Art of the Enlightenment

Genre Painting

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Soap Bubbles1733-5. Oil on canvas 93 x 74.5 cm.

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin The Kitchen Maid1738, Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm

Rococo

Elements of Rococo Style

Primarily found in France Rocaille – decorative rock work A backlash to Baroque

Light, elaborate, decorative style Pastels – light, subdued colors

Encourages viewers to suspend belief

François BoucherPortrait of Marquise de Pompadour1756, Oil on canvas 201 x 157 cm

François BoucherThe Setting of the Sun1752, Oil on canvas 318 x 261 cm

Jean Honoré FragonardThe Swing1766, Oil on canvas32” x 25”

Neoclassical

Origins of Neoclassical Art

Herculaneum in 1738.

Pompeii in 1748.

Origins of Neoclassical Art

Lord Elgin

Politics of Neoclassicism

Adopted as the official art style of the revolutions in France and in America.

Association with the democracy of Greece and the republicanism of Rome.

Napoleon used the style for propaganda.

Elements of Neoclassicism

Return to the perceived “purity” of the arts of Rome.

Model the “ideal” of the ancient Greek arts and, to a lesser extent, 16th century Renaissance classicism.

An emphasis on line and strong design Color is localized

Portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin Jean Antoine Houdon

Jacques-Louis David. The Oath of Horatii. 1784. Oil on canvas. 330 x 425 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.

Jacques-Louis David Death of Socrates (1748-1825)

Jacques-Louis David Death of Marat. Oil on canvas. 1793.

Jacques-Louis David. Bonaparte Crossing the St. Bernard Pass. 1800. Oil on canvas 260 x 221 cm.

Jacques-Louis David. Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December 1804. 1808. Oil on canvas. 621 x 979 cm.  Louvre, Paris, France.