18th CENTURY ART

NEOCLASSICISM

ROMANTICISM

The Enlightenment

CONTENT: What do you see?

FORM: The details (what you see more exactly). How the artist delivers the content.

CONTEXT: Everything NOT observable.

FUNCTION: The intended purpose of the work.

Assignments:

READINGS: 

RESEARCH: 

SNAPSHOT SHEET:

APAH 250 Images:

101. The Swing, Jean Honoré Fragonard

98. The Tete a Tete (from Marriage a la Mode), William Hogarth
100. A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, Joseph Wright of Derby

NEOCLASSICISM

Enlightenment/NeoClassicism Unit Sheet Part 1

Enlightenment/NeoClassicism Unit Sheet Part 1

ROMANTICISM

Romanticism Unit Sheet Part 2

APAH 250 Images:

106. And There's Nothing to Be Done (Y no hai remedio), Francisco de Goya

* The Third of May 1808, Francisco de Goya

* Raft of the Medusa, Théodore Géricault
108. Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix
111. Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), Joseph Mallord William Turner

* The Haywain, John constable

109.  The Oxbow, Thomas Cole

* Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, Albert Bierstadt

* Twilight in the Wilderness, Frederic Church
112. Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)

Romanticism Unit Sheet Part 2

Key Ideas: Rococo

• 1700-1750

• Shift of power to the aristocrats paralleled in Baroque and Rococo.

• French Royal Academy set the taste for art in Paris

• Strong Satirical paintings

• Epitome: paintings that show aristocratic people enjoying leisures

• Rococo comes from the French words rocaille and coquilles. Rocaillemeans stone and coquilles means shells. So "rococo" is a combination of the two French words, thus meaning "stone shells".AP

Key Ideas: Neoclassicism 
(the start of the Enlightenment)

• 1750-1815

• Enlightenment brought about the rejection of royal and aristocratic authority

• Supported by Napoleon in order to associated himself with the successes of the Ancient Roman's Empire.

• Jacques-Louis David becomes First Painter of Napoleon

• Neoclassical art was more democratic- themes of courage and patriotism, civil duty

• Current events depicted have classical influences

• Late 18th century = Industrial Revolution (cast iron, and carvings from bronze is cheaper than carving marble- Coalbrookedale Bridge)

Key Ideas: Romanticism

• P.I.N.E. (Past, Irrational/inner-mind, Nature, Exotic/Emotional) 

• Early- mid 19th century

• Grande Odalisque is a transition painting

• Influenced by a sense of individuality and freedom of expression

• Exploration of the subconscious and dreams/nightmares

• Feelings/emotions and imagination over reason

• Landscapes express the Romantic theme of the soul + the natural world

• Introduction of Photography

• Revival of Medieval architecture (Houses of Parliament)