Neoclassical Art Movement

• Charactertistics of Noeclassical Art

  • Serious
  • No Emotion
  • Sternly Heroic
  • Somber Colors
  • Depiction of Light
  • Smooth paint surface to hide brushwork
  • Clear and crisp definition of form
• He was a French baroque artist?

  Claude Lorrain
• He painted A Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus and Mercury Stealing Them (1645)?


  Claude Lorraine
• claude lorrain's subjects we're mainly focused on what?

  mythical and biblical scenes
• His works reflected mythological and historical scenes that influenced neoclassicism?

  Nicolas Poussin
• His famous painting was The Death of Germanicus (1627)?


  nicolas poussin
• Nicolas Poussin's composition emphasized what?

  clarity and logic and figurative treatments favored strong lines
• He was a German art historian and archeologist?


  Johann Joachim Winckelmann
• His book, Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1750), helped develop the aesthetic and neoclassicism theory?


  Johann Joachim Winckelmann
• He said art should advance toward “noble simplicity and calm grandeur.”?


  Johann Joachim Winckelmann
• He was a German portraitist and historical painter?


  Anton Rapahel Mengs
• He was hailed as “the greatest painter” of his time.?


  Anton Raphael Mengs
• He was a French bust sculptor?

  Jean Antoine Houdon
• He was known for his works of contemporary political and cultural figures of the French Enlightenment, such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Voltaire, and even George Washington.?


  Jean -Antoine Houdon
• He often sculpted from life or by creating molds using models’ faces.?

  Jean Antoine Houdon
• He was an Italian artist who was one of the leading neoclassical sculptors?

  Antonio Canova
• He was famous for his marble sculptures that rendered nude flesh?

  Antonio Canova
• He was hailed as “the supreme minister of beauty” and “a unique and truly divine man” by his peers?


  Antonio Canova
• His famous work was Apollo Crowning Himself (1781).?


  Antonio Canova