MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hyacinthe Rigaud, Modern Art, Calcium Nitrate
17 May 2016
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The invention of photography and art from japan. Modern art begins with impressionism and ends with abstract expressionism. The birth of photography allows artists to explore different ideas. No longer having to be accurate, they can become more and more abstract, because photography can copy reality infinitely better than any artist. Influence of japanese art also had a great influence in this time period of western art. The absolute monarchy idea is destroyed by the revolution. The middle class rises and wants to be glorified as the monarchy was. Traditional silhouette portraits of the late 18th century. Portrait of gilles louis chr tien, inventor of the physionotrace physionotrace engraving. Prism would let you see two things, the face and his hand, that would help trace the likeness. Giovanni battista della porta - natural magic (1553) A small hole in a room would project the image backwards and upsidedown.
