Sunday, December 05, 2010

PREPARATION for TEST #6: Rococo, Neoclassical and Romantic Periods

Wednesday, we will have our last test before the final. It will cover

Chapter 16, The 18th Century: Recoco to Revolution


Chapter 17:  Romanticism
  • pp. 445- 449 The Concerns of Romanticism and The Intellectual Background;
  • pp. 458-468 Romantic Art
Chapter 16: Define/Explain

fetes galantes
Neoclassicism
Rococo
"Crush the infamous!"("Ecrasez l'infame!")
"After me, the flood." ("Apres moi, le deluge.")
"superstition"
noble savage
Deism
Rational Humanism
Empiricism
salons
pastel
enlightened despot
Declaration of the Rights of Man

CH. 16: Define/Explain

Fragonard
Boucher
Watteau
Carriera
William Hogarth
Voltaire
Thomas Gainsborough
Joshua Reynolds
Tiepolo
Jacques Louis David
John Locke
Winckelmann
Rousseau
Newton
Denis Diderot
the Encyclopedie
Thomas Jefferson
Napoleon
Jean-Antoine Houdon

Chapter 17: Define/Explain

Goya
Gericault
Delacroix
Kaspar David Friedrich
noumena

phenomena
the sublime
the beautiful

Chapter 17 Identify:

Watteau's Return From Cythera
Watteau's Fete Galante
Boucher's Toilet of Venus
Boucher's Cupid a Captive
Weiskirche
Tiepolo's The Immaculate Conception
Hogath's Marriage à la Mode.
David's Death of Marat
David's The Oath of the Horatii
Reynold's Three ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen
Houdon's Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington
Monticello

Pantheon, Paris.
La Madeleine, Paris


Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Goya's Saturn Devouring one of his Sons
Goya's The Family of Charles IV
Goya's Execution of the Madrilenos
Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa
Delacroix's Dante and Virgil in Hell
Delacroix's Massacre at Chios
Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalas
Friedrich's The Wreck of the Hope
Friedrich's The Wanderer

Chapters 16-17:  Discuss:

1. What are the characteristics of Rococo art and architecture?
2. What are the characteristics of Neoclassical art and architecture? Give evidence of them in the various paintings above.
3. What are the characteristics of the Enlightenment?
4. How would you describe the spirit of revolutionary France?
5. What was the impact of Winkelman's discovery of Pompeii?
6. What are the characteristics of Romanticism? How are the evidenced in the paintings above?
7. Compare and contast Rococo art and architecture with  and Neoclassical art and architecture. 
8. Compare and contrast Neoclassical art and architecture with Romantic art and architecture.
9. What is the difference between art that is "beautiful" and art that is "sublime?"
10. Why would someone say that the thought, art and architecture of  the 18th-19th century is "like ping-pong?"