French Academic Painting

Question 1

Answer 1

Gerome

The Cock Fight

1847

French Academic Painting

not in the same realm as David: depicts everyday life

male is more realistic than the Greek sculpture-like face of the woman

Question 2

Answer 2

Gerome

Prayer in the Mosque

1872

French Academic Painting

based on drawings made on a trip to Egypt

relied on photographs for many of his paintings

Question 3

Answer 3

Gerome

Phryne Before the Areopagus

1861

French Academic Painting

Phyrne was brought to court, her friend defended her in court by ripping her clothes off, and the court said she was innocent

Question 4

Answer 4

Cabanel

The Birth of Venus

1863

French Academic Painting

birth is suggested by gesture of awakening

aestheticized nude: streemlined, smoothly polished, devoid of unsightly sexual markers such as pubic hair and genitalia, like a modern Barbie doll

Question 5

Answer 5

Bouguereau

Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros

1880

French Academic Painting

hyperreal stone/flesh blended with mythological subject matter

no texture or brushstrokes are seen

Question 6

Answer 6

Bouguereau

Nymphs and Satyr

1873

French Academic Painting

real and believable satyr

critics believed that the nymphs may have been “too pretty”