AAH 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sofonisba Anguissola, Angelica Kauffman, Rosalba Carriera
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Genre paintings: slice of life paintings, in the home, doing everyday life paintings. Scale: overall dimensions of these works are quite small. When women don"t have access to a studio or an institute, you get these genre paintings, cant make big works. Portraits of women have typically been bust length. Leonardo da vinci changed that, when from profile to turn and full length. The hands say a lot communicates between the painter and the viewer. Women artist tend to be less conservative than male artists. They don"t have serious clients (people with money, conservative) If you have nothing to lose, just playing around, you have more room to experiment. Pretty much all these ladies are court painters. Establishes herself as a multi talented artist (can do different styles) Group portrait of her and her sisters playing chess (another advertisement) These are all advertisements to potential clients that she is multi faceted. Rococo style - feathery brush strokes and powdered wigs.
