Baroque-Post Impressionism Art History

Baroque

• Grand, dramatic, action, theatrical
• Complete understanding of anatomy and perspective
  • Artists were seen as intelligent, talented, of a special class
• Rembrandt
  • Dutch Baroque Painter 1606-1669
  • Had dramatic lighting in his work, ultra/hyper real
  • The Night watch

• Reubens
  • Raising of the Cross

• Bernini
  • Sculptor in Italy
  • Daphne and Apollo, David, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa

Rococo (French)

• 18th c.
• Decline of the aristocracy
  • Artwork right before the French Revolution, very few people holding the wealth.
• Pastel, Playful, Romance theme
• Fragonard
  • The Swing

• Watteau
  • The Bathers

• Boucher
• Architecture
  • Good example is Wieskirche, near Steingarden, Germany

Neoclassicism

• 19th c.
• Didactic (moral message)
  • Patriotism, honor, courage, things that make you a good citizen
• Return to classic era
• David
  • The Death of Marat
    • Marat was a revolutionary who was stabbed, he became a martyr for the revolution

• Ingres
• Monticello
  • Thomas Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville Virginia, Neoclassical Architecture

Romanticism

• Passion, intuition, talent
• Nature, emotion
  • Can’t be measured/ quantified
• Primacy of the individual
• Delacroix
  • The Death of Sardanapalus
    • Use of red because of the passion and emotion

• Gericault
  • The Raft of the Medusa
    • Shows elements of nature

 

Realism

• 19th c.
• Represented subject truthfully
• Rejected emotionalism and exaggeration
• Rousseau
• Courbet (French)
  • The Stone Breakers

• Homer (American)
  • Snap the Whip

• Millet (French)
  • The Gleaners

Impressionism

• 19th c.
• Rapid execution, free brush stroke
• Bright color
• Painting out-of-doors (Plein Air)
• Monet
  • He began impressionism in 1872 with his painting Impression Sunrise

• Degas
  • The Green Dancer

Post Impressionism

• Individual expression by artist after impressionism
• Van Gogh
  • Starry Night

• Gauguin
• Seurat
• Cezanne
  • Called the father of modern art because of his use of abstraction and shape.
  • Painting is not just a picture of something else, but a thing of its own (color and shape arrangement)
  • Mont St Victoire