ARTHI 6C Study Guide - Midterm Guide: New Media, Geometric Abstraction, Fauvism
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Creates the (national) salon in order to showcase academic art: mainly portraits, rococo, 1700s a. Louis xv: more playful, less rigid, opulence, wealth, overwhelming, flirtatious, erotic, sensuous e. i. Fete galante: neoclassicism, 1700s, philosophes, enlightenment, the salon, 1737-1791, the grand tour, prix de rome, winckelmann claims that greek art is the highest of them all, austere, simplistic, hard, clean edges, usually didactic and history paintings h. i. Cult of motherhood: three estates (clergy, nobility, commoners) l. French revolution, 1789: the reign of terror, 1793-4, romanticism, end of 1700s, french revolution napoleonic empire b. Linear vs. painterly: emphasizes the individual d. Imaginative: dark side of modernity, orientalism, exoticism, sublime (terror, vastness), picturesque (viewing nature not as a composition, but as is, claude glass, realism, 1800s a. realism vs. academic realism, salon des refuses, 1863 b. i. Created for art that was rejected in the national salon b. ii. More artists were beginning to reject academic traditions c. Charles x overthrown, new monarchy by louis-philippe c. ii.
