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
