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FROM CRAFTSMEN TO DESIGNERS (4) - Coggle Diagram
FROM CRAFTSMEN TO DESIGNERS (4)
Neoclassicism
Start of the
Industrial Revolution
Mechanisation
Mass Production
late 18th & early 19th c
AIM:
to regain for art and design the purity of expression
it was felt lacking in the Rococo style (first half of the 18th c): art to create the illusion of motion and drama
The Swing, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767 (theatrical and ornamental style)
New themes with
moral and civic values
Artists increasingly sought noble themes of public virtue and personal sacrifice from ancient
Greece or Rome
Aesthetic education based on Italian tours to study classical remains
The Grand-Tour
: Educational trip around Europe
discovery of Herculaneum in 1738 and of Pompeii in1748
in Italy where the source of a great impulse in these aesthetic interests
Giacomo Leopardi
's inspiration for
La Ginestra
Romanticism
Personal expression and
individual liberation
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William Turner & C.D. Friedrich
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Private collections
Cabinet of couriosities
Historical and Mythological Subject Matter; Idealism; Simplicity; Grandeur
The institutionalisation of art and sciences through Royal Academies' ‘
canons
' established their aesthetics, structured
knowledge networks and the artist's role
in this time
Birth of the National Museums
Regulation of taste and access for the middle classes
Birth of Royal Academies
No master painters as mentors (opposite to guilds); Official recognition, qualification and prestige regulated through Public Salon
Establishment of
Good taste
based on universal aesthetic judgment but strongly based on the stylistic canon of Classicism
Archetypes
Canons
Enlightment
Rationalism