The document discusses the rise of Neoclassicism during the Enlightenment period. Neoclassicism rejected the ornate styles that came before it in favor of a simpler, more rational style inspired by classical antiquity. Artists like Jacques-Louis David created works depicting stories of virtue from Greek and Roman history that promoted Enlightenment ideals of patriotism and civic duty. While Neoclassicism intended to educate through moral examples, the French Revolution it helped inspire descended into violence and terror rather than the noble republic envisioned in its classical references.
extreme information about rococo art.Rococo, less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
What does Rococo mean in art?
In practice Rococo is a style of short curves, scrolls and counter curves, often elaborated with fantasy. In fine art, Rococo prettiness, gaiety, curvaceousness and sensuality is exemplified in the work of François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Antoine Watteau and in the sculpture of Clodion.
extreme information about rococo art.Rococo, less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
What does Rococo mean in art?
In practice Rococo is a style of short curves, scrolls and counter curves, often elaborated with fantasy. In fine art, Rococo prettiness, gaiety, curvaceousness and sensuality is exemplified in the work of François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Antoine Watteau and in the sculpture of Clodion.
A slideshow connected to a lecture of Modern Art from 1900 to 1950 available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Jon Mann.
History of western art (Giotto, Masaccio)Annie Najib
Early Renaissance is the era which heralded the age of exploration. Digging into the Golden ages of Greek past civilization, this period added its own interpretation to art as well all other fields that went parallel to it. Early Renaissance provided the first steps towards the high mountain peak of the Renaissance period. Bridging the past values and rich culture of Greece to the neo classical period.
Giotto is propably the first artist to have embraced the change which was needed in art. That's why he is considered to be a "father of Western pictorial art".
This lecture will be a comprehensive overview of the historic art movement of Romanticism in the 17th Century. The influences and pioneers of this movement have been discussed so students can understand the core concepts of Romanticism,
A slideshow connected to a lecture of Modern Art from 1900 to 1950 available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Jon Mann.
History of western art (Giotto, Masaccio)Annie Najib
Early Renaissance is the era which heralded the age of exploration. Digging into the Golden ages of Greek past civilization, this period added its own interpretation to art as well all other fields that went parallel to it. Early Renaissance provided the first steps towards the high mountain peak of the Renaissance period. Bridging the past values and rich culture of Greece to the neo classical period.
Giotto is propably the first artist to have embraced the change which was needed in art. That's why he is considered to be a "father of Western pictorial art".
This lecture will be a comprehensive overview of the historic art movement of Romanticism in the 17th Century. The influences and pioneers of this movement have been discussed so students can understand the core concepts of Romanticism,
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ART102
Art History II
Unit 5 Lecture
Age of Enlightenment
1750-1793
Age of Romanticism
1793-1848
David’s painting is the quintessential example of
Neo-Classicism, a style of severe realism, precise
details, and subject matter derived from antiquity.
The subject is based on a story of betrayal, where
three men must fit to the death, and their women
react and mourn. It is a powerful image inspired by
the Revolutionary atmosphere of France.
Age of Enlightenment
1750-1793
The Oath of Horatii
Voltaire
Cupid and Psyche
The Death of Marat
The Death of
General Wolfe
Jaques-Louis David
The Oath of Horatii
Ca. 1783-1784
Oil on canvas
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Age of Romanticism
1793-1848
Voltaire, a NeoClassical writer and philosopher, was
a key element to the shift in power in France during
the French Revolution.
These leaders believed in meritocracy over privilege,
and rule by democracy instead of aristocracy.
Here, Voltaire is portrayed near the end of his life,
wearing a ancient Roman-style toga, symbolizing the
role models of Ancient philosophers like Socrates
and Aristotle.
Jean-Antoine Houdon
Voltaire
Ca. 1781
Terra cotta for marble original
Musee Voltaire, Switzerland
Age of Enlightenment
1750-1793
The Oath of Horatii
Voltaire
Cupid and Psyche
The Death of Marat
The Death of
General Wolfe
Age of Romanticism
1793-1848
In the Neoclassical tradition, Canova creates a
stunning sculpture of Cupid and Psyche in the
ancient Roman tradition. The figures are rendered to
perfection, and the moment depicted is emotional
and powerful.
Antonio Canova
Cupid and Psyche
Ca. 1787-1793
Marble
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Age of Enlightenment
1750-1793
The Oath of Horatii
Voltaire
Cupid and Psyche
The Death of Marat
The Death of
General Wolfe
Age of Romanticism
1793-1848
David returns and becomes a powerful voice for the
Revolution in France. This is an image of a Marat, a
Revolutionist murdered in his bathtub.
He is no longer using ancient Roman references
or styles, but instead leading the way into a new
approach to painting.
This is considered to be one of the first truly
modern paintings, because David is taking the
politics of his day and revealing the horror behind it.
Jacques Louis David
The Death of Marat
Ca. 1793
Oil on canvas
Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Belgium
Age of Enlightenment
1750-1793
The Oath of Horatii
Voltaire
Cupid and Psyche
The Death of Marat
The Death of
General Wolfe
Age of Romanticism
1793-1848
In America, historical paintings were using
contemporary events as their subject. Benjamin
West, an English painter, shows the people wearing
modern clothes instead of ancient costumes, and
the public was initially outraged because they
aren’t wearing Roman costumes. West defined
the contemporary history painting by defying the
Neoclassical tradition.
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe
Ca. 1770
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
Age ...
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Introduction to Art Chapter 27: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 357
Chapter 27: Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries
The Asante Kingdom of West Africa
The Asante kingdom, part of the larger Akan culture was formed around 1700 under the
leadership of Osei Tutu. Osei Tutu brought together a confederation of states that had grown
wealthy and powerful as a result of the area’s lucrative trade in gold, sold to both northern
merchants across the Sahara and European navigators. The centralized system of government
that emerged was a complex network of chiefs and court officials under a single paramount
leader. A variety of gold regalia was used to distinguish rank and position within the court.
Among the Asante (or Ashanti), a popular legend relates how two young men—Ota Karaban and
his friend Kwaku Ameyaw—learned the art of weaving by observing a spider weaving its web.
One night, the two went out into the forest to check their traps, and they were amazed by a
beautiful spider’s web whose many unique designs sparkled in the moonlight. The spider, named
Ananse, offered to show the men how to weave such designs in exchange for a few favors. After
completing the favors and learning how to weave the designs with a single thread, the men
returned home to Bonwire (the town in the Asante region of Ghana where kente weaving
originated), and their discovery was soon reported to Asantehene Osei Tutu. The asantehene
(title of the Asante monarch) adopted their creation, named kente, as a royal cloth reserved for
special occasions, and Bonwire became the leading kente weaving center for the asantehene
and his court.
Asantehene Osei Tutu II wearing kente cloth, 2005 (photo: Retlaw Snellac, CC BY 2.0)
https://flic.kr/p/AQ7df
Introduction to Art Chapter 27: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 358
Originally, the use of kente was reserved for Asante royalty and limited to special social and
sacred functions. Even as production has increased and kente has become more accessible to
those outside the royal court, it continues to be associated with wealth, high social status, and
cultural sophistication. Kente is also found in Asante shrines to the deities, or abosom, as a mark
of their spiritual power.
Patterns each have a name, as does each cloth in its entirety. Names can be inspired by
historical events, proverbs, philosophical concepts, oral literature, moral values, human and
animal behavior, individual achievements, or even individuals in pop culture. In the past, when
purchasing a cloth, the aesthetic and social appeal of the cloth’s was as important as—or
sometimes even more important than—its visual pattern or color.
The King has Boarded the Ship (Asante kente cloth), c. 1985, rayon (collection of Dr. Courtnay Micots)
This cloth is named The King Has Boarded the Ship, and it includes both warp and weft patterns.
The warp pattern, consisting of two multicolor stripes on blue, relates to the prover ...
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Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University
College of Fine Arts and Design - Art History Department
Course of English for Art and Design (ARH 101)
Instructor: Dr. Serena Autiero
Reading 1 for Final Paper
ART THROUGH THE AGES
1. The Beginnings of Art
Art history, which begins around 30,000 B.C. with the earliest known cave paintings,
predates writing by about 26,500 years! That makes art history even older than history,
which begins with the birth of script around 3500 B.C. Along with archaeology, art
history is one of our primary windows into prehistory (everything before 3500 B.C.).
Cave paintings, prehistoric sculpture, and architecture together paint a vivid — although
incomplete — picture of Stone Age and Bronze Age life. Without art history, we would
know a lot less about our early ancestors.
With the beginning of history with the invention of script around 3500 B.C. the need for
art is still felt by humanity. And studying that art is still very important to understand the
past, since history is the diary of the past; this means that ancient peoples wrote about
themselves, so that we know their own interpretation of facts, not things as they were. Art
history is instead the mirror of the past. It shows us who we were, instead of telling us, as
history does. History is the study of wars and conquests, mass migrations, and political
and social experiments. Art history is a portrait of man’s inner life: his aspirations and
inspirations, his hopes and fears, his spirituality and sense of self.
2. The Great Ancient Civilizations
If we know who we were 10,000 years ago, we have a better sense of who we are today.
Even studying a few Ancient Greek vases can reveal a lot about modern society — if you
know how to look at and read the vases. Many Greek vases show us what ancient Greek
theater looked like; modern theater and cinema are the direct descendants of Greek
theater. Greek vases depict early musical instruments, dancers dancing, and athletes
competing in the ancient Olympics, the forerunner of the modern Olympic Games. Some
vases show us the role of women and men: Women carry vases called hydrias; men paint
those vases. Ancient art teaches us about past religions (which still affect our modern
religions) and the horrors of ancient war craft. Rameses II’s monument celebrating his
battle against the Hittites and Trajan’s Column, which depicts the Emperor Trajan’s
conquest of Dacia (modern day Romania), are enduring eyewitness accounts of ancient
battles that shaped nations and determined the languages we speak today. Art isn’t just
limited to paintings and sculptures. Architecture, another form of art, reveals the way
men and women responded to and survived in their environment, as well as how they
defined and defended themselves.
PNU – CAD, Course of English for Art and Design (ARH 101.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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4. Old World
State
propaganda
Win hearts and
minds
New
World
Teach moral
virtue
Inspire
patriotism and
civic
engagement
Instead of providing propaganda for church and king, Enlightenment thinkers
believed that art should educate the citizens of a new free society
5. Antonio Canova, Perseus with
the Head of Medusa, c. 1800
Vatican Museums
The style of art that most successfully fulfilled the Enlightenment demand for an art
of edifying moral virtue was Neoclassicism
6. Donatello, David, c. 1440-1460
Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1484-1486
Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504
Classical art had already been “rediscovered” in the Renaissance
7. Jean Nocret, The Royal Family dressed as gods and goddesses
Versailles
1670
But over the centuries it had become ornate, exuberant, and theatrical – as seen in
this painting from Versailles, depicting Louis XIV and his family dressed up as gods
and goddesses
8. Francois Boucher
Toilette of Venus, 1751
Metropolitan Museum of Art
And in Rococo art it had become frilly, precious, and frivolous
9. Lapith and Centaur,
Parthenon Metope
British Museum
Back to basics return to “origins”
So Neoclassicism was a kind of “back to basics” return to origins
10. Diadoumenos, attributed
to Polykleitos, Roman
copy; Met Museum
Enlightenment thinkers admired Classical art for its clarity, simplicity, nobility, and
lack of fussy ornament
11. Jacques Louis David, Portrait of Madame Raymond de Verninac, 1798-1799
Louvre
Web Gallery of ArtVigee Le Brun, Marie Antoinette, 1783
We can see the change in fashion as well – before the revolution, aristocratic
fashion was excessively opulent – but after the revolution, women abandoned their
corsets, powdered wigs, and frou-frou silks and lace in favor of a much more
simplified style inspired by women’s fashions in ancient Greece
12. Jacques Louis David, Portrait of Madame Raymond de Verninac, 1798-1799
Louvre
Web Gallery of ArtVigee Le Brun, Marie Antoinette, 1783
Neoclassicism in art represented a similar “stripping away” of superfluous
ornament to get at more simple and clear truths
13. The clarity, simplicity, and nobility of Classical art provided a welcome alternative
to the decadence of aristocratic culture, and to the frivolous and self-indulgent
themes of the Rococo
14. The rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum did much to stimulate renewed
interest in Classical art, as did the “Grand Tour” which became an obligatory part of
every gentleman’s education
15. Nathaniel Dance, James Grant of Grant, John Myton, the Hon. Thomas Robinson, and Thomas Wynne, c. 1760
Yale Center for British Art
Wealthy aristocrats arranged guided tours to ancient archaeological sites, and
amassed large collections of antique art for private study and enjoyment
16. Giovanni Panini, Ancient Rome, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
Giovanni Panini’s Ancient Rome is a perfect example of the 18th century
fascination with classical architecture and sculpture
17. It portrays a grand gallery with pictures of famous Roman monuments, including
the The Colisseum, the Basilica of Constantine, and the Pantheon
18. Giovanni Panini, Ancient Rome, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
This fascination with the Classical past was more than just a matter of fashion
or taste
19. As the birthplace of democracy, ancient Greece and Rome seemed to represent a
time of innocence – before the corruption of the modern world – and so it could
offer modern audience valuable lessons about virtue and nobility
20. Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her children as her treasures, 1785
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
This painting by Angelica Kauffmann is a perfect example of the kind of “lesson in
virtue” that could be gained from stories from the Classical past
21. Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her children as her treasures, 1785
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The painting depicts Cornelia, the mother of the Graachi (the two boys seen on the
left), who later became leaders of a popular reform movement in Rome
22. Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her children as her treasures, 1785
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
A family friend has dropped by to show off her jewelry, and asks Cornelia to show
hers
23. Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her children as her treasures, 1785
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Cornelia responds by pointing to her sons as “her treasures”
24. Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her children as her treasures, 1785
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Cornelia’s motherly virtues made her the kind of “exemplar of virtue” that
Enlightenment thinkers demanded as an alternative to the frivolous themes of
Rococo art
25. Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her children as her treasures, 1785
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The simplicity, clarity, and balance of the Neoclassical style was also a welcome
alternative to the sensual style of the Rococo
26. Jacques Louis David, Self
Portrait, 1794
Louvre
Web Gallery of Art
The leading representative of the Neoclassical style in France was Jacques Louis
David
27. Jacques Louis David, Self
Portrait, 1794
Louvre
Web Gallery of Art
After studying in Rome, he developed a radically simplified and austere style based
on his study of ancient classical art
28. David argued that art should show themes of “heroism and civic virtue” that will “electrify
the soul” of the people and “plant the seeds of glory and devotion to the fatherland.”
29. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
His paintings focused on the noble deeds of great men from classical history, presented
as exemplars of virtue
30. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
Socrates is a perfect example, because he was literally a “man of ideas,” who heroically
stood up for his beliefs
31. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
Socrates had been a vocal critic of the Athenian government, and he was imprisoned for
“refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state” and “corrupting the youth”
32. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
He was given the choice of renouncing his views or death, and he chose the latter
33. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
In this scene, David shows the philosopher in his prison cell, surrounded by his pupils
34. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
Shackled to his bed, he continues to expound his views (literally, teaching to the end!),
as he reaches for the fatal hemlock juice
35. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
His pupils surround him and react with a range of emotions: only Plato, seated stoically
at the foot of the bed, seems to have accepted his fate
36. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
Exhibited at the Salon of 1787 (on the eve of the French Revolution), David’s painting
was widely interpreted as a protest against the corruptions of the French state (which
had taken many political prisoners to stifle mounting reform efforts)
37. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
The picture was a clarion call to the French nation to stand up for its ideals, and to fight
for what it believed to be right
38. Jacques Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
Metropolitan Museum
If the goal of Catholic Baroque was to reaffirm religious faith, David’s painting
represents a new “secular” religion that values reason and freedom of thought
above all else
39. David’s most famous painting is The Oath of the Horatii, which was painted in 1785, on
the eve of the French Revolution
40. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
Set in ancient Rome, the story comes from a Roman legend first recounted by the
Roman historian Livy involving a conflict between the Romans and a rival group from
nearby Alba
41. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
Rather than engage in a full-scale war, each side decided to send three representatives
to settle the dispute: the Horatii brothers representing Rome, and the Curatii brothers
representing Alba
42. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
The older man in the center is Horace, and his sons (the Horatii) are swearing an
oath on their father’s sword to defend Rome – but the story is more complicated
than it seems
43. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
The women of the household are weeping because one of the men’s wives is a
sister to one of the three men who will fight to defend Alba (the Curatii); and one of
the Horatii sisters is betrothed to one of the Curatii brothers
44. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
So no matter what the outcome is, these women will suffer the loss of a loved one – but
this is not David’s focus
45. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
Instead, the picture extols the men’s unflinching determination to fight for their
nation, creating a dramatic contrast between the men who take determined action,
and the women who weep passively
46. P.A. Martini, The Salon of 1785
Image source: http://www.a-website.org/mnemosyne/arrange/pages/1pting_salon.html
David’s painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1785, where its message of courage,
patriotism, and self-sacrifice became a rallying cry from the coming revolution
47. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
Like the Horatii brothers, the citizens of France were called upon to renounce their
personal emotions in pursuit of a higher ideal of democracy and freedom
48. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
What makes this painting “Neoclassical”?
49. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
Subject matter: the story is from Classical history
50. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
Message: it is intended to teach moral virtue -- “patriotism,” “courage,” and “self-
sacrifice”
51. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
Style: Neoclassicism is characterized above all by simplicity and clarity
52. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Swing, 1766
Wallace Collection, London
Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of
the Cross, Chrch of St. Walburga,
Antwerp, 1610
Neoclassicism rejected both the overblown theatricality of the Baroque, as well as the
sensuality and frivolousness of the Rococo
53. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
David has stripped away all of that complexity in his “back to basics” return to the
simplify of Classical art
54. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
The lighting is even and clear, instead of mysterious and dramatic
55. Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Louvre
The frieze-like arrangement of the picture recalls Classical relief sculptures, and
provides a simple and easy-to-read contrast to the strong diagonal compositions of the
Baroque
57. This was seen as a welcome corrective to the soft, sensuous, and painterly style of the
Rococo
58. Jacques Louis David, Oath in the Tennis Court, 1790-94
When the French Revolution came, David was an ardent supporter, and he became
involved with the radical Jacobin party as Minister of Arts
59. Jacques Louis David, Oath in the Tennis Court, 1790-94
This drawing represents a pivotal moment in the vents leading up to the revolution --
when the Third Estate gathered in a tennis court at Versailles and vowed to remain
until a new constitution was drafted
60. Jacques Louis David, Oath in the Tennis Court, 1790-94
It was like a modern Oath of the Horatii, where real people in modern times were
behaving with the valor and courage of the Romans so admired by progressive
thinkers in the 18th century
61. Jacques Louis David, Oath in the Tennis Court, 1790-94
But real history is lot messier than stories from the past, where the uglier details
have been softened by time and distance
62. Execution under the Reignof Terror, 1793-94
Coloured engraving
The revolution did not result in a glorious Republic governed by noble men modeled
on heroic and self-less Romans; instead it led to the reign of terror, where
thousands were executed by angry mobs
63. Jacques Louis
David, Death of
Marat, 1793
David would commemorate one of the leading instigators of the
reign of terror, in his painting of the death of Jean Paul Marat –
which is the subject of the next presentation