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Art History Week 1-Midterm
First 6 Weeks of Art History pieces from Rococo to Realism
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
01/13/2016

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Title: Salon de la Princesse

Artist: Boffrand

Period: Rococo

Location: France

-hotel (townhome to aristocrats)

-designed after the hall of mirrors

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Title: Pilgrimage to Cythera

Artist: Watteau

Period: Rococo

Location: France

-Fete galante (outdoor entertainment for rich)

-Arcadia, impasto, Rubenistes, fido, Venus

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Title: Cupid a Captive

Artist: Boucher

Period: Rococo

Location: France

-Pyramid composition, arcadia, puti, dove, teasing

-follwed and engraved Watteau, became #1

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Title: The Swing

Artist: Fragonard

Period: Rococo

Location: France

-Followed Boucher but broke away

-lover was the patron, naughty, romantic

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Title: Nymph and Satyr Carousing

Artist: Clodion

Period: Rococo

Location: France

-Terracotta (low fired clay sculpture)

-follower of Dionysus, sexual tension

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Title: A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery

Artist: Wright

Period: Art of the Enlightenment

Location: England 

-Tenebrism (high contrast of light and dark)

-Originally about religious enlightenment (EP#1)

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Title: Saying Grace

Artist: Chardin

Period: Art of the Enlightenment

Location: France

-EP#2, accepted into academy, not well respected

-Wanted imitate reality, honest, darker palette

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Title: "The Breakfast Scene" from Marriage a la Mode

Artist: Hogarth

Period: Art of Enlightenment

Location: England

- 2nd Enlightenment Principle

- From a series of 6 panel

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Title: The Death of General Wolfe

Artist: West

Period: Art of Enlightenment

Location: England

- Helped found Academy of England

- Grand manner, Enlightenment Principle #3

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Title: Village Bride

Artist: Greuze

Period: Art of Enlightenment

Location: France

- EP #2, Punisiste, Bouergeois new audience

- "Happiness is reward of natural virtue"

 

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Title: Riva degli Schiavoni

Artist: Canaletto

Period: Art of Enlightenment

Location: Italy

- symptom of EP, souvenir of Grand Tour

- Used camera obscura

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Title: Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures

Artist: Kauffmann

Period: Neoclassicism

Location: England

- Painting about greater ideals, remininscing

- Sacrifice for the betterment of soceity 

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Title: Chiswick House

Artist: Boyle and Kent

Period: Neoclassicism

Location: England

- Palladio inspired, rejecting Rococo fufu style

- Mathematical design, square, circles, pediment

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Title: Oath of the Horatti

Artist: David

Period: Neoclassicism

Location: France

- Historical painting, symbol for French Revolution

- Scene before big fight, strength vs weak

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Title: The Death of Marat

Artist: David

Period: Neoclassicism

Location: France

- Idealized death, painted during Reign of Terror

- timelessness and high level of idealism, pieta

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Title: George Washington

Artist: Houdon

Period: Neoclassicism

Location: United States

- Idealized, contrappasto, fasces leaning on (13)

- Apotheosis: to make into gods

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Title: Monticello

Artist: Jefferson

Period: Neoclassicism

Location: United States

- "Little Mountain", Palladio inspired, Tuscan doric

- Based on Roman Republic, architecture

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Title: Coronation of Napoleon

Artist: David

Period: Art Under Napoleon

Location: France

- propoganda, put crown on his own head

- accurate except for mother and benediction

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Title: La Madeleine

Artist: Vignon

Period: Art Under Napoleon

Location: France

- First a church, then monument, then church

- 8 corinthian capitals, pediment of Jesus

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Title: Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa

Artist: Gros

Period: Art Under Napoleon

Location: France

-"oreintalism," featured in Salon, plague outbreak

-propoganda to make him more like Jesus

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Title: Apotheosis of Homer

Artist: Ingres

Period: Art Under Napoleon

Location: France

-being honored by great thinkers, Nike crowning

-inspired by Raphael, Pusinistes style

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Title: Grande Odalisque

Artist: Ingres

Period: Art Under Napoleon

Location: France

-"orientalism," Napoleon's sister, Queen of Naples

-Mannerism inspired, negative reaction in Salon

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Title: The Nightmare

Artist: Fuseli

Period: Romanticism

Location: England

-Self taught, misunderstood, 1st Romanticismist

-Incubus and demon horse

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Title: The Family of Charles the IV

Artist: Goya

Period: Romanticism

Location: Spain

-Queen in same position as girl in Velasquez's

-Reflection of his feelings of royal family

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Title: The Third of May, 1808

Artist: Goya

Period: Romanticism

Location: Spain

-immoralize the scene, French killed Spaniards

-Tenebrism, stigmata?, Christ-like?

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Title: Saturn Devouring One of His Children

Artist: Goya

Period: Romanticism

Location: Spain

-Earth tones, mythological, viewed in home

-Goya's dark times

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Title: The Raft of the Medusa

Artist: Gericault

Period: Romanticism

Location: France

-Louis XVIII hired dumbass to captain a ship

-dramatic movement, lines pointing to ship

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Title: Death of Sardanapalus

Artist: Delacroix

Period: Romanticism

Location: France

-"Black romanticism"-morbid to get a rise

-King of Assyrians overthrown by rebels 

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Title: Liberty Leading the People, July 28, 1830

Artist: Delacroix

Period: Romanticism

Location: France

-Rebellion against Charles X over 3 days

-Liberty wearing phrygian hat: emancipation

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Title: Abbey in the Oak Forest

Artist: Friedrich

Period: Romanticism

Location: Germany

-landscapes, nationalism, Sublime, death

-liminal: transitional moment

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Title: The Oxbow

Artist: Cole

Period: Romanticism

Location: United States

-Wild nature vs plains, "Sublime" environmentalist

-Hudson River School, US god given gift, Eden

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Title: Among the Sierra Neveda Mountains

Artist: Bierstadt

Period: Romanticism

Location: United States

-Highly idealized, propoganda for expanding

-Manifest destiny, inspired by reality

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Title: The Haywain

Artist: Constable

Period: Romanticism

Location: England

-Nationalism in landscape, vehicle of truth

-puppet vs originality, didnt like academy

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Title: The Slave Ship

Artist: Turner

Period: Romanticism

Location: England

-linked to impressionism, cataclysmic, horrific

-colors bright, dark subject, Sublime, nature

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Title: The Stone Breakers

Artist: Courbet

Period: Realism

Location: France

-action rather than individual, lowest class

-life-size representations, true to Realism

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Title: The Gleaners

Artist: Millet

Period: Realism

Location: France

-Barbazion school and Plein-Air Painting

-Sad fate, scavengers, backs bow like haystacks

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Title: The Third Class Carriage

Artist: Daumier

Period: Realism

Location: France

-defender of working class, poor, political view

-Lithography, un-idealized peasants

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Title: Luncheon on the Grass

Artist: Manet

Period: Realism

Location: France

-Rejected from academy's salon in 1863

-flat figures, unashamed prostitutes, size

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Title: Olympia

Artist: Manet

Period: Realism

Location: France

-Unashamed prostitute, in charge of own sexuality

-Black cat, oriental garmets, flowers from us

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