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IAH 208 Exam 3 Visual Examples
Visual examples assigned Fall 2010 semester
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11/17/2010

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Baroque - Vermeer - "The Milkmaid"

-Vermeer is regarded as a master of light and color, there is often a subtle contrast between the naive intimacy of his subject and the objective tone created by light and composition

-1658-60

-scene lavishes attention on simple objects and modest but enduring truths: bread, milk and a maid’s coarse dress
-blurred points of light and slightly enlarged foreground objects suggest that Vermeer composed his pictures with a camera obscura, a popular seventeenth-century optical device. Note how the modulated light across the back wall emphasizes the maid’s figure and the repeated whites to suggest her innocence

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Rococo-Bourgeois - Greuze - "The Bride of the Village"

-In contrast to the elegant but frivolous rococo, the European middle classes patronized works of sobriety and sentimentality
-presented touching family scenes that might well be tableaux from the bourgeois sentimental drama
-In this scene the father hands over his daughter’s dowry while delivering a sermon on the virtues of fidelity, note the reactions of the principal females, the dreamy bride, the fretting mother and the envious sister
-With such paintings Greuze aroused a nostalgia for a simpler provincial life among Parisian sophisticates

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Rococo - Vigee-Lebrun - "Self Portrait in a Straw Hat"
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Neo-Classic - Thomas Jefferson - "Monticello, Virginia"

-Compare the visual effect of Jefferson’s neoclassical residence, with its use of native American materials (brick, wood) to the French palace, the Petit Trianon. Note the use of round windows and the fan-shaped Palladian window in the triangular pediment

-Jefferson believed the neo classical style represented European cultivation and enlightenment, which is why he adapted the style
-built much in the spirit of Palladio’s italian villas, can also be compared to Palladio’s Villa Rotunda
-the famous dome and appearance of a single story (there were three) were elements borrowed from the fashionable hotels that Jefferson had seen in Paris

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Rococo - Fragonard - "The Progress of Love: The Meeting"
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Neo-Classic - David - "Oath of the Horatii"

-Visitors to the painter’s Rome studio placed flowers before the picture as if it were an altar 
-Purchased by the French government immediately after King Louis XVI admired it, though today the picture is often seen as a premonition of the French Revolution 
-In a scene from the history of Rome, three brothers pledge to defend the city’s honor against the Curatius family of a neighboring town, the Horatian women grieve because one is sister to the opposing family and the other is engaged to a Curatius
-painting embodied the leading principles of neoclassicism: didactic purpose, purity of form, and deep passion restrained by good taste
-in it’s simplicity and rigor, it was a declaration of neoclassicism’s revolt against the whimsical style of the rococo

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Romantic - Vignon - "La Madeleine, Paris"
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Romantic - Delacroix - "Liberty Leading the People"

-Inspired by the July 1830 revolution in France that Delacroix observed from a balcony
-painting embodies the event’s romantic spirit, with a combination of the grotesque and the ideal.
-picture centers on the allegorical figure of Liberty, desexualized enough to be heroic
-visual hymn to patriotic revolution is unified by his use of the French tricolor flag. The red, white and blue are echoed in the uniform of the kneeling guardsman who gazes up at Liberty and in smoke rising above the cathedral of Notre Dame at right

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Romantic - Bierstadt - "Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California"

-Bierstadt first visited the American West in 1859, sketching and making photographs of its grand mountain vistas. In this gigantic landscape, the tiny foreground wildlife set off the spectacular scale and brilliant light of the cliffs and peaks
-painted his majestic panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite Valley for urban collectors back east, who valued the anthropological details of Native American cultures that were being destroyed by war, disease and encroaching settlers
-the romantic landscape painting gained a special place in North American culture, where the proximity of the wilderness gave the genre religious overtones

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Romantic-Industrial - Eiffel - "The Eiffel Tower, Paris"
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19th C. Realist - Manet - "Luncheon on the Grass"

-Manet updated traditional paintings with modern subjects in ways that scandalized the french art world
-The paris public was shocked by its vivid juxtaposition of a nude female and clothed men in a contemporary setting and protested Manet’s style of painting, which rendered the woman’s nude form in a flat, chalky white
-Analyze the effect of the painting’s harsh frontal lighting and the nude woman’s bold gaze at the viewer

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