HUM 223 Lecture 12: Humanities Lecture Notes 12
8 Jun 2018
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Enlightenment and Anti Rococo
Cultural Origins of the French Revolution
•Reaction of the Enlightenment to aristocratic excesses
•Reaction of the Enlightenment to inequalities associated with aristocratic privileges
•Rousseau’s redefinition of “The Social Contract”
•The State=the general will of the people
Anti Rococo and Genre Painting
•Reaction to the frivolities of Rococo art
•Focuses on themes from everyday life
•Virtue and morality were common themes
•Most popular style for middle and upper class patrons
Jean Baptist Simeon Chardin
•The Kitchen Maid
•Captures the mundane of everyday life
•Less over moralizing in the content of his art
•What do you think she is thinking?
•Basket of Plumbs
•Chardin was also known for his still-lifes
•How does this compare to Rococo tableware?
Culture Wars of 18th Century France
•Rococo art represented the culture of aristocratic privilege
•Genre painting (“anti-Rococo”) represented the culture of the bourgeois and rural life
•Both forms of artistic expression represented the culture of the Enlightenment
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