Art and Music Review Lecture

Renaissance Art

• naturalism & individualism
• Classical influences (emulate, not imitate)
• Linear accuracy Ô Chiaroscuro
• to Vatican (Michelangelo)
• north (Durer, Grune) woodcuts
• architecture brings domes & columns
• music: the mass (more harmony)

Baroque

• mucho chiaroscuro
• grand, breathtaking, designed for response
• emotion for RCs, control for Prots

• CR: response to ref (Caravaggio, El Greco)
• Arist: response to threat of Bourg. (Rubens)
• Bourg.: ambitions & dreams (Rembrandt)
• archit: grand scale, ornamentation
• music: Bach (Concerto, Sonata) & Vivaldi

Rococo

• Baroque on smaller scale
• Music: Classical Style (reason+structure)
• Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven
• Arch: neoclassical
• painting keeps colors (floofy pastels), focuses on delights
• Humanitarianism & Hogarth

Romanticism

• resist patronage, geist-spirit
• ? all from before, free to experiment
• vis arts: break classical form, fragment images to dramatize
• Romantic poets
• Arch: borrow, federal, Gothic, etc.
• Music: extend classical, more complex harmony & rhythm. Brahms, Chopin, Strauss

Modernism

• diffusion of styles
• realism- capture real essence
• impressionism- effect of light & atmosphere (Monet, Renoir, Cassat, etc.)
• post-impressionism- return to form & structure (Seurat, Cezanne)
• music: Debussy & dissonance

Into the Twentieth Century

• The novel goes big time
• Cubism- Picasso
• Dada- irrationality (WWI)
• realism- absolutely as it is
• Pop art
• Surrealism- Dali
• Existentialism (Sarte, Bouvier)
• Orwell