NEOCLASSICAL ARTS

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NEOCLASSICAL ARTS
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Influences on Neoclassicism

• Reaction against Rococo
• Philosophies of Enlightenment
• Archaeological discoveries
• Herculaneum/Pompeii
• Greek vases at Naples by Sir Wm Hamilton
• Artistic theory of Johann Winckelmann On the
  Imitation of Greek Works

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Three phases of Neoclassical arts

• Until 1770 Influenced by Renaissance classicism
  more than Greek Roman firsthand i.e., borrowed
  from Palladio
• 1770-1825 More directly classical
• 1825-1850 Late phase. Simultaneous with
  Romanticism

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General characteristics

• Allusions to classical
• Reason, rules
• Symmetry, order, harmony, unity, clarity
• Restraint, good sense
• Decorum, good taste, correctness

• Society rather than individual
• Human nature rather than natural world
• Urban rather than rural
• Intellectual rather than emotional or spiritual
• Urbane, witty satire
• Rape of the Lock
• Hogarth

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Allusion to Classical

• Literature Popes Rape of the Lock
• Painting
• Davids Death of Socrates
• Kauffmans Cornelia Pointing to Her
• Children as Her Treasures
• Architecture
• Paris
• Jefferson
• Sculpture Canova

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David

• Style
• Severe
• Drawing(line) more
• important than color
• Clear light and shadow
• Sculptural figures
• Content
• Didactic
• Roman Republic,
• Greek
• Devotion to Duty
• Self Sacrifice

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David, Death of Socrates, 1787
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Davids Death of Marat, 1793
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• Angelica Kauffman, Cornelia Pointing to Her
  Children as Her Treasures

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Redesign of Paris Percier Fontaine
Arc de Triomphe dEtoile
Vendome Column
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Roman and Napoleonic arches
Arch of Constantine-Roman
Arc de Triomphe dEtoile
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Roman and Napoleonic commemorative columns
Trajans Column- Roman
Vendome Column
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Thomas Jefferson
Rotunda, University of Virginia
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Palladio and Jefferson
Palladio, 16th c, Rotunda, villa capri

• Jefferson, Montecello

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Symmetry, order, unity, clarity

• Literature Popes heroic closed couplet
• Painting Davids Oath of the Horatii
• Architecture
• Vignons La Madeleine
• U.S. Capitol
• Music
• Mozarts Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
• Haydn

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Vignons La Madeleine
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Urbane, witty, satire Hogarths Marriage Contract