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The Baroque 3 Emotionalism and
Absolutism
RICKMANSWORTH U3A ART APPRECIATION
Monday October 22nd 2018
Next Year’s Programme
Continue as we are: the ‘ISMs’, interspersed with other topics, visits to Art venues etc?
Any other suggestions?
Emotionalismmanipulating the viewers' emotions using various
techniques to minimise the literal and psychological distance between the art work and the viewer.
Emotionalism theory is an aesthetic and critical theory of art which is mainly concerned with the expressive qualities of art work. According to the theory, the most important thing about a work of art is the vivid communication of moods, feelings, and ideas.
Darwin’s list of emotions
• Suffering and weeping
• Low spirits, anxiety, grief, dejection, despair
• Joy, high spirits, love, tender feelings, devotion
• Reflection, meditation, ill-temper, sulkiness, determination
• Hatred and anger
• Disdain, contempt, disgust, guilt, pride, helplessness, patience, affirmation and negation
• Surprise, astonishment, fear, horror
• Self-attention, shame, shyness, modesty, blushing.
Boy Bitten by a Lizard 1593–1594by Caravaggio (1571 – 1610)Oil on canvas66 cm × 49.5 cm)National Gallery, London
Boy with a Dog c.1650 byBartolome Esteban Murillo (1617 – 1682) Oil on canvas 78 x 62 cmHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Chosen by Bob Wallace
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and studio1617 - 1682The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin17th centuryOil on canvas211 x 126 cmDetropit Institute of Arts
Chosen by David Green
Francisco de ZurburanAgnus Dei38 x 62 cm
Oil on canvas1635-40
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Chosen by Jean Dodds
Absolutism
Definition:
‘Absolutism is a political system in which one ruler or leader
has complete power and authority over a country’.
www.collinsdictionary.com
Derived from the older feudal doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings
Baroque period the high point of this Absolutism
Three 17c monarchs who practised Absolutism
Louise XIV
1638 – 1715 of France,
Charles 1st
1600 – 1645 of England, Scotland and Ireland
Philip 1V
1605- 1665 of Spain
Used artists to promote their absolutism message
Louise XIV 1638 – 1715 of France
‘Le roi gouverne par lui-même’,
ceiling painting in the
Hall of Mirrors Versailles ca. 1680 ,
Charles le Brun (1619–1690
Charles 1st 1600 – 1645 of England, Scotland and Ireland
Charles I and Henrietta Maria with their
two eldest children,
Prince Charles and Princess Mary
1631-32
Sir Antony van Dyck
Oil on Canvas
Queen's Ballroom, Windsor Castle
Philip 1V 1605- 1665 of Spain
Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV
c 1635-7
Diego Rodríguez Velázquez
Oil on canvas Prado Madrid
Charles Le Brun1619-1690
Alexander Entering Babylon, or The
Triumph of Alexander1664
The Louvre, Paris
Chosen by Paddy Padget
Chosen by Paddy Padget
Charles le BrunThe Resolution of Louis XIV to Make War on the Dutch Republic Oil on Canvas72 x 96 cm1671Musee des Beaux Arts Auxerre
Adam Frans van der Meulen(1632-1690)
Arrival of Louis IV preceded by his guards
at the old Palace of Versailles1669
57 x 57 cmChateau de Versailles
Chosen by Jean Dodds
Anthony van Dyck1599-1641
Charles I on horseback1637-38
0il on canvas367 x 292 cm
National Gallery,London
Chosen by Pam Stephens
Anthony van DyckCharles V
Uffizi Gallery Florence
Chosen by Pam Stephens
Banqueting ChamberWhitehall Palace
Present day
Chosen by Bob Wallace
Banqueting ChamberWhitehall Palace 17C
Chosen by Bob Wallace
Banqueting ChamberWhitehall Palace
Interior
Chosen by Bob Wallace
Sir Peter Paul Rubens and studio1577-1640
The Apotheosis of James I1632-34
Oil on canvas, adhered to canvas laid down on laminated support
975 x 625 cmBanqueting Chamber
Whitehall Palace
Chosen by Bob Wallace
Banqueting ChamberWhitehall Palace
German engraving, published in 1649.
Chosen by Bob Wallace