Baroque Art: Characteristics and Influence
Uploaded by
ScribdTranslationsBaroque Art: Characteristics and Influence
Uploaded by
ScribdTranslationsHistory of Art – Baroque Art
Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church
Religious wars and debate of doctrines
Establishment of the Society of Jesus
Consolidation of absolute monarchies
CONTEXT
HISTORICAL
Art like Sensory and
shape of emotional
expand the faith Realism and
dramaticidade
Forms Style
irregulars CHARACTERISTICS
complex
angular and exuberant and
curvas ART excessivo
Art
BAROQUE
Emphasis on
undisciplined
transience
Spirit of
contradiction and of life
duality Time and death
PAINTING SCULPTURE
Paintings with illusionist effects Strong expressiveness
it projects emotion.
Twisted and corpulent figures
Violent contrasts between light and shadow Reveals the human and the divine
Spiritual sense of light Impulse and motion
Sinuosity and diagonal organization Dynamic images
Taste for the fantastic and grotesque Dinner Volume in bodies and
Impressive fluttering drapes
IN BRAZIL
Main Brazilian colonial art
Traits of Portuguese Baroque styles ARCHITECTURE
Mineiro Rococo Style Greater innovation Religious and aristocratic art Churches and
Contained spirit and elegant and refined palaces
Use of soapstone, wood, and gold Presence of scrolls, curves, and counter-curves
Popular religiosity lay associations Twisted columns
(brotherhoods, fraternities and third orders)
Fear of emptiness Totally walls
Intimate temples of simple dimensions journeys
Paintings with stronger tones and vibrant colors use of the golden colorprint of
Architecture in circular planes splendor of the divine.
