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Neoclassical Art and Romantic Art

1. The Neoclassical period revived the classical art of ancient Greece and Rome, showing a return to traditional times and encouraging order, reason, and discipline. 2. Neoclassical painting depicted idealized figures from classical history in realistic settings, with smooth brushwork and without emotion. Johann Joachim Winckelmann established the aesthetic theory of Neoclassicism. 3. Romanticism sought to express emotion through dramatic compositions highlighting life and death moments and the power of nature. Romantic paintings emphasized feeling over restraint while sculpture explored both the human and natural world.

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Neoclassical Art and Romantic Art

1. The Neoclassical period revived the classical art of ancient Greece and Rome, showing a return to traditional times and encouraging order, reason, and discipline. 2. Neoclassical painting depicted idealized figures from classical history in realistic settings, with smooth brushwork and without emotion. Johann Joachim Winckelmann established the aesthetic theory of Neoclassicism. 3. Romanticism sought to express emotion through dramatic compositions highlighting life and death moments and the power of nature. Romantic paintings emphasized feeling over restraint while sculpture explored both the human and natural world.

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NEOCLASSICAL ART AND ROMANTIC ART

The Neoclassical period lasted from about Neoclassical artists revived and honored the classical
art of ancient Greece and Rome. Neoclassical works of art showed a return to more traditional
times, and encouraged order, reason, and discipline.

-NEOCLASSICAL PAINTING

Based on classical Greek and Roman Art and culture Show heroic people in scenes from or
inspired by ancient history Figures looked idealized and perfect bodies are draped in togas, or in
formal elegant clothing, or are nude. Faces are often clam, without emotion Brush strokes tend
to be smooth, barely visible.

The Intervention of the Sabine Women

Neoclassicism as manifested in painting was initially not stylistically distinct from the French
Rococo and other styles that had preceded it. This was partly because, whereas it was
possible for architecture and sculpture to be modeled on prototypes in these media that
had actually survived from Classical antiquity, those few Classical paintings that had survived
were minor or merely ornamental works—until, that is, the discoveries made at
Herculaneum and Pompeii.

 Neo-classical artists embraced the ideals of order and moderation in which artistic
interpretations of classic Greek and Roman history were restored to realistic
portrayals.

 Neo-classical painters gave importance in costumes, settings and details of classical


subject-matter without adding distracting details but with historical accuracy as
possible.
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann

START OF NEOCLASSICAL ART

Neoclassicism began in Rome, as Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Thoughts on the Imitation


of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1750) played a leading role in establishing the
aesthetic and theory of Neoclassicism. Though German, he lived most of his life in Rome
where several notable Catholic officials became his patrons. Arguing that art should strive
toward "noble simplicity and calm grandeur," he advocated, "the one way for us to become
great, perhaps inimitable, is by imitating the ancients." The work, which made him famous,
was widely translated, first into French, then into English by the artist Henry Fuseli in 1765.

EARLY ARTISTS

-JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

 He is an influential French painter and considered to be


the pre-eminent painter of the era.

 His subjects of paintings are more on history.

NEOCLASSICAL SCULPTURES

 is a style that started in the mid-18th century. It turns


away from the grandeur of Rococo style and the Late
Baroque.

 In its purest form, neo-classical architecture is a style


principally derived from the architecture of Classical
Greece and Rome and the architecture of the Italian
architect Andrea Palladio.

NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

 is a style that started in the mid-18th century. It turns away from the grandeur of
Rococo style and the Late Baroque.

 In its purest form, neo-classical architecture is a style principally derived from the
architecture of Classical Greece and Rome and the architecture of the Italian architect
Andrea Palladio.
1. Temple Style

Temple style building features a design based on an ancient temple. These


building were uncommon during the Renaissance; architects of that period focused mainly
on applying classical elements to churches and modern building like palazzos and villas.
Many temples style building features a peristyle (a continuous line of columns around a
building, a rare feature of Renaissance architecture.

PANTHALEON (PARIS) by Jacques BRITISH MUSEUM (LONDON) by Robert Smirke

2. Palladian

Palladian building is based on Andrea Palladio’s style of villa construction.


Some of the buildings feature a balustrade which is a railing with vertical supports along the
edge of the roof. There are vertical supports within a balustrade known as “balusters” or
“spindles”. It is also a classical method of crowning a building that has a flat or low-lying roof.

UNITED STATES CAPITOL WHITE HOUSE


3. Classical Block

The building features a rectangular or square plan, with a flat or roof and
exterior rich in classical detail. The exterior features a repeated classical pattern or series of
arches and/or columns. The over-all impression of such a building is a huge, classically-
decorated rectangular block.

Library of Sainte - Genevieve

-ROMANTIC PERIOD

Romanticism was a movement in which the artists of Neoclassical period sought to


break new ground in the expression of emotion, both subtle and stormy. It embraced a
number of distinctive themes, such as longing for history, supernatural elements, social
injustices, and nature.

CHARACTERISTICS

o Height of action

o Emotional extremes

o Celebrated nature as out of control

o Dramatic compositions

o Heightened sensation (life and death


moments)

ROMANTIC PAINTING (PORTRAITS/FIGURES)

The paintings of the Romantic period gave more emphasis on emotion. Artists expressed as
much feeling and passion as it could be on a canvass.
PAINTERS IN ROMANTIC PERIOD

➢ JEAN LOUIS THEODORE GERICAULT (1791-1824)

- He was the first French master and the leader of the


French realistic school.

- His masterpieces were energetic, powerful, brilliantly


colored, and tightly composed.

➢ FRANCISCO GOYA (1746 – 1828)

- He was a commissioned Romantic painter by the King


of Spain.

- He was a printmaker regarded both as the last of the


“Old Masters” and the first of the “Moderns”.

➢ EUGENE DELACROIX (1798 – 1863)

- He was considered the greatest French Romantic


painter of all.

- He achieved brilliant visual effects using small,


adjacent strokes of contrasting color. His technique was
adapted and extended by the Impressionist artists.
ROMANTIC SCULPTURES

Romantic sculpture can be divided into works that concern about the human world
and that concern the natural world.

FAMOUS ROMANTIC SCUPLTORS

1. Francois Rude – was best known for his social art


which aim to inspire and capture the interest of a
broad public. He rejected the classical repose of the
late 18th and early 19th century French sculpture in
favor of a dynamic emotional style and created
many monuments that stirred the public for
generation.
2. Antoine-Louis Barye – He was the most famous animal
sculptor of all time. He studied the anatomy of his subjects by
sketching residents of the Paris Zoo.

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