ARTH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Denis Diderot, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Age Of Enlightenment
21 Mar 2019
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Neoclassicism and romanticism (late 1700s to early 1800s) A shift away from the estates to the rights of the individual. Questioning religious faith in favour of natural laws. Value placed on public virtue, human rights. Neoclassicism: associated with enlightenment values, subject matter. Emulating classical art (clothing, architecture, etc. : key theorists. Poussinistes: more technical, contemplate ideas expressed in painting, ordered and clear, polished, focused a lot on composition, became associated with public, part of public/state collections. Rubenistes: be more expressive with paint to feel more, focus on color. Elizabeth vigee-lebrun: she reached highest point in french academy, she was a portrait painter, daughter of portraitist and teacher at the academy, first official painter of marie antoinette. Elizabeth vigee-lebrun, marie antoinette with a rose, 1785: marie antoinette. During the revolution, people were protesting outside of palace gates due to their starvation, they said they didn"t have bread and she said let them eat cake .
