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July Monarchy

July Monarchy. Louis Philippe – King in 1830. Compromise Policy – a.k.a. happy medium. July Monarchy – crucial for French culture and art – synthesis of Classicism and Romanticism. > resurgence of landscape painting. > popularity of historic and Orientalist genre scenes.

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July Monarchy

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  1. July Monarchy • Louis Philippe – King in 1830. • Compromise Policy – a.k.a. happy medium. • July Monarchy – crucial for French culture and art – synthesis of Classicism and Romanticism. > resurgence of landscape painting. > popularity of historic and Orientalist genre scenes. > popularization of high art > explosion of printed images in books, newspapers, etc.

  2. Revolution of 1848 • caused by a food shortage dating to 1846 • touched off revolutions throughout the European community • Louis Philippe fled to England • Second Republic proclaimed • Alphonse de Lamartine • Napoleon III

  3. Jean-Baptiste- Camille Corot, Self Portrait, 1825

  4. Photographers • Like painters, attracted to the orient • Maxime Du Camp • monuments and urban scenes in Egypt • Charles Cordier • indigenous people – “ethnographic photography”

  5. Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre

  6. Daguerreotype Yielded a positive image on a polished metal plate Disadvantage of the daguerreotype considerable time to prepare, expose and develop the plate couldn’t be reproduced

  7. HonoreDaumier (French, 1808-1879)

  8. Second Empire • improved France • science, technology and industry • public works • state of the lower class

  9. Salons of the Second-Empire • historic genre scenes • Orientalist scenes • female nudes • landscape paintings • Realist peasant painting • contemporary urban life scenes • portraiture

  10. Roots of Realism • Charles Baudelaire • Review of Salon of 1846 called for the depiction of the grand present

  11. Realism • “the artistic engagement with the ordinary, contemporary life that began in the 1840s is known as ‘Realism.’” Source: Chu. Nineteenth-Century European Art

  12. The Desperate Man (Self Portrait) (1844-45) Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)

  13. Velasquez, Maids of Honor, 1656/57

  14. Goya, Family of Charles IV, 1800

  15. Lucian Freud and Leigh Bowery imitating the poses of artist and model in Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio, photographed by Bruce Bernard. Freud insisted there was nothing special about his studio, but in fact it was ‘a meticulously constructed space with almost surreal features including walls layered in impasto where he wiped his brushes’.

  16. Delacroix, Woman with a Parrot, 1827

  17. Henry Fuseli, the Nightmare, 1781

  18. Henri Fantin-Latour, Portrait of Édouard Manet, 1867

  19. Thomas Couture, The Romans of the Decadence, 1847

  20. Hiroshige, Utagawa(Japanese 1797-1858)Koume Embankment from 100 Views of EdoColor woodcut; 1857

  21. Hokusai, 36 Views of Mt. Fuji, the Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1823

  22. Giorgione, Fête Champêtre or SymphoniePastorale, 1508

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