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THE GOTHIC PERIOD
Development of Painting
The Gothic Period
> barbaric or rude
> Light mysticism> Every created thing partakes,
however imperfectly, of the essence of
God.
>The viewer sees an object but
through it is conscious of the distant
unseen source that illuminates it and
gives it its intelligibility.
> Naturalism, toward greater volume
and roundness.
>The decorative flatness gave way totheir interest in pictorial depth.
St.matthew the evangelist Notre Dame
THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
Development of Painting
> First period of history to name itself.
> The artists were self-conscious,
aware that their artwork is different
from that of the past.
> They deliberately strove to create agolden age in the arts.
> Renaissance means rebirth of the
era they most admired: the Classical
Period of Greek and Roman.
> The time of Michelangelo, Leonardo,
Rafael, Donatello, etc.
> There was an artistic revolution.
> The age of painting
> Painters and sculptors dissected
corpses to better understand the
mystery of human anatomy.
> To create the illusion of accuratethree-dimensional space.
> Notion of art as a mirror of the
physical world.
Contributors of the
Renaissance Period - EARLY
RENNAISANCE
The Tribute Money. Masaccio
MASACCIO
> Early Renaissance art.
> Used the continuous narrative
device. > Masaccios shading and
treatment of drapery give convincingroundness to the bodies.
> The figures have dignity and gravity
that mark them as true Renaissance
product.
The Birth of Venus. Sandro Boticelli
SANDRO BOTTICELLI
> Fascination with the depiction of
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women as graceful, exquisite beings,
so weightless they often seem about
to float in paintings.
Contributors of the
Renaissance Period - HIGHRENAISSANCE
RENAISSANCE MAN
> Applied to someone who is very well
informed about, or very good at doing,
many different, often quite unrelated,
things.
> Michelangelo painter, sculptor,
poet, architectincomparably gifted
at all. > Leonardo
painter, inventor, sculptor, architect,engineer, scientist, musician, and all-
around intellectual.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
>The artist who embodies the term
Renaissance Man the most.
>The greatest genius who ever lived.
> Study of Human Proportions,
sought to establish ideal proportions
for the human body by relating it to
the square and the circle.
> Exotic mirror writing
Mona Lisa
> One of the many works of Da Vinci
left unfinished.
> Sfumato (smoke in Italian)
> Painting in thin glazes to achieve a
hazy, cloudy atmosphere and a sense
of three-dimensional form.
MICHELANGELO
> Established sculptor by the age of
25. > Finished the Sistine Chapel
Baroque Period
BAROQUE vs. RENAISSANCE
Renaissance
>Stressed calm of reason and
enlightenment
> Classic simplicity
Baroque>Colors are more vivid with great
contrast between colors and light and
dark.
> Favored ornamentation, as rich and
complex as possible.
BERNINI
> Dynamic, sometimes even
theatrical. >Taste for drama and
overstatement, a flair for grand
gesture.
> Background in theater, in stage and
scene design.
> Liked to incorporate light, smoke,
and water in his creations.
CARAVAGGIO
> Focuses on a suspended moment
after violent death.
> His figures seem frozen in a
moment of anguish.
ROCOCO PERIOD
ROCOCO ART
> A development and extension of the
Baroque style.
> Play on the word baroque but also
refers to the French term rocks and
shell
> Rococo is more intimate, suitable
for the aristocratic home.
> It leans more to the gentle pastels.
> Had smaller scale with a light-
hearted, playful quality.
> Charmingly romantic.
> Sophisticated style.
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Jean baptiste. The house of cards
THE MODERN WORLD -
NEOCLASSICISM,
ROMANTICISM, AND REALISM
NEOCLASSICAL ART
> Artists of this time became the
great propagandist for the anti-
aristocracy. > Emotions arerestrained, outlines are clear, colors
are cool, figures have full-bodied
muscularity.
> Works appear to the viewers
reason, logic, and high moral
principles.
JACQUES LOUIS DAVID
> Pioneer of the neoclassical period.
> He went against the corrupt
aristocracy in France.> Most of his art are politically aware.
> Liberty, equality, fraternity, and
participation by all levels of society in
the government and economy of
France.
The death
Of of Marat
ROMANTIC PERIOD
>The ideal was to stress drama,
turbulent emotions, and complex
composition.
> Eugene Delacroix
Liberty leading the people
REALIST MOVEMENT
> Sought to depict everyday and the
ordinary, rather than the heroic of the
exotic.
>Their concerns were rooted in the
present.
IMPRESSIONISM AND
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
IMPRESSIONISM
> Attempted to paint what the eye
actually sees, rather than what the
brain interprets from visual cues.
>They were after the true visual
impression., not the version that is
filtered through the knowing brain.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Piazza San
Marco
CLAUDE MONET
> Preferred to work outdoors, in day
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light.
>Tried to record the exact
impression created by the light
striking on the surface.
POST-IMPRESSIONISM> Vincent Van Gogh
> Paul Cezanne
> Paul Gauguin
VINCENT VAN GOGH
> His work is characterized by intense,
high-key colors; loose brushwork,
often with a heavy impasto; a swirling,
agitated composition; and a subject
matter emphasising those things in his
closet.
PAUL CEZANNE
> Style is different in developing
Impressionism.
> His search was for a solidity and a
geometric order in the visual world.
> He felt that Impressionism needed
more substance, more solidity of form
than could be found in optical
perception of light.
LATE 19th CENTURY
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER
> Arrangement in Gray and Black, No.
> Seen as an expression sons
sentimental devotion to his aged
mother.
> A subtle study of formal
composition, light and color.
>The use
of visual elements for their own sake,
not just to serve the needs of a
particular subject matter.
Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1
(The Artists Mother)
JOHN SINGER SARGENT
> Madame X
> Shocked viewers when exhibited in
Paris in 1884.
Madame X (Mme Pierre Gautreau)
FAUVISM, CUBISM, AND
OTHER MOVEMENTS -
France, Early 20th Century
FAUVISM
- Wild beasts
HENRI MATISEE
> Images painted in purely arbitrary
colors, or colors unnatural of his
subject. > Fauvism did not last very
long but its existence was very
important. > It was
the one that broke once and for all a
longstanding taboo about the
boundaries and conventions of art.
> Never again would the artists feel
they must confine themselves to
replicating the real colors of the
natural world.
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The Woman with a Hat.
CUBISM
PABLO PICASSO
> Inclusion of non-traditional
elements, merging of figure and
ground, reflecting the assumption that
all proportions of the work participate
in its expression, and there isfragmenting of the figures and other
elements into flat planes.
Les Demoiselles dAvignon.
> Strongly influenced by Cezannes
idea of natural forms could be reduced
to geometric solidscone, sphere, and
cylinder.
> They were interested in the
geometry of forms, but they took as
their starting point an angular, rather
than a curved, solidthe cube.
> It is an art of facets. Forms are
flattened into planes, broken apart,
and reassembled to make striking
visual (but abstract) reality.
> We
see the same form from different
angles simultaneously; top, bottom,
side, and frontal views may be
combined into one image.
> Figure and ground are treated in the
same way and have equal weight in
the composition, blending togetherinto a coherent whole.
EXPRESSIONISM - Early 20th
Century
DIE BRUCKE The Bridge
> A group
entirely in sympathy with Freuds goal
of probing the unconscious and hoped
to take the process one step further
to translate their inner explorationsinto a meaningful art.
>The painting styles of the
Expressionist artists are often
dissimilar, but their thread of
connection is the desire to probe their
deepest emotions and to express
those emotions in their work.
>The expressionist are pessimistic
about the human condition in general
that is, about life itself.
Edvard Munch. Death Chamber
DADA and SURREALISM - After
World War I
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DADAISM
> A reaction against the
unprecedented carnage of the world
war.
>They believed that any civilization
that could tolerate such brutality mustbe swept away, and all institutions,
including the traditional art, along with
it.
Marcel DuChamp. L.H.O.O.Q
SURREALISM
> An art based in the unconscious,
often taking its subject matter and its
imagery from dreams to fantasies.
> Pure psychic automation by whichone intends to express verbally, in
writing, or by other method, the real
functioning of the mind.
Salvador Dali. The Persistence of Time