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Types of Paintings religious images portraits history paintings still lifes

Types of Paintings religious images portraits history paintings still lifes genre* (scenes from every day life) * Genre painting is a fairly new development at the end of the 16th century (1580’s). Religious Images. Christ Preaching Rembrandt 1652 etching. Portraits.

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Types of Paintings religious images portraits history paintings still lifes

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  1. Types of Paintings • religious images • portraits • history paintings • still lifes • genre* (scenes from every day life) • * Genre painting is a fairly new development at the end of the 16th century (1580’s).

  2. Religious Images Christ PreachingRembrandt1652etching

  3. Portraits Jacques-Louis DavidPortrait of the Marquise d'Orvilliers1790Oil on canvas, 131 x 98 cmMusée du Louvre, Paris

  4. History Paintings Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe 1770 oil on canvas

  5. Still Lifes A Vase of FlowersJean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin1760-61oil on canvas

  6. Genre Jean-Baptiste Greuze The Father's Curse: The Ungrateful Son1777 oil on canvas

  7. What type of painting is this one? How would you categorize it?

  8. Watteau was finally admitted to the French Academy on the basis of this painting: Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717). The subject of this painting does not fit any established category. The Academy actually invented a new category for Watteau: the fetes galantes—elegant entertainments.

  9. Cythera is the island of love in classical mythology; the young couples have journeyed to Cythera to pay tribute to Venus, the goddess of love. The boat on the left waits to return these couples back to the every day life.

  10. Is this meant to be a depiction of “real” life or the projection of a dream—a scene from a play?

  11. Jean-Antoine Watteau The Festival of Lovec. 1717 oil on canvas, 61 x 75 cm

  12. Jean-Antoine Watteau Diana at her Bath1715-16 oil on canvas

  13. Jean-Antoine Watteau Pilgrimage to Cythera1718-20 oil on canvas, 129 x 194 cm

  14. Watteau’s work signals an artistic movement…. Jean-Antoine Watteau The Embarkation for Cythera1718-20 oil on canvas

  15. Rococo

  16. Characteristics of Rococo: • According to Stokstad, Rococo is refined, fanciful, and often playful (939). • Rococo is characterized by pastel colors, delicately curving forms, dainty figures and a light-hearted mood. • Rococo first appeared in France around 1700, primarily as a style of interior design as the French court moved from Versailles back to Paris and all the rich courtiers (think entourage but incredibly wealthy) redecorated their hotels (mansions) in the latest style of the moment. • Paintings on canvas were used to decorate the walls.

  17. Characteristics of Rococo: • According to Gardner, Rococo appeared in France around 1700, primarily as a style of interior design (780). • Shells and shell forms are the principal motifs in Rococo ornament • Expect irregular painted shapes surmounted by sculpture (imagine a painted surface with a white, sculpted putto on top). • Painting, architecture, and sculpture will combine to form a single ensemble, (see Francois de Cuvillies, Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg, Nymphenburg Palace park, Munich Germany, early 18th century). • Expect soft colors; themes of love and happy scenes in outdoor settings a putto Hall of Mirrors

  18. Characteristics of Rococo:Compare the style Rococo painting and Baroque; both these painting were made for the French court. Hyacinthe RigaudState Portrait of Louis XV 1715Baroque moving toward Rococo; this boy will grow up to become the man who befriends Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry Hyacinthe RigaudLouis XIV 1701Baroque

  19. Jean-Antoine Watteau The upper-class enjoys nature while on elaborate picnics.Subject matter: fete galante (elegant outdoor entertainment)—a subset of genre painting intended for the rich?Watteau seems to love “soft-focus” trees and hazy atmospheric effects. Watteau died when he was only thirty-seven of the same disease that everyone in Wuthering Heights dies from…..

  20. François Boucher • moves the viewer closer to the subject; • the content of many of his works are based on mythological scenes • details are subordinated so the human form can become the central focus of the image; the details are sued to provide a context—a reason—for the nude • Madame du Pompadour was François Boucher’s major patron; Pompadour was an amateur artist and took lessons from Boucher (she was the mistress of Louis XV)

  21. François Boucher • Boucher worked from 1735 on(and on….) decorating the royal palaces at Versailles and Fontainebleau; he was a court painter (which would be the opposite of self-expression—the opposite of the Chinese literati); • Boucher welcomed a young Fragonard into his studio as an apprentice-assistant (at no charge)

  22. FrançoisBoucherDiana Resting after her Bath1742Oil on canvas, 56 x 73 cm

  23. FrançoisBoucherDiana Resting after the Hunt Oil on canvas, 56 x 73 cm

  24. FrançoisBoucherThe Toilet of Venus1751Oil on canvas, 108,3 x 85,1 cm This painting and its pendant, Venus Consoling Love (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), were commissioned by Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, for her Château de Bellevue, near Paris. Madame de Pompadour had played the title role in La Toilette de Vénus staged at Versailles in 1750. From http://www.metmuseum.org

  25. François BoucherPortrait of Marquise de Pompadour1759

  26. Jean-Honoré Fragonard • He was an apprentice-assistant to Boucher. • Notice that the content of Fragonard’s works seems to be “interrupted” or “frozen” moments between lovers. Because it seems as if time has suddenly been stopped in his paintings, the paintings have a tremendous immediacy. • His patron was originally Madame du Barry (the last mistress of Louis XV), but unfortunately, du Barry decided the Rococo style was “over” and Neoclassicism was the new “hot” thing. Louis XVMaurice Quentin de La Tour

  27. Jean-Honoré Fragonard • He filled the vacuum left by Boucher’s death in 1770. • Patronage: He “catered to the tastes of his aristocratic clientele” (Stokstad, 946). • Fragonard produced fourteen canvasses commissioned around 1771 by Madame du Berry to decorate her chateau--Louveciennes Château de Voisins. Self-Portrait Facing Left1780’s black chalk

  28. Jean-HonoréFragonardThe Meeting1773Oil on canvas, 318 x 244 cm

  29. Jean-HonoréFragonardThe Musical Contestc. 1754 oil on canvas

  30. Jean-HonoréFragonardThe Love Letter1770sOil on canvas

  31. Jean-HonoréFragonardThe Stolen Kiss1787-89oil on canvas

  32. Jean-HonoréFragonardThe Swing1767Oil on canvas

  33. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun • In 1779 she became the painter to Queen Marie Antoinette—wife of Louis XVI. • Her portraits are often described as having an “elegant informality.” • In 1783, Vigée Le Brun was elected to one of the four places in the French Academy available to women. • She escaped Paris with her daughter on the eve of the revolution (1789) and fled to Rome. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Self-Portrait1800oil on canvasThe HermitageSt. Petersburg

  34. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Marie Antoinetteafter 1783oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington Marie Antoinette is twenty-eight.

  35. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Marie Antoinette with Her Children1787oil on canvas We need to read this portrait as a work of propaganda. This image is not intended to construct power. What then is this image intended to communicate? Marie Antoinette is thirty-two.

  36. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Self-Portrait with her Daughter, Julie1786oil on wood

  37. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Portrait of a Young Womanc. 1797oil on canvas, 82,2, x 70,5 cmMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

  38. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin • He was influenced by 17th century Dutch genre paintings (like Vermeer.) • He painted scenes of everyday middle-class life; usually there is a gentle moral communicated in the scene. The images are quiet. • Chardin’s work is not as heavy-handed as Greuze; Chardin’s work does not have Wright’s dramatic lighting; Chardin’s work does not evoke Hogarth’s disgust of the upper classes. Self-Portrait with an Eyeshade1775pastel on blue paperMusée du Louvre, Paris

  39. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinLa Gouvernante (The Governess)1739Oil on canvas This type of work is called a genre painting.

  40. Johannes VermeerThe Milkmaidc. 1658Oil on canvas, 45,5 x 41 cmRijksmuseum, Amsterdam In many ways, Vermeer’s work can be read as genre painting. However, Vermeer’s use of light and his incredibly sculptural forms (think Piero della Francesca) elevate his work beyond the actual subject….

  41. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinServant Returning from the Market (La Pourvoyeuse)1738oil on canvas

  42. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinThe Attentive Nursec. 1738oil on canvas

  43. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinThe Hard-working Mother1740oil on canvas

  44. Supplement your book knowledge with visual knowledge… Marie Antoinette (2006) PG-13Sofia Coppola directs a stylized portrait of Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst), the naive Austrian princess who married Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman) to become queen of France at age 19. The film explores the effects of a luxurious yet terribly confining lifestyle on the young queen. Her resulting youthful indiscretion and frivolity ultimately led to her undoing. A Cannes Golden Palm nominee, this biopic also took Oscar honors for costume design. That’s the only one I can recommend….the others are rated “R”…..

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