April 15
19th Century

 

 

The Swing

Jean-Honore Fragonard. The Swing. c. 1768.
Duane Preble, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank, Artforms. (Upper Saddle River,NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002) 7th ed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marie Antoinette at Execution

Jacques-Louis David.  Marie Antoinette Awaiting Execution.  1793.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marie_Antoinette_by_David.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oath of the Horatii

Jacques-Louis David. Oath of the Horatii. 1784 - 85.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures

Angelica Kauffmann. Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures. c. 1785.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

neoclassicism = a style of art, literature and architecture popular from the late 1700s to the early 19th century that revived classical aesthetics and forms and is characterized by strong geometric compositions, severe line, order and simplicity in style.
 
T.I.'s Whatever You Like

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Death of Marat

Jacques-Louis David.  Death of Marat.  1793.

 

 

 

 

 

 

White House

Benjamin Henry Latrobe.  The White House.  1792 - 1800.
http://www.wayzata.k12.mn.us/plymouthcreek/images/stories/PinskeCzech/white-house.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

Death of Cleopatra

Edmonia Lewis. The Death of Cleopatra. 1876.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustapeck/422647549/

 

 

 

 

 

 
Edmonia Lewis.  Death of Cleopatra (scale and detail).  1876.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustapeck/422647549/

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am. It was hard work, though, but with color and sex against me I have achieved success. That is what I tell my people whenever I meet them, that they must not be discouraged but work ahead until the world is bound to respect them for what they have accomplished." - Edmonia Lewis

Edmonia Lewis

Edmonia Lewis
Girls, Guerrilla. The Guerilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Death of Sardanapalus

Eugene Delacroix. The Death of Sardanapalus.  1827.

Romanticism =a late 18th and early 19th century movement aimed at asserting the validity of subjective experience as a countermovement to the often cold formulas of Neoclassicism
 
 
Characterized by:
Intense emotional excitement
Depictions of powerful forces in nature, exoticism, danger, suffering and nostalgia

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Third of May 1808

Francisco de Goya.  The Third of May 1808.  1814.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neoclassicism
Romanticism

Oath of the Horatii
Third of May 1808
Jacques-Louis David. Oath of the Horatii. 1784 - 85.
Francisco Goya. Third of May 1808. 1814 -15.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.