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Jean-Antoine WatteauPilgrimage to the Island of Cytherea, 1717"fete galante"- Elegant works of art. What Watteau was famous for. Example of Rococo art.Scene of love making, people viewing babies flying around.Shows an end of a day of love between partners. The landscape becomes a part of the story. Growing interest in nature. Shows interest in physical and human nature.
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Jean-Simeon ChardinThe Governess, 1739Example of Enlightenment Art. Enlightenment was a period in which people believed "all things are possible if people would use reasoning".Child has shuttlecock and racket on the ground. Woman is dusting off his dirty hat. Speaks about the importance of children as the leaders of tomorrow's world.
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Angelica KauffmannCornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, ca. 1785.Example of Neoclassic art.Shows a contest of values (material belongings vs. cherishing family)Cornelia points towards her children as her "jewels" when the woman looking to sell her jewelry asks he where her other jewelry is. Little girl reaching into jewelry box represents temptation. Emphasis on the importance of children.
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Jacques-Louis DavidOath of the Horatii, 1784-85An example of Neoclassic Art.Horatii brothers are giving an oath of fighting to the death for Rome. The female world is slumped over in grief for what is to come. (5 out of 6 Horatii die, perhaps symbolic of the fall of Rome to the Visigoths).Strong outlines, primary colors, austere classic setting.You see a separation between the angular, pointed men and the curvilineature females.
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Jacques-Louis DavidThe Death of Marat. 1793Example of Art as Propaganda.Marat was a revolutionary journalist who was weeding out non-revolutionaries during the French Revolution, and reporting them to head revolutionaries, who would execute or imprison these people.He was stabbed in a medicinal bath for his skin disorder by a woman who said she had information about anti-revolutionaries in the area.David is drawing on Christian iconography to communicate Marat's importaqnce as a martyr for the cause of revolution.
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Antoine-Jean GrosNapoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa, 1804Example of Art as Propaganda.Soldiers are suffering and dying of the plague.Napoleon is shown reaching out to touch the swords of the individual soldier in order to touch his wounds. Shows Napoleon a sort of a Christ-like figure. Sort of like Rembrandt's "Christ Healing the Sick".
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Francisco GoyaThe Third of May, 1808, 1814-15Example of Romanticism.Napoleon and his Turkish mercenaries murdered Spanish resistance members outside of Madrid, even though many of these men surrendered. Shows anticipation of those about to be killed.Picture defies reason. Trying to scare off resistance members by killing these people.
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Theodore GericaultThe Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819 (France)Example of Romanticism.French ship wandering off the coast of West Africa.The moment of the sighting of the rescue ship.Dead bodies on the boat. You can see the ship is in agony.Figures clearly show us man's inhumanity to man, through people clawing on top of dead bodies and suffering people to get the boat's attention. In addition, it shows many characteristics on ancient views of body image.
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Joseph Mallord William TurnerThe Slave Ship, 1840 (England)Example of Romanticism. Beautiful landscape painting. Landscape is telling the story itself. The ship is dark and showing an evil aura within the red of the sky.Landscape is conveying the moral message that slavery is a cruel practice.
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John Constable,The Hay Wain, 1824 (England)Example of Romanticism.
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A style of architecture and the decorative arts characterized by intricate ornamentation that was popular throughout Europe in the early 18th century.
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Rococo
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Survived in both architecture and sculpture beyond the middle of the century, as patrons and artists continued to use it to promote the virtues of democracy and republicanism. Return to the “classical” (Greek) look of architecture and promotion. Embodied universal standards of taste and beauty. Complemented the academy’s idea of itself as a repository of tradition in fast-changing times.
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Neoclassicism
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An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th
century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the
individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes
and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and
conventions.
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Romanticism
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A subject in painting depicting well-dressed people at leisure in a park or country setting. It is most often associated with eighteenth-century French Rococo painting.
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Fete galante
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Paintings based on historical, mythological, or biblical narratives. Once considered the noblest form of art, history paintings generally convey a high moral or intellectual idea and are often painted in a grand pictorial style.
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History painting
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