Art 2720 Exam 2 Basset UVU
Italian Baroque
(1590-1680) Emphasis: Religious works. Patron: church. Style: Dynamic. Qualities: Drama, intensity, Movement. ------- 1)Entombment ( Caravaggio) 2 )David (GIANLORENZO BERNINI) 3 ) Flight Into Egypt (Carracci)
Flemish Baroque
(1600-40) Emphasis: alterpieces. Patron: church, monarch. Style: florid. ----- 1) Elevation of the Cross (PETER PAUL RUBENS)
Dutch Baroque
(1630-70) Emphasis: Portraits, still lifes, landscapes. Patrons: People. ---- 1) Flower Still Life (Rachel Ruysch) 2) The Supper Party (GERRIT VAN HONTHORST) 3) View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen (JACOB VAN RUISDAEL) 4) Allegory of the Art of Painting (JAN VERMEER)
French Baroque
(1670-1715) Emphasis: Classical landscapes and decorative architecture. Patron: monarch. _____________________ 1)Et in Arcadia Ego (NICOLAS POUSSIN) 2) Family of Country People (LOUIS LE NAIN) 3) Adoration of the Shepherds ( GEORGES DE LA TOUR) 4) Louis XIV (HYACINTHE RIGAUD) 5 )Palace of Versailles (Le Vau, Le Brun, Le Notre,)
Title: Coalbrookdale Bridge Artist: Darby & Pritchard Period: Enlightenment (1776) Medium: Iron The first use of iron in bridge design was in this bridge over the Severn River. The Industrial Revolution brought engineering advances and new materials that permanently changed architectural construction. Abraham Darby lll and Thomas F Pritchard. Part of the Industrial Revolution. Previous to these bridges are made out of wood or stone. Cast iron construction. They can span a greater distance.. But also aesthetically pleasing as well. You get the idea that it is a full circle.. That everything goes full circle
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The French Academy of art gives qualifications of
1) History Painting: mythological, things from the past, religious . Usually very large painting. If you are applying for the academy you want to do this. This include paintings of Royal family. 2) Portraiture's: Very important people, but not on grand scale 3) Landscape 4) Still Life: Property, your stuff 5) Genre Scenes : Everyday life
Rococo Art
18th style that placed emphasis on showing the care-free life of the aristocracy. Used free, graceful movement and delicate colors. is more sensual and free. Baroque is much darker. Mindless in contrast to the Baroque. ------------ 1 )Hotel de Soubise, Princess Salon (Boffrand) 2 )Pilgrimage to Cythera (Watteau)
Baroque
Baroque comes from a Spanish word Barocco.. An irregular pearl. The Catholic Church, the largest patron of art at the time, wanted these pieces to be full of emotion and detail. This pushed art into the Baroque era where realism and emotion dominated art style. The baroque style became very popular in Europe. Many non-Catholic artists adopted this style and the realism and detail can be shown in their work. In a sense the Catholic Church stimulated this progression of art style and it all started with the council of Trent. After the council of Trent the Catholic church put Mandates on Art. Three main criteria. 1) Has to return to the traditional subjects. 2) Has to be done in naturalistic style (no elongated figures or marble figures) 3) It needed to create a spiritual experience in the viewer. The church wanted people to have a spiritual experience and return to church. Whereas Renaissance artists reveled in the precise, orderly rationality of classical models, Baroque artists embraced dynamism, theatricality, and elaborate ornamentation, all used to spectacular effect, often on a grandiose scale, as in Bernini's Four Rivers Fountain.
Spanish Baroque
In Spain the church becomes militant. People have to watch what they say or they can be severely punished. Much of the work we see here is martyrdom, especially Spanish Martyrdom. ------- 1) St. Serapion ( Francisco De Zurbaran) 2) Las Meninas (Velasquez)
Enlightenment
a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly. The Enlightenment is a backlash.. Philosophers who are thinking of equality. People go from believing in Life and Death and how can they improve it. There is a resurgence of classical-ism.
Vanitas
in art, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent.
Caravaggisti
were stylistic followers of the 16th-century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio...The Dark Style of art: