启蒙运动及新古典主义【英文精品】

Chiswick House, London
St. Martin in the Fields, London
Prado Museum, Madrid
Royal Palace, Madrid
Royal Naval College, Greenwich
This painting demonstrates the geometry and subordination of nature that garden architects used to construct gardens in the 17th century. This is an artist's view of Versailles, as constructed by Le Notre, a famous garden architect.
Music room of Frederick II (the Great), Sans Souci Palace in Potsdam
From: http://www.dechaves.com/WQXRTrip/Sans%20Souci.html
The Embarkation for Cythera by Antoine Watteau 1717
Scottish architect Colen Campbell, Mereworth Castle, Kent, 1722-25
The gardens of Château Villandry
Garden, Alcázar, Sevilla
Characteristics
Order and Harmony Simplicity of shape and exactness of proportion Light Gardens Society and Utopianism Ordering creation Intellectual rather than emotional or spiritual Classicism Restraint, good sense, decorum, good taste, correctness
Rococo to Neoclassical (1760-1840/50)
As symmetry was gradually introduced into the lavish ornamental motifs of the Rococo style, so the Neoclassicist ideas slowly began to spread. The new aesthetic revealed a reaction against the excesses of Rococo ornamentation in favour of what was seen as the noble simplicity of antiquity. Many Neoclassical ideas were founded in the scientific ideals of the French Encyclopaedists, who believed in the enhancement and promotion of public morality through art.
Jean-Baptiste Regnault Liberty or Death
Joseph-Marie Vien Young Greek Maidens Decking the Sleeping Cupid with Flowers 1773
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Truth dispersing the shadows of ignorance
Think back on the baroque and work out a definition of the term What does the term Neoclassical evoke for you?
Most prominent and influential painter of the Neo-classical movement in France. In the 1780s he created a style of austere and ethical painting that captured the moral climate of the last years of the ancien ré gime. As an active revolutionary, he put his art at the service of the new French Republic and for a time was virtual dictator of the arts. He was imprisoned after the fall from power of Maximilien de Robespierre but on release became captivated by the personality of Napoleon I
Pilgrimage to Cythera by Antoine Watteau 1717
Hale Waihona Puke Baidu
Detail of
Pilgrimage
Classical history and mythology provided a large part of the subject matter of Neoclassical works.
The Enlightenment
Neoclassical Art
Enlightenment The Age of Reason Enciclopedists / Philosophes
Diderot Reason -- a perfect society built on common sense and tolerance