Neoclassicism/Romanticism
Progress, Human Perfectibility, Equality, Reason, The Power of Thought and Education
What are the Enlightenment Principles?
Daumier, Courbet, Millet, Corot, Manet c1830-1870
Who are the main artist of Realism?
The New world of the Industrial Revolution, modern life eg lesiure, water and snow were studied for their reflective qualities.
What were the concerns of Impressionism?
Seurat, Cezanne, Gaugin, Van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec
Who are the Post-Impressionism artist?
Absinthe
What was the most popular drink in Paris in the 1800s?
Equality, Liberty, Fraternity
What are the main ideas of the 1789 Revolution
Reaction against the highly subject view of Romanticism, Socialism was growing as a movement in France as a result of growing imbalances
What is the context that allowed Realism to flourish?
These were available in the West from 1854 but did not become the rage until the beginning of the 1860s. The Paris world fair gave the Far East a high profile
What are Japanese Prints?
Painted modern Parisian life and leisure of the bourgeois and was concerned with science and progress.
What did Seurat do?
Cast Iron
What was the Crystal Palace and Eiffel Tower made up off?
Reaction against Rococo, Discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii, 1789 Revolution, 1799 Rise of Napoleon
What is the context of Neoclassicism?
He began his career as a political cartoonist for newspapers using lithograhpy
Who is Honor Daumier?
He painted Grainstack, snow effect in 1890
What did Monet paint?
Decorative curving lines, emphasis on unity, stylized motifs
Salon des Refuses
What were the famous impressionist works rejected by the academy?
Shallow space, balanced (often symmetrical), smooth brushwork and fine canvas, limited palette.
What are the formal elements and effects
He wanted to build an art based on common scenes. His subject was the present not the past.
Who is Courbet?
He was often called a classical Impressionist because his tutor was a pupil of Ingres
Who was Degas?
He was a French architect and designer whose fame was assured in Paris due to his Metro entrances, built between 1899 and 1904.
Who was Hector Guimard?
Antwerp
Where did Van Goh first discover Japanese prints?
Gericault and Delacroix
Who are the Painters/Pioneers of Romanticism?
Falls under the umbrella of Realism and it focuses on nature and landscapes
What is the Barbizon school?
What were Cafes?
Built the Hotel Tassel in 1893
Who is Victor Horta?
Tahiti
What influenced Paul Gaugin's art pieces