Moreau was though of by many as the saviour of the grand at a time when realism had taken over the paintings at the Salon. Moreau fought for preservation of the grand part style of painting. He was seen as a painter with the potential of countering both the deteriorating art of the Salon painting and the new deluge of realism. The austere in Moreau’s painting of Oedipus and the Sphinx is resembles the epic austerity of the grand art. The painting can be said to be conceived from the one of the best compositions of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Ars Nova The Ars Nova in France was started by Philip de Vitry around 1310 and continued through the 1370’s. Ars Nova was known as the “new art” signifying the new French musical style. It made many improvements in music notation and style, however many people were against this and strongly supported the “ancient art”. The new notation required an open mind and reconstruction of musical time. The first change to be made was allowing the “imperfect” and “perfect” divisions of note values and the second divided the semibreve into minims allowing more rhythmic flexibility and new meters, creating for the first time syncopation.
David, Oath of the Horatti and the Death of Socrates. How do David’s paintings reflect the Neoclassical interest in Greek aesthetics, culture, and values? Neoclassical painting typically involved an emphasis on austere linear design in the depiction of classical events, characters and themes, using historically correct settings and costumes. Its emergence was greatly stimulated by the new scientific interest in classical antiquity that arose during the course of the 18th century. In David compositions, it is evident that the costumes, the events, the characters, the themes and the settings fit uncontestably in an historical contest, with all it beauty.
RIWT Task One By Katie Ziegler Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Impressionism developed in the mid to late 19th century in France, and lasted until the early 20th century (Pioch, 2006). Impressionists such as Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and Pierre Auguste Renoir wanted to focus more on painting the “fleeting effects of nature” through quickly painted works ("Movements > impressionism," ). Instead of being inspired by historical times, Impressionists painted contemporary landscapes and scenes of modern life ("Impressionism & post-impressionism,"). They “rejected the system of state-controlled academics and salons in favor of independent exhibitions” ("Impressionism & post-impressionism,").
Though the painting was not on commission, as Sargent’s purposes were purely reputational, the Gautreau’s intentions are clear in the work and their values as a prominent family aligned with that of society at the time. Wealth, status and exotic aloofness are apparent in the dress, adornments and pose of the sitter. As Singer prided himself on “paint[ing] what I see,” it stands to reason that Gautreau would have worn such daring clothing and exhibited a sensual suggestiveness that would have pushed social boundaries at the time (Shi). In this way, Gautreau was the epitome of the 19th century woman at the forefront of social change, reigned in by societal value of material object and wealth, while pushing against the designated role of passive beauty with suggestive dress and
Thematic Essay: Romanticism and Realism From the mid-18th to the late 19th century, dynamic transformations in European art mirrored turbulent political and social changes, including revolutions, imperial conquests, and the emergence of the modern industrial age. The expressive, emotional aesthetics of Romantic art echoed a form of artistic rebellion against the orderly Enlightenment era to assert individuality of the artist and reject the stoic subject matter seen in the style of Neoclassicism. Romantic artists were primarily focused on exotic and tumultuous themes, often executed with loose and colorfully bold brushwork. Later in the century, proponents of the Realist movement turned to sober depictions of working people as the Industrial Revolution swept through Europe. Some Realists turned to nature, using landscape to convey a sense of direct experience of a specific place and time.
The political impact of France was the main factor that spread ideas. Soldiers who fought in America bought some of the ideas back across to France. Even though victory restored some prestige to the monarchy, the financial impact of the war was to make this restoration of prestige short lived. The American war was an important cause because it affected France in a lot of ways. France got affected economically which made the people of France lose hope on monarch.
AP ART HISTORY King Louis XIV and Napoleon In His Study Comparison Art through the ages have used to convey propagandic purposes. In the oil canvas painting of King Louis XIV in 1701by Hyacuthe Rigaud depicts dictatorship of France as if France was dependent on him, giving an illusion that he will bring France into a new golden age in a Baroque style of art, while Napoleon In His Study by Jaccques Louis David in 1812shows a more humble approach by rather working and serving France to expand it for the good of the people with intelligence and military status in a neo-classical art style. King Louis XIV is depicted as an all-powerful ruler with kingship and dictatorship over fashion by his lavish clothing, Politics, and by being the center of France. He called himself the “Sun King”, setting an age of absolutism by having the embodied Fluer de Lis on his coat symbolizing France’s fate on King Louis on his shoulders depending on him, the absolute ruler. The column behind him is an illusion Riguad used to portray King Louis as a ruler that will being France into a new golden age, just like in Rome and Greece.
17th Century saw such a flowering of culture, because it was the time era where new arts and literature were introduced. Such as mannerism, replacing the old Renaissance painting. It reflected the environment in which it deliberately try to break down the high renaissance principle of balance, harmony, and moderation. Baroque – classical ideals of Renaissance art with the spiritual feelings of the sixteenth century religious revival. Replaced mannerism.
An important factor in his artistic development was the Kristiania Bohème, a circle of writers and artists in Kristiania, (as Oslo was then called). Its members believed in free love and generally opposed bourgeois narrow-mindedness. One of the older painters in the circle, Christian Krohg, gave Munch both instruction and encouragement. Munch soon outgrew the naturalist aesthetic in Kristiania, partly as a result of his assimilation of French Impressionism after a trip to Paris in 1889 and his contact from about 1890 with the work of the Post-Impressionist painters Paul Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. In some of his paintings from this period he adopted the Impressionists’ open brushstrokes, but Gauguin’s use of the bounding line was closer to his thoughts, as was the artist's ambition to go beyond the depiction of external nature and give form to an inner vision of the soul.