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Rococo
soft lines; pastel colors; fashionable aristocrats; courtly pleasures; Louis XIV
Neoclassicism
David; austere; moral values; didactic; crisp lines; hard edges; clarity; History painting; teaches lesson thru historical or mythological story; fall of Bastille; Louis XVI beheaded; Napoleon as officer then Consul then Emperor then beaten at Waterloo in 1815, exiled
Romanticism
Gros; Gericault; Goya; Delacroix; Turner; Constable; Friedrich; imagination; emotion; freedom of expression; love of nature; feelings over reason; dark color; close attention to detail on people; bold brushstrokes for skies and landscapes; no sloppy figures; mixing up hierarchy; about individual artist; against convention; The Restoration; Revolution produces July Monarchy
the Enlightenment
early 1700s; radical new ideas about humanity; belief that destiny can be changed
the State
King
philosophes
?
The French Revolution
1789; produces July Monarchy-coalition of workers and bourgeoisie; Louis-Philippe (pear); constitutional monarchy; produces Consul
Royal Academy
Louis XIV established in 1646; France; England follows soon; training for artists; major exhibition every year called the Salon
1st, 2nd, 3rd Estates
1st: The clergy/Church
2nd: Nobility/Aristocrats
3rd: Everyone else who make money (merchants, factory owners, commercial enterprise); responsible for French Revolution
salon
art exhibition every year in France
Prix de Rome
prize for artists
allegory
story
aristocrats
nobleman; rich
didactic
teach a moral lesson
Louis XIV- the Sun King
Rigaud
Louis XVI- the beheaded King
married Marie Antoinette; known as The Good, Bad, Ugly; made mistakes; bad advisor; pictured as pig; head chopped off; drunk
Marie Antoinette
married Louis XVI; hated her; bad mother; lost baby; extravagant
hierarchy of genres
history painting; portraits; genre; landscapes; animal paintings; still life
sublime
strong emotion; feeling; spectacular and terrifying but beautiful and awful
Bastille
Criminals and aristocrats jailed; dismantled brick by brick; symbol of oppression
bourgeoisie
middle class kind of
Napoleon Bonaparte
officer; Consul; Emperor; beaten at Waterloo in 1815; exiled; poisoned sick
genre
type
Empire
First: Napoleon is emperor
The Restoration
1815-30; Louis XVI's brothers restore monarchy
the Oath of the Tennis Court
3rd estate meet until constitution is made; 577 members of 3rd estate sign oath; David
Versailles
Charles X built; extravagance
Realism
Courbet; Milet; Bougereau; workers and peasant Revolution 1848-50 thru-out Europe; Second Empire; in favor of peasant overthrow of government
July monarchy
coalition of workers and bourgeoisie; Louis-Philippe (pear); constitutional monarchy
Second Empire
after Workers and Peasant Revolution
Louis-Phillipe
July Monarchy; King of French People; constitutional monarchy; pear
lithography
Honore Daumier; quickly produced widely distributed; easily made; draw on stone with grease pen; ink clings to grease; drawing is instantly reproduced
juste milieu
just middle; equal distance from popular power and abuses of royal power
Workers and Peasant revolution(s)
1848; overthrow government; establish 10 hour work day; nationalized railways; June days; uprisings stop in 1849; establishes second empire
Charles X
built Versailles
constitutional monarchy
Louis-Philippe (pear)
caricature
make fun of another painting; cartoon
Revolution of 1848-June Days
soldiers enter Paris with guns; Napoleon II takes over; Second Empire established
Napoleon III
takes over Paris after June Days; established Second Empire
painting knife
Courbet; Van Gogh; thick paint
popular print
Courbet
image d’Epinal
photography
verisimilitude/veristic
Realism; naturalistic
Impressionism
interest in color/light; visible brushstrokes; emphasis on surface and subject; outdoors/on site; leisure; entertainment; rapid brushstrokes
bitumen
deep black; bubbles up on canvas; tar like
heliograph
a sun drawing; using light to make image; long exposure time
daguerreotype
image on highly polished metal plate producing a single positive image; can't be reproduced; one image only; slow exposure time
calotype
paper negative; unlimited reproductions; fibers make fuzzy edges; not sharp
albumen print
?
carte-de-visite
tiny portraits given out; photograph
Tuileries Garden
around Louve; Impressionism; leisure; Manet
flâneur
has enough money to do no work (or fakes it); can move thru streets without being noticed; sense of cool detachment (Herbert)
Salon de Refusés
Impressionists salon
Baron Haussmann
Haussmannization
Haussmannization
Second empire; displacement; change of neighborhoods because of road construction; wide boulevards; entertainment; leisure
Franco-Prussian War
1870-71; Republicans under Thiers broker peace with Prussia in Versailles; humiliating defeat; destruction of Bois de Bologne; Republican gov. sets up in Versailles
the Commune
March-June 1871; pitted citizens of Paris against gov. of France; Napoleon II goes to war with Prussia; loses; Paris refuses to go along with Nationalist government; start own government; separation of Church and State; right to vote for women
petroleuses
Commune; ladies that lit things on fire; type on Communard
Communards
member of Commune
passage
Paul Cezanne; area of color blending in with other objects; Cubism
pointillism/divisionism
painting with tiny dots
Fauves
Matisse; colorful; branches off post impressionism; non local color; splotchiness; pallete knife; gateway to cubism
Salon des Indépendants
Post-Impressionis salon
Salon d’Automne
Matisse creates salon; hung friends' paintings
Analytic Cubism
monochromatic; passage; brown down forms; more abstract; viewer analysis; study of formal elements
Synthetic Cubism
collage; ephemeral/diverse materials; materials from everyday world
Post-Impressionism
end of 19th century; show up again in 20th century but in different ways; Gogh; Gauguin; Matisse
collage
synthetic cubism; ephemeral materials