HISTART 271 Lecture 2: September 6th neoclassicism I
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David, antiochus and stratonice, 1774: 10 years before, light, gestures, theatrical, the king and his son and he is married to a very young woman - the light one in the front. It is a picture about eroticism with tenants of historical style. Boucher, leda and the swan 1725: jupiter takes the form of a swan and leda loves the swan, lushness, fleshiness, atmosphere - dreamy tangible effect of the paint. ***when we talk about the relationship between figure and the environment - figure ground *** Fragonard, the swing, 1767: see up her skirt, husband in background. Pineau, interior of the hotel de varengeville, paris 1735: design rococo, decorative, gilding, louis the fifteenth took rococo as his official style. Painting is not isolated - it is involved culturally, socially, economically, etc. Republicans in france were the extreme left that want democracy. Thematic and formal differences between rococo and neoclassicism. Rigaud, portrait of louis xiv 1701: state portraiture.
