the styles of the enlightenment 1750 – 1820 rococo bourgeois neo-classical 1750 – 1820 rococo...
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The Styles of the Enlightenment1750 – 1820
Rococo
Bourgeois
Neo-Classical
1750 – 1820
Rococo
Bourgeois
Neo-Classical
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The Enlightenment?1688-1789?
-1688 – “Glorious Revolution” in England
- 1789 – French Revolution
-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
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Sapere aude!
“DARE TO KNOW!” – Kant(don’t just “believe”)
“Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.” – Voltaire
“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
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ROCOCOThe softer side of Baroque (or a reaction against it)
ornamental
sentimental
sensuous
(trivial)Audience? ARISTOCRACY
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Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, 1717, p. 293
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Fragonard,The Swing,
1769
KEY IMAGE
p. 301
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Jean Honore Fragonard, The Bathers, 1761
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Boucher
“His canvases often seem to consist of little beyond mounds
of pink flesh . . .”
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Francois Boucher,
The Toilet of Venus, 1751
p. 299
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Boucher, Allegory of Music, 1752
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Boucher, Odalisk, 1745
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Boucher, Shepherd and Shepherdess,
1761
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Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna – Rococo!!!
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Balthasar NeumannVierzehnheiligen, 1743-72
Rococop. 304
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The Bourgeois Style:
Genre Painting
The Bourgeois Style:
Genre Painting
Art for the earnest middle classes
(and the aristocracy, too)
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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.
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Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
(1699-1779)
self-portrait, 1771, pastel
"We use colors, but we paint with our feelings."
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Chardin The Prayer before Meal1744, Oil on canvas, 50 x 38.5 cm
not in text; compare fig. 11.15, p. 307
- charm
- simplicity
- subtle moralizing tone
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p. 307
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CHARDIN, Jean Baptiste Simeon
The 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 Meal
1731
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Hogarth, WilliamGin Lane1750Etching and engraving14 1/16 x 11 3/4 in
MORALIZING
Compare to p. 318,
The Marriage Contract
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Marie-Elisabeth-LouiseVigée-LebrunSelf-Portrait with Daughterc. 1798
Aristocratic patrons
Neo-Greek
Neo-Renaissance
Sentimental
KEY IMAGE p. 302