Rococo

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Rococo

• Rocaille a kind of elaborate decoration of
  rocks shells on grottoes
• Aristocracy paid commissions
• SHELLS RIBBONS SCROLLS

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Rococo Art

• Curvilinear and delicate ornamentation
• Floors inlaid with complicated patterns
• Furniture richly carved and decorated
• Fancy but polite
• Mostly portraits and landscapes
• Frivolous subject
• (as opposed to Baroques seriousness)

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Jean-Antoine Watteau Pilgrimage to Cythera
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Jean Honore Fragonard
The Confession of Love
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Francois Boucher
Little pink mounds of flesh
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Neoclassicism

• Imitation of Greeks and Romans
• Serious NOT frivolous
• Used as propaganda
• Order, solemn, calm, rational
• Inspirational
• Excavation of Herculaneum Pompeii

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Jacques-Louis David

• Frenchman, supported revolution
• Arrested when Robespierre executed
• Worked for Napoleon
• His propaganda work
• Napoleon wanted to be portrayed as important and
  powerful

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The Oath of the Horatii
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Davids Coronation of Josephine
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DavidNapoleon in his study
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American Neoclassicism

• American artists had to study in Europe
• Americans were mostly farmers
• First artists were self-taught portrait or sign
  painters
• Baroque/Rococo did not fit American style
• Painting and architecture

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Thomas JeffersonMonticello
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Jeffersons Virginia Capital Building
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John Singleton Copley

• Portrait painter
• Concentrated on person, not background
• Tried to relay subjects personality

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CopleysPaulRevere
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Copleys Nicholas Boylston
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Gilbert Stuart

• Flesh and skin color was magnificent
• Portrait painter
• Painted the presidents and their wives
• Like a European Court painter

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Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
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Francisco de Goya

• Man without an ism
• Sickness left him deaf
• Suffered from nightmares
• Art of Social Protest
• Brutality of war
• Pompousness of royalty
• Black Paintings

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Goyas The Third of May, 1808
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Goyas This is worseDisasters of War Series
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Portrait of Charles IV (Spain)
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Black Paintings
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