ARTH 2502 Lecture 2: ARTH 2502 - Feb 7.docx
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Ngc visit is next tuesday at either 11:30 or 1:00 (choose whatever is better for you) Meet 10 minutes beforehand (aka 11:20) on front of the ticket desk. Grande odalisque 1814: done for the sister of napoleon, female nudes usually for private residences for men; this was displayed publically and. Excess of classical not trying to make the ideal female form (as seen in ideal man of. Oath of horatii), but exaggerates it; more like mannerism (think madonna of the long. Political was left-leaning, but then goes to support louis philippe. His art = classical (in his words); is about reason. The development of art with quick changes (romanticism, to realism, to etc) =the avant-garde. Avant-garde: (artist as rebel/opposition to mainstream) troops that go ahead to scout out terrain . Changes: rise of the middle class; industrial revolution and rural exodus; urban life.