Western Art through the Ages Part 2 Rococo (18th Century) Neoclassicism (18th Century) Romanticism (19 Century) Impressionism (19th Century)

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Western Art through the Ages Part 2Rococo
(18th Century)Neoclassicism (18th
Century)Romanticism (19 Century) Impressionism
(19th Century)
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with music by Felix Mendelssohn Frèdèric
Chopin Johannes BrahmsPeter Ilyich
Tchaikovskyet.al.
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Rococo

• Art of the French aristocracy portraying nobility
  in sylvan settings or ornate interiors
• Venuses and Cupids abound
• Ladies wear silk finery alongside similarly
  dressed cavaliers
• candy-box saccharine, frivolous, delicate

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Rococo--Values

• Ornamentation
• Elegance
• Sweetness

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Francois Boucher Cupid a Captive
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Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera
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Antoine Watteau, Return from Cythera
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Fragonard The Swing
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William Hogarth

• Marriage a la Mode series
• 6 paintings satirized the tradition of arranged
  marriages
• The Marriage Contract

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William Hogarth

• The Breakfast Scene

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Neoclassicism

• A return to classical antiquity for inspiration
• Scenes are historical and mythological
• Figures appear to be sculpted
• The appeal is to the intellect, not the heart
• Emotions are restrained
• Balance is achieved

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Neoclassicism--values

• Reason
• Order
• Balance
• Reverence for antiquity

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Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii
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Jacques-Louis David, Le Sacre de
lEmpereur Napoleon
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Jacques-Louis David, Death of Socrates
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Antone Raphael Mengs The Annunciation 1779
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Anton Raphael Mengs, Parnassus ca 1755
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresHomère déifié, dit
aussi L'Apothéose d'Homère
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Jeanne d'Arc au
sacre du roi Charles VII, dans la cathédrale de
Reims 1854
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Romanticism

• A reaction against the cold and unfeeling
  reason of the Enlightenment and against the
  destruction of nature resulting from the
  Industrial Revolution.
• Stress in on light, color, and self-expression,
  in opposition to the emphasis on line and firm
  modeling typical of neoclassical art

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Romanticism--values

• Emotion
• Feeling
• Morbidity
• Exoticism
• Mystery

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J.M.W. Turner, Château dArques, near Dieppe,
c.1826-27
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J.M.W. Turner, Yarmouth Sands, Norfolk,
c.1824-30
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Daumier, The Third Class Carriage
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Manet The Fifer
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Francisco de Goya, The Third of May
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Géricault, Raft of the Medusa
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Impressionism

• An attempt to portray the fleeting and transitory
  world of sense impressions based on scientific
  studies of light
• Forms are bathed in light and atmosphere
• Colors are juxtaposed for the eye to fuse from a
  distance
• Short choppy brush strokes to catch the vibrating
  quality of light

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Impressionism--values

• Immediatewhat is happening now?
• Accidentaloooops!
• Transitorywhat is changing?

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Claude Monet Water Lilies 1916
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Claude Monet, Nympheas
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Pierre August Renoir Dance at Bougival
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Pierre August Renoir, Les Deux Soeurs
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Pierre August Renoir Two Girls at the Piano
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Edgar Degas The Star
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Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island
of La Grande Jatte