Art History Lecture SixBreaking the Mold

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Linear

Painterly

Recessional

A mirrored image

Trapdoor lighting

Symbolism

Compare

The ClassicsRenaissance

Neo-Classic

The

Romantic

The Realist

What’s In A Label?

3 Realities

Ingres Odalisque Neo-Classic: The Age Of Reason

The sovereignty of line.

Reality?

Really?

Ingres

Neo-Classic?

Romantic?

Realist?

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

REASONThe New Authority

Jacques Louis David

Oath Of The Horatii

Idealized

Contemplative

Climax

Linear

Plane

Closed Form

All the ingredients of the

High Renaissance…

minus Christianity.

What

makes

this

Classic?

David

Death of Socrates

What makes

this Classic?

Linear

Plane

Idealized

Climax

What makes

this Neo-Classic?

Non-Christian

Open Form

Lighting

Toned Color

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Why is this

NOT Classic?

Why did they

adopt Baroque

principles such

as painterly,

recession, open

form and dramatic

lighting?

In what way does

the theme match

the label?

Gericault Raft of the Medusa

Romanticism

Where have we

seen this before?

Perpetuating the works of Caravaggio,

Velázquez, Rembrandt and…

Delacroix Self Portrait

Why does Neo-Classicism

follow Classicism?

Why does Romanticism

choose to follow

the Baroque?

Redundancy? YES!

Contemplation/Active involvement?

Off-stage audience/Part of the scene?

Grand themes?

Rational/Emotional?

Climax/Anti-climax?

Time stopped/Time-in-flux?

Delacroix: Liberty Leading The People

One more time!

Delacroix The Death of Sardanapolis

Aimed For The

Viewer’s Heart

Scenes seldom

experienced on

a daily basis.

Turner The Fighting Temeraire

What is the relationship

between the subject

matter and the formal

qualities in this work?

Subject matter shifts from

representation to presentation.

Turner Snowstorm Turner Rain, Steam and Speed

Anticipating Impressionism

and beyond…

Millet The GleanersCommon labor given dignity and monumentality.

Nobility Takes

On A New Look

In what way do these two artists differ in

their interpretation of common labor?

Courbet The Stone Breakers Realism threatens the status quo.

Courbet A Burial at Ornans An uncommon tribute to the commoner.

Cracks in the foundation of academic painting.

A major social and aesthetic transformation heralds a new era.

Allegorical realism

Courbet The Artist’s StudioRealism?

A new? mission

breaks the rules.

Manet Luncheon On The GrassTitian Pastoral Concert

Traditionally attributed to Giorgione,

The Pastoral Concert is now considered

a work from Titian's youth.

Renaissance: Titian Venus Realism: Manet Olympia

Idealized

3D Modeling

Seductive

A real person

Minimal modeling

Expressionless

Art For Patron’s Sake Art For Art’s Sake

Manet Olympia

Why the

label of

REALISM?

If this is realism,

why is it so flat?

Why does Manet

say, “Look at it,

not through it”?

Why did it shock

the public?

Hiroshige Lake by Hakone

Manet Young Flautist

Japanese woodcut prints

influence Western vision and art.

Art for Art’s Sake!

Manet

Dead Matador Death: The stark reality.

Manet

Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Anticipating

Cubism?