Rococo Neoclassical Painting Anna Han Charlotte Liu Mary

Rococo & Neoclassical Painting Anna Han Charlotte Liu Mary Chen Peggy Hsu

Outline Baroque Rococo Neoclassical (17~18 th) (18 th ) (18~20 th ) • Rococo Painting • Neoclassical Painting • Rococo V. S Neoclassical

Rococo Painting • 18 th century • Subject of Painting: Gallant country parties, ladies, love and romance, carefree life of the aristocracy • Style of painting: swift, smooth, playful lining delicate coloring, graceful movement

Antoine Watteau A French Painter Painting theatrical scenes “fetes galantes”

Departure from the of Cythera , 1717

The French Theater 1714 Oil on canvas , Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Pierrot, also know as Gilles 1721, Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris.

François Boucher • A French painter • Pastoral and mythological scenes • Frivolity and Sensuousness • Plump , pink nudes

Venus Consoling Love 1751. Oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

The Toilette of Venus , Oil on Canvas, 1751 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Interrupted Sleep Oil on canvas, 1750 Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Leburn • Refined Portraits • French female artist • Affected by Ruben and van. Dyck • Tribute to European fashion industry

Marie Antoinette, 1788 Oil on canvas, Musee de Verasilles. Giraudon/Art Resource, New York

Marie Anoinette- 1779 Oil on canvas, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

• Marie Antoinette at Versailles – 1783 Oil on canvas, at Versailles.

• Portrait of a Young Woman Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

Jean-Honore Fragonard • French painter • Courtship and romantic love • Sensuous abandon sipirt

• The Swing 1768, Oil on Canvas, the Wallace Collection, London

• The Confession of Love 1771, Oil on canvas, Frick Collection, New York

• The Stolen Kiss, 1786 -1788 The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Neoclassicism • Between 18 th and 20 th centuries • A self-conscious revival of Greco-Roman culture • Synthesize the tradition anew in each work

Jacques-Louis David • A French artist • Pioneer of Neoclassicism • Influential paintings -- The Oath of the Horatii, 1784 -- The Death of Socrates, 1787

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• The Oath of the Horatii, 1784 golden light Doric arcade

• Straight, hard-edged shapes spear • Horizontal lines • Somber colors • Precise, realistic

• The Death of Socrates, 1787 Socrates’ wife hemlock Plato Crito

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780~1867) • Son of an artist-craftman • A fellow student of Gros in David's studio • Admire “Raphael, his century, the ancients, and above all the divine Greeks. ” • Famous for polished depictions of history and mythology with accomplished portraits Self-portrait at age 24, 1804 Musée Condé.

Works • Portraits of middle- and upper-class patrons • Large works: The Apotheosis of Homer The Martyrdom of St Symphorian • Bathers— especially women

Madame Moitessier , 1851 Madame Rivière, 1806. Portret Joseph-Antoinea Moltedo - 1810 Portret Madame Cave - 1844 Portret Francois-Marius Granet Portret Rzeźbiarza - 1807 Lorenzo Bartolini - 1820

The Apotheosis of Homer

The Martyrdom of St Symphorian

La grande odalisque, 1814, Louvre.

The Valpincon Bather, 1808 The Turkish bath, 1862

Angelica Kauffmann (1741~1807) • Swish female artist • Member of England’s Royal Academic of Art • Skilled painter of historical events

Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest, 1782.

Venus convinces Helen to go with Paris, 1790.

Rococo V. S Neoclassical Rococo Neoclassical Time 18 th century (1700~1750) 18 th ~ 20 th century Subject Aristocratic luxurious lives Historical and religious events Style Playful lining Free movement Delicate color Linear lining Expressive contour