Slides accompanying Dick Nelson's art history seminar April 9, 2009.

1. Art History Lecture 6

2. An example of…
Quiz 1. RECESSIONAL composition.
Review
2. Painterly.
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3. Closed Form.
4. Italian Baroque art.
5. High Renaissance.
1 2 3 4

3. Quiz Find an example of…
Review 1. Linear. 6. Use of symbolism.
2. Dutch Genre. 7. Aided by optics.
3. Self-portrait. 8. Contemplative.
4. Northern Renaissance art. 9. Light playing an
important role.
5. Plane composition.
1. 2. 3. 4.

4. Reality is in the eye, hand and mind of the…

5. The Idealist
The Romantic
The Realist

6. Ingres Manet
Neo-Classic
Romantic Realism
Delacroix

7. Ingres Odalisque

8. The sovereignty of line.
Ingres

9. Ingres

10. Neo-Classic?
Romantic?
Realist?
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11. What does Ingres tell us of the subject in these two works?
Will the real Loius Bertin please stand up!

12. What response does the artist seek from his viewer?
Rational/Emotional?
Climax/ Anti-climax?
Time stopped/Time-in-flux?
Contemplation/Active involvement?
Off stage audience/Part of the scene?

13. David Oath of the Horatii

14. Plane Closed Form Linear
Idealized Contemplative Climax
Neo-Classic

15. Jacques Louis David The Death of Socrates
The Age of Reason replaces The Age of Authority.

16. Gericault Raft of the Medusa
From calm reason to dramatic life and death themes.

17. Perpetuating the works of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rembrandt and…

18. Idealized?
Romanticized?
Realized?
Painterly?
Recessional?
Intimate Lighting?
Delacroix Self Portrait

19. Delacroix Liberty Leading the People.

20. Delacroix The Death of Sardanapolis Aimed for the heart of the viewer!

21. Turner The Fighting Temeraire Relating idea with visual elements.

22. Turner Rain, Steam and Speed Anticipating Impressionism and beyond.

23. Turner Snowstorm Subject matter shifts from representation to presentation.

24. Common labor given dignity and monumentality.
Millet The Gleaners

25. Courbet The Stone Breakers
Realism threatens the status quo.

26. Courbet A Burial at Ornans
Real
ism
An uncommon tribute to the common.
Cracks in the foundation of academic painting.
A major social and aesthetic transformation heralds a new era.

27. Courbet The Artist’s Studio
Allegorical realism?

28. Manet Luncheon On The Grass
A new mission breaks the rules.

29. Accepted and Rejected. Why?
Because…
1. One was an original composition? 1. One was a copy of an earlier composition?
2. One was an idealized mythical 2. One depicts a known prostitute of stubby
figure of classic proportions? proportions in a suggestive surrounding?
3. One rendered the figure as a full 3. One flattens the composition by the
3D form, modeled by light and shade? elimination of almost all light and shade
modeling?
All of the above.

30. Manet Olympia
Chiaroscuro gives way to minimal modeling

31. Hiroshige Lake by Hakone
Japanese woodcut prints influence
Western vision and art.
Art for Art’s Sake!
“Look at it; not through it.”
Manet Young Flautist

32. Manet Dead Matador
Death: The stark reality.

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Manet Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Speculation: Anticipating Cubism?