Introduction
After the reformation of religious and scientific revolution, European started emphasizing science and rationality, always holding a skeptical attitude to doubt everything and challenge the authority.
The most influential German philosopher, Leibniz Voltaire, broke through the past conservative, repressive pattern of the society, highlighting individuality and freedom of speech. Baroque was breed under such convergence of conservative and freedom.
Baroque period refers to 17th century to the early 18 century. Baroque, an artistic style originated from Rome in 16th century, spread over most of the regions in Europe and become popular in 17th century. The word ‘Baroque’ is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese word ‘Barroco’ …show more content…
Take architecture as an example, artists not only put emphasis on the architecture itself merely, but also put emphasis on the integration between the architecture and carving and painting. Baroque Art absorbed some factors and imagination from, for example, literatures, drama, as well as music.
7. Religious as Theme
Religious elements had a leading position in Baroque Art. Myths, history and religious stories were used as the theme. For example, Rembrandt and Poussin, the influential painters in Baroque, they made religious paintings. For Rembrandt, he painted Bible from a single perspective, applying the change of light and dark. Poussin deemed that rationality is most important than all others and believed that Art is the product of intellect. His paintings have a rigorous composition, silent atmosphere and lyrical that impacting greatly on European Romanticism landscape painting.
Echo of Baroque Art to the Scientific Spirit
Scientific spirit stimulated new ways of thing in all walks of life resulting in rapid development of new forms of theatre and music. Both scientists and artists, at that time, had a perception of naturalistic. Motion, space and time had preoccupied the creative Baroque mind in both art and science. Experiment, measurement, as well as observation were carried out to get the truth of physical …show more content…
In the Baroque period, the two major characteristics of its artwork are complexity and coordination. Unlike artworks in renaissance period dominated by straight lines and calm, Baroque Art is represented by curves and passion. Artworks in Baroque are vivid, composed with rigorous setting, colours, light and dark (contrast) and dramatic expression. Development from the conservative from renaissance had eventually led to the artistic style transformation to the expression of freedom in
After the reformation of religious and scientific revolution, European started emphasizing science and rationality, always holding a skeptical attitude to doubt everything and challenge the authority.
The most influential German philosopher, Leibniz Voltaire, broke through the past conservative, repressive pattern of the society, highlighting individuality and freedom of speech. Baroque was breed under such convergence of conservative and freedom.
Baroque period refers to 17th century to the early 18 century. Baroque, an artistic style originated from Rome in 16th century, spread over most of the regions in Europe and become popular in 17th century. The word ‘Baroque’ is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese word ‘Barroco’ …show more content…
Take architecture as an example, artists not only put emphasis on the architecture itself merely, but also put emphasis on the integration between the architecture and carving and painting. Baroque Art absorbed some factors and imagination from, for example, literatures, drama, as well as music.
7. Religious as Theme
Religious elements had a leading position in Baroque Art. Myths, history and religious stories were used as the theme. For example, Rembrandt and Poussin, the influential painters in Baroque, they made religious paintings. For Rembrandt, he painted Bible from a single perspective, applying the change of light and dark. Poussin deemed that rationality is most important than all others and believed that Art is the product of intellect. His paintings have a rigorous composition, silent atmosphere and lyrical that impacting greatly on European Romanticism landscape painting.
Echo of Baroque Art to the Scientific Spirit
Scientific spirit stimulated new ways of thing in all walks of life resulting in rapid development of new forms of theatre and music. Both scientists and artists, at that time, had a perception of naturalistic. Motion, space and time had preoccupied the creative Baroque mind in both art and science. Experiment, measurement, as well as observation were carried out to get the truth of physical …show more content…
In the Baroque period, the two major characteristics of its artwork are complexity and coordination. Unlike artworks in renaissance period dominated by straight lines and calm, Baroque Art is represented by curves and passion. Artworks in Baroque are vivid, composed with rigorous setting, colours, light and dark (contrast) and dramatic expression. Development from the conservative from renaissance had eventually led to the artistic style transformation to the expression of freedom in