ARTH 112 1st Edition Lecture 29 Marie Antoinette as a person Not concerned with political decisions and reform Ran around in luxury and in outlying gardens very artificial NEO CLASSICAL STYLE hard edge very clear detail As precise as possible Marie Louise Elisabeth Vidree Lebrun Portrait of Marie Antoinette with her children 1787 Very chaste representation of Marie Antoinette Youngest child who was dead by the time this portrait was painted is lying in the overshadowed crib Painted to satisfy the desires of the people not made for the court Dress is elegant but not overly extravagant wearing no pearls Jean Baptiste Gautier Maries Antoinette Queen of France in coronation robes 1775 Heavily adorned in pearls Wearing mink furs The dress is heavily adorned and extravagant Very luxurious detailed and elegant Wanted to project herself as a woman of extreme beauty and wealth Other exotic features like ostrich feathers are included Jacques Louis David Oath of the Horatii against the Curiatii 1784 85 Soldiers are taking an oath to be soldiers fighting for their tribe This is a painting of virtue The wives and children that these men are leaving are lying to the right mourning and in distress Women are portrayed as weak passive and concerned only in their emotions o This painting makes a very distinct split between the males and females Males very linear structure Females curved Dedicated to Rome Prelude to the French Revolution Sacrifice must be made Hard lines very precisely lit Heroic but perhaps there are undertones that undermine this type of heroism Jacques Louis David Death of Marat 1793 This man always fought for the revolution and because he had to constantly remain in hiding had to live in the sewers of France He had received a letter from a young woman asking to see him He agreed and she assassinated him Painting quotes Caravaggio s Deposition painting comparing him and his death to the death of Christ Marat becomes a martyr for the first time that is not Christian Vincente Lopez Portrait of Francisco Goya 1826 Francisco Goya Family of Charles IV 1800 Absolute delicate handling with the brush Beautiful painting pre impressionism It seems as though Goya dislikes the Royal family and subverts the seriousness of the family The Most exquisite portrait ever made of ugly people Goya Yard with Lunatics 1794 Bizarre image People are completely unhinged and consumed by a psychotic frenzy Painting also gives you a sense of how these people are treated o Imprisoned in a walled courtyard where they can more of less act out their psychosis No roof Francisco Goya Third of May 1808 Failed uprising by Spanish citizens against the invading French Each rebel killed one by one Not realistic re imagined Loosely painted Christ like pose sacrifice Portrays the in humanity of military oppressors Captures malevolence and brutality Cathedral ironically lying in the background vaguely illuminated in the dark Soldiers are de humanized not humans but weapons Faces are obscured by the pose of the rifle and uniform
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