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| -epitomizes rococo style, pastel colors & soft light (rococo=expression of "sparkling gaiety" of the wealthy youth in France) |
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Breakfast Scene
Hogarth
1745 |
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-satire of 18th century english life
-series of paintings (6) where he chronicled marital immoralities of the moneyed class |
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Oath of the Horatii
David
1784 |
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-tells a story of love and patriotism
-neoclassical painter
-ideologist of French revolution |
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Death of Marat
David
1793 |
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-revolutionary writer Marat=martyr of the cause
-woman wrote letter to him and came to see to help the cause and stabbed him
-this piece was meant to rally people of the cause |
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Grande Odalisque
Ingres
1814 |
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-reclining female nude was a Greco-Roman subject, Ingres converted her into an odalisque in a Turkish harem
-mixed styles: romanticism and the exotic |
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Death of Sardanapalus
Delacroix
1827 |
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| -inspired by Byron's 1821 poem, Delacroix painted the romantic spectacle of and assyrian king on his funeral pyre |
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Stone Breakers
Courbet
1849 |
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-Courbet=leading figure in the realist movement
-juxtaposed young and old to suggest that those born to poverty remain poor for the remainder of their lives |
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Dejeuner sur l'herbe
Manet
1863 |
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-Realist painting, shocked/outraged the public
-means "luncheon on the grass" |
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-depicts young white prostitute (olympia=common name for a "professional")
-greets viewer with a cool indifference
-black maid carrying bouquet from a client (addresses racial problems)
-critics responded to style as well as subject matter (abrupt tonality/rough brush strokes) |
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Place du Theatre Francais
Pissarro
1898 |
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-impressionist view of a crowded Paris square seen from several stories above street level
-deliberate casualness in the arrangement of figures (less focus on light effects than on people present)
-resembles photography due to the flattened spatial effect and the cutting off of figures on the edges |
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Bar at the Folies Bergere
Manet
1882 |
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-painting set in a parisian cafe, artist called attention to the canvas surface by creating spatial inconsistencies (ie. relationship btw. barmaid/mirror) -barmaid, out of touch/disinterested in viewers and bar patrons
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Night Cafe
Van Gough
1888 |
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-artist explored the abilities of colors and distorted forms to express emotions
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Gauguin
1897 |
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-search of a place far removed from European materialism, Gauguin moved to Tahiti,
-he used native women and tropical colors to display his pessimistic view of the life cycle
"Where are we going?"-near to death an old woman
"What are we?" day to day existence
"Where do we come from?" source. child. life begins
(above found on p.836 in text)
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Basket of Apples
Cezanne
1895 |
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-analytical approach to still life
-captured the solidity of bottles and fruit by juxtaposing color patches, but the resulting abstract shapes are not optically realisitic |
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