PPT-Rococo & Neoclassicism

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Rococo &Neoclassicism


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1.What is art?

2.Why should we appreciate

art?

3.How can we see God inevery style of art?


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Art Timeline

MiddleAge

s(400-1

400)

Rena

issance

(1400-1

55

0)

Mannerism

(1520-1

600)

Baroque(1

600-1

700)

Rococo(1

700-1775)

Neoc

lassic

ism

(1765-18

50)


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Rococo History

Began in France

King Louis XIV

France was on the riseits power and influence was strong..

A response to the heaviness and richness of Baroque, Rococo was

light with more curves-delicate and playful Some see this style as refined and elegant, others judge it as

pompous, indulgent and pretentious.


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Important Charactaristics & Artists

Charactaristics

Pastel colors Lighthearted & playful

Decorative

Leisurley pastimes of the aristocracy

Themes of love Ornate elaboration excess

Fete Galante A type of painting that developed during the Rococo period that depicts a party or

other lighthearted scene taking place outdoors

Artists

Antoine Watteau

Francois Boucher

Jean-Honor Fragonard Nicolas Lancret


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F

rancois

Bouch

er

Mademe de Pompadour

1756


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rancois

Bouch

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The Breakfast


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Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera1717


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nor

F

ragonard

The Swing

1767


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nor

F

ragonard

The Stolen Kiss


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ico

las

Lancre

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A Lady in a Garden taking Coffee with some Children


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MiddleAges

(400-1

400)

Rena

issan

ce

(1400-1

55

0)

Mannerism

(1520-1

600)

Baroque(

1600-1

700)

Rococo

(1700-1

775)

Neoclassicism(

1765-1850)


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Neoclassicism history Age of Enlightenment people began to question everything.

i.e. Do Kings get their power from God? If no, then who gives themthis power? Can the same thing take that power away?

Enlighten to shed light on something; to make it clear.

The scientific revolution, also happening at this time, was

based on empirical observation, changing the way people

thought and what they decided to believe in.

There was a return to classical Greek and Roman ideas.

These thoughts and ideas were important in both the French

and American revolutions.

When have we seen this return to classical thought before??

Art was "to make virtue attractive, vice odious, ridicule

forceful; that is the aim of every honest man who takes up the

pen, the brush or the chisel. Denis Diderot


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Neoclassicism A visual expression of the ideas of the Enlightenment

Neoclassical painters rejected both the high drama and murkyatmosphere of Baroque art and the misty-sentimentality of the

Rococo


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Important Characteristics & Artists

Characteristics Greek or Roman men with spears or swords.

People looking polished and posing in the manner of a statue.

Drawing was more important than painting.

Smooth no obvious brushstrokes. Serious art with a purpose.

Artists

Jacques-Louis David Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

William-Adolphe Bouguereau


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acques

-Louis

Dav

id

The Oath of Horatii

Jacque Louis Davids

painting tells a story

about the founding

of Rome, and

emphasizes the ideaof self-sacrifice for the

state.

The rigid outlines

ofthe mens

forms express their

serious purpose, in

contrast to the soft,

wilting forms of the

women

-expressing the

emotion of the scene.

Davids work was

seen as acondemnation of the

Rococo style and of

the regime that

supported it


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acques-Louis

Dav

id

The Death of Socrates


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acques-Louis

Dav

id

Napoleon Crossing the

Alps


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ean

Augu

steDomin

ique

Ingres

Joan of Arc at the Coronation

of Charles VII

1854


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illiam-A

do

lpheBouguereau

The Day of the Dead

1859


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Biblical worldview

Rococo very focused on apperance.

Only the very wealthy seemed to be important or

even exist in the world.

Neoclassicism enlightenment. What does it

mean to be an enlightened Christian?

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