ART H 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Maurice Quentin De La Tour, Grande Odalisque, Canterbury Cathedral
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Inges, grande odalisque, 1814: emphasis on, drawing, contours precision, david, gericault, raft of the medusa, 1818-19, contemporary event, politics, gericault, insane woman, move to impasto, sketch-like handling, k. f. schinkel, altes museum, berlin, 1825-8, columns. Islamic: mosques, moorish, pointed arches, large scale, rigidly symmetrical but playful. Interior: wrought iron columns shaped like palm trees, maurice quentin de la tour, jean-jacques rousseau, 18th century, enlightenment philosopher, after voltaire, associated with the confessions, solitude in nature, beethoven, pastoral symphony, representation of nature. Friedrich, monk by the sea, 1809: landscapes that are austere, abstract, not much going on in it, small figure, contemplating vast, bleak, overwhelming seascape, motif of the sublime. In the eye of the beholder: an experience, small whitecaps on the water. Friedrich, cloister graveyard in the snow, 1810: likes to represent ruins, procession of monks, oak trees superseding the huge gothic ruins, arching over in the foreground, black and white values are important.
