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Neoclassical Art: Key Characteristics

Neoclassical paintings from 1750-1860 featured subjects from Greco-Roman history and mythology inspired by authors like Homer, Virgil, Sophocles, and Plutarch. The paintings emphasized stoicism and heroism through symmetrical compositions, clean lines, and a focus on subjects' faces to convey the story. Colors were sharper with vivid contrasts between light and dark to add drama. Jacques-Louis David was a leading Neoclassical painter known for his compositions with expressive tension and spatial impact. His painting The Oath of the Horatii exemplified characteristics of chiaroscuro shading, linear structure, and sternly heroic subjects. Later, Jean-Auguste-Dominique In

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Neoclassical Art: Key Characteristics

Neoclassical paintings from 1750-1860 featured subjects from Greco-Roman history and mythology inspired by authors like Homer, Virgil, Sophocles, and Plutarch. The paintings emphasized stoicism and heroism through symmetrical compositions, clean lines, and a focus on subjects' faces to convey the story. Colors were sharper with vivid contrasts between light and dark to add drama. Jacques-Louis David was a leading Neoclassical painter known for his compositions with expressive tension and spatial impact. His painting The Oath of the Horatii exemplified characteristics of chiaroscuro shading, linear structure, and sternly heroic subjects. Later, Jean-Auguste-Dominique In

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Neoclassical paintings ( 1750-1860 )

Subject matter : History & Mythology of Ancient Greece and


Rome.
Medieval history, deep appreciation for Gothic
Art.
Homer was frequent su!ect and inspiration for
"heir wor#, as was $igil, %ophocles, and &lutarch
Themes : %toicism and Heroism
Composition : 'ole %implicity %ymmetry, clean lines
and emphasis
(n the su!ects faces to help tell the story.
)motion more restraint and control
Color : %harper colors, *hiaroscuro + vivid contrast
etween
,ight and dar# colors-, which rings more drama
&
.ring life to multidimensionality of o!ects.
ther Characters : %omre colors w/ rilliant highlights, was
more ordered
,ess grandiose, serious, unemotional, and
sternly heroic
,inear.
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&lace of 1eath : .russels, .elgium
)ducation : *ollege des ;uatre<
'ations, Academie Royale
'ic#name : 0ather of "he =hole
Modern %chool
Characteristic :
%everely academic
*olor lac#ing in richness and warmth
)>ecution hard and uninteresting in its very perfection
%u!ects insipired y passing fashion of an age + it was living
and moving in spirit of classical antiquity-
%eem cold and lifeless
Magni?cent composition
)>pressive tension
%patial impact
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii.
oil on canvas, 3.3 x 4.25m.
Commissioned by Louis XVI, painted in Rome, exhibited at the salon o !"#5 $%us&e
du Louv'e(
Characteristic :
)o'e*shado+in,
Chia'oscu'o
Linea' composition
-ymmet'y
.e'oic /'andeu' $Rome ( 00 1xp'essive tension
-omb'e colo' +0 b'illiant hi,hli,ht
Less 1motional
-e'ious
-te'nly .e'oic
.isto'ical sub2ect
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
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:lace o ;i'th 3 %ontauban, )'ance
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<udes $5natomical disto'tion ( elon,atin, bac=s $ C'eatu'es not ind in the
natu'e (
.isto'ical paintin,s
:o't'aits
Colo' palette d'a+in,s o lines mo'e p'ominent than colo's
Li,htin, latness
Jupiter and Thetis
4ate o C'eation 3 !#!!
.ei,ht 3 3.45 m
Len,th 3 2.5" m
%edium 3oil
-uppo't 3 Canvas
Cu''ent location 3 5ix*en*:'ovence, )'ance
4isplayed 3 %usee /'anet
Characteristic 3
Composition 3 ta=es up nea'ly enti'e o canvas
Colo' 3 lu'id $spoo=y( 0 sombe' colo' palette > cont'ast $'ed*,'een( ,
d'a+in,s is mo'e p'ominent than colo's
Li,htin, 3 lat
1motion 3 less emotional > e'otic ,estu'es 3 se'ious
;'ushst'o=es 3 ti,ht b'ush+o'= to achieve smooth su'ace
5ncient ,'ee= mytholo,y
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Jacques Louis David. [Link]
(accessed September 15th 2014).

Neoclassical & Romantic Paintings. [Link]
art/painting/neoclassical-romantic/ (accessed September 15th 2014)

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