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Survey of Western Art II
Test 3: Baroque, Rococo and English 18th Century, Neoclassicism, Romanticism
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02/10/2010

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Baroque
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Drama - over the top - Barocco = irregularly shaped pearl - Dynamism - realistic - counter-reformation
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Tenebrism
Definition
Intense contrast of light and dark in painting for dramatic effect
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Quadro Riportato
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A realistic painted frame
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Pastoral Landscape
Definition
Certain inclusions - inclusion of humankind - includes architecture - golden glow of the sunset
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Baldacchino
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Canopy placed over an altar
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Plastic / Plasticity
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Moldability - undulation - movement
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Still Life
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a painting of inanimate objects (flowers, cups, fruit)
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Genre Scene
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pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.
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Spanish Netherlands - Flanders
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Counter-reformation = altarpieces and saints are bountiful
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Dutch Republic - Holland
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7 Different countries - Holland is the biggest country. No altarpieces. low lying marshlands. MIDDLE CLASS is very important(main patronage to art). CHARACTERISTICS- Small size works, descriptive of everyday life, Genre, still lifes, portraiture, landscapes. NO SAINTS - very naturalistic, got money AFTER they painted the picture
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Conversation a la mode
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A gathering of elegant people usually in an outdoor setting
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Etching
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Metal with resin on top. artists etched the resin off the metal leaving parts exposed. they dipped it in acid to burn a picture into the metal
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Ancien Regime
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King, aristocracy and church, old order
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Enlightenment
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intelligence
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Salon
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art show
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Neoclassicisim
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Represents a return to classical ideal, to it's consern with simplicity clarity, directness and nobility and its assertion that it should and could represent that ideal. age of enlightenment age of reason
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sublime
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power of nature. awesome. awe inspiring. powerful. spiritual
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Propaganda
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a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position
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Rousseau
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Coulore- Natural Man. Nature must be our guide. Emotions are most important element of man kind. society had corrupted humanity
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Voltaire
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Designo- Enlightenment concept. Opposed to monarchy. Attacked Ancien Regime. Freedom of thought above all else. writings led to french revolution
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[image]
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Title: The Guarden of Love

Artist: Rubens

Material: Oil on canvas

Period: Flemish Baroque

Info: Coversation a la Mode Genre. for himself. Love is the theme = marriage, platonic, love of god, venus, lust

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Grand Manner
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Part of French Acadame. 1. SUBJECT IS GRAND-HISTORICAL. over portrature, landscape and still life. 2. THOUGHT-EDUCATED. 3. STRUCTURE-follow standard past art. 4. INDIVIDUAL STYLE
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Louis XIV
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Royal Solè- center of the universe. responsible for palace of Versailles. uses Absolutism
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French Academy
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Annual Salon - exhibition of French Art in the Louvre - dominate french art.
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Absolutism
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Absolute power
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Rococo
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Begins with the death of Louis XIV. Aristocratic Era. Celebration -freedom from Versailles. Paris is the new center. Decorative Arts - Interior Design. Intimate. Irregularly shaped shell
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Hotel
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French Townhouse
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Madame de Pompadour
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Mistress to Louis 15th She's smart. defecto art director of France she pics the artists to decorate
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The Royal Acadamy of Art
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English. still active
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Romanticism
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Coulore- Simultaneously great and wretched. represent man inhumanity to man. unworldly passions as opposed to principles.
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plein-air painting
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painting in the landscape itself
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barbizon school
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group of like-minded artists who travel to forest of fountain blue in the 1830s to create realistic paintings. Corot inspired
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industrial revolution
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machines are created to replace man's labor. beginning of the age of technology
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odalisque
Definition
herum slave girl
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Orientalism
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the west fascination with the cultures of basically anything not European
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Landscape painting
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lowest level of art in the french academy. 19th century nature replaces god. poetry. nature becomes the presentation of the artist's soul
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[image]
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Title: The Conversation of St. Paul

Artists: Caravaggio

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: about St.Paul being converted to Christianity. Half Roman/Jewish. He became blind in the image. Went from Saul to Paul. worms eye view - tenebrism

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[image]
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Title: Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Artist: Gentileschi

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: Judith snuck into the tent of Holofernes and got him drunk then cut his head off

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[image]
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Title: Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

Artist: Carracci

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: PASTORAL LANDSCAPE joseph mary and baby jesus

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[image]
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Title: Aurora

Artist: Reni

Material: Ceiling Fresco

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: Goddess of the Dawn, infront of Apollo. the women are the hours of the day

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[image]
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Title: Triumph of the Name of Jesus

Artist: Gaulli

Material: Ceiling Fresco

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: Not a Narriative. Initials IHS = jesus

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[image]
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Title: St. Peter's Basilica - Facade and Nave

Artist: Maderno

Material: Architecture

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: Colossal Order. Supposed to have flanking Towers. Nave and Facade Was the last thing added on to the base church. Largest Church in the world.

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[image]
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Title: Baldacchino

Artist: Bernini

Material: Cast Bronze

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: Supposed to be the body of St. Peter

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[image]
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Title: David

Artist: Bernini

Material: Marble

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: Saul's armor supporting him. THIS IS A PORTRAIT OF BERNINI

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[image]
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Title: Sant' Ivo

Artist: Borromini

Material: Architecture

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: Acadamy, concave facade, very curvey, Star-Hexagon dome. Dome IN dome. Acorn and Stars = 2 diff popes during building

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[image]
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Title: Chapel of the Holy Shroud

Artist: Guarini

Material: Architecture

Period: Italian Baroque

Info: Attached to Turin Cathedral. Houses the shroud that covered Jesus's dead body.

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[image]
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Title: Marie de'Medici Landing in Marseilles

Artist: Rubens

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Flemish Baroque

Info: Neptune(god of the sea), musketeer is the bodyguard of the queen, allegory of france is bowing (oposite sex), allegory of fame above

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[image]
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Title: Portrait of Charles I Hunting

Artist: van Dyke

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Flemish Baroque

Info: Charles I was the English Monarch. Allegory of Englad(enchanted Island) He Married Henrietta Maria a sister of his main rival in france. He cast out parlement then got beheaded.

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[image]
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Title: The Jolly Toper

Artist: Hals

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Dutch Baroque

Info: represents an everyday man or rich man in conversation drunk.

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[image]
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Title: The Blinding of Samson

Arist: Rembrandt

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Dutch Baroque

Info: Superman strength. didnt cut his hair or drink. weakness for women. Delilah tricked him into telling her the secret of his strength then she cut his hair off then killed

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[image]
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Title: Self-Portrait

Artist: Rembrandt

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Dutch Baroque

Info: Very Sad life. only had 1 son who later died also after 6 infant deaths. he was a prodigy. Portrays King Solomon - old and alone but wise

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[image]
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Title: Jewish Cemetery

Arist: Ruisdael

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Dutch Baroque

Info: Vanatis of mankind, shows dont live in fear. everythignin the image is in a state of decay.

only thing that lives forever is "God"

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[image]
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Title: Still Life

Artist: Heda

Material: Oil on Panel

Period: Dutch Baroque

Info: imported Citris = weath. Portrays a message that you should enjoy life and material things but dont get attached to them because you cant take them with you when you die.

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[image]
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Title: Woman Holding a Balance

Arist: Vermeer

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Dutch Baroque

Info: Genre Scene. very quiet. everyday task. Painting in back depicts Jesus judging. she is weighing her soul because she is pregnant

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[image]
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Title: The Villiage Bride

Artist: Greuze

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Neoclassicism

Info: Rousseauian. back to nature. represents morality and simple

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[image]
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Title: The Oath of the Horatti

Arist: David

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Neoclassicism

Info: myth of founding rome. 3Albans against 3Romans. a woman is married to a roman and borther to a Alban. Symbol of the French Revolution ironically Louis XVI buys it

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[image]
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Title: Death of Marat

Artist: David

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Neoclassicism

Info: christ like pose, idealised, propoganda, a lie. Corday killed him for beheading her entire family

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[image]
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Title: Experiment with a Bird in the Air-Pump

Artist: Wright of Derby

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Neoclassicism

Info: noctounal scene is Derby's style. what can i say.. i wrote nothing on this fuckn thing

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[image]
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Title: George Washington

Artist: Houdon

Material: Marble

Period: Neoclassicism

Info: Idealised a little. alligory of america. the plows represent a land of pleny

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[image]
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Title: The Panthèon

Artist: Soufflot

Material: Architecture

Period: Neoclassicism

Info: was a church, turned into a mosileum. athiest thinkers are burried there. very plain

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[image]
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Title: Project for a memorial to Issac Newton

Artist: Boulèe

Material: Ink and Wash

Period: Neoclassicism

Info: never built. constalation inside at all times of the day. giant sarcophagus

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[image]
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Title: Strawberry Hill

Arist: Walpole

Material: Architecture

Period: Neoclassical

Info: Not very neoclassical in nature. more gothic revival

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[image]
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Title: Hangman's Tree

Artist: Callot

Material: Etching

Period: French Baroque

Info: THE GREAT MISERY OF WAR SERIES. catholic symbols. peopel tried to revolt against taxes but got killed

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[image]
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Title: The Nightmare

Arist: Fuseli

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Neoclassicism

Info: example of sublime woman, incubus, horse. how the subconcious mind and dreams affect us

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[image]
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Title: The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Artist: Poussin

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: French Baroque

Info: classical Baroque. loves Roman Mythology. Romulous is standing . invites the Sabine neighboring city's women to come over then GOTCHA' BITCH! yup. raped. all ov em so they can carrry new roman children

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[image]
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Title: A Pastoral Landscape

Artist: Lorrain

Material: oil on Copper

Period: French Baroque

Info: zig zag. setting sun. mankind. architecture. small image. french acadamy approved.

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[image]
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Title: Garden facade of Versailles

Artist: Le Vau

Material: Architecture

Period: French Baroque

Info: Built for Louis the XIV, he invites his courtiers and never lets them leave. the villiage around it supports the courtiers held prisoner. palazzo design. 3 floors

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[image]
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Title: Hall of Mirrors

Artist: Le Brun

Material: Interior Design

Period: French Baroque

Info: mirrors are expensive. salon of war at one end and salon of peace on the other.

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[image]
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Title: Nymph and Satyr Carousing

Artist: Clodion

Material: Terra cotta

Period: Racoco

Info: motion and negative space. playful and sexual

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[image]
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Title: The Toilet of Venus

Artist: Boucher

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Rococo

Info: light zig zag, feminine

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[image]
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Title: The Swing

Artist: Fragonard

Material: Oil on canvas

Period: Rococo

Info: contemporary people. hes lookn at her vag when she swings up and she likes it. whataslut.

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[image]
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Title: Blowing Bubbles

Artist: Chardin

Material: oil on canvas

Period: Rococo

Info: genre scene growing boy with small jacket

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[image]
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Title: The Orgy (Scene III of the Rakes Progress)

Artist: Hogarth

Material: Engraving

Period: 18th Century English

Info: Narritive about a rake with no moral, eventually lands in an insane asylum

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[image]
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Title: Mrs. Siddons

Artist: Gainsborough

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: 18th Century English

Info: Actress = lady macBeth or a shakesperian actress

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[image]
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Title Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse

Artist: Reynolds

Material: oil on canvas

Period: 18th Century English

Info: portrayed as a goddess. the red is gone cuz he used experimental ink and it deteriorated

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[image]
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Title: The Third of May

Artist: Goya

Material: oil on Canvas

Period: Romanticism

Info: French killing the Spanish. christ like. allegory of Spain

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[image]
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Title: Saturn devouring on of his Children

Arist: Goya

Material: Fresco

Period: Romanticism

Info: from the Black paintings

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[image]
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Title: Under the Birches

Artist: Rousseau

Material: oil on panel

Period: Romanticism

Info: rebel. Plein-air

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[image]
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Title: The Haywain

Arist: Constable

Material: oil on canvas

Period: Romanticism

Info: Industrial revolution. refused by the royal academy.

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[image]
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Title: The Slave ship

Artist: Turner

Material: oil on canvas

Period: Romanticism

Info: insurance on slaves if they died. man inhumanity to man.

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[image]
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Title: Abbey in an Oak Forest

Artist: Friedrich

Material: oil on canvas

Period: Romanticism

Info: darkness of the evils on earth on the bottom and light above as heaven. nature and architecture is dying

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[image]
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Title: Grand Odelisque

Artist: Ingres

Material: oil on canvas

Period: Romanticism

Info: beauty over porportions.

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[image]
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Title: Napolean at the pesthouse in jaffa

Arist: gros

Material: oil on canvas

Period: Romanticism

Info: death + Sense of another world. napolean is way to tall and apears christlike

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[image]
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Title: The Raft of the Medusa

Artist: Gericault

Material: Oil on Canvas

Period: Romanticism

Info: interviewed the survivors. frigate crashed. man's inhumanity to man

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[image]
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Title: Women of Algiers

Artist: Delacroix

Material: oil on canvas

Period: Romanticism

Info: painted real odalisques

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