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European Art. Mannerism. Distortion of light and space to enhance emotion Greek painter working in Spain – el Greco. El Greco “The Holy Family” – Spanish Renaissance. El Greco “A View of Toledo”. El Greco “Christ”. Baroque.
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Mannerism • Distortion of light and space to enhance emotion • Greek painter working in Spain – el Greco
Baroque • Extreme use of detail, movement, light and drama in a search for beauty • Rembrandt van Rijn • Peter Paul Rubens • Diego Velazquez • Caravaggio
Rembrandt • “Christ in the Storm…”
Self-portrait • Rembrandt
Rubens • “I’m not fat – I am Rubensesque” • “Portrait of Helene Fourment”
Rembrandt • “Venus at the Mirror”
Velazquez • “Las Meninas”
Rococo • Baroque led to the overly-ornate or gaudy form of rococo • Louis XIV – “I am grandeur incarnate” • Reaction against rococo extremes led to neo-classicism
Neo-Classicism • Enlightened Reason • Return to Rome and Greece • Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres • Jacques-Louis David
Ingres • “Napoleon”
David • “Death of Marat”
Romanticism • Reaction against Neo-Classicism • Eugene Delacroix • Francisco Goya • J.M.W. Turner • William Blake • Thomas Gainsborough
Delacroix • “Greece Expiring..”
JMW Turner – “The fighting ‘Temeraire’ tugged to her last berth to be broken up”
“Blue Boy” • Gainsborough
Realism • Realism was a reaction against Romanticism – influenced by the developing Industrial Revolution • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot • Edouard Manet • Edgar Degas • Thomas Eakins
Manet • “The Fifer”
Manet • “Portrait of Emil Zola”
“La Classe de Danse” • Degas
American – Thomas Eakins • “The Gross Clinic”