Rococo & Neoclassical Painting

Anna Han

Charlotte Liu

Mary Chen

Peggy Hsu

OutlineBaroque Rococo Neoclassical(17~18th) (18th ) (18~20th )

• Rococo Painting

• Neoclassical Painting

• Rococo V.S Neoclassical

Rococo Painting

• 18th century• Subject of Painting: Gallant country parties,

ladies, love and romance,

carefree life of the aristocracy

• Style of painting: swift, smooth,playful lining

delicate coloring, graceful movement

Antoine Watteau

A French Painter

Painting theatrical scenes

“fetes galantes”

Departure from the of Cythera , 1717

The French Theater1714Oil on canvas , Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Pierrot, also know as Gilles 1721, Oil on canvas.Louvre, Paris.

François Boucher

• A French painter

• Pastoral and mythological scenes

• Frivolity and Sensuousness

• Plump , pink nudes

Venus Consoling Love1751. Oil on canvasNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Toilette of Venus ,Oil on Canvas, 1751Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Interrupted Sleep Oil on canvas, 1750Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Leburn

• Refined Portraits• French female artist• Affected by Ruben

and vanDyck• Tribute to European

fashion industry

Marie Antoinette, 1788Oil on canvas, Musee de Verasilles. Giraudon/Art Resource, New York

Marie Anoinette- 1779 Oil on canvas, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

• Marie Antoinette at Versailles – 1783

Oil on canvas, at Versailles.

• Portrait of a Young Woman

Oil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

Jean-Honore Fragonard

• French painter

• Courtship and romantic love

• Sensuous abandon sipirt

• The Swing

1768, Oil on Canvas, the Wallace Collection, London

• The Confession of Love

1771, Oil on canvas, Frick Collection, New York

• The Stolen Kiss, 1786-1788 The State Hermitage Museum,

St. Petersburg

Neoclassicism

• Between 18th and 20th centuries

• A self-conscious revival of Greco-Roman culture

• Synthesize the tradition anew in each work

Jacques-Louis David

•A French artist

•Pioneer of Neoclassicism

•Influential paintings

-- The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

-- The Death of Socrates, 1787

Rome Alba

Horatii Family Curiatii Family

CamillaSabina

Engaged!

Married!!

Doric arcade

•The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

golden light

•Straight, hard-edged shapes

•Horizontal lines

•Somber colors

•Precise, realistic

spear

•The Death of Socrates, 1787

hemlock

Socrates

Plato

Socrates’ wife

Crito

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres(1780~1867)

• Son of an artist-craftman

• A fellow student of Gros in David's studio

• Admire “Raphael, his century, the ancients, and above all the divine Greeks.”

• Famous for polished depictions of history and mythology with accomplished portraits Self-portrait at age 24, 1804 Musée Condé.

Works• Portraits of middle- and upper-class patrons

• Large works: The Apotheosis of Homer The Martyrdom of St Symphorian

• Bathers— especially women

Madame Rivière, 1806.Madame Moitessier ,1851

Portret Francois-Marius Granet - 1807

Portret Joseph-Antoinea Moltedo - 1810

Portret Madame Cave - 1844 Portret Rzeźbiarza Lorenzo Bartolini - 1820

The Apotheosis of Homer

The Martyrdom of St Symphorian

La grande odalisque, 1814, Louvre.

The Valpincon Bather,1808 The Turkish bath, 1862

Angelica Kauffmann (1741~1807) • Swish female artist

• Member of England’s Royal Academic of Art

• Skilled painter of historical events

Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest, 1782.

Venus convinces Helen to go with Paris, 1790.

Rococo V.S Neoclassical

Rococo Neoclassical

Time 18th century (1700~1750)

18th ~ 20th century

Subject Aristocratic luxurious lives

Historical and religious events

Style Playful lining Free movement Delicate color

Linear lining

Expressive contour