Neoclassical

1785-now(?)

Neoclassical: inspired and fueled by fascination of the ancients (Greeks, romans)

greatness = ancients

→ grand tours to Italy

history paintings show up

advances in architecture

neoclassical art becomes an insult because it lacks any human feeling

→ leads to the emerging of Romanticism

France

Jac Louis David gets a fab education for rome art school of France

  • moralism, patriotism

  • first great since Rococo

didactic aspect was highly favored in art

  • first commission of David

  • first great painting since Rococo

  • classicicing and very stable pyramid shape formed in arms

  • very accurate clothing

  • Neoclassical art is a very masculine style: accentuating muscles, weak floppy fainting women

    • tight brush strokes

  • Socrates drinks hemlock after questioning greek gods

  • shadow suggests death, light: life

  • Politics change for David

    • becomes friends with Ropes Piere

    • Royalists are guillotined

    • minister of propaganda and making festivals

  • David is a friend of Marat who is killed by a the wife of a man accused of being a royalist

  • Revolutionary government falls and David gets won over by new leader Napoleon Bonaparte

  • very Baroque and Rembrandt

  • made about 5 of these paintings

  • made Napoleon approachable looking

    • arm in vest: peaceful, relaxed

    • little candle: burned all night, clock says 4 AM cause hes hard working

  • Napoleon crowns himself with laurel leaves

    • did not have a good relationship with the clergy

  • his mom is in the center, though she was dead

Italy

  • Very baroque in art

  • Antonio Canova is the most famous sculptor of his time

  • made a portrait of Napoleon that he did not like at all

  • Canova uses mythology as an exscuse to make nudities

  • Conova made his statues easy to copy

  • copies of lions are soo popular

Britian

Angelica Kauffman: swiss and italian painter who painted in London and Rome

  • famously a history painter: highest form of painting

    • biblical subjects

    • classical history

    • depiction of famous literature

    • mythology

  • woman bragging about jewels asks Cornelia to show her jewels, she points to children (sons are revolutionaries)

  • 3rd style roman wall painting vibe: center with embroidery

America

Star Painter: John Singleton Copley

  • did not make portraits in a grand manner, instead gave realistic portraits

  • Paul Revere is in his working clothes, looking at his creation cause he’s a silver smith

  • painting made before his great ride

  • Pillar in the back meaning they are rational people

  • Sarah is spinning her own clothing to boycott english goods

  • Copley moves to England choosing clients who are pro british

  • war breaks out in americas and he stays in england for the rest of his life

    → makes light hearted artwork now

  • more emotional work of art

  • prelude to Romanticism??

Jean Houdon

  • the Bust of Benjamin Franklin

  • Neoclassicism: wearing a toga

  • predates the french revolution

  • ends ip on nickel

  • George Washington

    • has a plow behind him, retired by becoming a farmer

    • comment on fascism, he couldve taken full power but didn’t

    • 13 rods of the 13 colonies

    • Commissioned to Houdon by Jefferson

  • Jefferson commisions Conova to make a sculpture of Washington

  • roman generals

  • Jefferson was a prior architect who Loved Palatio

inspired by Palatio

St. Peter’s Basilica

  • Painting of GW instead of oculus

  • CORN PILLAR

  • American neoclassical art