Boucher, A Summer Pastoral

Emphasis on the flesh and sensuous

§  Shows a desire to escape. It’s a fantasy where they sit around all day and eat and play music

Boucher, The Toilet of Venus

§  Venus is surrounded by wealth

§  Made for madame de pompadour- official mistress of Louis 15^th

It resembles her

Courbet, Burial at Ornans

·         Courbet says that it is the burial of romanticism

·         Heavily criticized because it was ugly, and because it was the burial of a nobody farmer. It was on a massive canvase

·         Disconnect between what should be celebrated and allowed to be on a huge canvas

·         People are everyday villagers 

Daumier, Third Class Carriage

·         No male figure which shows that they are vulnerable and need help. Shows how it is tearing apart the family. 

David, Death of Marat

§  Marat was a close friend of David who was a writer for a radical newspaper

§  Marat developed a skin condition from hiding in the sewers so he did much of his writing in the bath

§  He was responsible for the deaths of hundreds at the guillotine

§  He was murdered by a lady who thought he was getting carried away charlotte corde

§  His face looks very calm and peaceful

§  There is a very strong horizontal line that means tranquility and calmness

§  He is still holding the quill which represents that the movement will still go forward and that charlotte corde did not accomplish what she thought she did.

§  The quill is by the sword which represents that the pen is mightier than the sword

§  White cloth and the blood represent martyrdom in innocence

§  He looks defenseless

§  He has painted him like Christ, the ultimate martyr

David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps

§  Reinforces sense of instability through the horse. The horse represents France that’s why it looks out of control, chaotic, and uncertain.

§  Napoleon looks calm as he takes the reigns

David, Oath of the Horatii

§  Stood for ideals of revolutionaries

§  The people wanted to establish a new Roman Republic

§  Very Roman and Classical

§  Sons are making an oath to their father that they are willing to die for Rome

§  Lots of triangles which communicate stability and masculinity

§  The women look as if they cannot hold themselves up emotionally or physically. It defines them as weak.

§  It’s very classical looking

§  Primary colors

David, Lictors bring To Brutus the Bodies of his sons

§  Conveys that state is the most important thing

§  Brutus is in the darkness

§  Women are weak with spaghetti arms 

Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus

§  The colors are strange

§  Don’t see the floor

§  Bed is a large diagonal line through the painting

No organization

Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People

§  Shows violence in action

§  Bare breast has a nurturing ability to nurture the souls of men

§  He paints every social class coming together

§  There is a pyramid but at its base are the royalist guards. It shows shame or insult. The apex of the triangle is the flag.

Fragonard, Love Letters

§  More peaceful and calm

§  Nature protects them in the garden

The dog protects them 

Friedrich, Abbey in an Oak forest

Gericault, Raft of the Medusa

§  Massive 16 by 23 feet

§  It criticizes the French government

§  The ship was not sea worthy and neither was the captain. He was just appointed because he had connection to the French government.

§  He crashed the ship in Africa and only 15 remained because of cannibalism

§  Strong diagonal line from bottom left. Two pyramidal forms. One on the right represents hope, one on the left represents despair. 

Goya, Saturn Devouring one of his Sons

§  Very  grotesque and gross

Describes Goyas attitudes and feelings, especially politically

Goya, The Third of May, 1808

§  8 by 13 feet , the figures are life size

§  Talks about French occupation of Spain. Napoleon bought the Spanish crown and put his brother in place. Spanish revolt in Madrid. Citizens of Madrid are being executed for their crime.

§  French soldiers don’t show faces which dehumanizes them

§  The man looks like Christ and has a weird indentation in his hand that looks like a nail print.

Hogarth, Shortly after the Marriage

§  The wife is now happy because of silvertongue and her status

The dog is discovering the infidelity  in the bonnet

Turner, Slave Ship

§  Not inviting

§  Commentating on the common practice that slave drivers had to throw slaves overboard when they became ill and receive insurance money.

§  Painting condemns slavery

§  Violent brush strokes

§  The colors communicate violence

Watteau, Return from Cythera

Rococo

emphasis on whimsicality

light, air, frivolous, loose strokes, dainty hazy

o   Fete galante- elegant outdoor party

o   “Return from Cythera” 1717

§  The people are aristocrats and they have been worshipping the goddess of love