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Art of the Renaissance embraced the natural world and human emotions with rational mathematical order. Most art works were planned with perfect symmetry and porportion.
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-Author: Leonardo Da Vinci
-depicts the "perfect man. " A man whose features are perfectly symmetrical. -
-1501-1504
-Michelangelo Buonarrati
-Each part of David's body is perfectly sculpted so that each part on the right matches with each part on the left. He emanates confidence b/c of this. -
-1503-1506
-Leonardo DaVinci
-Mona Lisa is positioned exactly and looks as if she's hiding something behind that smile. -
-Raphael
-identifies every person that was important during this rebirth of learning: Aristotle, Plato, etc. -
As opposed to the strict use of classical, natural froms , and three-dimensional space, mannerism stressed the importance of exageration. The main idea was to develop complex visual surfaces and emotionally expressive works.
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-1534-1540
-Parmigianino
-Mary is portrayed with an elongated neck that is turned towards her very large baby boy with compassion. -
-Tintoretto
-Dramatizes the event of the last summer using the awestruck expressions of the apostles and the dynamic color contrast. -
-Michelangelo Caravaggio
-The clothing between the two people are very opposite: the fortune teller's white to the baron's black and the red against the yellow. -
Art of the enlightenment fell into three main styles: the baroque, the rococo, and the neoclassical. Towards the end of the period, the contradictions between realism and romanticism are introduced.
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Baroque art served to glorify temporal power as it came into being during the time of the sun king, Louis XIV. It was characterized by naturlaistic subjects and sharp contrasts between light and dark.
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-1608-1614
-El Greco
-The people in this painting are almost ghost-like in features, but the brighter colors suggest that John's vision was almost dream-like. -
-Louis Le Nain
-depicts what a typical peasant family would be doing during this time: farming. -
As the rococo style came into use, art shied away from the grand and vibrant style of the Baroque period, and focused on the depiction of light-hearted intimate experiences. Rococo art was characterized by the use of surfaces, light, and pastel colors.
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-Antoine Watteau
-potrays a pleasurable experience with children at play on their pilgrimage to Cynthera. -
In retaliation to the aristocratic excesses of the baroque and rococo styles, neoclassicism, thought of as a "bourgeosie art," embodied a return to figurative and architectural models. It exemplified simpler and more classical forms from the Renaissance and ancient world.
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-Francois Boucher
-shows Madame de Pompadour at a time of relaxation and utter serenity. She is curled up with a good book. -
-Jacques-Louis David
-uses Roman vibe within painting to represent sons' oath to their father to renounce their aristocratic ways and go to war for the good of their beloved country of France. -
-Jacques-Louis David
-portrays the death of Marat as he was assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday. It represents his martyrdom and all that he meant to his cause after he had died. -
Art of the Romantic period portrayed scenes from medieval life. Artists looked back towards a time of social stability and religious reverence, when the world they knew was falling head-first into the age of Industrialization.
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-John Constable
-represents a past safety and stability in the church with a 'thunder storm" threatening to destroy that, but also offers hope with a rainbow. -
As Romanticism was against industrialization and scientific objectivity characterized by the time period, Realism was in agreement with it. It was a style of art that sought to adopt the physical world and life with detached observation so that it could depict life in its purest form.
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-Gustave Courbet
-It is merely observed that grain sifters are hard at work sifting the grain so that it can be crushed into flower -
-Gustave Courbet
-She is seen as an extremely bored woman waiting for something interesting to happen. -
Modern art is a broad area of art because it labeled a rapid and radical art style with many variations. Art was no longer done for the commission of it, but for the pleasure and expression of it.
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There were two areas of Impressionism: neo-impressionism and post-impressionism. Neo-impressionism arose primarily in Paris and depicted modern life, focusing on leisure activites. There was a fascination with light, color, and the representation of momentary unfocused visual experiences. Post-Impressionism was characterized by the work of younger artists who used techniques of impressionism, but also attempted to relate it to earlier artistic traditions, such as form and structure.
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-Vincent Van Gogh
-The moon and the stars of the night sky are seen through the eyes Van Gogh, but there is an order to his madness. Though the tree takes up a lot of space, Van Gogh uses the size and placement of the moon to also draw attention towards the village below. -
-Louis Comfort Tiffany
-Glass, an element of the earth, is now used a long with paint to create a whole new kind of product, stained glass. -
-1869-1892
-built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria
-Neo-Gothicism, a return to medieval architecture, influenced the restructuring of many churches and old castles. This was one of the largest castles built anew. -
Art nouveau sought to create ornate organic patterns through the use of traditional art materials and incorporation of modern materials like Iron. This distinctive style put emphasis on natural designs in its use of whiplash strokes.
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Instead of constituting a window to the real world as Impressionism did, Cubism used painting as an art itself with no purpose beyond itself. Objects depicted were reduced to their natural forms of geometric shapes and were mostly two-dimensional.
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-1909-1910
-Georges Braque
-The Violin is broken down into its geometric essence. -
-1920-1926
-Claude Monet
-considered a neo-impressionist piece, it depicts a simple scene of water lilies through the eyes of Monet. -
After WWII, there was a cultural division in art. One side continued with realist and representational art, whereas the other side took on a more abstract feel. Abstract art relied on color, form, line, and texture. It was the creation of art and expression without any recognizable shapes.
