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The Artistic Soup of the Neo-Classical Period 100 years of conflicting styles

The Artistic Soup of the Neo-Classical Period 100 years of conflicting styles. From the frills of the Rococo ---to the solidity of the Revolution. Rococo expresses beauty for beauty’s sake… the label is made during the 19th century, French for “little rock” and “shell,”

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The Artistic Soup of the Neo-Classical Period 100 years of conflicting styles

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  1. The Artistic Soup of the Neo-Classical Period 100 years of conflicting styles From the frills of the Rococo ---to the solidity of the Revolution

  2. Rococo expresses beauty for beauty’s sake… the label is made during the 19th century, French for “little rock” and “shell,” motifs of rococo decoration Boucher’s Toilet of Venus displays the ideal woman, feminine charm in its lightest moments Fragonard---The Swing

  3. Watteau, The Music Party, 1718

  4. WATTEAU, Gersaint’s Signboard, 1720

  5. Rococo leads to style galant… the aristocratic approach after 1715 Belvedere--Vienna frilly but flattened, low relief of “style galant” Chinoiserie reflects the fascination with the unknowns of the East Sans Souci is “carefree” in Germany

  6. Women join the ranks of the elite ….salon leaders and academic painters Angelica Kauffmann 1741-1807 Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as her Treasures academic painter of neoclassical movement Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun 1755-1842 held out for the aristocracy

  7. Vigee-LeBrun,Marie Antoinette and her Children, 1789in the year of the French Revolution,made Marie Antoinettelook motherly. Painted shortly before the queen’s beheading.Child points to an empty cradle.

  8. As the Common Man finds his power, morality creeps into art…. Chardin,Grace at the Table, 1740 Hogarth,Breakfast, Marriage a la Mode, 1744 SENSIBILITY rules Greuze, Village Bride, 1761

  9. Hogarth, Marriage a la Mode, IV • Print reverses image • Reads like cartoon strip • 6 images in series leading to killing of the husband, death of the lover and suicide of countess

  10. Chardin, Soap Bubbles, 1733

  11. The Demons ofSturm und Drang Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

  12. Fuseli, The Blinded Polyphemus, 1803 • Odysseus blinds the cyclops, then disguises himself as a sheep to escape • Polyphemus is unable to see the world around him…blinded by ignorance

  13. Neo-Classical Art and Architecture symbolizing strength, balance and order Ancient Rome and Greece serve as models for Democracy U.S. Treasury, built by our FreeMason Founding Fathers in 1836 How do the Roman ruins of the Forum and Pantheon (100-200 C.E.) compare with Neo-Classical structures of the 1800s? Paris’ Pantheon, built in 1789… Rousseau is buried there

  14. Napoleon makes his mark in Paris…. the human hero is God Horses are stolen from Venice to sit atop Napoleon’s Victory Arch (L’Arc du Triomphe du Carrousel, 1806) Medieval Notre Dame becomes The Shrine of the Cult of Reason Napoleon’s Arch looks suspiciously like the Romans’ Arch of Trajan, 114 C.E., don’t you think?

  15. Jacques Louis David (1748-1825) becomes thepainter of the French Revolution as well as the Classical Period’s leading academic artist Lictors Bringing Back to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789 Brutus appears in the shadows... What is David warning about? Oath of the Horatii, 1784 What “threes” do you see? Heroic, academic, balanced composition a moralist with a message

  16. DAVID, Death of Marat, 1793 • Marat is killed by Charlotte Corday who felt that he was leading the revolution with excessive bloodiness • Painting is made in same year that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are guillotined • Marat is in a bath due to a crippling skin disease • Note that Marat clutches says that Corday is taking Marat’s life due to her suffering • Marat becomes instant martyr for the cause—wound is displayed at funeral

  17. Prints of the times…. Gillray- New Coalition the father of political prints Hogarth-- Gin Lane Hokusai- Great Wave Goya kissing a corpse

  18. Sculpture once again becomes a leading art form…. Pompeii is unearthed in 1748 C.E. Statues symbolize the best of Classical art (ancient and Neo-) sturdy, heroic, timeless Venus Victorious, 1808 Napoleon, 1802 Canova (1757-1822) creates togas and fig leaves

  19. HOUDON, Ben Franklin, 1779 • Houdon was a fellow Freemason, as were Voltaire, Mozart, Haydn, Jefferson and our founding fathers • Franklin’s wigless image created a stir in France Voltaire

  20. In the new U.S.A… Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe, 1770 Classical architecture emerges…. THE END the heroic is championed…. and Washington gets a toga, too

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