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    Rococo art began in France during the 1700s as a lighter, more decorative alternative to Baroque art. Key characteristics included pastel colors, playful themes, and elaborate ornamentation. Major artists of the Rococo style included Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Nicolas Lancret. Neoclassicism emerged in the late 1700s as a reaction against Rococo, taking inspiration from Greek and Roman antiquity. Artists like Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau emphasized balance, harmony, and using art to depict moral themes from history and mythology

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    Rococo art began in France during the 1700s as a lighter, more decorative alternative to Baroque art. Key characteristics included pastel colors, playful themes, and elaborate ornamentation. Major artists of the Rococo style included Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Nicolas Lancret. Neoclassicism emerged in the late 1700s as a reaction against Rococo, taking inspiration from Greek and Roman antiquity. Artists like Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau emphasized balance, harmony, and using art to depict moral themes from history and mythology

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    Rococo art began in France during the 1700s as a lighter, more decorative alternative to Baroque art. Key characteristics included pastel colors, playful themes, and elaborate ornamentation. Major artists of the Rococo style included Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Nicolas Lancret. Neoclassicism emerged in the late 1700s as a reaction against Rococo, taking inspiration from Greek and Roman antiquity. Artists like Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau emphasized balance, harmony, and using art to depict moral themes from history and mythology

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    The document provides an overview of Rococo and Neoclassicism art movements including their histories, characteristics, influential artists and worldviews.

    Rococo art was characterized by pastel colors, lighthearted and playful themes, decorative styles focusing on love and leisure of the aristocracy with ornate elaboration and excess.

    Neoclassicism rejected the sentimentality of Rococo in favor of a return to classical Greek and Roman ideals of order, reason and ideals of virtue. It served as a visual expression of Enlightenment ideas.

    Rococo & Neoclassicism

    1.What is art? 2.Why should we appreciate art?


    3.How can we see God in every style of art?

    Middle Ages (400-1400) Renaissance (1400-1550) Mannerism (1520-1600) Baroque (1600-1700) Rococo (1700-1775) Neoclassicism (1765-1850)

    Art Timeline

    Rococo History
    Began in France
    King Louis XIV

    France was on the rise its power and influence was strong.. A response to the heaviness and richness of Baroque, Rococo was light with more curves-delicate and playful Some see this style as refined and elegant, others judge it as pompous, indulgent and pretentious.

    Important Charactaristics & Artists


    Charactaristics
    Pastel colors Lighthearted & playful Decorative Leisurley pastimes of the aristocracy Themes of love Ornate elaboration excess
    A type of painting that developed during the Rococo period that depicts a party or other lighthearted scene taking place outdoors

    Fete Galante

    Artists
    Antoine Watteau Francois Boucher Jean-Honor Fragonard Nicolas Lancret

    Francois Boucher

    Mademe de Pompadour 1756

    Francois Boucher

    The Breakfast

    Antoine Watteau

    Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera 1717

    Jean-Honor Fragonard

    The Swing 1767

    Jean-Honor Fragonard

    The Stolen Kiss

    Nicolas Lancret

    A Lady in a Garden taking Coffee with some Children

    Middle Ages (400-1400) Renaissance (1400-1550) Mannerism (1520-1600) Baroque (1600-1700) Rococo (1700-1775) Neoclassicism (1765-1850)

    Art Timeline

    Neoclassicism history
    Age of Enlightenment people began to question everything.
    i.e. Do Kings get their power from God? If no, then who gives them this power? Can the same thing take that power away? Enlighten to shed light on something; to make it clear.

    The scientific revolution, also happening at this time, was based on empirical observation, changing the way people thought and what they decided to believe in. There was a return to classical Greek and Roman ideas. These thoughts and ideas were important in both the French and American revolutions.
    When have we seen this return to classical thought before??

    Art was "to make virtue attractive, vice odious, ridicule forceful; that is the aim of every honest man who takes up the pen, the brush or the chisel. Denis Diderot

    Neoclassicism
    A visual expression of the ideas of the Enlightenment Neoclassical painters rejected both the high drama and murky atmosphere of Baroque art and the misty-sentimentality of the Rococo

    Important Characteristics & Artists


    Characteristics
    Greek or Roman men with spears or swords. People looking polished and posing in the manner of a statue. Drawing was more important than painting. Smooth no obvious brushstrokes. Serious art with a purpose.

    Artists
    Jacques-Louis David Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres William-Adolphe Bouguereau

    The Oath of Horatii Jacque Louis Davids painting tells a story about the founding of Rome, and emphasizes the idea of self-sacrifice for the state. The rigid outlines of the mens forms express their serious purpose, in contrast to the soft, wilting forms of the women -expressing the emotion of the scene. Davids work was seen as a condemnation of the Rococo style and of the regime that supported it

    Jacques-Louis David

    Jacques-Louis David

    The Death of Socrates

    Jacques-Louis David

    Napoleon Crossing the Alps

    Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

    Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII 1854

    William-Adolphe Bouguereau

    The Day of the Dead 1859

    Biblical worldview
    Rococo very focused on apperance.
    Only the very wealthy seemed to be important or even exist in the world.

    Neoclassicism enlightenment. What does it mean to be an enlightened Christian?

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