Baroque Notes Flashcards
Characteristics of dramatic expression
Extreme
Exaggerated
Emotional
Examples of dramatic expression
Lighting
Poses
Action
Theatrical spectical examples
Controlled lighting
Action/movement
Cropping
Spatial grandeur examples
Foreshortening
Spatial grandeur definition
Grand use of space
The Italian baroque is controlled mainly by
The catholic reformation
What are the two main purposes of catholic reformation
To bring people back
Needed to reform
The Jesuit movement emphasized
Mysticism
And
Militant religious zeal
Define mysticism
Personal experience with God
Define militant religious zeal
You believe or you die
Define tenebrism
Where figures are emerging from extreme darkness
Gentileschi is known for
Doing her paintings of women in dominant positions
What are the four rivers in the “fountain of the four rivers”
The river Ganges
The river Nile
The river Danube
The river Plate
What countries do each river represent?
Ganges - Asia
Nile - Egypt
Danube - Europe
Plate - Americas
Italian and Classical Baroque comparison
Who controlled it? Purpose for art? Composition? Lighting? People represented in paintings? Testament? Church or ruler come first? Theme?
Italian - church, catholic reformation,diagonal composition, tenebristic lighting, ordinary people, Jesus with ordinary people for New Testament, church comes first, very exaggerated and over the top
Classical - absolute monarch, propaganda for monarch and state, symmetrical composition, clarity in lighting, rejects crude people, Old Testament, ruler comes first, restrained and moderate
Classical painting often Embraced
Serious and elevated subject matter from Christian history
Classical painting often rejected
Crude, ordinary, and bazaar subject matter
Define symmetrical clarity
Can see all the way to the back
Classical baroque definition
Art defined by symmetry, clarity, and geometric regularity
Velazquez painted for who?
Spain, Philip IV
Van dyck painted for who?
England, Charles I
What artists were not part of a baroque?
Rubens
Van dyck
Velasquez
4 characteristics of classical Baroque
Serious elevated subject matter
From classical or Christian history
Reject crude, ordinary, bizarre
Avoid exaggeration
What is unique about Velasquez
Started out working class, dies as royalty
What did Velasquez start out painting
Bodegones
Define Bodegones
Domestic scene of people eating and drinking
What is a landscape
People are accessories
Landscape is dominant
Baroque definition
Art that is characterized by dramatic expression, theatrical special, and spatial grandeur
Characteristics of northern baroque
Primary patron? Purpose? Subject matter? Composition? Lighting? Primary religion?
Middle class, home and hearth, portraits / genre scenes / Old Testament stories, diagonal composition, dramatic lighting, Protestant ideas
More earth tones in North
Characteristics of Italian baroque
Primary patron? Purpose? Subject matter? Composition? Lighting? Primary religion?
Catholic Church, catholic reformation, religious scenes with regular people, diagonal composition, tenebristic, catholic
Characteristics of Classical Baroque
Primary patron? Purpose? Subject matter? Composition? Lighting? Primary religion?
Absolute monarch, propaganda for state or monarch, serious elevated material avoided ordinary people, symmetrical composition, clean natural lighting, catholic
Northern characteristics of art
Genre scenes
The art of describing (intense details)
Moral or message
Vanitas is connected to what artist
DeHeem
Vanitas
Transitory nature of life
Still life’s purpose was to?
Document posessions
What three artists are not part of a baroque
Rubens
Van dyck
Velasquez
Who founded Jesuit movement?
Loyola
Lorrain is from what baroque
Classical
Vermeer is from what baroque
Northern
Bernini was part of what group
Jesuit
Absolutism definition
Rulers held their power directly from God
Define maxim
Short, concise, and often witty saying
Jean racine was famous for?
His plays that Treated High minded themes in an elevated language
Molieres plays theme
Comedy to ridicule the fundamental flaws of human behavior
Metaphysical poetry reflects
The baroque affection for dramatic contrast
Donne should be associated with
Metaphysical poetry
Handel is associated with
Oratorio - no religious
Bach is associated with
Cantata - religious vocal music
Bacon is associated with
Inductive reasoning
Descartes is associated with
Deductive reasoning
Define ideal landscape
Landscape painted in the high minded, idealized style usually found in traditional moral subjects
