Arth 112 1st Edition Lecture 24 Current Lecture Genre Painting Rich patrons purchased this type of work very popular Very little work at this time was directly religious or heroic Diego Velazquez Water Carrier of Seville 1619 o Focused on the elementally artful in day to day life This image is simply of a man in Seville selling water assisted by a young boy That is all o Expresses dignity to even the lowest of tasks o Emphasis on realism Pearls of water on the vessel Hyperrealistic o Tenebrism is a reminder of Caravaggio s work The Surrender at Breda 1634 5 o Commissioned by Phillip IV 80 year war Justin of Nassau and Ambrogio Spinola meet in the middle The Siege of Breda 1624 also portrayed by Jacques Callot Las Meninas o Dwarf like woman common at court very uncommon o Foregrounds the way in which painting can represent and play with reality o Beginning of impressionism Jean Antoine Watteau 1628 1721 These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute The Pilgrimage to Cythera 1717 o Introduced the notion of the escapularal Island is Magic o Very rich and elegant painting o Everything is delicate in this style balance between masculine and feminism o Island of dreams and wishes Where we are always happy and our dreams are fulfilled Mezzetin 1718 20 o Middle tints mixed colors o Figure is singing a love song o Speaking of inanimate sculptures Stand in for living figures o Sadness with a certain degree of pleasure o No precise contours in the background ushers in a dreamy mood Indifferent 1717 o Figure allegorically represents indifference o Offers himself even perhaps sexually to the viewer as he preforms o Pose is dancer like and abandons the counterpoise that was common in antiquity and the renaissance o Impressionistic Patches of indistinct colors that create a visual illusion
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