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The Styles of the Enlightenment

The Styles of the Enlightenment. 1750 – 1820 Rococo Bourgeois Neo-Classical. The Enlightenment ?1688-1789?. 1688 – “Glorious Revolution” in England 1789 – French Revolution. A radical movement in philosophy – atheist or deist Rationalist with an Ancient Roman flair

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The Styles of the Enlightenment

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  1. The Styles of the Enlightenment 1750 – 1820 Rococo Bourgeois Neo-Classical

  2. The Enlightenment?1688-1789? • 1688 – “Glorious Revolution” in England • 1789 – French Revolution • A radical movement in philosophy – • atheist or deist • Rationalist with an Ancient Roman flair • An age of CRITICISM: “religion is superstition” • ideas not always reflected in all of the arts

  3. Sapere aude! “DARE TO KNOW!” – Kant (don’t just “believe”) “Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.” – Voltaire quotes from pp. 296, 295

  4. ROCOCO The softer side of Baroque (or a reaction against it) ornamental sentimental sensuous (trivial) Audience? ARISTOCRACY

  5. Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, 1717, p. 293

  6. Fragonard,The Swing,1769 KEY IMAGE p. 301

  7. Jean Honore Fragonard, The Bathers, 1761

  8. Boucher “His canvases often seem to consist of little beyond mounds of pink flesh . . .”

  9. Francois Boucher, The Toilet of Venus, 1751p. 299

  10. Boucher, Allegory of Music, 1752

  11. Boucher, Odalisk, 1745

  12. Boucher, Shepherd and Shepherdess,1761

  13. Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna – Rococo!!!

  14. Balthasar NeumannVierzehnheiligen, 1743-72 Rococop. 304

  15. The Bourgeois Style: Genre Painting Art for the earnest middle classes (and the aristocracy, too)

  16. Genre painting – A type of painting showing scenes from everyday life and surroundings. The term also refers to the various types of subject matter: history, portraiture, landscape, still life, and flower painting. (Thus “genre painting” is a genre of painting!) See glossary.

  17. Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin(1699-1779) self-portrait, 1771, pastel "We use colors, but we paint with our feelings."

  18. Chardin The Prayer before Meal1744, Oil on canvas, 50 x 38.5 cm • charm • simplicity • subtle moralizing tone not in text; compare fig. 11.15, p. 307

  19. p. 307

  20. CHARDIN, Jean Baptiste SimeonThe Silver Goblet13 x 16 1/4" (33 x 41 cm)The Silver Tureenc. 1728 30 x 42 1/2 in.A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensilsaka The Meat-day Meal1731

  21. Hogarth, WilliamGin Lane1750Etching and engraving14 1/16 x 11 3/4 in MORALIZING Compare to p. 318, The Marriage Contract

  22. Marie-Elisabeth-LouiseVigée-LebrunSelf-Portrait with Daughterc. 1798 Aristocratic patrons Neo-Greek Neo-Renaissance Sentimental KEY IMAGE p. 302

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