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ART IN THE 18TH CENTURY: FROM BAROQUE TO NEOCLASSICAL, embarkation,…
ART IN THE 18TH CENTURY: FROM BAROQUE TO NEOCLASSICAL
BAROQUE AND ROCOCO
Baroque
17th century
Europe
America
celebrate the power of absolute monarchies
artist
represented reality directly
as it was perceived
from senses
Characteristics
freedom in composition
movement
colour
light
Arhcitecture
curved lines
decorative profusion
Rococo
a decorative style
influenced
painting
sculpture
minor art forms
not architecture
first half of the 18th century
absolute monarchy
class society
France was the centre
Painting
themes
daily life
the countryside
life's plasure
games
characteristics
brightness
pastel colours
The embarkation for Cythera
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Sculpture
themes of love
materials
marble
porcelain
Pygmalion and Galatea
Étienne-Maurice Falconet
Architecture
ornate decoration with curved lines
Palacio of Marqués de Dos Aguas
Ignacio Vergara
NEOCLASSICISM
return to
Greek and Roman art
simpler
more functional
practical forms
second half of the 18th century
against the excesses
of the Rococo
art of the enlightened middle class
general characteristics
balanced forms
no ornamentation
Sculpture
characteristics
technical perfection
the use of proportion
themes
humane figure
sometimes naked
funerary sculptures
marble
The Three Graces
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Painting
important genre
History paintings
forms more important
colour less
developed in France
Jacques-Louis David
themes
classical antiquity
greatest exponent of pictorial Neoclassicism
Oath of the Horatii
Architecture
focus of neoclassical artists
inspiration
classical models
public buildings
banks
libraries
museums
Museo del Prado
Juan de Villanueva
