artsy-fartsy europe

ARTSY-FARTSY EUROPE

Italian Renaissance • Humanism; revival of

classical ideals; perspective; secularism

• Chiaroscuro - lighting• Sfumato – shading • Patrons

• Medicis• Fuggers (Northern

Renaissance)

• Brunelleschi – Il Duomo (Florence)

• Leonardo da Vinci– Mona Lisa– Vitruvian Man– The Last Supper

• Raphael – School of Athens

• Botticelli – Birth of Venus• Michelangelo

– Sistine Chapel – David

Northern Renaissance • Germany, the

Netherlands, England• Techniques of Italian

Renaissance with a continued focus on religion

• Peter Bruegel the Elder• The Peasant Wedding

Baroque • Counter-Reformation • Less complex; realistic; focus on human emotions

• Bernini - St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City)

• Caravaggio - David and Goliath

Rococo • 18th century; follows Baroque Period

• Popular with French aristocracy during reign of Louis XV

• Focuses on light colors, elaborate designs; highly decorative

• Jean-Honore Fragonard – The Swing

Neo-Classical • Mid-18th, early 19th century

• Severe; reaction to excessive Rococo style

• Revival of Classical thought; restraint of emotions

• Connected to French Revolution

• Jacques-Louis David • The Death of Marat • The Coronation of

Napoleon • Napoleon at the Saint-

Bernard Pass

Romanticism • Reaction to Industrial Revolution; 19th century

• Emotional, triumph of imagination and individuality

• Caspar David Friedrich – Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

• Eugene Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People

Realism • Late 19th century • Celebrates working classes and peasants

• Focuses on realistic portrayals of the world

• Jean-Francois Millet – The Gleaners

Impressionism • Late 19th century• Captures fleeting moments of light

• Short, choppy brush strokes

• Claude Monet – Impression, Sunrise

• Degas (anything with a ballerina)

• Renoir

Expressionism• Late 19th, early 20th centuries

• Focus on the psyche; tied to new ideas of psychology

• Anxiety and violence

• Edvard Munch – The Scream

Modernism • 20th century• Rejects realism and traditional forms

• Avant-garde

• Pablo Picasso• Marc Chagall – I and the Village

Cubism • 20th century; No single point of view

• Multifaceted view of objects; world as a mosaic

• Reality as interaction

• Pablo Picasso – Guernica

Dada/Surrealism • 20th century • Explores the dream world

• World without logic or meaning

• Salvador Dali – The Persistence of Memory