Neoclassical Art France, England, and the United States
Neoclassicism PERIOD OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT Focused on principle over pleasure---as if society had overdosed on the sweets (and superficiality) of Rococo Differs from Poussin’s classicism from a century earlier--- Neoclassicism’s figures were more naturalistic and solid, less waxen and ballet-like as were Poussin’s
Neoclassicism VALUES: order, solemnity TONE: calm, rational SUBJECTS: Greek & Roman history, mythology (1738 Pompeii and Herculaneum excavated) TECHNIQUE: Stressed drawing with lines, not color; no trace of brushstrokes ROLE OF ART: Morally uplifting, inspirational
France
Watteau, L’Indifferent, 1716
David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
David, Death of Marat, 1793
David, Coronation of Napoleon,
Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1809
England
Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1809
Kauffmann, Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, 1785
Boyle & Kent, Chiswick House, 1725, London, England
Wood the Younger, Royal Crescent, , Bath, England
The United States
Jefferson, Monticello, , Charlottesville, Virginia
Copley, Paul Revere,
West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1771