ANDREW/IAN
THE ENLIGHTENMENT:
29.10
Title: A Philosopher Giving a Lecture At The
Orrery
Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1763-1765
Gives lecture using a lamp and
a mechanical model of the
solar system, called an Orrery.
Period: Enlightenment
26.10
Title: Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar
Artist: N/A
Medium: Opaque Watercolor on paper
Date: 1880
Summarize the narrative that takes place:
Period: Southeast Asia
After 1200
What symbols has the artist used to identify his
subject and his status? What western influences are
present?
Posed as an ordinary British Gentleman in his
Sitting room. Powerful chest in arms along with a
sword & riding boots. Shows him as a hunter &
warrior. He has large diamonds & emeralds shows
his family makes straight bank.
ESTEFANIA/BRAD
Hers is the self-confident stance of a woman whose
art has won her an independent role in her society”
Title: Self Portrait
Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigee Lebrun
3 FORMAL POINTS:
1. The figure is looking directly at the viewer.
2. Close up intimate look
3. Force and grace.
26.15
Title: Ashoka at Kalinga
Artist: Meera Mukherjee
Medium: Bronze
Date: 1972
Period: Southeast Asian
contemporary art
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1790
Period: Rococo
3 CONTEXTUAL POINTS:
1. She is painting Queen Marie Antoinette, her
most important patron.
2. Mood is lighthearted and her costume’s details
echo the serpantine curves that Rococo artists and
wealthy patrons loved.
3. Her fame and admission to the Royal Academy
of Painting and Sculpture is shown in this painting
through her upright posture and confidence look.
Identify some of the political and social statements
that this work makes:
*Depicts Maurya Emperor Ashoka.
*he stands in the battlefield of Kalinga
*he witnessed more than 100,000 deaths and was
shocked by horrors of war that he had unleashed.
*Ashoka rejected violence after the battle and
adopted Buddhism as the official religion of his
empire.
*art pacifist protest against political violence in the
late 20th century.
TAYLOR/BRIELLE
Compare/Contrast (29.12/29.13):
Title: Saying Grace
Artist: Jean-Baptist-Simeon
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1740
Period: Rococo
Summarize the scene:
Chardin contrasted the light figures and the dark
background depicting the innocent mother and her
daughters free of corruption spiritually,
occupationally, and environmentally.
Title: Villiage Bride
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1761
Period: Rococo
Summarize the scene:
-A family not of the aristocracy who pursue the
joys of life
-A groom is placing the dowry in the father’s hand,
the shy bride linked to his arm, a jealous older
sister looking over the father’s shoulder, and the
rest of the family is present
-Shows an atmosphere of sentimentality
EMILY
“The Natural Taste in the U.S.” – 29.18
Title: Death of General Wolfe
Artist: Benjamin West
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: 1771
Period: enlightenment
Contextual Summary:
The scene depicts the mortally wounded young English commander just after his defeat of the French in the
decisive battle of Quebec in 1759, which gave Canada to great Britian. West put his characters in contemporary
custumes even though it was a historical subject. West blended this realism of detail with the grand tradition of
history painting bt arranging his figures in a complex, theatrically ordered composition. West wanted to present
this hero‘s death in the service of the state as a martyrdom charged with religious emotions.
26.4
Title: Akbar and the Elephant Hawai
Artist: Basawan and Chatar Muni
Medium: opaque watercolor on paper
Date: ca. 1590
Period: India
Narrativel Summary:
The painting depicts the episode of Akbar and Hawai, a wild elephant the 19 year old ruler mounted and pitted
against another ferocious elephant. When the second animal fled in defeat, Hawai, still carrying Akbar, chased
it to a pontoon bridge. The enormous weight of the elephants capsized the boats, but Akbar managed to bring
Hawai under control and dismount safely. The young ruler viewed the episode as an allegory of his ability to
govern – that is, to take charge of an unruly state.
KATHLEEN:
Define Veduta Painting:
(Italian: ―view‖), detailed, largely factual painting, drawing, or etching depicting a city, town, or other place.
The first vedute probably were painted by northern European artists who worked in Italy, such as Paul Brill
(1554–1626), a landscape painter from Flanders who produced a number of marine views and scenes of Rome
that were purchased by visitors.
26.1
Title:: Taj Mahal
Artist: Mughal
Date: 1632–1647
Culture: Islamic
Medium: marble and many rare and valuable stones
Location: Agra, India
emperor Shah Jahan
1.
3 Formal Points:
Onion shaped dome and 4 minarets (typical of all major Islamic architecture)
2.
Arabic calligraphy and geometric shapes on walls b/c the depiction of animals was forbidden.
3.
Purity of color
4.
3 Contextual Points:
No Delhi sultans’ tombs could compare in grandeur to the Taj Mahal
5.
This Mughal mausoleum seems to float magically over reflecting pools in a large garden.
6.
The tomb may have been conceived as the throne of God perched above the gardens of Paradise on Judgment Day.
3 Themes:
1.
Text in art
2.
Sacred spaces
3 .propaganda (was commissioned by Shah Jahan, an Indian Emperor)
NICOLE:
“This work shows a sense of directness and faithfulness to visual fact
that marked the taste for “downrightness” and plainness many visitors
to America noticed during the 18th and 19th centuries”
29.19
Title: Portrait of Paul Revere
Medium: Oil on canvas
Formal Point: Dark background with light reflecting
off of Paul‘s face, hands, and clothing.
Artist: John Singleton Copley
Date: 1768-1770
Period: Rococo
Contextual Point: emphassized down to earth is
differented from being noticed as an European work
26.4
Title: Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings
Artist: Bichiter
Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
Date: 1615-1618
Period: Pre-Mughal
Identify Social and Political Symbolism: Jahangir is above all rulers with heirarchy in his size. He is surrounded
by many other kings and rulers. The artist inclused himself which was common to European artwork. The
painting relates to the center of sulture and learning.
ASHLEY/GABRIELA:
NEOCLASSICAL NARRATIVES IN ART: JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
Title: Oath of the Horatii
Title: Death of Marat
Date: 1784
Date: 1793
Summarize the narrative:
Summarize the narrative:
David‘s painting shows the Horatii as they swear on
David depicted the martyred revulotionary after
the swords, held highly by their father, to win or die
Charlotte Corday, a member of a rival political faction,
for Rome, oblivious to the anguish and sorrow of their stabbed him to death in his medicinal bath.
female relatives.
David presented the scene with directness and clarity.
Not only does the subject matter deal with a narrative
The cold neutral space above Marat‘s figure slumped
of patriotism and sacrifice excerpted from Roman
in the tub produces a chilling oppresiveness. The
history, but the painer presented the image with force painter vividly placed narrative details—the knife, the
and clarity.
wound, the blood, the letter with which the young
Oath of the Horatii is a paragon of the Neoclassical
woman gained entrance—to sharpen the sense of pain
style.
and outrage to confront viewers with the scene itself.
David depicted the scene in a shallow space, much like
a stage setting, definited by a severely simple
architectural framework.
VAL. V.
Identify the prominent Neoclassical Artists:
FRENCH
ENGLISH
AMERICAN
Jacques Louis David
William Hogarth
Benjamin West
Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
Sir Joshua Reynolds
John Singleton Copley
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
Thomas Gainsborough
Gilbert Stuart
Describe Cornelia‘s character as she is presented in Cornelia presenting her children as treasures:
The characters are in clothed in Roman garb and posed in classical Roman attitudes within
Roman interiors. The theme is the virtue of Cornelia, mother of the future political leaders
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, who attempted to reform the Roman republic in the second
century B.C. Cornelia‘s character is revealed in this scene, which takes place after a lady visitor
had shown off her fine jewelry and then haughtily requested that Cornelia show hers. Instead of
rushing to get them, Cornelia brings her sons forward, presenting them as her jewels.
Summarize the narrative between Krishna and Radha
The naked couple sits in a pavilion, entwined in their love. The blue of
Krishna (always portrayed as blue) is counterbalanced by the ivory color
of Radha. The bower of love is festooned with flowers and the pillars are
inlaid with precious gems. The artist has created a lush and sensual work
that does not fall into the salacious. The pose of the figures hint at the
coming sexual love, the shyly downcast eyes and tilted head of Radha
infuse the work with a modesty that eliminates the prurient.
SARA
Echoes of Bernini (29-9):
Title:Satyr Crowning a Bacchante
Claude Michel was known as Clodion and is well
known for his small, lively sculptures that combined
the sensuous Rococo fantasies with lightened echoes
of Bernini‘s dynamic figures.
Artist: Clodion
Medium: Terracotta
Date:1770
Period: Rococo
New vision of Buddha (26-11):
Title:Walking Buddha
Artist: unknown
Medium: bronze
Date:14th century
What kind of work was Clodion known for?
Period: Sukhothai
Explain how this Buddha differs from those of the
past and identify what this new Buddha
symbolizes?
It created a new vision of the Buddha and unique
to Thailand. The Buddha is striding forward,
hand raised in blessing. The Thai were
especially devoted to this Buddha developed in
Sukhothai. The statue becomes a model for all
subsequent Buddha‘s. He represents hope
and succor for the Thai population, yet the
artist has endowed the figure with a supernatural
quality in keeping with the Buddha‘s divine
nature. The full, rounded shoulders of the figure
emphasize that quality.
“The Natural Taste in England”
Marriage `a la Mode
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