ART HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Grande Odalisque, Feather Duster, Francisco Goya
17 Jan 2018
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Napoleon, romanticism & landscape art: jacques-louis david, napoleon crossing the saint-bernard. Commissioned by the king of spain for famous war figures. Influential in the training of future french artists by culturing them. Napoleon represented in portraiture: ideal style derived from classical art; neoclassical elements. Ro(cid:272)ks ha(cid:448)e (cid:862)bo(cid:374)apa(cid:396)te(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)ha(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:271)al(cid:863) (cid:449)(cid:396)itte(cid:374) o(cid:374) the(cid:373), sho(cid:449)i(cid:374)g he is above ancient heroes. Romanticism: primacy of individual freedom and unique subjectivity. Emphasis on the imagination and feeling over thinking or reason. Romantics were interested in the middle ages. Remember sublime: awe mixed with terror; emotional. Contrary to the enlightenment, with its interest in the orderliness of ancient greece and rome (neoclassicism: antoine-jean grose, napoleon at the pesthouse at jaffa. Painting hypes up napoleon; depicts an actual historical event of an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Napoleon in the center, framed perfectly by the arches: neoclassicism influence in the orderliness. Shows that the plague has nothing on napoleon; very heroic.
