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