Concurrent Dates
1175-1783 | The American Revolutionary War |
1776 | The American Declaration of Independence |
1789-1799 | The French Revolution |
1839 | First “Camera” |
1861-1865 | The American Civil War |
Target Concepts
- The art world is divided in to two, between those who see art as rooted in logic (Neoclassical), and those who believe art should be rooted in our passions (Romantic)
- Neoclassical art was the art of both the establishment and the revolutionaries
- Photography both challenged and supported the traditional arts
- Artistic styles and movements grow increasingly diverse
The Enlightenment
John Locke
A Time of Revolution
Industrial Revolution
The Impact on the Arts
Naturalness
Breakfast Scene, William Hogarth
From Marriage A’La Mode
England, 18th century CE oil on canvas 2’x3’
Portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Miguel Cabrera
New Spain (Mexico), 18th century CE oil on canvas
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, Joseph Wright of Derby
England 18th century CE oil on canvas
Self-Portrait, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun
France, 18th century CE oil on canvas
Neoclassicism
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson
USA, 18th century CE
Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David
France, 18th century CE oil on canvas 11’x14′
Rome vs. Alba, Horatius vs. Curatius
George Washington, Jean-Antoine Houdon
USA, 18th century CE marble
Fasces
Pauline Borghese as Venus, Antonio Canova
Italy, 19th century CE marble 6’ long
Grande Odalisque, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
France, 19th century CE oil on canvas 3’x5’
Odalisque
Romanticism
The Third of May 1808, Francisco Goya
Spain, 19th century CE oil on canvas 9’x11’
And There’s Nothing to be Done, Francisco Goya
Spain, 19th century CE drypoint 9”x6”
Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix
France, 19th century CE oil on canvas 9’x11’
Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault
France, 19th century CE oil on canvas 16’x23’
Death of Sardanapalus, Eugene Delacroix
France, 19th century CE oil on canvas 12’x16’
Romantic Landscape
The Oxbow, Thomas Cole
USA, 19th century CE oil on canvas 4’x6’
The Hudson River School, Expansionism, Rugged Individualism
The Slave Ship, Joseph Turner
England, 19th century CE oil on canvas 3’x4’
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, Albert Bierstadt
USA, 19th century CE oil on canvas 6’x10’
Transcendentalism
Photography
Still Life in Studio, Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre
France, 19th century CE photograph
fixative
Draped Model, Eugene Durieu and Eugene Delacroix
France, 19th century CE albumen print
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863, Timothy O’Sullivan
USA, 19th century CE albumen print
Horse Galloping, Eadward Muybridge
USA, 19th century CE collotype print
Zoopraxiscope
Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art, Honore Daumier
France, 19th century CE lithograph