Art History : BVA312 - 02/04/2019 (The Age of Enlightenment)
The age of enlightenment (Power Point class)
Olympe De Gouges (1748-1793)
French feminist and abolitionist
science and art
A Philosopher giving a lecture at the orrery
The Rococo period
Characterized by lightness, elegance
no sign of darkness, its all in pastel, dreamlike feeling.
no sign of darkness, its all in pastel, dreamlike feeling.
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Francois Boucher
Thomas Gainsborough - More of a landscape artist. Always sneak environment in
Jean-Honore Fragonard - Light and color to transform the environment into a subject.
Jacques-Louis Davis (Neo classical period)
French neo-classical painter
studies under Francois Boucher
Influence of classicism. Supporter of French revolution.
Artwork: Death of Marat
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
Favorite painter of Marie Antoinette
Painting as propaganda, letting more women into the art academy.
Sister Wendy's story of painting 7/10
Revolution
18th century (french revolution and industrial revolution)
Painting to show status.
Royal Academy of art
Mr and Mrs Andrew
The main purpose of this painting is to show his property, introducing landscape in painting.
French Aristocrats is different from British.
They adore fantasy, fairy tales depict with reality. Rococo is the period.
Living in a magical world painting in canvas, mesmerized in fantasy rather than the reality.
House of cards by Jean Simeon Chardin
Asking us to think, "the house of cards" means wasting time. reflects the French situation back then.
Jacques-Louis Davis, active member who revolt during the French revolution. He uses painting reflects the french situation, as propaganda.
Most famous painting, The Death of Murat.
Classical Painting
Line, sculpture.
Fascinating with the female back. celebrates the beauty of a female body
John Constable
simple and complicated landscape.
innocent countryside.
The Hay Wind
Industrial Revolution
England
JWM Turner, The fighting of Temeraire.
Romanticized the style of painting. Mixing past and present to capture the future.
The romantic period depicts a exaggeration of scenery and human expression.
Goya, painter for Spanish royal family.
Charles 4th of Spain and family.
He eliminates alienation by painting them elegantly with beautiful dresses and jewel.
Human souls for Goya was dark, Black is his symbolic color for human soul. He fears human stupidity.
Dual to the death of Cudgels.
Goya felt there no way to hide. even light can be a treat to darkness. Showing only a dog in a luminous painting. How lonely is the dog depicted?
The dog Giclee
Heroes of the Enlightenment epi 1 (the power of knowledge)
17th century Europe, the power of aristocracy gave the power to advance in knowledge.
Isaac Newton: founder of modern science. truth lays realty, knowledge that lays in nature and our environment.
Why apple falls down? Newton saw the force, name gravity.
He too discovers the universal law, the earth goes around the sun, then continue his learning in Cambridge. Solar system, the law of gravity, mechanism. Even became a topic in painting, showing the contrast of light and dark.
People in that century believe in the bible, religious believes.
The world of nature, Newton's counterpart explores more.
Later he began to wonder, how colors form? Is the color in light or is it form in the prism? The new source of knowledge that is able to understand people from all around the world, forming a scientific discovery.
Deeply religious Newton buried in the Westminster's cathedral.
However, later, science is strongly locked in the hands of the Catholic church.
Denis Diderot, the publishing of encyclopedia, giving more knowledge to the publicity.
Lisbo's earthquake in 1755, Catholic churches were destroyed. Priest convincing the public this occur because they did not obey god's desire.
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