artsy-fartsy europe
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Artsy-Fartsy Europe. Italian Renaissance . Humanism; revival of classical ideals; perspective; secularism Chiaroscuro - lighting Sfumato – shading Patrons Medicis Fuggers (Northern Renaissance) . Brunelleschi – Il Duomo (Florence) Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Vitruvian Man - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ARTSY-FARTSY EUROPE
Italian Renaissance • Humanism; revival of
classical ideals; perspective; secularism
• Chiaroscuro - lighting• Sfumato – shading • Patrons
• Medicis• Fuggers (Northern
Renaissance)
• Brunelleschi – Il Duomo (Florence)
• Leonardo da Vinci– Mona Lisa– Vitruvian Man– The Last Supper
• Raphael – School of Athens
• Botticelli – Birth of Venus• Michelangelo
– Sistine Chapel – David
Northern Renaissance • Germany, the
Netherlands, England• Techniques of Italian
Renaissance with a continued focus on religion
• Peter Bruegel the Elder• The Peasant Wedding
Baroque • Counter-Reformation • Less complex; realistic; focus on human emotions
• Bernini - St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City)
• Caravaggio - David and Goliath
Rococo • 18th century; follows Baroque Period
• Popular with French aristocracy during reign of Louis XV
• Focuses on light colors, elaborate designs; highly decorative
• Jean-Honore Fragonard – The Swing
Neo-Classical • Mid-18th, early 19th century
• Severe; reaction to excessive Rococo style
• Revival of Classical thought; restraint of emotions
• Connected to French Revolution
• Jacques-Louis David • The Death of Marat • The Coronation of
Napoleon • Napoleon at the Saint-
Bernard Pass
Romanticism • Reaction to Industrial Revolution; 19th century
• Emotional, triumph of imagination and individuality
• Caspar David Friedrich – Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
• Eugene Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People
Realism • Late 19th century • Celebrates working classes and peasants
• Focuses on realistic portrayals of the world
• Jean-Francois Millet – The Gleaners
Impressionism • Late 19th century• Captures fleeting moments of light
• Short, choppy brush strokes
• Claude Monet – Impression, Sunrise
• Degas (anything with a ballerina)
• Renoir
Expressionism• Late 19th, early 20th centuries
• Focus on the psyche; tied to new ideas of psychology
• Anxiety and violence
• Edvard Munch – The Scream
Modernism • 20th century• Rejects realism and traditional forms
• Avant-garde
• Pablo Picasso• Marc Chagall – I and the Village
Cubism • 20th century; No single point of view
• Multifaceted view of objects; world as a mosaic
• Reality as interaction
• Pablo Picasso – Guernica
Dada/Surrealism • 20th century • Explores the dream world
• World without logic or meaning
• Salvador Dali – The Persistence of Memory