BAROQUE - 1600's
TRAITS:
-spectacular - meant to impress
-irregular shapes
-large scale
-action in the moment
-moment of climax
-gory, gruesome details
-lots of emotion, facial expression
-like the theater
-stage poses, stage curtains, stage lighting (spotlight effect)
-contrasting lights & darks
-mixed media (mixing the materials)
-mixed art forms (painting, sculpture & architecture overlap)
-outward, forward extension
(bringing the art into the viewer's space)
-trompe l'oeil - trick the eye illusions
-oil painting - rich color
-separation of protestant and catholic
-protestants reject religious art in favor of landscape, still life, etc.
-catholics embrace religious art
-censorship of religious art
-"no unnecessary nudity"
-"must be true to the written text"
BERNINI
TEST SLIDE, DAVID, BERNINI, BAROQUE
baroque traits include: moment of action (not before or after)
censored (draped & armor included)
outward (physically & energy wise)
facial expression
TEST SLIDE, ECSTASY OF ST. THERESA, BAROQUE
-took 7 years
-self-described as the artist's most beautiful work
- baroque traits: mixing materials, mixing art forms
rich, spectacular, wow
irregular shapes - broken pediment, doubled columns
like the theater
-stage
-spot light from hidden window
-donors are the "audience"
use of trompe l'oeil
-yellow glass on window = heavenly light of God
-shows ecstasy of St. Therea
-a mystic nun who experienced visions
(touched by an angel and levitating)
-most intense moment
-action thru swirling drapery
-extreme facial expression
-another trompe l'oeil - hidden support to appear actually floating
-donors were Cornaro
-meant to be burial chapel
-donors included - carved into side walls as if in the theater balcony
APOLLO & DAPHNE
-subject of mythology
-a garden statue
BERNINI AT ST. PETER'S (VATICAN)
-designed the entrance to cathedral
-enormous space to be impressive
-gives view to Michelangelo's dome
-lots of saints - very anti-protestant
-irregular shapes - trapezoid & oval
-symbolism of design - like a chi rho
- keyhole shape represents St. Peter
- a "mother's embrance"
-Baldachin - bronze, canopy looking sculpture
- marks the grace of St. Peter
- bronze - some came from the Parthenon
- 100' tall
- columns twist to create movement
-St. Peter's throne - enormous reliquary (anti-protestant)
RUBENS
-painter
-well-travelled, worked in numerous countries
-does both protestant & catholic subjects
-known for painting hefty women - called "rubenesque"
TEST SLIDE, MEDICI CYCLE, RUBENS, BAROQUE
-part of a 21 picture series
-done for Marie Medici - queen of france
-shows story of her life
LOUIS XIV
-called the Sun King
-Palace of Versailles built as his residence
-invited French aristocracy to live at court
(thus he kept a watchful eye on their activities)
-like a magnificent stage with Louis as the actor performing as the Sun King
-very large, 2000 rooms & 500 yds long
-rich & showy with overlapping materials
-Hall of Mirrors - where Louis met with visitors
-40 yrs to build, 30,000 workers
-became a magnet for people with talent, turned France into the new important
art center of Europe
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