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Art Appreciation

Art Appreciation. Renaissance to Impressionism. Timeline. Renaissance → Mannerism→ 16 th Century Printmaking and Painting→ Baroque→ Rococo→ American Painting→ Neoclassicism→ Romanticism→ Realism→ Impressionism. Renaissance. Early Renaissance

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Art Appreciation

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  1. Art Appreciation Renaissance to Impressionism

  2. Timeline • Renaissance → Mannerism→ 16th Century Printmaking and Painting→ Baroque→ Rococo→ American Painting→ Neoclassicism→ Romanticism→ Realism→ Impressionism

  3. Renaissance • Early Renaissance 1. Spiritual mysticism of Gothic era challenged by logical thought 2. Humanism revived 3. Scientific naturalism 4. Individualism

  4. High Renaissance • Cultural center moves from Florence to Rome • Stable without being static/dull • Varied without being confused • Harmony, order, clarity • Lucidity, proportion, balance • Calm, rational, idealized • Set standards that were followed in European art for almost 400 years

  5. Donatello (Early) • Leonardo da Vinci (High) • Michelangelo Buanarroti (High) • Raphael Sanzio (High) • Titian (High/Venetian)

  6. David,Donatello

  7. VitruvianMan,Leonardo

  8. Last Supper

  9. David,Michelangelo

  10. Sistine Chapel, Creation of Adam

  11. Madonna of the Meadow,Raphael

  12. School of Athens

  13. Putti (cherub) detail, Rafael

  14. Venus of Urbino, Titian

  15. Mannerism • Characteristics • Sophistication, elegance, poise • Art of the human figure, almost exclusively Emphasis on hands and feet Compositions with numerous figures: crowded, intricate Figures willfully distorted and elongated Elegant, complex, twisted (strained) poses, juxtaposition Positions and actions have little to do with subject matter (emotional affect) • Discrepancies of scale; unusual spatial effects • Unnatural color: vivid, pastel, often harsh

  16. Madonna and Child with Angels,Parmigianino

  17. Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time,Bronzino

  18. 16th Century Printmaking and Painting, Europe • Sudden awareness of advances made by Italian Renaissance • Desire to assimilate this new style as rapidly as possible

  19. Garden of Earthly Delights, World before the FloodBosch

  20. Garden of Eden Hell

  21. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,Durer

  22. Baroque • Taste for dramatic action and violent narrative scenes • Color and light dramatically contrasted and surfaces are richly textured • Compositions are usually asymmetrical, sharp diagonals • Landscape, genre, and still life become more numerous

  23. St. Peter’s Rome, Baldachino,Bernini

  24. David

  25. Calling of St. Matthew, Caravaggio

  26. Judith Slaying Helofernes,Gentileschi

  27. Raising of the Cross,Rubens

  28. The Night Watch, Rembrandt

  29. Self-portrait

  30. Venus with a Mirror, Velasquez

  31. Rococo • Age of Enlightenment • Style expression of wit and frivolity, with somber and satirical under currents • Typical picture depicts the aristocracy gathered in parks and gardens. • Classical gods and goddess in amorous pursuits • World of fantasy and grace

  32. Pilgrimage to Cythera, Watteau

  33. The Swing,Froganard

  34. Marriage a la Mode II, Hogarth

  35. Paul Revere,Copley

  36. Neoclassicism • New (neo) investigation of classical art of Rome and Greece • Correctness: following the rules established by the academics • Message of high moral order • Sharpness of drawing, crisp lines, firm outlines • Formal, restrained compositions • Style and subject matter: Classical Greece and Rome • Reaction to earlier art styles( and courtly life-style) • Time of revolutions, American and French

  37. Oath of the Horatii, JL David

  38. Grande Odalisque, Ingres

  39. Romanticism • Subject matter: biblical and literary themes, the exotic and remote • Emphasis on: • Emotion (not reason) • Drama turbulent emotion • Complex compositions, asymmetry • Individual interpretations • Color • First artists to totally reject servitude to a patron of any kind, influenced by themes from literature and or far away places, including escapism, exciting-subjective color, swirling diagonals, intense and sometimes violent and unpredictable, aggressive-painterly brushstrokes, hazy outlines

  40. Raft of the Medusa, Gericault

  41. Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix

  42. Executions of the Third of May, de Goya

  43. Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, Turner

  44. The Fighting Temeraire, Turner

  45. The Oxbow, Cole

  46. The Hay Wain, Constable

  47. Realism • Time of conflicts between the classes • Time of Industrial Revolution in England • Urban areas and their social ills • Time of Marx and Engels • Realist movement in art reaction against exotic escapism of Romantics

  48. The Gleaners, Millet

  49. The Stone Breakers, Courbet

  50. Third-Class Carriage, Daumier

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