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Class notes ARTH 111 - 18th century
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Art Covered: - Pilgrimage to Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau - Great Bustard by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner - The Basilica of Constantine by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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  • October 3, 2024
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  • 18th century art

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Key Facts/Characteristics
- Greater globalization and increased competition for natural resources and imperial control

Enlightenment
- Cultural, intellectual, political, and social movement—existed and manifested in various ways in
different places—many enlightenments
- Focus on Reason, Reform, and Science—rational, theoretical, and pragmatic ways to solve problems
and make sense of the increasing global world (e.g., systems of taxonomy to classify and organize
specimens, people places)
- With increased sense of the ‘rights of man’, movements toward independence in colonies and
abolitionism


Art in the Eighteenth-Century
- New ways to represent the rapidly changing world
- Not one movement or style—many styles, including the rococo, neoclassicism, and romanticism
- New subjects for artists that point to increasing secularization of Western culture


What is Rococo?
- The dominate style of the first half of the 18th century
- Referred as the new/modern style during its time period
- What are its stylistics traits?
- Asymmetry/sense of unbalanced
- Curvaceous lines
- Softer, pastel color palette
- Shell or shell-like designs
- Fluidity; ambiguity
- Pleasure

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