ARTH Exam 3 Study Guide

Watteau, Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, 1717 (aristocratic)

Boucher, Triumph of Venus, 1740 (rococo) (Venus is sitting on a wave like she’s sitting on a throne; nymphs/cupids surround her; Painting is light, fun, and made for pleasure)

David, Oath of the Horatii, 1785 (father handing off swords to 3 sons)

David, Death of Marat, 1793 (Marat (journalist advocating for the people) assassinated 13 July 1793 by Charlotte Corday)

Goya, Third of May 1808, 1814

Rococo Style

Popularized by Boucher

Absolutism

When monarchical power is unrestrained by church or legislature (ex: King Louis)

Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1799 (when reason sleeps, is when monsters emerge)

Goya, Burial of the Sardine, 1816 (half a buried pig, shaped like a sardine; carnival; creepy, sadistic

Orientalism

European fantasy of the Middle East/Asia

Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1831 (1830 Revolution)

Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857 (laborers/workers)

John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents, 1850 (Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood) (middle class people didn’t appreciate it cause its ugly)

Courbet, The Stonebreakers, 1849-50

Courbet, Burial of Ornans, 1849

Courbet, Peasants of Flagey Returning from the Fair, 1849

The 1849-50 Trilogy

- 3 Paintings by Courbet that were controversial because it showed poor people working.

-Not timeless

Courbet, The Studio of the Painter: A real Allegory Summing up Seven Years of My Artistic Life, 1854-55 (for Proudhon, art was an ideal form of labor through which human virtue could become manifest. As society evolved, all labor would tend towards the aesthetic; mythic role of the artist

-Left: old society

-Middle: artist

-Right: new societyc

Caillebotte, The Europe Bridge, 1876 (flaneur - wanderer, watches people around the city)

Manet , Luncheon on the Grass, 1863 (refused by the Salon de Refuses) (poking fun at the middle class)

Manet, Olympia, Salon of 1865 (people thought it was ugly and trashy; they called her a courtesan, aka prostitute)

Monet, La Grenouilliere, 1869

Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, c.1882 (mirror behind her is confusing)

Renoir, The Loge, 1874

Bethe Morisot, View of Paris from the Trocadero, 1872 (view of the city from the outside)

Mary Cassatt, Woman in Black at the Opera, 1879

Hiroshige, People on a Bridge Surprised by Rain, 100 Famous Views of Edo, 1857, woodblock print (meisho tradition of picturing famous places)

Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1832

Monet Style

-Light

-Sensation

-Atmospheric

Manet Style

-Focuses on: Social relationships (making fun of rich/middle class people & prostitution)

Japonisme

Fad for Japanese Art in the late 19 century in Europe.