Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
22 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
early 1700s |
After baroque, Europe did "Rococo", lacy frilly art, looks like ornate shells, no straight lines, Paris becomes center of art world, wealth denotes knowledge of art somehow, "fete galante", the aristocracy being leisure, satire paintins, mariage of painting, sculpture, and archi. (sameness), no stained glass, pure white light on art, sculpture everywhere, no empty spaces, elite have earth and power, Europe conquers the res of the world,
New World Colonization, Depredate,
|
|
|
late 1700s |
Enlightenment, political and religious freedom, philosophers are into self serving, non god based striving, selfishness, "easter exploded" paitings, nature is rational and good, harnessable, industry, revolution
|
|
|
Kaisersall, (imperial hall) |
Warzburg Gemany, all spaces filled, playful with light, gold leaf over plaster, roundness everywhere, round ceiling, round engaged columns, round windows,
|
|
|
Marriage of emperor Frederick and Beatrice of burgundy |
part of kaisersall, fresco above roofline, but not a ceiling painting (blurred lines b/t art/archi.), Emperor less than accented, blends in (could be patron, status, wealth), Beatrice pops, pale colors, heavy drapery=Rococo, less attention on the nude |
|
|
Church of Vernehnheiligen |
Delicate arched windows,
|
|
|
verlehnheilgen (interior) |
pastel, no straight lines, Rococo Patning: figures spill out of frames (started a baroque), erotic, sensual, appealing curves, people loved, loved love, and loved to love love, slender figures in shimmering fabric
|
|
|
Return from Cythera |
Jean Watteau, frilly, whimsical, brushstrokes, (leads way to impressionism), fete gallante (having a picnic outside), blocks and swills of green represent agitation, inspired by mona lisa in color |
|
|
The Meeting |
Jean-Honore Fragenard, mistress of the kind (official position, court appt, had a room in the castle etc) secret meeting of couple, looks over her shoulder (are we being watched?), trees like skinny, late sprouting mushroom clouds, she's clutching letter he sent her to arrange meeting, less erotic than most, setting may well have been a ruin
|
|
|
The Swing |
Jean Honore Fragonard, patron looking up skirt, being pushed by a bishop, kicking shoe at Cupid, who has a face supportive of love, "tittilating and acceptable" fringe but not beyond morals of time |
|
|
self portrait |
Lebrun back to idealizing, no moles, she's painting marie antoinette, (who was a mistress originally) from memory (deceased),
|
|
|
Marie Antoinette an Children |
known as overtly sexual, flirty, feminist, this opposed that idea family |
|
|
The breakfast scene from Marriage a la mode |
William Hogarth, originally an engraver, moved to painting, satire, ppl trying to buy their way into the aristocracy, was just married, fooling around, husband was out, dog sniffs out woman, woman lost a fortune playing cards all night, probable affair with violinist, |
|
|
Apotheosis of pisani family |
Tiepelo family members float to heaven with heavenly being, Si sotto in su ("seen from below")
|
|
|
Blue Boy |
Thomas Gainsborough, blue=t.g. sold 640,000$ uk -> us |
|
|
Sarah Siddons |
wearing blue (Gainsborough) curtain is theatre like (she's an actress) idealized
|
|
|
Sarah Siddons |
reynolds (not blue, not gainsborough), flattering portrait, flaws reduced (typical of female portraits),
|
|
|
Lord Heathfiel: Governor of gibraltar during siege 1779-83 |
Joshua Reynolds high ranking, not boasting, discreet,
|
|
|
NEOCLASSICALISM |
art histories are written, dictinaries are made, cast iron is made, industrial revolution, ppl are slaves to machine and industry, architecture reweaves classical principles into modern tradition (i.e. with iron), Symmetry, order, balance, composition |
|
|
Chiswick house |
Richard Boyle and William Kent (interior), in London, Palladian, octagonal dome (not italian), white stone surface, stark contrast to Rococo, richly decorated room, entertained guests |
|
|
Monticello |
VA, USA Thomas Jefferson, "little mountain", main building on his plantation, tall windows for ari flow in heat of south, Balustrade hides second floor, beds in alcoves, America frees itself of British Architecture, turn to rome, noecl. |
|
|
Royal Crescent |
Baff, England John Wood the Younger, front pillars, back houses, have housed notable ppl, one side designable
|
|
|
Colebrook Bridge |
first big iron use, build in town with deep connection to industry,
|
