ART AND MUSIC IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
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ART AND MUSIC IN THE AGE OF
ENLIGHTENMENT
ROCOCO
ROCOCO WAS
INTRODUCED IN THE
1730s
STRESSED GRACE
AND GENTLE ACTION
CURVES AND
NATURAL SETTINGS
SECULAR
GOLDS AND CREAMS
BAROQUE-ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE
BALTHASAR NEUMANN 1687-1753
NEUMANN’S FOURTEEN SAINTS
ROCOCO ART: ANTOINE WATTEAU
WATTEAU (1684-1721)- FRENCHMAN
WHOSE WORK CENTERED AROUND
TOWN LIFE IN FRANCE
KNOWN FOR LYRICAL VIEWS OF
NOBLE LIFE WITH UNDERLYING
SADNESS
THEMES OF COURTLY LOVE
WATTEAU’S DELIGHT OF LIFE
WATTEAU’S EMBARKATION TO
CYTHERA
G.B. TIEPOLO – ROCOCO ARTIST
1696-1770
ITALIAN WHO HAS BEEN CALLED A
“UNIVERSAL PAINTER”
ABILITY TO CREATE MASTERPIECES IN
ALL FIELDS OF PAINTING: FRESCOES,
RELIGIOUS & CIVIC ART, PORTRAITS,
SKETCHES, ETCHINGS
KNOWN FOR HIS ELEGANT & LIGHT
STYLE
TIEPOLOS’ WOMAN WITH MANDOLIN
TIEPOLO’S SEATED RIVER GOD
JEAN HONORÉ FRAGONARD
LATE ROCOCO FRENCH ARTIST (17321806)
KNOWN FOR HEDONISTIC AND LUSH
SCENES
PLAYFUL SUBJECT MATTER
THICK USE OF PAINT—IMPASTO
FRAGONARD’S
HAPPY
ACCIDENTS OF
THE SWING
NEOCLASSICAL ART 17TH & 18TH
CENTURY MOVEMENT
NEOCLASSICAL ARTISTS SOUGHT TO
RECAPTURE THE DIGNITY AND
SIMPLICITY OF THE CLASSICAL APPEAL
OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
IMPORTANT ARTISTS IN THIS ERA
INCLUDED NICOLAS POUSSIN AND
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
NICOLAS POUSSIN - FRENCH
NEOCLASSICAL PAINTER 1594-1665
POUSSIN’S RAPE OF THE SABINE
WOMEN
POUSSIN’S LANDSCAPE
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID FRENCH
NEOCLASSICAL ARTIST (1748-1825)
BAROQUE MUSIC STYLE 1600-1750
• ORNATE AND COMPLEX MUSICAL PATTERNS
• RELIGIOUS FOCUS, BUT ALSO SECULAR MUSIC
• OPERA, CONCERTO, CHAMBER MUSIC, ORATORIO,
HARPSICHORD
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 1685-1750
Mass in B Minor
Saint Matthew’s Passion
Cantatas (choral work)
Motets ("a cappella" )
His task in life “wellordered music in honor
of God”
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)
More secular than Bach
Started by writing
operas
Often wrote huge,
unusual-sounding
pieces
Best known work is
religious—Messiah
CLASSICAL ERA OF MUSIC 1750-1830
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FULL ORCHESTRATION
SYMPHONIES
PIANO
THEMATIC
DEVELOPMENT
• HAYDN, MOZART
• BEETHOVEN
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Ushers in Classical
Era of music
Music center shifts from
Italy to Germany and
Austrian Empire
Prolific—composed
over 100 symphonies
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Child prodigy: first concerto
at 6, first opera at age 12
Dies debt-ridden pauper at
age 35
Widely considered the
greatest classical
composer—embodies
grace, precision and
emotion
Wrote three of the world’s
greatest operas: Marriage
of Figaro, The Magic Flute,
and Don Giovanni