Sophia's Virtual Museum
By Sophia Copeland
Art
Famous works:
- Sinfonia: Arrival of queen of Sheba - Handel
- Les Meninas - Diego Velázquez
Baroque used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theater, and music.
Rococco
Famous works:
- The pilgrimage to Cythera
- The Catherine Palace
- Le Dejuener
Rococo art was created in France, and is generally associated with the reign of King Louis XV (1715-1774). It is a light elaborate and decorative style of art.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Eisenach, Germany
Famous Works: Six Brandenburg Concertos, Four Orchestral Suites, St Mathew Passion, Cantata No. 21
George Frederick Handel
Halle, Germany
Famous Works: Messiah, Music For the Royal Fireworks, Jephtha
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Salzburg, Austria
Famous Works: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute).
Peasant Life
- Work- usually owned and farmed a small plot of land
- Food- lots of meat, bread, milk, tea, coffee, gruel, soup
- Entertainment- theater, read, played games and sports,
Realism
Romanticism
Photography
Impressionism
Postimpressionism
Art in the 1900s
Cubism
Cubism was started by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and his friend Georges Braque. It was a revolutionary new style of art where 3D objects were broken down into fragments and made into intricate patterns of angles and planes. Cubism offered a new view of reality by redefining objects into separate shapes.
This piece is "Girl Before A Mirror" by Picasso. PabloPicasso.org described the painting as “many different symbols within different parts of the painting. The woman's face for one; is painted with a side profile and a full frontal image. One side shows the daytime where she seems more like a woman, dolled up with her makeup done. The other side with the rough charcoal texture portrays her at night. When she takes off the mask of makeup, and is more vulnerable as a young lady. One way of interpreting the painting is when the woman looks at herself in the mirror; she is seeing herself as an old woman. From the green discoloration on her forehead, darkening of her facial features to the lines that show that her young body has been distorted, and gravity has taken its rightful place. Another way of viewing the painting is that she is self-conscious, and she sees all the flaws in herself that the world doesn't see.”Abstract
Abstract art was started by the Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky and the German artist Paul Klee. Abstract art was the farthest form of art from depicting reality that people had ever seen. These artworks were made up of lines, colors, and shapes. These pieces contained no recognizable subject matter at all.
This piece is “Twittering Machine” by Paul Klee. The Collection describes this piece as, “composed of wiry, nervous lines,” and “Klee's art, with its extraordinary technical facility and expressive color, draws comparisons to caricature and children's art.”Dada
Dada started in Paris. It was a revolt against civilization. This artistic movement showed life without discipline or morality. These pieces were intended to shock and disturb middle class viewers.
This piece is “The Face Of War” by Salvador Dali. Dalipaintings.net talks about this painting saying that, “This painting was done in California at the end of year 1940; the horrible face of war, its eyes filled with infinite death, was much more a reminiscence of the Spanish Civil War than of the Second World War, which, at the time, had not yet provided a cortege of frightful images capable of impressing Dali. The horror of this painting is further increased by the brown tonalities which dominate its atmosphere.“
Surrealism
Surrealism was inspired by cubism and dada. Surrealist artists attempted to show the workings of the unconscious mind. These pieces were mostly of unique dreams
This piece is “The Treachery of Images” by Rene Magritte. Modern Art Insite tells about this work of art saying, “The Treachery of Images cleverly highlights the gap between language and meaning. Magritte combined the words and image in such a fashion that he forces us to question the importance of the sentence and the word. "Pipe," for instance, is no more an actual pipe than a picture of a pipe can be smoked. Magritte likely borrowed the pipe motif from Le Corbusier's book Vers une architecture (1923), since he was admirer of the architect and painter, but he may also have been inspired by a comical sign he knew in an art gallery, which read, "Ceci n'est pas de l'Art." The painting is the subject of a famous book-length analysis by Michel Foucault. One might also compare it with Joseph Kosuth's handling of a similar problem of image, text, and reality in his 1965 installation One and Three Chairs.”
Architecture (The Bauhaus School)
The Bauhaus School was a well known school in Germany that gained fame from its influence on architecture by straying away from classical traditions blending the new industrial, urbanized world into architecture. The architecture of this school was unique because of the way it brought science and technology into its design. Bauhaus architects used glass, steel, and concrete. However they used little ornamentation.
The school is pictured above. Modern Art Insight says, “The building consists of an asphalt tiled roof, steel framework, and reinforced concrete bricks to reduce noise and protect against the weather. In addition, a glass curtain wall- a feature that would come to be typical of modernist architecture- allows in ample quantities of light. Gropius created three wings that were arranged asymmetrically to connect different workshops and dormitories within the school. The asymmetry expressed the school's functionalist approach and yet retained an elegance that showed how beauty and practicality could be combined.”
Music
In the 1920s radio began to gain popularity. As the popularity of radios grew, so did the popularity of jazz. Jazz was started by African American musicians who mixed western harmonies with African rhythms. Jazz was unique because it had simple melodies and jazz musicians improvised while performing and created new variations of rhythm and beat. Jazz was original and people loved it.
A very popular jazz artist was Billie Holiday. Neil Spencer tells of many people's opinion of her at the time. He says many saw her as "the epitome of cool, a byword for romance, the world’s greatest jazz singer."
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