The Baroque 3 Emotionalism and

Absolutism

RICKMANSWORTH U3A ART APPRECIATION

Monday October 22nd 2018

Next Year’s Programme

Continue as we are: the ‘ISMs’, interspersed with other topics, visits to Art venues etc?

Any other suggestions?

Emotionalismmanipulating the viewers' emotions using various

techniques to minimise the literal and psychological distance between the art work and the viewer.

Emotionalism theory is an aesthetic and critical theory of art which is mainly concerned with the expressive qualities of art work. According to the theory, the most important thing about a work of art is the vivid communication of moods, feelings, and ideas.

Darwin’s list of emotions

• Suffering and weeping

• Low spirits, anxiety, grief, dejection, despair

• Joy, high spirits, love, tender feelings, devotion

• Reflection, meditation, ill-temper, sulkiness, determination

• Hatred and anger

• Disdain, contempt, disgust, guilt, pride, helplessness, patience, affirmation and negation

• Surprise, astonishment, fear, horror

• Self-attention, shame, shyness, modesty, blushing.

Boy Bitten by a Lizard 1593–1594by Caravaggio (1571 – 1610)Oil on canvas66 cm × 49.5 cm)National Gallery, London

Boy with a Dog c.1650 byBartolome Esteban Murillo (1617 – 1682) Oil on canvas 78 x 62 cmHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Chosen by Bob Wallace

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and studio1617 - 1682The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin17th centuryOil on canvas211 x 126 cmDetropit Institute of Arts

Chosen by David Green

Francisco de ZurburanAgnus Dei38 x 62 cm

Oil on canvas1635-40

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Chosen by Jean Dodds

Absolutism

Definition:

‘Absolutism is a political system in which one ruler or leader

has complete power and authority over a country’.

www.collinsdictionary.com

Derived from the older feudal doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings

Baroque period the high point of this Absolutism

Three 17c monarchs who practised Absolutism

Louise XIV

1638 – 1715 of France,

Charles 1st

1600 – 1645 of England, Scotland and Ireland

Philip 1V

1605- 1665 of Spain

Used artists to promote their absolutism message

Louise XIV 1638 – 1715 of France

‘Le roi gouverne par lui-même’,

ceiling painting in the

Hall of Mirrors Versailles ca. 1680 ,

Charles le Brun (1619–1690

Charles 1st 1600 – 1645 of England, Scotland and Ireland

Charles I and Henrietta Maria with their

two eldest children,

Prince Charles and Princess Mary

1631-32

Sir Antony van Dyck

Oil on Canvas

Queen's Ballroom, Windsor Castle

Philip 1V 1605- 1665 of Spain

Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV

c 1635-7

Diego Rodríguez Velázquez

Oil on canvas Prado Madrid

Charles Le Brun1619-1690

Alexander Entering Babylon, or The

Triumph of Alexander1664

The Louvre, Paris

Chosen by Paddy Padget

Chosen by Paddy Padget

Charles le BrunThe Resolution of Louis XIV to Make War on the Dutch Republic Oil on Canvas72 x 96 cm1671Musee des Beaux Arts Auxerre

Adam Frans van der Meulen(1632-1690)

Arrival of Louis IV preceded by his guards

at the old Palace of Versailles1669

57 x 57 cmChateau de Versailles

Chosen by Jean Dodds

Anthony van Dyck1599-1641

Charles I on horseback1637-38

0il on canvas367 x 292 cm

National Gallery,London

Chosen by Pam Stephens

Anthony van DyckCharles V

Uffizi Gallery Florence

Chosen by Pam Stephens

Banqueting ChamberWhitehall Palace

Present day

Chosen by Bob Wallace

Banqueting ChamberWhitehall Palace 17C

Chosen by Bob Wallace

Banqueting ChamberWhitehall Palace

Interior

Chosen by Bob Wallace

Sir Peter Paul Rubens and studio1577-1640

The Apotheosis of James I1632-34

Oil on canvas, adhered to canvas laid down on laminated support

975 x 625 cmBanqueting Chamber

Whitehall Palace

Chosen by Bob Wallace

Banqueting ChamberWhitehall Palace

German engraving, published in 1649.

Chosen by Bob Wallace