Rococo

Jacques-Louis David’s The Oath of the Horatii and Benjamin West’s Death of General Wolfe (1770) are both examples of history paintings that depict a historic scene with similar traditional composition techniques. However, the styles and specific subject matter differ and reflect on the location and intentions of the artists. David’s painting, made in the Neoclassical period in France and was a royal commission that required him to paint something that depicted loyalty towards the republic.…

I have never gotten a good grasp on writing narratives before, I always feel they are a bit rococo, but I have learned that a paper can have narrative elements while still being an academic piece, a foreign idea to me before this class. I always thought that in order for a piece to be academic, it had to be purely idea and evidence, without personal…

European art is organized into variety of rhetorical periods, which, traditionally, overlap one another as totally different designs flourished in numerous areas. Generally the periods are, Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, Modern and…

6867 This section brings together the main sets of findings from the theoretical and case study research. The research question set up was how managers are effective within organisations, and to what extent is the personality or psychopathy of a manager is a critical variable. As described below, the outcomes of the research have been limited by a number of constraints and errors, although some tentative conclusions can be drawn. The conclusions split into two broad groups, first conclusions…

The importance of The Oath of the Horatii lies in its significant pre-revolutionary message as well as in the new style developed by David. The way in which the “Oath of the Horatii” is painted, in fact, challenged the rococo style. This style was characterized by unsymmetrical ornamental patterns and it dominated French art from the 1750s to early 1780s. This painting, instead, opened the way for neoclassicism. In particular, because of the innovations reflected in this…

Visual Arts in the Modern World Assignment Number: U08A01 HUM1000 – Dr. Perry Capella University Introduction Throughout history the Visual Arts have been vital to the communication between and survival of the human species. We have evolved over thousands of years from the time of the cavemen our first art being that depicting that of the hunt to the modern surrealism depicted by Salvador Dalí. The vast expanse of emotion behind visual art is truly beyond the peripheral of the mind’s…

took his time to draw the composition before using the colors, and even the colors he used are dull which shows the importance of the story. It is clearly organized, and he used invisible brush stroke, and he avoided the wispy brush stroke from the Rococo art. The men are all depicted with straight lines mirroring the columns in the background signifying their strength while the women are all curved like the arches which are held up by the columns. And, lastly this art work depicts a morally…

genre of art distinguishing themselves during the Protestant reformation. In Europe the Baroque era was very significant, as it produced a new science and new forms of religion. The styles used later during the Baroque era gradually moved onto the Rococo era, making it more decorative, through contrast, further defines Baroque. The intensity and immediacy of baroque art and its individualism and detail, make it one of the most compelling periods of Western art (“Rembrandt Biography”). The…

References to Popular Works in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera is a novel written by Gaston Leroux and published as a serial in Le Gaulois, a Parisian newspaper, between September of 1909 and January of 1910 (Freeman, “Le Gaulois”). Originally published in French, the novel first reached English-speaking audiences when it was translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos in 1911. Due to time constraints, de Mattos’s translation has many errors, ranging…

religion, but he openly opposes many of its ideals – including the New Testament. With strong heroic figures, the Old Testament is honorable, but the New Testament is completely ignominious. He speaks of it as only having “petty business of sects, mere rococo of the soul, mere embellishment, nooks and crannies, strange things” (Nietzche,…