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AP EURO ART

Renaissance1300-1600

A revival of interest in Classical Art

Chiaroscuro Perspective Red & Blue Triangles

Portraiture Natural

landscapes 3-D Sculpture Individualism Humanism

Italian Renaissance – Catholic PatronageQuattrocento (1400s) –

FLORENCE, Medici’s

Cinquecento (1500s) - ROME

Bramante’s Tempietto

Michaelangelo’s

Pieta

Brunelleschi Florence

Raphael’s School of Athens

Renaissance Artist Names

Brunelleschi Donatello

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo Raphael

Mannerism1520-1600Historical Time Period: Reformation & Counter Reformation

End of the Renaissance or Beginning of the Baroque Instability that

exaggerates or fantasizes the human form

Historical Time Period: Reformation & Counter Reformation

emotionalism, elongated human figures, strained poses, unusual effects of scale, lighting or perspective, vivid often garish colours.

Mannerism Artists Bronzino Correggio Durer El Greco Parmagianino Pontormo Phillip II of Spain builds Escorial

The Holy Trinity (1577) by El Greco. Hendrick Goltzius Bust of a

man with a tasseled cap, 1587

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (d. 1593) Spring

Music: Monteverdi (Modern Opera)

Baroque1600 – 1750Historical Context: Absolutism, Sci Rev’n, English Civil War & Restoration

Ornamentation & curved rather than straight lines

Absolutism (Palaces) – Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles

Sought to Overwhelm the ViewerGrandeurRichnessDrama

Baroque Subjects

Landscapes Scenes of everyday life

Dutch Baroque Painting: Scenes of

maritime trade, banking, commerce, portraiture & Still-lifesRembrandt

Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson”

Rembrandt’s Night Watch

English Baroque Painting Inspired by Dutch Emphasizes Portraiture

French Baroque Art

Louis XIV moves the center of art from Rome to ParisFrench Academy

Centralization of art in the service of the state “la gloire de la France!”

Baroque Artists Bernini Caravaggio Poussin Rembrandt

Musicians Bach Handel Vivaldi

Rococo“Boroque run amok”

1700-1789Historical Context:

EnlightenmentEnlightened Despotism

Philosophes

Art is lighter & less formal compared to Baroque

Increased focus on nobles Increased participation &

patronage by Bourgeoisie

Rococo Artists

Boucher Fragonard Hogarth Rigaud Watteau

Francois Boucher, The Fountain of Love

Watteau, Jean-AntoineThe Embarkation for Cythera

The Swing 1787

Frederick the Great builds Sans Souci

Neoclassicism1770-1820Historical Context:French Rev, Napoleonic wars & Beginnings of Nationalism

Transition period towards Romanticism

Looked to ancient Greece & Rome for inspiration (courage, sacrifice, love of country)

Neoclassical Artists

Canova Jacque Louis David Goya Gros Ingres Vigee Le Brun

"La Colère d'Achille" ("Wrath of Achilles") by French painter Michel Martin Drolling 1810

David’s “Death of Socrates”

Neoclassical Musicians

Beethoven Haydn Mozart Rossini Schubert

Romanticism, Naturalism & the Barbizon School1800-1850

Glorification of the past Nature Patriotism Heroism Supernatural Cute peasants Emphasis on FEELING, not reason

Romanticism Artists

Corot Delacroix Gericault Millet Rousseau Rude

(3) Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon

Romanticism Musicians Beethoven Brahms Chopin Dvorak Liszt Mendelssohn Rossini Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky Wagner

Ludwig van Beethoven One of the 1st composers to

elicit inner human emotion through music9th Symphony (Ode to Joy),

Moonlight Sonata, Furelise

Frederic Chopin

Wrote several piano works that highlighted Polish folk songs & dances

Richard Wagner

German nationalist composer who strongly emphasized Germanic myths & legends in his operas

Peter Tchaikovsky

Great Russian composer

Realism1850-80Historical Context: Industrial Progress & Trains, Real Politik

Depiction of real people & events.

Portrays peasants & workers who are not cute

Based on FACT not emotion Grittier & w/ more attention to social

problems & social context

Realism Artists

Courbet Daumier Eiffel (designed the Eiffel Tower) Haussmann Millet

c) The Stonebreakers

Courbet – The Source

b) The Gleaners

Impressionism1870-1905Historical Context: La Belle Epoque

Use of new subject matter & a new way of looking at the world

Everyday life of middle class becomes acceptable subject for high art

Outdoor paintings helped them play w/ light

Impressionistic Artists

Cezanne Degas Money Munch Renoir

Post-Impressionism

Variety of styles that use impressionism as a jumping off pointPointillism – viewers’ eyes mix small dots of colors

Most famous Post-Impressionistic Artist Vincent Van Gogh

Symbolism

1890-1914 Decadent Eerie supernaturalism, dreams &

very decadentExample: Munch’s “The Scream”

Modern Art

Influenced by Freud, Einstein, WWI and II and atomic age

Movements & People

Cubism Expressionism Futurism Dadaism Surrealism Social realism

Boccioni Dali Duchamp Kandinsky Matisse Picasso Pollack Warhol

EXPRESSIONISM Distortion & use of color to portray emotion Expression over detail Objects fade away & replaced w/ abstraction

Munch (1893) – the Scream Kandinsky (1913) –

Composition VII

CUBISM Broke images down to simpler forms & then

reassembled for different perspectives Influenced by theory of relativity Picasso

Picasso (1937)- Guernica

Nude Descending a Staircase (1913) by Marcel Duchamp

Dali (1930) – The Persistence of Memory