Monday, June 27, 2016

Art History Notes


  • Positive Romanticism
    • Central Ideas and Beliefs
      • The Relationship between man and nature is imperfect
      • What is necessary for life, growth, and change, is imperfection
    • How is It Visually Expressed
  • Rococo

    • Runs from 1730 to 1785.
    • Is about having fun.
    • Ideas and Beliefs of Rococo
      • Philosophy of Deism: God created the world, and all of the world is perfect.
      • God designed the human body, so the human body is also perfect.
      • We should enjoy everything that God gave us.
      • If it feels good, do it.
      • God gave you your senses, and you should be guided by the senses God gave you.
      • We need to believe in reason, and learn how to appreciate our perfect world.
      • Geometry is not divine, everything is divine, everything is perfect. Geometry is beauty is divine, is an outdated idea.
      • Everything fits together perfectly.
      • Enjoying the world you are given, is a huge moral aspiration
    • How the Ideas and Beliefs are Visually Expressed
      • There is no focal point, because there is no best part, everything is perfect, because God made everything.
      • Lack of geometry, everything flows into everything else.
      • Lack of Symmetry
      • Images flow into eachother, man is shown in harmony with nature.
      • Lack of Hiearchy 
      • Pastel Colors
      • Gently Flowing Line


  • 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

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