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04/28/2010

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Death of Marat

Jacques-Louis David

Oil on Canvas

Scene from French Revolution. Intended to overthrow the Monarchy. Marat was assassinated in 1793. Wooden block represents the tombstone. He holds a letter which allowed his female murderer entrance.

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Pauline Borghese as Venus

Antonio Canova

Napoleons favorite sculpture, depicts his sister. Neoclassical style.

She holds the golden apple, symbol if the judgement of Paris. Alludes to Hellenistic time period.

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Jacques-Louis David
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Neoclassist.

French revolutionary.

Went to prison.

Was offered the posistion of First painter of the empire by Napoleon.Had a teaching studio.

 

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Napoleon at the pesthous at Jaffa

Antoine-Jean Gros

Oil on canvas

Gros was a student of David's. Represents a departure from Neoclassicism. Napoleon touches a bubonic plague victim.

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Grande Odalisque

Jean-August-Dominique Ingres

David's Student. Condemned Romanticism.

Neoclassicist. Cool colors and elongation is an ode to Parmigiano and Italian Mannerists. Makes a concession to the contemporary Romantic taste for the exotic.

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Romanticism
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Desire for freedom!

Based on works of Rousseau.

Imagination over reason.

Feeling over thinking.

 

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Sublime
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feelings of awe mixed with terror.

Whatever emerges from the chamber of horrors when one sleeps.

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The nightmare

Henry Fuseli

Romanticism

Night "mare" horse

and incubus perches on a sleeping woman

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Third of May

Francisco Goya

depicts french executing Spanish citizens.

 

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Raft of the medusa

Theodore Gericault

Romantic in presenting a jumble of writhing bodies.

also painted Insane Woman.

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Death of Sardanapalus

Eugene Delacroix

Assyrian king about to be murdered so he has many people murdered with him. Also painted Liberty Leading the People.

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Realism
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Developed in France mid-19th century.

Focused attention on the experiences and sights of the everyday contemporary life and disapproved of historicle and fictional subjects.

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Burial at Ornans

Gustave Courbet

Ordinary subject nature. Also painted the Stone Breakers.

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Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Lunch on grass)

Edouard Manet

Widely criticised for subject matter and way of painting.

flattens painting

Also painted Olympia (prostitute) reclining and receiving flowers.

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Forever Free

Edmonia Lewis

stylistically neoclassicism, but realist theme.

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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group of painters who refused to be limited to the contemporary scenes of strict realists.
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Ophelia

John Everett Millais

Pre-Raphaelite

depiction of shakespeares hamlet

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Impression: Sunrise

Monet

 

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Modernism
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Seeking to capture the images and sensibilites of their age. Acknowledgement  of flat surface, shape of support, and pigment properties.
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Impressionism
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an attempt to capture a fleeting moment. not fully formed, an idea of an image.
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Paris: A Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte

Figures are randomly placeed and cropped.

Impressionist

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La Place du Theatre Francais

Camille Pissarro

Impressionism

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Villa at the Seaside

Berthe Morisot

plein air (outdoor) lighting

 

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Le Mouulin de La Gallette

Renoir

Impressionist

Parisian Dance Hall

 

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Bar at the Folies-Bergere

Edouard Manet

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Ballet Rehersal

Edgar Degas

Impressionist

Also painted the tub

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The Bath

Mary Cassatt

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Nocturn in black and gold

Whistler

fireworks at night

harmonies like in music

 

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Post-Impressionism
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A more systematic view of qualities of line, pattern, form, and color.
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A sunday on la grande Jatte

Georges Seurat

Pointillism

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where do we come from?

Paul Gauguin

also does visions after a sermon

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Symbolism
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Purpose:to see through things
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