The 1700's, Where it All Started
Everyday life in the eye of a person.
Life back in the 1700's
Peasants who didn't get much, who were treated like nothing.
The Music and art, Baroque and Rococo.
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frederick Handel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Art, the Music, The peasants
The art and music of the 1700's
Baroque
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - by George Frederick Handel
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - by Johann Sebastian Bach
/ Artist became flexible, using different stylist for different kinds of patterns. leads to demand the artist to specialize. “no longer the universal man of the Renaissance, but concentrating on a particular”. Conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants had a great effect on art. Secular governments and the middle class. had a tremendous impact on the art.
Baroque was later replaced by much more lighthearted Rococo styles in the early 1700’s. Baroque art became very influential to later artist. The first time artist tried to show the meaning clearly through emotion instead of of relying on symbolism. There was a search for expression made by the artist that would later influence Romantic artists.
Rococco
peasants
lived under worst conditions
lived in poverty, completely under the thumbs of seigneurs
victimized by taxes
were mostly farmers or were expected to serve the king peasantry of 1789 was in debt, increasingly suffering and resentful from bad harvest.
could be bought, sold and traded
“rented” land from noble and worked where they lived