Week 11: Rocco and Neoclassicism

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Louis XIV

  • Europes most powrful country was France

  • Louis was a dictator

  • “ I am the state” no one could dethrone him

  • believed God gave him the devine right

  • Sun never sets in his large kingdom

  • to Apolla (sun motif)

  • bunch of art proaganda

  • large scale portrait

  • he was really short, loved wearing hells

  • in his 60s, (ballet dancer)

  • feret coat showing his wealth

  • flur de les, symbol of France

  • artist representing him in a postive light

  • being 60 was rare atp since everyone died early

  • moved palace from France to Versailles

  • invited elite to move nearby and hosted parties with deliciious food

  • inside palace was paintings, chandeliers

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Rococo Art Style:

  • a style of art and decoration characterized by lightness

  • pastel colors, grace, playfulness, and intimacy that emerged in France in the early eighteenth century

  • spread across Europe until the late eighteenth century.

  • Though primarily an interior design movement, artists in painting and sculpture moved away from the serious subject matter of the Baroque

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<p>Madame de Pompadour</p>

Madame de Pompadour

  • two paintings, one is green dress elongated, one is pink dress up close

  • mistress

  • sexualized and an intellectual

  • she was a politcal figure

  • King’s closest advisor

  • made public statements

  • patron of the arts

  • loved pastel colors

  • many tried to copy her

  • she encouraged encyclopedia making

  • reading, pen/feather shes writing, roses at her feet (king gave them)

  • vanity over interest

  • bracelet with King on it, the king favors her

  • pastel: pink and green

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<p>The Swing</p>

The Swing

  • they had an old man push the man’s lover so he can look under her skirt

  • cupid is shown, showing love

  • She is throwing her shoe to her lover

  • Romantic

  • pastel colors pinks and greens

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<p><span>Return from Cythera</span></p>

Return from Cythera

  • Cythera is island, birth place of Aphrodite, goddess of love

  • cupid, bow is tied to his moms statue

  • Cupdi grabbing and encouraging woman to fall in love with the man

  • love is all around

  • couples get closer & closer a progression

  • man helping a woman up

  • man grabbing a woman’s waist

  • interperated as coupoles leaving or entering Cythera (the city of love)

  • angels flyinf above holding a torch

  • humans mixed with mythology

  • Jean submitted this work for an aristrocratic audience

  • fete galante: new genre which means elite elegant outdoor entertainment, tight-hearted

  • themes of love

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<p>The Birth of Venus </p>

The Birth of Venus

  • mythologic galante- a decorative style of fine art painting in which the undramatic mythological theme is an excuse for erotic display of the female nude

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The Age of Enlightenment

  • Enlighten—the idea of shedding light on something, illuminating it, making it clear.

  • The thinkers of the Enlightenment, influenced by the scientific revolutions of the previous century, believed in shedding the light of
    science and reason on the world in order to question traditional ideas and ways of doing things.

  • The scientific revolution (based on empirical observation, and not on metaphysics or spirituality) gave the impression that the
    universe behaved according to universal and unchanging laws

  • This provided a model for looking rationally on human institutions as well as nature.

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Neoclassicism

  • The Neoclassicists looked back to the French painter Nicolas Poussin for their inspiration (Poussin’s work exemplifies the interest in classicism in French art of the seventeenth century)

  • Neoclassicism's rise was in large part due to the popularity of the Grand Tour, in which art students and the general aristocracy were given access to recently unearthed ruins in Italy, and as a result became enamored with the aesthetics and philosophies of ancient art

  • Neoclassicism is characterized by clarity of form, sober colors, shallow space, strong horizontal and verticals that render that subject matter timeless, and Classical subject matter (or classicizing contemporary subject matter).

  • Drawing was considered more important than painting. The Neoclassical surface had to look perfectly smooth—no evidence of brush-strokes should be discernible to the naked eye.

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<p>Oath of the Horatii</p>

Oath of the Horatii

  • story id from Roman legend

  • romans vs rival city

  • fighting, no end

  • decided to elect two representatives

  • Rome chose Horatii

  • soldiers realize that by fighting they lose something

  • 3 sons saluting father

  • it means they concur or die

  • horizontal and verticals

  • David loves line over color (artists)

  • Salon is a place where work got analyzed

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<p>Death of Marat</p>

Death of Marat

  • violence of Revolution continue

  • David (artists) signed a petition in favor of beheading the queen

  • France had multiple leaders during the time

  • Morat was killed, atonomy is correct

  • wooden board with title and artists name

  • their is writintg, saying the date and says “My great unhappiness gives me a right to your kindness)

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<p>The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries: </p>

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries:

  • young general

  • became a hero in his eyes

  • called himself emperor

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<p><span>Napoleon Crossing the Alps or Bonaparte at the St Bernard Pass</span></p>

Napoleon Crossing the Alps or Bonaparte at the St Bernard Pass

  • “Nobody knows if the portraits of the great men resemble them, it is enough that their genius lives there.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

  • “calme sur un cheval fougueux” calm on a fiery horse

  • trip took 4 months

  • Napoleon liked it so much he kept the portrait

  • Roman traditon /Emperor on a horse

  • not really realistic, it was idealized

  • Napolean dollowd his troops not led them

  • Arabian Stallion in the painting rode a donkey irl (trying to dramatize everything)


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<p>The Coronation of Napoleon:</p>

The Coronation of Napoleon:

  • Napoleon was crowned king

  • they aso crowned his wife during this ceremony

  • huge painting, very large irl

  • just more art to enflate his ego

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<p><br><span>Portrait of Madeleine</span></p>


Portrait of Madeleine

  • family was poor, father encouraged his two daugthers to become artists

  • black woman, body is facing to the left

  • sombre look on her face likely an individual

  • white headwrap

  • white outfit one slipped and one breast is showing to the audience

  • could be an allegory for Fance, there is red, white and blue here

  • France was very wealthy from the Atlantic Slave trade

  • slavery was orignially forbidden by Drance bu bough multiple islands to take slaves too

  • Napoleon eventually reastablishing slavery inside of France itself

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<p><span>Portrait of Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belle</span></p>

Portrait of Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belle

  • freed since he served in the military for France

  • advocated for no slavery, equal rights

  • sculpture of man (for slavery) behind him

  • wearing France’s color

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<p>Ayuba Suleiman Diallo</p>

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

  • he was from Senegal

  • no anger just dignified

  • eyes are haunting

  • father was a slave trader

  • he got himself as a victim to the slave trade and ended up in the system

  • American plantation for two years then traveled to Britain after befriending someone

  • scholar of Islam

  • mark on forhead from praying so much

  • “AM I not a man”

  • he wentback into slave trading

  • race + religion emphasis here

  • slave traders got reperations since they lost slaves, just recently British citizens just stoped paying reparations due to time