DRAMATIC, masculine, barocco= and irregular shaped pearl, dynamic/dynamism, realistic (veritism), counter-reformation (catholic response),

a canopy built over an altar

should always appear around sunset, an idealized landscape, you don’t need to look at nature for it, it can be created in the head

a violent (intense) spotlight of light on the main character(s) surrounded by darkness (shadow – tenebroso)

• DRAMATIC, masculine, barocco= and irregular shaped pearl, dynamic/dynamism, realistic (veritism), counter-reformation (catholic response), over the top/all over the place
• Painting is our “biggie”
•   Realistic representation
• Golden apple = the judgment of Paris

Statements or claims that are of dubious authenticity, often used for inspiration in the paintings

SPANISH BAROQUE ART

Still life is introduced, dramatic lighting (tenebrism) is still affecting the pictures, lots of images of saints,

very protestant (Calvinism), Art patronage as from Middle class:

Requirements for art:

• Some aspect of everyday life (genre, portraiture, still life, landscape), often with religious morals/undertones
• Small
• Realistic details

a type of engraving, heated copper plate applied with aspaltum/resin, putting drawing on plate as a template, and then engraving in the aspaltum/resin, you have to remove the resin before you print it.

·      Subject matter (must be historic) – religious or mythological

·      Thought – put some thought into it, Disegno

·      Structure aka. Composition

·      Style  - limit your own artistic style

·      Dictator to art for centuries – impressionist rebelled

·      Don’t focus too much on the details

taught you drawing, if you had talent, you could study for free. Henry Testelin after Charles le Brung, Expression, 1696, etching, was given to every student at the academy,

Salon

the exhibition of art, will happen in the Louvre, if you want to paint, you will paint history painting, if not portrait, and if not Landscape, then still life, and then nothing

French Rococo art

·      Death of Louis XVI (1715)

·      Celebration of the death of Louis

·      Aristocratic Era – freedom from Versailles

·      Paris

·      Decorative arts

·      Rocorro means an irregular shaped shell

·      Nudity – tits and asses

·      France emerges as the leading country in terms of politics and culture

·      Louis XIV – reigns 1661-1715 (54 years), 15years old when becoming time

·      Absolutism – the king rules absolutely, doesn’t have to respond do anybody

·      Known as the “Sun King”

·      Catholic (though it is not counter-reformation in theme) – it’s all about Louis

a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith, a history movement, not an art movement

·      Disegno philosopher,

·      we shouldn’t be ruled by one person, according to Voltaire/ opposed to monarchy

·      Attacked ancient regime in pamphlets, spent time in jail due to his view

·      Desired freedom of thought above all other considerations

·      Writing led to French revolution

·      Colore philosopher

·      Wants us to return to nature and our natural state

·      Nature must be our guide

·      Emotions are the most important element of mankind

·      Society had corrupted humanity

·  Happens with the age of Enlightenment, a historical movement

·      Age of reason – give up the concept of relying on the past

·      We want a scientific explanation of the world

·      Scientist = natural philosophers

·      Creation of the encyclopedia

·      Everything is brought into question, specifically god

·      Ancien Regime= the old order = king, aristocracy and church

·      Religion?

Trying to convince people of your opinion. –often stretching the truth