Objective/Goal:
Gain an understanding of the cultural, political,
religious, and social climates of these centuries in Western Europe and the effects
of these climates on the visual arts.
Materials:
View and read from your textbook Chapter 23.
1.From the bullet topics listed below pick one.
2.Then define or explain in your own words your selection and provide an art work title and page number from the textbook for your selection. Do not copy answers from the text, internet or another student in your answer post. I will be using Turitin and that will be considered plagiarism
Choose only one:
•In what ways did the spirit of Neoclassicism differ from France to England?
•Discuss the Enlightenment themes that are an undercurrent in Jean-Battiste Greuze’s The Village Bride (23.25).
•In what ways did John Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare (23.17) exemplify Romanticism in England?
•How did the theme of Angelica Kaufmann’s Cornelia Presenting her Children as Her Treasures (Mother of the Gracchi) (23.5) reflect the Enlightenment teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
•What were some obstacles that Angelica Kaufman faced as a female artist working in eighteenth century England?
•What Classical references can be seen in Reynolds’ Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces (23.7)?
•How does Vigée-Lebrun’s Self-Portrait with Daughter (23.29) reflect a new Rousseauian attitude toward children?
•What Classical elements can be seen in Canova’s Cupid and Psyche (23.30)?
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