AH 111B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: George Caleb Bingham, Analog Photography, Angelica Kauffman
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General: 18th century and 19th century art for the next two exams, france is now the center of all attention, france is the hexagon, france was stuck in the north and the south. Academy: royal academy of painting and sculpture, 1668, louis dies and it ends the baroque. Rococo, from the french rocaille meaning shell ornament: rococo has two sides: light hearted and enlightenment, death of louis xiv in 1715, regent, philip of orleans rules until louis xv is old enough. It is impossible to get out of: people judge him saying that are you a communist , wealthy are wrong? , this was a conversation that realism, realism emerged as a nostalgia thing, but quickly became a social critique. Photography is a medium based on technological developments. Invented in late 1830s: photography was seen as too mechanical , photographers had to make a case that it could be art .
