Colonial Painting Notes

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Colonial Painting Notes
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1st painters

• The 1st painters in the United States were called
  the Limners
• Specialized in painting store signs and portraits

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Elizabethan style

• 2 Dimensional
• No modeling of face or figure
• No shadows
• Figures are flat
• Careful detail to costume and ornamentation

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• Margaret Gibbs

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Baroque

• Grandiose
• Elegant decorative qualities
• Emphasis on clothing

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• Daniel, Peter and Andrew Oliver

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Rococo

• Natural
• Intimate
• Less ornate emphasis

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• Lapowinsa

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Romantic

• Emotional and spiritual rather than reasoned and
  intellectual
• Guided by instinct and imagination
• Personal interpretation
• A reaction to restrictive disciplines of
  classicism

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Themes of Romanticism

• Gods message in nature
• Forces of nature
• Shortness of life
• Human morality

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The death of General Wolfe
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Realism

• As the eye sees it

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Types of Painting

• Historical Scene-a historical event as 1
  perceived it happened
• Portrait-individual or group
• Landscape-land or water (seascape)
• Genre-common man doing common things
• Natural History-flora and the fauna
• Allegorical-tells a story
• Gothic-dark side of life
• Still Life-non human things (bowl of fruit)