Rococo & Neoclassical Painting
Anna Han
Charlotte Liu
Mary Chen
Peggy Hsu
Outline
Baroque Rococo Neoclassical
(17~18th)
(18th )
(18~20th )
• Rococo Painting
• Neoclassical Painting
• Rococo V.S Neoclassical
Rococo Painting
• 18th century
• Subject of Painting: Gallant country parties,
ladies, love and romance,
carefree life of the aristocracy
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Style of painting:
swift, smooth,playful lining
delicate coloring, graceful
movement
Antoine Watteau
A French Painter
Painting theatrical scenes
“fetes galantes”
Departure from the of Cythera , 1717
The French Theater
1714Oil on canvas , Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Pierrot, also know as Gilles
1721, Oil on canvas.
Louvre, Paris.
François Boucher
• A French painter
• Pastoral and mythological scenes
• Frivolity and Sensuousness
• Plump , pink nudes
Venus Consoling Love
1751. Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
The Toilette of Venus ,
Oil on Canvas, 1751
Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York
Interrupted Sleep
Oil on canvas, 1750
Metropolitan Museum of
Art , New York
Marie-Louise Elisabeth
Vigee-Leburn
• Refined Portraits
• French female artist
• Affected by Ruben
and vanDyck
• Tribute to European
fashion industry
Marie Antoinette, 1788
Oil on canvas, Musee de
Verasilles. Giraudon/Art
Resource, New York
Marie Anoinette- 1779
Oil on canvas,
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna
• Marie Antoinette at
Versailles – 1783
Oil on canvas, at
Versailles.
• Portrait of a Young
Woman
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, USA
Jean-Honore Fragonard
• French painter
• Courtship and
romantic love
• Sensuous abandon
sipirt
• The Swing
1768, Oil on Canvas,
the Wallace
Collection, London
• The Confession of
Love
1771, Oil on canvas,
Frick Collection, New
York
• The Stolen Kiss, 1786-1788 The State Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg
Neoclassicism
• Between 18th and 20th centuries
• A self-conscious revival of Greco-Roman
culture
• Synthesize the tradition anew in each work
Jacques-Louis David
•A French artist
•Pioneer of Neoclassicism
•Influential paintings
-- The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
-- The Death of Socrates, 1787
Rome
Alba
Horatii Family
Curiatii Family
Camilla
Sabina
Married!!
Engaged!
•The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
golden light
Doric arcade
•Straight, hard-edged shapes
spear
•Horizontal lines
•Somber colors
•Precise, realistic
•The Death of Socrates, 1787
Socrates
Socrates’ wife
hemlock
Plato
Crito
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
(1780~1867)
• Son of an artist-craftman
• A fellow student of Gros in David's
studio
• Admire “Raphael, his century, the
ancients, and above all the divine
Greeks.”
• Famous for polished depictions of
history and mythology with
accomplished portraits
Self-portrait at age 24, 1804 Musée Condé.
Works
• Portraits of middle- and upper-class patrons
• Large works: The Apotheosis of Homer
The Martyrdom of St Symphorian
• Bathers— especially women
Madame Moitessier ,1851
Madame Rivière, 1806.
Portret Joseph-Antoinea
Moltedo - 1810
Portret Madame Cave - 1844 Portret Francois-Marius Granet Portret Rzeźbiarza
- 1807
Lorenzo Bartolini - 1820
The Apotheosis of Homer
The Martyrdom of St Symphorian
La grande odalisque, 1814, Louvre.
The Valpincon Bather,1808
The Turkish bath, 1862
Angelica Kauffmann (1741~1807)
• Swish female artist
• Member of England’s Royal
Academic of Art
• Skilled painter of historical
events
Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest, 1782.
Venus convinces Helen to go with Paris, 1790.
Rococo V.S Neoclassical
Rococo
Neoclassical
Time
18th century (1700~1750) 18th ~ 20th century
Subject
Aristocratic luxurious
lives
Historical and religious
events
Style
Playful lining
Free movement
Delicate color
Linear lining
Expressive contour