ART 1001 : Art Exam 3
Document Summary
Jean-baptiste-simeon chardin, boy blowing bubbles, oil on canvas, ca. 1735: nothing important about this work of art. Jean baptiste greuze, the village bride, 1761, oil on canvas: iconogaphically, a strange hybrid: moralizing intent is fused with sentimental and larmoyant (tearful) stories, specialty: bourgeois family dramas. Jean-baptiste greuze, the father"s curse, 1777, oil on canvas: son of bourgeois family leaves against everybody"s will to join the military. Jacques-louis david, the oath of the horatii, 1784, oil on canvas: perfect example for revival of history painting, story from ancient rome (after a play by 17th-century french playwright pierre. Corneille): morally uplifting: here: horatii triplets pledge to their father to triumph or die for (republican) rome. Jacques-louis david, the lictors returing to brutus the bodies of his sons, 1789, oil on canvas: another story from early (republican) rome, junius brutus: founder of roman republic. Jacques-louis david, the oath of the tennis court, 1791, graphite, pen, sepia wash heightened with white on paper.
