Artistic+Movements

Artistic Movement Answers:

1. The time period between the 1750s and 1800s are referred to as the Age of Revolution. During this time period the American Revolution, French Revolution and Haitian Revolution occurred. With revolution, of course, came the change of not only governments world wide but art as well. The mood throughout this half-century was a mood of change that was influenced by the enlightenment as well as by the revolutions occurring both in Europe and the United States. Major themes through this time were: Rococo, Classical and Neoclassical. Reflecting on this time period with an artistic stand point, this was a time when art was changed from dark and sad to playful and lighthearted.

[|Rococo] [|Classical] [|Neo-Classicism]

2. One of the artistic movements throughout the 1750s and 1800s was the Rococo art period. Rococo focused on the “carefree aristocratic life and on lighthearted romance rather that heroic battles or religious figures.” When Rococo first began it focused mainly on interior design but by the 1730s it had begun to spread to sculpture and paintings. When Rococo paintings were drawn they were drawn with delicate colors and paintings that expressed love and a sort of “naughtiness or impurity.” The mediums used in Rococo style were oils and canvases. Louis XV helped spread Rococo style. Baroque Art influenced Rococo greatly as well. The second artistic movement during the middle 18th century would be the Classical period, this new style was cleaner with brighter contrasts and more simplicity than anything. The Classical Period focused mainly on music. Music changed in the sense that it became more...simple. Music was featured with a plain and clean note which made the music more audible. The changes in economic structure and social change also influenced the difference in music. As the nobility became more prominent in selecting the new style of music, opera became very popular. The music of this era was very distinct in the fact that one could hear the difference of every chord being played. Instruments like the piano and the violin were used. The third artistic movement of this time era would be Neoclassical. Unlike Rococo, Neoclassical paintings were drawn with sharp colors and chiaroscuro, a form of art that used different patterns of shading and highlighting to give off the idea of a three-dimensional drawing. Darker colors were used as well instead of the light and hazel colors used during the Rococo period.

Rococo: expressed joy and carelessness, focuses on carefree aristocratic life and lighthearted romance



The Swing by F. G. Fragonard

//Le Dejeuner// by Francois Boucher



The Gatchina Palace, St. Petersberg

interior rooms of the Gatchina Palace





Classical: introduction to ballet, the music evokes classical traditions and demands focused attention from the listener

The Mona Lisa

The Ballet

Athens, Greece



[|music from the classical period]

Neoclassicism: movements in the visual and decorative arts, theatre, literature, music, and architecture

The Rape of Helen, 1770s by Gavin Hamilton
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A Young Woman in Turkish Costume Seated Playing with a Cage-Bird, 1766 by Joseph Marie Vien
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The Family Concert by Francois Hubert Drouais
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sculptures: based on mythology, Greek and Roman gods

Eiffel Tower in Paris, France



3. An important painter of the Rococo Art Movement was Francois Boucher, he was well known french painter. He drew portraits that favored asymmetry instead of symmetry and drew painting of classical themes as well as of goddesses and gods. Muzio Clementi, a Swiss composer of the Classical period was best known for having been the first to specifically write for the piano. He is also well known for his piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum. Jacques-Louis David, a well know artist of the Neoclassical era, was famous for having begun to change art from Rococo to a “classical austerity and severity.” He was a strong influence of Neoclassical art, for he taught many well known artists of the 1750s to the 1800s.

[|Francois Boucher]

[|Muzio Clementi]

[|Gradus ad Parnassum]

[|Jacques-Louis David]

[|Jean Philippe Rameau] [|Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach] [|Joseph Haydn] [|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] [|Francois Couperin] [|Antoine Watteau] [|Jean-Honoré Fragonard] [|Thomas Gainsborough] [|William Hogarth] [|Giovanni Battista Piazzetta] [|Joshua Reynolds] [|Ludwig van Beethoven] [|Franz Schubert] [|Jean Restout] [|Jean-Francois de Troy] [|Gavin Hamilton]
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4. Important world events during this time period were the American and French revolution as well as the change in economic order and social ladder. The American and French Revolutions influenced the change in art because they introduced a new vision of independence and freedom. People now believed they had a right to express themselves and with so much change in the world a change in artists and style was bound to happen. The economic and social change during the 1750s to the 1800s influenced artistic movements because as the nobility/higher classes became more notable, fancier and more elegant art and music was viewed and listened to. Opera was introduced and a mixture of different colors were drawn with.


 * Work Cited**

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