ARTS OF NEOCLASSIC AND ROMANTIC PERIODS

• were the movements after the rococo period


  neoclassicism and romanticism
• neo

  new
• classicus


  first class
• the western movement in decorative and visual arts


  neoclassicism
• neoclassicism influenced by


  classical art and culture of ancient greece and ancient rome
• coincided with neoclassical movement


  18th century age of reason/enlightenment
• neoclassical art pieces such as paintings, sculptures, and architecture generally portrayed


  roman history which elevated roman heroes
• created after but inspired by ancient times


  neoclassicism
• greek and roman principles and styles were reflected in society


  classicism
• gave great importance to costumes, settings, and details of classical subject-matter without adding distracting details but with as much historical accuracy


  neoclassical painters
• neo-classical artists


  Jacques-Louis David

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
• Influencial French painter in the neoclassical style

  pre-eminent painter of the erasubjects of paintings were more on history

  Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
• famous artworks of jacques-louis david


  the death of marat

  napoleon crossing the alps

  oath of the horatti
• was a pupil of jacques-louis david

  influenced by italian renaissance painters like raphael, nicolas pousin, botticelli, and jacques-louis david

  usually nudes, portraits and mythological themes

  one of the great exemplars of academic art

  one of the finest old masters of his era

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
• famous artworks of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres


  portrait of napoleon on the imperial throne

  the apotheosis of homer
• great ages of public sculpture


  neoclassical period
• neo classical sculptors

  Antonio Canova

  Bertel Thorvaldsen
• prolific italian artist and sculptor

  famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh

  portraying discrete sexual pleasures by using pure contours with his mythological compositions


  Antonio Canava
• famous artworks of antonio canova


  psyche awakened by cupid's kiss

  washington
• first intentionally acclaimed Danish artist

  sculptures for mythological and religious themes characters


  Bertel Thorvaldsen
• famous artworks of bertel thorvaldsen


  Christ

  Lion of Lucerne
• mid-18th century

  turned away from the grandeur of rococo style and the late baroque

  derived from architecture of classical greence and rome and italian architect Andrea Palladio

  Neoclassical Architecture
• Types of neoclassical architecture

  temple style

  palladian style

  classical block style
• based on ancient temple

  uncommon during renaissance


  temple style
• continuous line of columns around a building

  rare feature of renaissance architecture


  peristyle
• famous temple style of neoclassical age


  pantheon, paris

  british museum, london

  la madeleine de paris
• railing with vertical supports along the edge on the roof


  balustrade
• vertical supports of balustrade


  balusters or spindles
• Based on Andrea Palladio's style of villa construction

  classical method of crowing a building that has a flat or low lying roof

  palladian style
• known palladian architect of neoclassical

  designed two well known American civic buildings - the white house and the united states capitol

  Robert Adam
• rectangular or square plan, with a flat roof and an exterior rich in classical detail

  exterior features repeated classical pattern or series of arches and/or columns

  huge classically decorated rectangular block

  aka "Beaux-Art style"

  developed by French Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts)

  flourished in New York

  classical block style
• famous classical block style architects


  Henri Labrouste

  Charles Garnier
• library of sainte-genevieve

  henri labrouste
• designed most classical block

  palais garnier (a Neobaroque opera house)


  Charles Garnier
• more classical block

  new york public library

  boston public library
• expression of emotion, both subtle and stormy

  embraced number of distinctive themes such as longing for history, super-natural elements, social injustices, and nature

  romanticism
• became popular due to the people's romantic adoration of nature

  landscape painting
• characteristics of romanticism


  height of action

  emotional extremes

  celebrated nature as out of control

  dramatic compositions

  heightened sensation (life and death moments)
• emphasis on emotion

  romantic painting
• first French master and the leader of French realistic school

  his masterpieces were energetic, powerful, brilliantly colored, and tightly composed.

  Jean louis Theodore Gericault (1791-1924)