Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism

Rococo

french art, begins in 1715 and ends with the french revolution of 1789

-extravagance, pleasure, sensuality, and sexuality

Salon

an art exhibit held every year by the school of fine arts at the louvre

Ecole des Beaux-arts

French school for artists taught only by academy members with a strong italian connection because they loved classical elements

Prix de Rome

a scholarship given to promising art students, which allows them to study in rome for 3-5 years

R.A Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture

adhered to a hierachal structure of genres that distinguished between different subject matters

- a painter could be admitted at any of the levels

Hierarchy of Painting

the different subjects and genres

still life

essentially a picture, painting of a bowl of apples

portrait

painting of someone else

landscape

painting of a place

genre

religion, mythology, or history

Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera

Antoine Watteau, 1717

What do R.A Initials signify?

the painter is a member of the royal academy

The Swing

Jean-Honore Fragonard, 1766

Neo-classicism

originates in france, a response against roccoco

-carried messages about patriotism and sacrifice for the greater good

Oath of the Horatii

Jacques-Louis David 1784-85

Death of Marat

Jacques-Louis David, 1793

-Jean Paul Marat was a physician, scientist, and radical journalist who suffered from a skin ailment (paraigo) and commonly was in a medicine bath

-Charlotte Corday, a supporter of the arisocracy, stabs him

Romanticism

exists side by side with Neoclassicism

-deals with the exploration of emotion, expression, and imagination

-popular in france, england, and america

The Raft of Medusa

Theodore Gericault, 1818-19

-massive 16ftx23ft

-July 2nd 1816 medusa the ship sinks so a raft is made to hold 100 people who are stuck off the coast of africa

-gericault got really into it, getting body parts from the morgue, interviewing survivors, having the carpenter build the raft

Liberty Leading the People: July 28, 1830

Eugene Delacroix, 1830

Lithography

printing technique where the surface is flat and oil is painted on

realism

a representation of how the world truly is, focused on laborers and common folk

Burial at Ornans

Gustave Courbert, 1849-50

-about the artists own death and his burial, showing his dog, sisters, and father

Napolean Crossing the Alps

Jacques-Louis David, 1801-05

Rue Transnonian, April 15, 1834

Honore Daumier, 1834

The Family of Charles IV

Francisco Goya, 1800