Mona List Assessment #4

Antoine Watteau

Return from Cythera

1717

New category of painting (Rococo Style)

Serpentine style (associated with Rococo style)

• how to create movement within art

Fantastical imagery (especially boat, cupids, landscape)

Form of courtly love

Aerial perspective

Dead tree - still death, lifes end

Chardin

The Young Schoolmistress

1736

Represents act of schooling and teaching (older sister teaching younger brother)

Emphasize importance of teaching and learning

Greuze

Village Bride

1761

Emphasized genre imagery, didacticism (what images can teach us)

Peasant and humble interiors

Refers to arranged marriage (big point of discussion at this point in history)

Hen with chicks (represents fertility)

William Hogarth

The Marriage Contract

1745

One of a series of 6 paintings which critiqued marriage customs

2 dogs chained together (represent how marriage is)

Both do not want to get married, facing away from one another, both will go on to have affairs

Joseph Wright of Derby

Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump

1768

Genre painting related to British Industrial Revolution

Chiaroscuro (Caravaggio influenced him) (flashlight)

Angelica Kauffmann

Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures

1785

Example of Exempla Virtutis (examples of virtue, enlightenment period)

Friend asking what her treasures are, Cornelia says that her children are her treasures

Neoclassical style, exempla virtutis

Saturated colors (no longer using Rococo style)

Diagonals lead eye to foreground

Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii

1784

Extremely influential

Transformed French style (from Rococo to

Forceful figures with anatomical naturalism (audiences very impressed)

What is more important, your country or your family?

Dilemma

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun

Marie Antoinette and Her Children

1787

The painter for Marie Antoinette

Tried to counteract the criticism by presenting Queen as mother of her country

Jacques-Louis David

Death of Marat

1793

New Revolutionary government would have paintings made of their martyrs

Marat was doctor who became writer (denouced people who would betray revolutionary government)

Represented moment after he was stabbed and killed

Represented as an idealized Roman hero

Girodet

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies

1797

Ex-slave, fought in Haitian revolution

Leaning on bust of Raynal, important abolitionist

Emblamatic representation on abolition of slavery