Art Final Flashcards
The Death of General Wolfe
Bengamin West
1770
British
Takes place during the French and Indian War
This was realistic with the details, except for the fact it is an actual battle.
Has elements of nature
The Oath of the Horatii
David Jacques-Louis
1784
The most famous painter of his time.
Uses the background as a stage for when it is set in
Easily see each image using plararity
The Death of Marat
David Jacques Louis
1793
Made during the French Revelotion
Favorite artist of the French Revelotion
Depicts the death of Jacques Gosto
Classical even lighting
Lion Attacking a Horse
George Stubbs
1770
British
perfect example of natural art of the time
horse is to symbolise purity
The Village Bride
Jean Baptiste Geuze
1761
Has Neo-Classimism in it
This is a moral story about a middle class family
The hen depects the mom with one of the chicks seperated from her just like her daughter being married off.
Empiricism
knoweldge comes from practical experience rather tahn abstract thought or religious revelation
John Locke
philosophy
stressed empiricism
was apart of the Art in the Age, of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
Isaac Newton
Mathematicican
stressed emipiricism
Played a huge part in the Art in the Age, the Enlightebnement
1750-1789
Salons and philosophes
A large elegant, elegant drawing or reception room in a palace or a private house.
or
Any large paublic exhibition patterned after the Paris Salon.
Voltaire’s “doctrine of progress”
Started the Rococo art in France
Planarity
Used to described a composistion where figures and objects are arranged parallel to the picture plane.
Linearity
A term used to refer to images that have strong sense of line that provides sharp contours to figures and objects
Wedgewood’s Jasperware porcelain
wedgwood created a unglazed porcelain in the 18th century. It is decorated with Classically inspired bas relief or cameo figures and ornamented in white relief on a colored ground, especially blue and sage green
Authenticitiy in History Pantings
Jacques-Louis David
Changed the Classical values and called for a new art form
Sublime and Beautiful
Poussinistes
line is superior to color
Believed only the educated could appreciate it.
Rubenistes
Color being truer to nature
Appealed to everyon even the poor
Pastels
Colored Chalks or powders that are mixed with glue, juice gum arabic or whey. Then rolled into a cylindrical tube.
Used for putting color and lines
Vedute (view) Paintings

The Swing
Jean Honore Fragonard
1767
An example of an intrigue
the “boudoir painting” (sexual imtinacy) offers thrill and voyourism

Room in the Varengeville Hotel
Nicolas Pineau

The Bucintoro at the Molo
Canaletto
1732
one of a series
symbolizes Venices marriage to the sea

The Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa
Giovanni Mattista Tiepolo
1752
was considered the master of light and color




































