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“Show
me an angel, and I’ll paint one.”
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Courbet
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“It
is more than possible that …the victim of a traumatic sexual experience and the
later-to-be defiant advocate of female capability should have drawn
subconsciously from the wellspring of her female identity and experience to
humanize the treatment of a biblical theme that men had distorted almost beyond
recognition.”
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Gentileschi
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“[His
apprentices] torture themselves stringing together infantile garlands, painting
chubby crimson bottoms, and hurl themselves headlong into all kinds of follies which
cannot be redeemed by originality, fire, tenderness nor by any magic in their
models
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Diderot (about Boucher)
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“For when of books they should be
thinking/They go carousing, roistering and drinking.”
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Brant
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“The
scene of the fighting horse. From the
start, they stood and fought with a fierceness which made me tremble for those
gentlemen, but it was really admirable for a painting.”
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Delacroix
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“As
the photographic industry became the refuge of all failed painters with too
little talent, or too lazy to complete their studies, this universal craze not
only assumed the air of blind and imbecile infatuation, but took on the aspect
of revenge.”
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Baudelaire
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“The
principal figure is Mars, who has left the temple of Janus open…and struts with
his shield and his bloodstained sword, threatening all peoples with disast er;
he pays little attention to Venus, his lady, who, surrounded by her little
love-gods, tries in vain to hold him back with caresses and embraces.”
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Reubens
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“The
first thing that, as the foundation of all others, is required, is that the subject-matter
be grand, as are battles, heroic actions, and divine things.”
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Poussin
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“Therefore, the Christian nobility should set
itself against the pope as against a common enemy and destroyer of Christendom,
and should do this for the salvation of the poor souls who must go to ruin
through his tyranny.”
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Luther
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“Those marks of heroism and civic virtue offered
the eyes of the people will electrify the soul, and plant the seeds of glory
and devotion to the fatherland.”
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David
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Who painted The
Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
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Goya
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Who painted for the French king, then the
Revolutionaries and then Napoleon?
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David
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Which Dutch Baroque artist painted small works
of interiors
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Vermeer
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Which style is associated with ornate, intricate
design, sensual themes, and pastel colors?
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Roccoco
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Which style is associated with social, often
critical, issues and common themes/subjects?
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Realism
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