18th Century Artists

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18th Century Artists
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The ScholarRembrandt , 1631 - Dutch

• Baroque Painting
• Known for his group and individual portraits
• Almost financially ruined until he rebounded and
  his baroque portraits and religious themes became
  popular.

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The NightwatchRembrandt, 1642 - Dutch

• The Company of Frans Banning Cock Preparing to
  March Out
• Dutch Painters
• depicted everyday life - servants, furniture and
  other household goods and pets

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• Women on Dutch canvases appear more equal to men
  then they were in reality
• Women were legally subordinate to their husbands
• could sign contracts
• many operated businesses after their husbands
  death.

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The ReaderFragonard, 1770-72 - France

• Rococo style - reflects frivolity and
  voluptuousness of the period
• Court painter of portraits and landscapes
• Louis XV style (Rococo)

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The ReaderFragonard, 1770-72 - France

• Rococo - emphasis on smallness of scale, as well
  as elegance and frivolity
• Scenes of nature and everyday life also became
  popular

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The ReaderFragonard, 1770-72 - France

• Watteau (French Painter) - influenced an artistic
  move away from religious themes to secular themes
  - more realistic style then baroque.

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The Blue BoyGainsborough, 1770 - England

• Founding member of the Royal Academy

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Beer StreetWilliam Hogarth, 1697-1764 - England

• Everyday life in London with affection and satire
• Poked fun at the indulgences of society - led the
  government to raise the tax on inexpensive
  liquor.
• Hogarth himself died after eating a huge steak

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Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic
MuseReynolds, 1784 - England

• 1768 - the Royal Academy of Arts was instituted
• Reynolds was elected president and knighted
• His portraits form an epitome of London society
  of his day.

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The InspirationFragonard, 1769 - France
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Experiment with an Air PumpJoseph Wright, 1768
- England

• Experiments success is evidenced by the dead
  bird inside a closed glass bowl from which the
  air has been pumped
• Form and content symbolize the Enlightenment

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Experiment with an Air PumpJoseph Wright, 1768
- England

• Small source of light is sufficient to enlighten
  humanity and reveal the laws of nature
• Science - not just for specialists but something
  amateurs can understand and practice

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Experiment with an Air PumpJoseph Wright, 1768
- England

• British led in developing useful machines and
  were identified as having a more pragmatic
  approach to science and ideas

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Experiment with an Air PumpJoseph Wright, 1768
- England

• Reveals - customary images of the sexes
• Experimenter boldly forging on while to his left
  a friend or associate calmly explains what is
  happening to a woman and her daughter

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Madame Geoffrins Salon(One of the most popular
salons)

• Womens main role was to turn their living rooms
  into salons
• provided an environment for the interchange of
  ideas and philosophies

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Madame Geoffrins Salon(One of the most popular
salons)

• In Paris and elsewhere in France, ambitious,
  intelligent and often rich women held formal
  gatherings in their drawing rooms, or salons, at
  which writers, musicians, painters, and
  philosophes presented their work and exchanged
  ideas.

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Tycho BraheEduard Ender, 1855

• Shows Tycho demonstrating a celestial globe to
  the Emperor Rudolph II in Prague

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Discussion Questions

• What do you see about life in the paintings?
• How can you see the philosophes, scientists, etc.
  in these paintings?
• What can you see in the paintings about change?