APAH Unit 10: Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticsm, Realism, Photography, Impressionism

Pointillism

Technique characterized by the separation of colors into individual dabs and patches. Using this technique, artists believed they could attain the maximum luminosity of color.

The Englightenment

The Age of Reason, a 17th and 18th-century intellectual and cultural movement emphasizing reason, individualism, and skepticism of traditional authority.

Natural Art / Naturalism

A style that seeks to represent objects or living beings as they appear to the eye, realistically.

Hudson River School

A group of American landscape painters that emerged around 1850s under the influence of Thomas Cole.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

A group of young English artists in the Victorian era who rejected contemporary middle-class taste and academic painting. They sought to create a “truthful", serious art that harkened back to Early Renaissance models and were inspired by literature, religious scenes, etc.

Daguerreotypes

An early photographic process that creates a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative, invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre.

Calotypes

An early photographic process using paper coated with silver iodide, introduced by William Henry Fox Talbot.

Wet-Plate Photography

An early photographic method that uses glass or metal plates, a mixture of chemicals, and a darkroom.

Modernism

A 20th-century movement that rejected traditional values and technqiues, and emphasized individual experience, experimentation, and abstraction.

Decorative Arts

A visual art form involving the creation of objects that are aesthetically pleasing and still retain a functional use.

Arts and Crafts Movement

Art Nouveau

A style in architecture, decorative arts, graphic art and design that was inspired by natural forms, such as the curves of vines.

“Form follows function”

The idea that the design or appearance of something should primarily be determined by its purpose or function rather than by aesthetics or historical styles.

The Swing

• Artist: Jean-Honore Fragonard

• Period: Rococo

• Year: 1767

Portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

• Artist: Miguel Cabrera

• Period: Rococo

• Year: 1750

  • Enlightenment/Industrial Revolution

A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery

• Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby

• Period: Rococo

• Year: 1763-1765

  • Enlightenment/Industrial Revolution

The Tête à Tête from Marriage à la Mode

• Artist: William Hogarth

• Period: Rococo

• Year: 1743

  • Natural Art

The Oath of the Horatii

• Artist: Jacques-Louis David

• Period: Neoclassicism

• Year: 1784

Monticello

• Artist: Thomas Jefferson???

• Period: Neoclassicism

• Year: 1768-1809

George Washington

• Artist: Jean-Antoine Houdon

• Period: Neoclassicism

• Year: 1788-1792

Self-Portrait

• Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun

• Period: Neoclassicism

• Year: 1790

La Grande Odalisque

• Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

• Period: Romanticism

• Year: 1814

  • Art under Napoleon

Y no hai remedio (And There’s Nothing to Be Done), from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)

• Artist: Francisco Goya

• Period: Romanticism

• Year: 1810-1823

Liberty Leading the People

• Artist: Eugene Delacroix

• Period: Romanticism

• Year: 1830

The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)

• Artist: Joseph Mallord William (JMW) Turner

• Period: Romanticism

• Year: 1840

The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm)

• Artist: Thomas Cole

• Period: Romanticism

• Year: 1836

The Stone Breakers

• Artist: Gustave Courbet

• Period: Realism

• Year: 1849

Olympia

• Artist: Edouard Manet

• Period: 1863

• Year: Realism

Palace of Westminster (House of Parliament)

• Artist: Charles Bary and Augustus WN Pugin

• Period: Realism

• Year: 1840-1870

Still Life in Studio

• Artist: Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre

• Period: Photography

• Year: 1837

Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art

• Artist: Honore Daumier

• Period: Photography

• Year: 1862

Horse Galloping

• Artist: Eadweard Muybridge

• Period: Photography

• Year: 1878

The Steerage

• Artist: Alfred Stieglitz

• Period: Photography

• Year: 1907

The Coiffure

• Artist: Mary Cassatt

• Period: Impressionism

• Year: 1890-1891

Starry Night

• Artist: Vincent van Gogh

• Period: Post-Impressionism

• Year: 1889

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

• Artist: Paul Gauguin

• Period: Post-Impressionism

• Year: 1897-1898

Mont Sainte-Victoire

• Artist: Paul Cezanne

• Period: Post-Impressionism

• Year: 1902-1904

The Scream

• Artist: Edvard Munch

• Period: Symbolism

• Year: 1893

The Kiss

• Artist: Gustave Klimt

• Period: Symbolism

• Year: 1907-1908

The Burghers of Calais

• Artist: Auguste Rodin

• Period: Realism?

• Year: 1884-1895

  • Sculpture

Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building

• Artist: Henry Sullivan

• Period: Art Nouveau

• Year: 1899-1903

  • Architecture/Decorative Arts

Select two works of art or architecture from the late 18th and early 19th centuries to compare. Assess these works as representational of the styles and periods from these centuries. How do they conform to the philosophies and ideologies of their styles? How do they inform the viewer of the environment? How do they reflect the artist and the country of origin?