NEOCLASSICAL ART

NEOCLASSICAL ART.

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NEOCLASSICAL ART. In the 18th century, a new movement swept through Europe and caused a drastic change in politics, science, and art. Neoclassicism was an artistic movement that began in Europe around 1750 until the mid-ninteenth century. Heroes and beings from Greco-Roman mythology were repeated subjects in paintings and neoclassical sculptures. There was a strong influence of philosophical ideas of enlightenment reasoning. The use of cool colors in paintings and the removal perspectives were widely used resources. In sculpture, Neoclassical artist used and chose natural white marble as medium for their sculptures..

01. Famous Artist of Neoclassicism.

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-79). Anton Raphael Mengs was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replaced Rococo as the dominant painting style in Europe..

Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809). Joseph-Marie Vien was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791..

Pompeo Batoni (1708-87). Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout Italy and reaching Rome during their "Grand Tour" led the artist to specialize in portraits..

Angelica kauffmann (1741-1807). Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter..

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era..

0 2. Famous Sculptors of Neoclassicism.

John Flaxman (1755-1826). was a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Early in his career, he worked as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood's pottery. He spent several years in Rome, where he produced his first book illustrations. He was a prolific maker of funerary monuments..

Antonio Canova (1757-1822). Antonio Canova was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter..

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish sculptor and medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a working-class Danish/Icelandic family, and was accepted to the Royal Danish Academy of Art at the age of eleven..

ROMANTICISM.

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ROMANTICISM ART. The Industrial revolution began in the latter part of the 18 th century, starting in England and spreading to France and America. This revolution brought a new market economy based on new technology. During the same tie, there was a growing reaction against the ideals of of the enlightenment that emphasized science, empirical evidence, and rational thought above all. Nature was a particularly hailed as a classroom for self-discovery and spiritual learning. Artists from the Romantic period tried to portray theses principles into their works. Romanticism strongly placed emphasis on emotion on individualism, as well as glorification of the past and of nature. Romanticism was connected with some of the best-recognized Western artists of the 19 th century..

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