Cultural Ideas and Beliefs
- God made the world
- God made the world perfect
- God made the world fair
- You have to know nature, in order to be able to control nature.
- You can have Heaven on Earth
- God doesn't check up on the Earth, the Earth is Perfectly Designed
How They Are Visually Expressed
- Line = Discipline = Perfection
Hogarth
He hated Rococo. He sold prints of his illustrations to mass audiences. The subject matter of Hogarth's art, is the time he lives in, it embodies his present.
Hogarth's Gin Lane and Beer Street
Gin during this time period was made with solvents which are like cleaning materials.
The idea behind Gin Lane is that if you just do what feels good, then it will lead to your demise.
Life needs discipline, to help make the world heaven on Earth.
Beer Street is about how if you work hard, then you can have a beer every now and again in moderation.
Hogarth's Marriage a la mode
Is a six-part series about Rococo marriage.
They were made in the 1740s in the mid-eighteenth century where individuals can buy the series as prints.
The series tells a story, about a Rococo marriage.
In the story an English Lord is going to sell his royal title to a man who wants to become a lord.
Those who believe in secular value, don't care for titles.
The man who is selling his title, wants money so that he can pay his workers, to help build his mansions.
English people of the time like Italian art, not English Art.
Hogarth is an english artist, and he hates that Italian Art is viewed as superior to English art, and his piece includes a commentary about how fake Italian Boroque art is, and how it represents reality.
There is a couple that is to be married, in which the groom isn't interested in the bride, the bride is being chatted up by another man that is interested in the bride, and the groom who lives the Rococo life has a horrible sexually transmitted disease and does snuff. His legs are separated because his STD is incredibly uncomfortable.
The bride is bummed out, because the groom has a super STD.
In the second part, the bride and the groom have returned home from partying. The bride had a great time, while the groom didn't, they just learned that they are bankrupt from an accountant. They live in a mansion but they have no money. There is a italian art of saints on the wall, but there is a curtain over a nude portrait next to the paintings of saints.
In the third part they go to the doctor. The wife and the groom have the STD. The cure for STDs of the time is mercury, it kills you. Medicine hasn't really evolved in the eighteenth century.
In part four, the husband is drinking his morning coffee and has his hair up in curlers, he has his legs crossed, so he has gotten better. The bride is talking with the man from part I that was interested in her. Hogarth also portrays the selling of indian art.
In part five, the groom catches the bride cheating. The groom and the cheating man have a sword fight. The groom, is in pain, the bride is pleading with him.
Hogarth is showing how the Rococo lifestyle is horrible, and that discipline is needed to live a good life.
The police burst into the room. The bride has lost her husband, her money, and soon her home.
In the final part, the bride has had a daughter. She has no future, she has no money. The bride tells her servant to go to the pharmacy and buy some poison so that she may commit suicide, and she does. The doctor takes the dead woman's pulse, while at the same time taking her ring.
Her child is shown to have been born with the STD, and wears braces due to her birth defects, which are caused by her exposure to STDs.
NeoClassical
Cultural Ideas and Beliefs
- Must have a high moral message
- Good decisions should be rational, not emotional.
- One should not simply trust feelings, nor should they trust Rococo.
How Are They Visually Expressed
- Subject Matter must be Roman or Greek
- Must have classical style
- Like a freeze in which on figure after another in a row, in front of a bland background
- Must have a high moral message
- Must be archaelogically correct
Benjamin West's Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment 1770
It is a neoclassical piece, that teaches a moral lesson of how government should be. The classical period becomes the model of what good government should be.
Benjamin West's Death of General Wolf 1771
It has no style period. War is about giving up your life, in order to make the world a better place. General Wolf dies to defeat the French, in order to make Canada English. The English believed their government to be the best, so their government being over Canada, makes Canada a better place.
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