Rococo Questions Flashcards

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Describe Anteroom, Syon House

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Robert Adam. 1767. England. - luxurious decorations restrained by strong geometric order imposed by plain wall and ceiling - bright pastel colors and small-scale decorative elements stem from Rococo style

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Josiah Wedgwood. 1786. White jasper body with mid-blue dip and white relief -based on scene on book illustration of Greek vase

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William Hackwood for Josiah Wedgwood. 1787. Black and white jasperware. - African man kneeling down in chains - emblem for British Committee to Abolish the Slave Trade - later adapted to women's suffrage

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William Hogarth. 1745. Oil on canvas. - Lord Squanderfield, right, arrages marriage of his son to daughter of wealthy merchant - merchant gains entry for his family into aristocracy, while lord gets money he needs for Palladian house, visible from window - wanted to please and educate audience

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Joshua Reynolds. 1765. Oil on canvas. - dressed in classicizing costume - plays part of Roman priestess making sacrifices to Three Graces - contrapposto

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form of Baroque classicism that attemped to elevate portraiture to level of history painting

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Thomas Gainsborough. 1787. Oil on canvas. - shows professional singer seated informally outdoors - sloping view into distance and use of tree to frame sitter's head - lighter palette, feathery brushwork, integrated women into landscape - windblown hair matches foliage - manifests new values of Enlightenment: emphasis on nature and the natural as sources of goodness and beauty

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Joseph Wright. 1768. Oil on canvas. - lecturer prepares to reintroduce air into glass receiver - boy stands ready to lower cage when bird revives - visible moon references Lunar Society - suspenseful - father, voice of reason, attempts to dispel fears - suggests science brings light into world of darkness and ignorance through lighting

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Angelica Kauffmann. 1785. Oil on canvas. - Woman visitor shows Cornelia her jewels and requests to see hers. - Cornelia exemplifies "good mother"

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Benjamin West. 1770. Oil on canvas. - depicts figures in modern dress - glorifies British general Wolfe, who died during Seven Years' War - depicted him in red dying under sky rather than under a tree, where he actually died - naturalistic, but not an objective document - poses suggest Lamentation

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John Henry Fuseli. 1781. Oil on canvas. - white-clad woman sprawled along divan, oppressed by erotic dream caused by incubus - horse with phosphorescent eyes adds to erotic mood

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William Blake. 1795. Color print. - figures reveal influence of Michelangelo. - presents Creation negatively - giant worm, symbolizing matter, encircles lower body of Adam - Elohim = Hebrew for God - Creation is tragic because it submits spiritual human to fallen state of material existence.

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Jacques-Germain Soufflot. - most typical Neoclassical building - attempted to integrate three traditions: Roman architecture, French and English Baroque classicism, Palladian style being revived in England - facade modeled after temples - radical geometry, with central-plan Greek cross

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Jean-Simeon Chardin. 1739. Oil on canvas. - finely dressed boy who listens to governess as she brushes tricorn - scattered on floor are toys. - shows childish pleasures that a boy leaves behind to go to his studies

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1785. Oil on canvas. - taught lesson to public - drunken father returns home to angry wife and hungry children - children's gestures make clear that he spent money for food on alcohol

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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. 1787. Oil on canvas. - theme of "good mother" - meant to counter her selfish, extravagant, and immoral public image - affection = proof of queen's natural goodness - alludes to allegory of Abundance, suggesting peace and prosperity of society under reign of her husband

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Adelaide Labille-Guiard. 1785. Oil on canvas. - painted to dispel rumors that her paintings were painted by a male - only male is father's bust in the back - form strong pyramidal shape

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Jacques-Louis David. 1785. Oil on canvas. - reflects taste and values of Louis XVI. - believed art should improve public morals. - three sons of each side fight to the death - contrast to upright, muscular men are group of limp and weeping women

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Jacques-Louis David. 1793. Oil on canvas. - radical journalist who wrote to urge the abolition of aristocratic privilege. - aftermath of Marat's death - likens Marat to martyred saint

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Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson. 1797. Oil on canvas. - combines graceful pose recalling classical sculpture with descriptive naturalism - political dimension - former slave sent as representative to French Convention.

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Jean-Antoine Houdon. 1792. Marble. - combined contemporary naturalism with new classicism - serene expression and relaxed contrapposto pose derive from classical athletes - left hand rests on fasces, bundle of rods tied together with axe face, symbol of authority in Roman times

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1556. Stone. - suggests pre-Hispanic sculpture in its stark form and rich surface symbols in low relief - entirely covered with images known as the Arms of Christ - suggests Mesoamerican symbol of Tree of Life. blood sacrifice.

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Sebastian Salcedo. 1779. Oil on panel. | -Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of the Americas

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1797. - example of mission architecture - domed crossing and flanking bell towers - made with mortar, rather than adobe

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``` Thomas Jefferson. 1809. -based on English Palladian styles -portico -classical bilateral symmetry ```

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Jon Singleton Copley. 1778. Oil on canvas. - dramatizes a shark attack - pyramidal composition in foreground - shark infested waters could mean colonies - Watson's severed leg could stand for dismemberment of the British Empire

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