ART IN THE 18 century: FROM BAROQUE TO NEOCLASSICAL

BAROQUE AND ROCOCO

Rococo style

Baroque art

17th century

Painters & sculptors

Affirmation of the power of absolute monarchies

Great religious exaltation

Represent reality

Freedom in

Composition

Movement

Light

Colour

Architecture

Curved lines

Decorative profusion

Decorative style

Influenced sculpture and painting

Name derived from "baroque & rocaille"

Uses stone and shell motifs

18th century

Absolutist monarchies/class societies predominated

France most important artistic center

Art forms

Paintings

Sculpture

Architecture

Rococo painters preferred themes

Brightness & delicate pastel colours

Daily life, countryside...

Depicted themes of love

In porcelain and marbel

Pygmalion and Galatea by Falconet

Ornated decoration with curved lines

Palacio of Marqués de Dos Aguas by Vergara

NEOCLASSICISM

Return to the simpler

18th century reaction against Rococo style

Became art of enlightened middle class

Art forms

Balanced forms and no ornamentation

Sculpture

Painting

Architecture

Inspiration from cassical models

Technical perfection

Use of propotion

Reminiscent of the works

Developed primarily in France

Jacques-Louis David was

Greatest exponent of pictorial Neoclassicism

Oath of the Horatii

Created public buildings

Characteristic of the Enlightenment

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