ROCOCO

PAINTING
 Rococo
• 17th century - 18th century evolving
from the Baroque era.
• Rococo comes from the word
“rocaille”
- This was a time full of optimism
in French society and French
politics.
• The style of the art- reflects the joy
and optimism of the times.
• Rococo painters were Jean
Antoine Watteau, Francois
Boucher & Jean-Honoré
Fragonard.
• Style
-It was meant to appeal to the
emotions and themes- related to
mythology, romance, fantasy and
everyday life.
• Rococo Painting was light,
entertaining and ornamental
• Rococo is often considered the
• Rococo is not concerned about
religious matters, it is an eminent
aristocratic art.
• The elements that stand out in
this movement are gracefulness,
femininity, light and furtive colors
• "feminized" version of the
Baroque style,
• It is associated with the
aristocracy.
Often, the paintings depict a
peaceful natural setting with
feathery trees and sprays of
foliage.
Often, statues are depicted in
these natural "parks“ (for
example, Venus and her son
Cupid may approve of the
flirtations going on).
 Best Paintings Of
The Rococo
&
Most Influential
Painters Of The
Rococo Movement
 Watteau (1684–
1721)
•First great Rococo painter.
•One of the main figures of the Rococo
movement.
•He had a great influence on later painters,
including François Boucher (1703–1770) and
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)
•Watteau’s work emphasizes the care free
attitude of the times through his idyllic paintings.
•His work is know to epitomize the Rococo
movement.
•Rococo pieces are noted most for the light
colors, curvaceous forms, and graceful lines and
Pilgrimage to
Cythera
1717
 CYTHERA
•The painting represents a
group of happy go lucky people
starting a pilgrimage to Cythera
(the city were Venus was born)
in search of love.
•Watteau’s style mixed a lot of
reality & fantasy in his work.
• Reality was represented in the
form of the aristocratic outings
of the time, like that of going on
picnics, hunts, or even boat
rides.
 Jean-Honore
Fragonard (1732-
1806)
The Swing
 THE SWING
•Is a good example of the
frivolity, eroticism and
gallantry of the paintings of
the time.
•The painting shows
intricate detail &
ornamentation as was quite
common to the Rococo
period.
Francois Boucher
(1703-1770)
•One of the most renowned portrait
artists
•Boucher is also known for his
wonderfully designed tapestries.
•He portrayed mainly members of
the aristocrat society, dressed with
sophisticated clothes.
Marquise de
Pompadour
1756
MARQUISE DE
POMPADOUR
• The painter paid attention to all
the details in the fashions of the
time and the decorative styles.
•This is a typical Rococo portrait.
The aristocratic woman, Louis
XV's mistress, is elegant,
beautifully dressed and coifed,
and has the necessary lap dog.
(Aristocratic males have large
hunting dogs, poor people have
mutts, and "ladies" have small
 NEO-
CLASSIC
PAINTING
 Neo- Classicism
Neoclassicism is an art style
that affected the visual arts,
literature, music, theatre, and
architecture in the mid 18th and
19th centuries.
What Neoclassicism embodies
was the classical and the art of
the ideal.
Most important exponent, Jean
Jacques David
As opposed to Rococo (frivolity &
opulence), the Neoclassical
style was simple & austere
(Roman values) depicting
society’s rebellion against the
lifestyle of nobility and the need
of a democratic society.
During Neoclassicism and
especially during the French
Revolution, virtues and values
traditionally associated to
Ancient Rome such as heroism,
 Representative
Painting from
Neoclassicism
&
its Most Influential
Painters
 Jacques Louis
David
(1748-1825)
•Introduced
the neoclassical style in France
•The most noted painter of this period
The Oath of Horatii
1785
 HORATII
•It was considered to be the
ideal of the new school of art.
•A style based on the ideas of
a return to the classical.
•Every line and color is
minimalist and there are no
unneeded brush strokes or
anything that might denote
femininity.
 Jean Auguste
Dominique Ingres
•Heis David's most talented and well
known student, remained faithful to the
Neo-Classic structure, if not the ideal.
Grande Odalisque
ODALISQUE

•Is a strange mixture of

artistic allegiances.
•The structure is Neo-Classic
in its simple classical
elements: closed outline,
compact composition, clarity
and simplicity of design.
The Death of
Marat
 MARAT
•In the Death Of Marat, David
uses the classical elements: closed
outline, compact composition,
clarity and simplicity of design, to
create a dramatic and
psychologically powerful statement.
•Marat, a personal friend of David
and a leading revolutionary radical,
was killed in his bath by a supporter
of the monarchy, one Charlotte
Corday. Here David has created a
visual symbol/martyr of the
ROMANTIC
PAINTING
 Romanticism
mid/end 18th until the 19th
century.
It was a movement that
revolted against the
rationalism of
Neoclassicism, which gave
great importance to
feelings.
Romanticism is a way to feel
and express nature, life and
Romanticism art is not signaled
out in just one style, technique or
attitude but rather characterized
by being imaginative,
emotional and a dream-like
quality about the romantic artist’s
paintings.
The most important
characteristics of Romanticism
came as opposition to
Neoclassicism.
Subjectivism - objectivism.
importance of order, rules,
rationality and perfection from
Neoclassicism - Feelings, passion,
imagination, creativity, originality
and imperfection
French Eugene Delacroix, the
English William Turner, and the
Spanish Francisco Goya.
 Representative
Romantic Painting
&
Best Romantic
Painters:
Delacroix, Goya &
Turner
Wanderer above
the
Sea of Fog
 THE SEA OF
FOG
•Also known as “Wanderer
Above the Mist”.
•painted by Caspar David
Friedrich in 1818, an oil on
canvas work that is quite
symbolic of romanticism.
•This painting is a powerful
statement of loneliness and
difficulties experienced by
people who are intellectuals.
 Eugene Delacroix
•a true Romantic artist, with his exotic
subjects, vibrant colors, and emotions
that he truly defined Romanticism
through his paintings.
•His bright and beautiful colors inspired
artists around him and still amaze
people who look at his work today.
•He illustrates swirling emotions in his
works such as death, agony, love, life or
 Death of
Sardanapalus
SARDANAPALU
S
•His subject was taken from
literature from the poet Lord
Byron that he admired greatly.
•His work showed a burst of
emotion in the dying and
agonizing figures he portrayed.
 Francisco Goya
•His paintings are full of obscure images
and change of tonalities expressing great
drama.
•He portrayed the horrors of the war,
through images full of suffering; pain and
death, were the victims were always
common people.
The Execution of
the Defenders of
Madrid
 Joseph Mallord
William  Turner
(1775-1851) 
•He was also known as the painter of light.
•English landscape painter, renowned for
his vibrant and dramatic treatment of
natural light and atmospheric effects in
land and marine subjects, and whose work
had a direct influence on the development
of impressionism.
“The Fighting
Temerarie”
 TEMERARIE
•One of his most important and
beautiful paintings was titled
“The Fighting Temerarie”.
•Turner always referred to this
painting as “My Darling”. He
never sold it and was emotionally
attached to it.
 Expressi
onism
• 1905 to 1940's
• Expressionism is a style in which the intention is not to reproduce a
subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express
the inner state of the artist. The movement is especially associated with
Germany, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as
Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism.

• In the mid-20th century, Abstract Expressionism (in which there is no

subject at all, but instead pure abstract form) developed into an
extremely influential style in the United States.
• It is a term used to denote the use of distortion and exaggeration for
emotional effect, which first surfaced in the art literature of the early
twentieth century. When applied in a stylistic sense, with reference in
particular to the use of intense colour, agitated brushstrokes, and
disjointed space. Rather than a single style, it was a climate that affected
not only the fine arts but also dance, cinema, literature and the theatre.

• Unlike Impressionism, its goals were not to reproduce the impression

suggested by the surrounding world, but to strongly impose the artist's
own sensibility to the world's representation.
 Portrait of Dr. Gachet

Starry night

cent van Gogh

 Madonna

Scream

Edvard
 Dadais
m
• (1916 - 1924)
• Dada began as an anti-art movement, in the sense that it rejected the
way art was appreciated and defined in contemporary art scenes.
• Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, the movement was a response to
World War I. It had no unifying aesthetic characteristics but what
brought together the Dadaists was that they shared a nihilistic attitude
towards the traditional expectations of artists and writers.
• The word Dada literally means both "hobby horse" and "father", but
was chosen at random more for the naive sound. What After finding its
origins in Zurich, the Dada movement spread the Berlin, Cologne,
Hanover, Paris, some parts of Russia, and New York city.
• In Zurich, the movement was centered in Hugo Ball’s Cabaret
Voltaire, where many of the founding Dadaist gathered to express their
ideas. Neutral during both World Wars, Switzerland was an ideal place
for objectors to the war, those avoiding military service, and those who
wished to find a place for free expression.

• Other elements integral to the Dada movement were the non-attempt to

underlie work with any reference to intellectual analysis. Dada was also
a reaction the bourgeois Victorian values of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. The work was also absurd and playful but at times intuitive
and even cryptic. Methods of production were unconventional,
employing the chance technique, and found objects. Dadaists rejection
of these values was an attempt to make a statement on the social values
and cultural trends of a contemporary world facing a devastating period
of war.
 Mona Lisa

Leonard
o da
Vinci
Last supper