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The World Turned Upside Down
David, Goya
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/01/2008

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  • Fragonard The Swing
  • Roccocco style
  • different from Neoclassicism in that it is decadent, luscious, and extravagent
  • Neoclassicism is simpler, more restrained, functional
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  • David
  • Oath of the Horatii
  • Women: shrouded, muted colors, looking down
  • Men: weapons, muscles, higher stature, parallels Doric columns
  • Neoclassical idea of beauty was masculine, not feminine
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  • David
  • Socrates Taking Hemlock
  • 1787
  • strong geometry (lines>color)
  • restrained emotion, noble, dignified
  • male torso glorified in Neoclassicism
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  • David
  • Death of Marat
  • 1793
  • simplicity, functionality of crate (anti-Roccoco)
  • serene face, estasis,
  • shows Neoclassical preoccupation with death
  • Marat was a martyr of the French Revolution
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Definition
  • Goya
  • The Puppet
  • 1791
  • man is helpless (limp limbs, doll face)
  • women's faces are gentle/smiling, not harsh or demonic
  • highlights the secret destructive powers of woman
  • Romantic Period: a scaling down of man
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Definition
  • Goya
  • Witches' Sabbath
  • 1798
  • belief that evil was written on the face
  • Goya thought black was the most beautiful, expressive color
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  • Goya
  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El Sueño de la razon produce monstros) from Los Caprichos
  • 1796-1798
  • critiques ills of society
  • reason embodied by the geometric lines of desk and paper and pen
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  • Goya
  • The Maja Clothed
  • 1800
  • Virtually no nudes in Spanish art (except Velazquez)
  • lack of comfort with the body
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  • Goya
  • Execution of May 3, 1808
  • 1808
  • emphasizes brutality of French soldiers by making them anonymous and all pointing their guns at one man
  • an exquisite balance between the longing emptiness of the back ground and the brutal chaos of the foreground
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[image]
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  • Goya
  • The Colossus
  • 1808-1812
  • chaos and terror at the bottom while Colossus is oblivious to their franticness
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  • Goya
  • Couple Eating Soup
  • 1820-1823
  • black painting
  • grotesque, crude, crazed eyes
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  • Goya
  • Saturn Devouring his Children
  • 1820-1823
  • worlds away from David's work
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