Chapter 21 Flashcards
What was the Rococo period like?
No geometry, pornography, gilded everything, gaudy, disgusting.
What was Neoclassicism?
It’s a movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theater, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the “classical” art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.
Who dominately used Rococo?
Germany.
What was the “Amber room?”
A Russian Rococo room that used amber and gold for decorations.
Who was Antoine Watteau?
He was a leading Baroque painter who specialized in finery, rich people portraits. He also painted decorative paintings such as a fete galante which consisted of painting outdoors.
Who was Boucher?
A “fleshy” landscape artist who painted really disgusting orgies and bathing people. Stupid Stupid STUPID. He also sculptued the “Invention of Balloon.”
What happened to Sculpture during the Rococo period?
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3614/3469062823_ae662b8687_o.jpg
It got dumb. People perverted the sculptures and destroyed the beautiful traditions of the classicism.
Who was the philosopher who began the Age of Enlightenment?
Voltair
Who was the philosopher who said that the Age of Enlightenment would corrupt society?
Russo
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
Increase in intelligence and learning while the church suffers.
Who was Joseph Wright of Derby?
An Elightenment painter who paints technology literally.
What happened to architecture during this time?
Built to reveal internal structure
Who was Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin?
A naturalist painter who painted peasants and believed in nobility of manual labor.
What type of painting was Chardin’s “La Fontaine?”
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/upload/img/chardin-la-fontaine-water-cistern-NG1664-fm.jpg
Genre
What was significant about Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vegee-Lebrun (Besides having a ridiculously long name)
She was one of four women allowed in the French Academy. She painted naturalistic portraits of patrons.
