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ART AND THE AP EXAM

ART AND THE AP EXAM. THE RENAISSANCE. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. Perspective Geometric structure Humanism Individualism Individual artists Portraits Private patrons Tension between religious and secular Landscapes Classic Themes in painting, sculpture, architecture

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ART AND THE AP EXAM

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  1. ART AND THE AP EXAM

  2. THE RENAISSANCE

  3. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE • Perspective • Geometric structure • Humanism • Individualism • Individual artists • Portraits • Private patrons • Tension between religious and secular • Landscapes • Classic Themes in painting, sculpture, architecture • Influence of Greece and Rome • Religious Themes (often painted in Renaissance time)

  4. EXAMPLES

  5. MassacioNote persepctive

  6. DA VINCI ST ANNE

  7. Arnolfini Marriage: Portrait—Marriage Contract—Signs he was a businessmanPresence of artist in mirror—Dog=fidelity

  8. THE BAROQUE The Renaissance continues Add: Art of Counter Reformation Art of Spain Passion Classic Themes Velasquez El Greco

  9. ST PETERS BASILICAHOW DID IT LEAD TO LUTHER’S REFORMATION?

  10. HOW DOES “THE CREATION” EMBODY HUMANISM, IDEAS OF FREE WILL AND RELIGIOUS THEMES?

  11. EL ESCORIAL: HOW DOES IT REFLECT THE VALUES OF PHILLIP II?

  12. EL GRECO VIEW FROM TOLEDO

  13. WHO WAS THE SPANISH COURT FAVORITE? GRECO OR VELASQUEZ?

  14. ART OF THE NETHERLANDS17th CENTURY • Smaller houses=smaller pictures • Scenes of everyday life with a message • The fragility of life in the Netherlands (Low Lands • Historical paintings, portraits • Rembrandt, Vermeer • Renaissance themes and values

  15. THE NIGHT WATCH1642REMBRANDTON GUARD AGAINST THE ENEMYWHO WOULD THAT BE IN 1642

  16. REMBRANDT: ARISTOTLE CONTEMPLATING THE BUST OF HOMER?WHAT RENAISSANCE-HUMANISTIC VALUES ARE REFLECTED HERE

  17. VERMEER: DELFTWHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT LIFE IN 17th c. NETHERLANDS?

  18. VERMEER: ASTRONOMER AND GEOGRAPHERWHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT 17th c. DUTCH?5

  19. MEANWHILE—IN FRANCE AND ELSEWHEREPETER PAUL RUBENSGIVES THE “NEW MONARCHS”THE LOOK THEY LIKE

  20. Rubens: THE LION HUNT

  21. Caravaggio teaches us about light/dark and contrastSUPPER AT EMMANUS

  22. AGE OF LOUIS XIV

  23. VERSAILLESCompare to El Escorial

  24. THE HALL OF MIRRORS REFLECTED WHOSE IMAGEHOW DOES THIS PLAY INTO ABSOLUTISM?

  25. LOUIS XIV and the SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONSCIENCE and STATE BUILDING

  26. Louis XIV as Sun King

  27. ART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY • GENRE PAINTINGS • Continuing the Dutch idea of painting everyday life • Art of the Enlightenment-the values of the Enlightenment • Return to classical (Greco-Roman) themes

  28. ChardinWhat can you surmise about this individual?

  29. Fragonard THE READER

  30. DAVID: OATH OF THE HORATIIHow did this picture reflect the ideals and problems of France in 1784Clue: Concept of dying for Republic

  31. ROMANTICISMlate 18th and most f 19th depending where you wereReaction to Age of Reason

  32. 19th C. ROMANTICISM • Emotion rules over reason • Fascination with middle ages • Nature as “natural” • Beginnings resistance to Renaissance rules of perspective • Man in nature • Fascination with “things oriental” (inspired by Napoleon in Egypt and later, especially when France takes over North Africa • Mixes in with nationalism, realism

  33. ARTISTS AND OTHERS • Art: INGRES, DELACROIX, GERICAULT,COURBET (realistic), FRIEDRICH, TURNER, CONSTABLE

  34. NINETEENTH CENTURY ART TO 1870ish

  35. DELACOIX LIBERTY LEADING THE WAY (1830 Revolution)

  36. Massacre at Chios Europeans Support the Revolution in GreeceShows weakness of Metternich system. HOW?

  37. REALISM” COURBETFUNERAL AT ORNAISREAL PEOPLE IN REAL TIME

  38. IMPRESSIONISM • Influence of photography—capturing a moment in time • Light as a subject of art (long influential but perhaps never a subject on its own) • Breakdown of traditional ideas of perspective • Parallels the French Rev and Industrial Rev and breakdown of tradition structures as they are replaced by new ones

  39. IMPRESSIONISM continued • Subjects are “real” places/people in “real” time; Scenes are often in the countryside but more often than not are records of ‘city life” • Short lived but influential; gives rise to many other movements and finally modern art • Important artists: Manet, Monet,Morisot (woman); Degas, Lautrec

  40. MONETGare St. LazareHow did the steam engine and railways change European life in the late 19th century (post 1860)

  41. HOW DOES THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE?Painting by MONET

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