ARTHI 6C- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
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Lecture 1: the 18th century (1700s): new technologies in painting. People should be free to choose their government. Government wrote constitutions, created representative institutions, and promoted education. Painted an eruption of mount vesuvius which is a landscape. Painted out of fantasy and a different vantage point. Interested in changing our viewpoints, scientific discovery and mysteriousness. A philosopher giving that lecture on the orrery in which a lamp is put in the place of the. Wooden frame designed to imitate space and solar system. Philosopher in red at the center of the painting. See wonder but with the title of the painting, there is an everyday-ness. An experiment on a bird in an air pump (1768) Philosopher in red casting off on the left. Represents how the family is reacting to science. Derby was asthmatic and knows how glorious . Enormous strips of painting that allowed audiences to see the different points of the image.
