ARTH 112 1st Edition Lecture 27 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 AmbrogioSpinola 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 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 L 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 o Otium Wednesday April 1 Jean Antoine Watteau 1721 The Signboard of Gersaint Has an allegorical affect almost pretentious Shows wealthy people connoisseurs Blonde man is observing a painting of nudes most likely studying the quality of the brushstrokes Narcissism plays a huge part in this painting Many of the figures are looking at themselves in mirrors Francois Boucher Diana Resting After the Bath 1742 Rococo painting Background is related to a Utopia nowhere Intimate and erotic She is painted as a virgin a life very intentionally without men Painting is non narrative in the traditional sense Fabric is decorative simply in the image to be beautiful Even the dead animals in the corner are beautified Francois Boucher Rape of Europa 1734 In the story a god in love with Europa turned himself into a bull and came down to the valley where she and her maidens bathed He was such a beautiful bull that Europa and her maidens sat on and around him and he roared off with her Extremely sexual overtones Cupids are fat lazy and simply dropping arrows otium Some of the cupid babies even have cellulite Jean Simeon Chardin The Governess 1739 Middle upper class that is a little more strung up Paintings focus on virtue and how one should behave Duchess is telling a young boy to put away his toys Emphasis on children infant mortality was high but lowering So mothers would grieve when their babies died o Affection for children is more evident Locus amoneus the place of love pleasure Riots of roses roses everywhere The ontology of the space is peculiar Nothing is substantial and the scenery seems fairy tale like Lover must storm the castle of love sexual overtones of course Friday April 3rd Frick Mansion New York City Madame Du Barry o Portrait is very informal she portrays herself as almost rustic even though she is quite the opposite o Hat lace evokes the pastoral image Pretending she s a milkmaid Locus amoenus cont Mock heroic undermines subverts the heroic gene Subversive Has a foreground but not really a background stages an environment Trees erupt in the background as if they were fountain blasts of water Renaissance tradition Cut stump A motif that in a story lighting comes down and breaks a stump a metaphor for the power of love and how it can be subversive and interrupting Landscape is being used rhetorically dark shadowy portions that disappear are both a sexual innuendo but also represent the unknown RosalbaCarriera Self Portrait with the Portrait of the Artist s Sister 1740 s Portraits are the leading form of visual art at this time Age of egotism for the new rich o Portraits were not only for the aristocracy but also for the middle class RosalbaCarriera Fire from a series of the four elements 1746 Cult of sensibility sensations passions emotions o A desire to travel the world It was fashionable to cry in public Antonio Canaletto Piazza San Marco Venice 1720 Francesco Guardi View of The Venetian Lagoon 1770 s Actually captures the atmosphere of Venice Humans have an emotional response to landscapes Monday April 6th Giovanni Battista Piranesi Carceri 1761 A lot of prison reform was going on at the time The Arch of Drusus 1748 Etching is of something lost but perhaps re achievable Used his prints to advertise what Rome looked like made it a lot more ruinous than in real life at the time o Visual arts at this time take a different identity without religious motifs Antonio Canova Cupid and Psyche 1787 93 Beginning of neoclassicism o Smooth skin sharp contours In the story Psyche is dying and cupid must give her a kiss to revive her She is unconscious and he is breathing life into her Erotic overtones but it is acceptable because it is mythological Filppodella Valle Cupid and Psyche 1732 Different interpretation Strange Antonio Canova Pauline Borghese as Venus 1808 She was the sister of Napoleon and if she were to marry Napoleon would give the couple a lot of money Known to be a very scandalous couple multiple affairs on both sides Pauline was infamous in her own time Forehead to the tip of the nose almost seems to be a straight line Hair is gathered in the modern Empire style She is holding an apple reference to venus Pose also shows Neo classicism Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of the Artist 1780 Portrays him upon receiving his doctorate in Civil Law from Oxford Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces 1765 Evokes re creates antiquity Classical architecture classical garb Thomas Gainsborough The Morning Walk 1785 Sensibility romanticism and Rococo Almost vaporous effect For the wealthy TheophileGautie Strange retrospective sensation so intense is the illusion it produces of the spirit of the 18th century