Modern Art History Unit 1

Rococo Characteristics

1. Pastel pallette

2. Feathery brushstrokes

3. Feminine style

4. Frivolous subject matter

Pilgrimage to Cythera

Antoine Watteau

Rococo

1717

The Swing

Jean-Honore Fragonard

Rococo

1766

The Toilette of Venus

Francois Boucher

Rococo

1751

Neoclassical Characteristics

1. Clarity of Brushstroke

2. Greek Art (Roman/Greco Influence)

3. Idealized figures

4. Heroic grandeur

5. Push the subject to the foreground

Self Portrait

Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun

1790

Cornelia Presenting her Children as her Treasures / Mother of the Gracchi

Angelica Kauffman

Neoclassical

1785

The Death of Socrates

J.L. David

Neoclassical

1787

Oath of the Horatii

Jacques-Louis David

Neoclassical

1784

Death of Marat

Jacques-Louis David

Neoclassical

1793

Monticello

Thomas Jefferson

Neoclassical

1779-1806

Romanticism Characteristics

2.) Emotion over Reason

3.) Exotic location

4.) Christian themes

5.) Literature

6.) Ideas about freedom

7.) Sublime

8.) Man against nature

9.) Fervent brushstrokes

Ancient of Days

William Blake

Romantic

1794

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Francisco Goya

Romantic

1798

Third of May, 1808

Francisco Goya

Romantic

1814-1815

Raft of the Medusa

Theodore Gericault

Romantic

1818-1819

Death of Sardanapalus

Eugene Dealacroix

Romantic

1827

Liberty Leading the People

Eugene Dealacroix

Romantic

1830

Abbey in the Oak Forest

Caspar David Friedrich

Romantic

1810

The Hay Wain

John Constable

Romantic

1821

The Slave Ship

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Romantic

1840

The Oxbow

Thomas Cole

Romantic

1836

Realism: Characteristics

1.) Realism

2.) Democratization of art

3.) Positivism/Empiricism (Data-driven)

4.) Real people/Events

5.) Challenge the Academy

Burial at Ornans

Gustavo Courbet

Realism

1849

The Gleaners

Jean-Francois Millet

Realism

1857

Third Class Carriage

Honore Daumier

Realism

1862

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur

Realism

1853-1855

Olympia

Edouard Manet

Realism

1863

The Veteran in a New Field

Winslow Homer

Realism

1865

The Gross Clinic

Thomas Eakins

Realism

1875

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

John Singer Sargent

Realism

1882

The Thankful Poor

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Realism

1894

Ophelia

John Everett Millais

Realism

1852

Beata Beatrix

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Realism

1863

Nadar Raising Photography

Daumier

1862

Eugene Delacroix

Nadar

1855

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg Pennsylvania

Timothy O’Sullivan

1863