes First Painter of Napoleon
  • Neoclassical art was more democratic- themes of courage and patriotism, civil duty
  • Current events depicted have classical influences
  • Late 18th century = Industrial Revolution (cast iron, and carvings from bronze is cheaper than carving marble- Coalbrookedale Bridge)

Key Ideas: Romanticism

  • P.I.N.E. (Past, Irrational/inner-mind, Nature, Exotic/Emotional) 
  • Early- mid 19th century
  • Grande Odalisque is a transition painting
  • Influenced by a sense of individuality and freedom of expression
  • Exploration of the subconscious and dreams/nightmares
  • Feelings/emotions and imagination over reason
  • Landscapes express the Romantic theme of the soul + the natural world
  • Introduction of Photography
  • Revival of Medieval architecture (Houses of Parliament)
     
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