Bell Ringer – 12/4/2013
m.socrative.com - Room #38178
QUESTION:
 1. Which had MORE performances – the Marriage of Figaro or the
Magic Flute?
USE YOUR DEVICES IF YOU HAVE ONE – its so much quicker to
grade when you submit them electronically!!!
Rococo Style, Landscapes, Portraits, Still Life, Neoclassicism
Rococo Style
 Rococo: described as an inconsequential version of baroque
 fuzzy detail
 complex composition
 superficiality
 decorative
 It is essentially decorative and nonfunctional – like the declining
aristocracy it represented
Rococo Style
 Usually closed composition – but leads the eye in a disorderly fashion
 Love, friendship, sentiment, pleasure, and sincerity became predominant
themes
 None of these characteristics conflict significantly with the overall tone of
the Enlightenment
Antoine Watteau (1683-1721)
 His paintings are representative of many of the changing values of the
aristocracy
 Works are largely sentimental
Watteau’s Embarkation for Cythera
 Superficiality: Cythera is a mythological land of enchantment - Watteau
portrays aristocrats idling away their time as they wait to leave for that
faraway place.
Watteau’s Embarkation for Cythera
 Fuzzy Details
 Soft color areas
 Hazy atmosphere
 Add to fantasy
 Decorative detail of clothing
 Each group of doll-like
couples engages in graceful conversation and silly games
Landscape and Portraiture
 The popularity of landscape and portraiture increased in the 18th century
 One of the most influential English painters of the time was Thomas
Gainsborough (1727-1788)
 Landscapes bridge the gap between the Baroque and Romantic styles
 Portraits exhibit sensitive elegance
Gainsborough’s Mrs. Graham
 Full length portrait
 Unique freshness and lyric grace
 Almost weightless figure
 Beautiful color and delicacy
 Some fuzzy details
 Very decorative
Gainsborough’s The Market Cart
 Delicate use of wash - fuzziness
(similar to Watteau)
 Explores tonalities and shapes that
express a deep and almost mystical
response to nature - superficiality
 Leads the eye in a disorderly fashion
 Trees lead the eye up and to the left to
be caught by the downward circling
line of the trees and clouds in the
background
Still Life
 Jean-Baptiste Simeon
(1699-1779)
 The finest, and the first famous, still life painter of the time

(started in Germany in the previous century)
 His paintings show an interest in the servants and life “below the
stairs” in well-to-do households
 Everyday items can be raised to a level of unsuspected beauty
Chardin’s Menu de Gras
 Each item has intense
significance
 Richness of texture and color
combined with complex, yet
careful composition
 The eye is directed by shapes
and angles
 Each new focus demands that
we pause and savor its richness
Neoclassicism
 Neoclassicism: the return to classical qualities; “new” classicism
 Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
 Works illustrate the newly perceived grandeur of antiquity

It was reflected in his subject matter, composition, and historical accuracy
 He sought to inspire French patriotism and democracy (lead to the
revolution)
David’s The Death of Socrates
 David exploits his political ideas using Greek and Roman themes
 The subject
suggests a devotion
to ideals so strong
that one should be
prepared to die in
their defense.
Humanitarianism
 The idea that all men and women have the right to dignity and happiness
 Enlightened humanitarians painted satire and social commentary
 Dramatic scenes of moral subjects
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
 His Rake’s Progress and Harlot’s Progress series are attempts to correct
raging social ills and to instill solid middle class values
The Harlot’s Progress
 The prostitute is a victim of circumstances
 She arrives in
London, her
employer seduces
her, and she ends up
in Bridewell Prison
 6 plates
The Harlot’s Progress
 Mistress to a Wealthy Man
The Harlot’s Progress
 From Common to Prostitute
The Harlot’s Progress
 Beats hemp in Prison
The Harlot’s Progress
 Dying of Syphilis
The Harlot’s Progress
 Funeral
The Rake’s Progress
 Portray’s the downfall of a foolish young man from comfortable
circumstances
 The series moves through several views of the young man as he sinks
lower and lower into corruption
 Until he ends up in the Bedlam insane asylum
 8 Paintings
The Rake’s Progress
 Fortune left by his dead father
The Rake’s Progress
 With all his servants
The Rake’s Progress
 The Wild Party
The Rake’s Progress
 Escapes arrest for debt
The Rake’s Progress
 Marries rich to savage fortune
The Rake’s Progress
 Gambling
The Rake’s Progress
 In prison for debt
The Rake’s Progress
 In the mental asylum
Hogarth
 Hogarth’s criticism of social conditions is clear in his paintings
 Paintings were widely sold to the public as prints
 Attacks of the social institutions of the day were popular
Activity – Create your Own “__’s Progress”
 Pick one of your favorite movie characters, and create their “____________’s
Progress” series of paintings (or, in this case, drawings.)
 You may use anywhere from 6-12 panels (MUST HAVE AT LEAST 6) to tell the
story of your character.
 Give each panel a TITLE that represents what it’s showing and draw an image
that specifically represents that event in their life.
 Make sure the pictures are in order and tell the main events of that character’s life
 Decide on all your scenes BEFORE you start drawing or you might draw yourself into a hole!
 COLOR your pictures
Example – Woody’s Progress
from Toy Story
 1. Woody is Andy’s favorite toy - picture of them playing together
 2. Andy receives a new toy - picture of him opening Buzz Lightyear
 3. Buzz Lightyear becomes Andy’s new favorite toy - picture of them playing together
 4. Woody is determined to win Andy back - picture of Woody and Buzz arguing
 5. Woody tries to get Buzz lost - picture of them falling out of the van at the gas station
 6. Woody and Buzz work together to get back to Andy - picture of them looking for
Andy at Pizza Planet
 7. Woody and Buzz return to Andy’s house as friends – picture of all 3 of them playing
together
Activity – Create your Own “__’s Progress”
 Have the rest of class today and all of class tomorrow to work
 Graded on…
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Does the story make sense?
Do the pictures represent the story well? (NOT graded on artistic ability – FILL UP
THE BOX with characters, background, etc. though)
 Due at the start of class on Friday
 You can turn them in when you finish tomorrow
 Today you should determine your character, plan out your scenes, and start
drawing