Art History Lecture 6

Review Quiz 1. RECESSIONAL composition.

2. Painterly.

3. Closed Form.

4. Italian Baroque art.

5. High Renaissance.

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1 2 3 4

An example of…

Review Quiz Find an example of…1. Linear.

2. Dutch Genre.

3. Self-portrait.

4. Northern Renaissance art.

5. Plane composition.

6. Use of symbolism.

7. Aided by optics.

8. Contemplative.

9. Light playing animportant role.

1. 2. 3. 4.

Reality is in the eye, hand and mind of the…

The Idealist

The RealistThe Romantic

Ingres

Delacroix

Manet

Neo-Classic

Romantic Realism

Ingres Odalisque

Ingres

The sovereignty of line.

Ingres

Neo-Classic?

Romantic?

Realist?

USE LABELS WITH CAUTION!

What does Ingres tell us of the subject in these two works?Will the real Loius Bertin please stand up!

What response does the artist seek from his viewer? Rational/Emotional?

Climax/ Anti-climax?

Time stopped/Time-in-flux?

Contemplation/Active involvement?

Off stage audience/Part of the scene?

David Oath of the Horatii

Plane Closed Form LinearIdealized Contemplative Climax

Neo-Classic

Jacques Louis David The Death of Socrates

The Age of Reason replaces The Age of Authority.

Gericault Raft of the Medusa From calm reason to dramatic life and death themes.

Perpetuating the works of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rembrandt and…

Delacroix Self Portrait

Idealized?

Romanticized?

Realized?

Painterly?

Recessional?

Intimate Lighting?

Delacroix Liberty Leading the People.

Delacroix The Death of Sardanapolis Aimed for the heart of the viewer!

Turner The Fighting Temeraire Relating idea with visual elements.

Turner Rain, Steam and Speed Anticipating Impressionism and beyond.

Turner Snowstorm Subject matter shifts from representation to presentation.

Millet The Gleaners Common labor given dignity and monumentality.

Courbet The Stone BreakersRealism threatens the status quo.

Courbet A Burial at Ornans

An uncommon tribute to the common.

Cracks in the foundation of academic painting.

A major social and aesthetic transformation heralds a new era.

Realism

Courbet The Artist’s StudioAllegorical realism?

Manet Luncheon On The Grass A new mission breaks the rules.

Accepted and Rejected. Why?

1. One was an original composition?

2. One was an idealized mythical figure of classic proportions?

3. One rendered the figure as a full3D form, modeled by light and shade?

1. One was a copy of an earlier composition?

2. One depicts a known prostitute of stubbyproportions in a suggestive surrounding?

3. One flattens the composition by theelimination of almost all light and shademodeling? All of the above.

Because…

Manet Olympia Chiaroscuro gives way to minimal modeling

Japanese woodcut prints influenceWestern vision and art.

Art for Art’s Sake!

“Look at it; not through it.”

Hiroshige Lake by Hakone

Manet Young Flautist

Death: The stark reality.

Manet Dead Matador

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Manet Bar at the Folies-Bergere Speculation: Anticipating Cubism?