Neoclassism and Romanticisim

ART IN THE NEOCLASSICAL
PERIOD

• Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-
Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name
given to quite distinct movements in
the decorative and visual arts,
literature, theatre, music, and architecture.
These movements were in effect at various
times between the 18th and 21st centuries.

The movement was inspired by the
discovery of ancient Italian artifacts at
the ruins of and
.

Characteristics
-Sharp color with Chiaroscuro
- Manifests the classical ideals

Chiaroscuro ("light-dark") in art is
characterized by strong contrasts
between light and dark, usually
bold contrasts affecting a whole
composition.

“The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies
of His Sons” (1789)

Artists that pioneered the
Neoclassicist painting:

• Jacques-Louis David
(30 August 1748 – 29
December 1825) was
a highly influential
French painter in the
Neoclassical style,
considered to be the
preeminent painter
of the era.

“ Oath of the Horatii” (1784)

Benjamin West, RA
(October 10, 1738
– March 11, 1820)
was an Anglo-
American painter
of historical scenes
around and after
the time of the
American War of
Independence.

“The Death of General Wolfe”

• Jean Auguste Dominique
Ingres (29 August 1780 –
14 January 1867) was a
French Neoclassical
painter. Although he
considered himself to be
a painter of history in the
tradition of Nicolas
Poussin and Jacques-Louis
David, by the end of his
life it was Ingres's
portraits, both painted
and drawn, that were
recognized as his greatest
legacy.

“Napoleon I on his
Imperial Throne”,

Nicolas Poussin (15
June 1594 – 19
November 1665)
was a French painter
in the classical style.
His work
predominantly
features clarity, logic,
and order, and favors
line over color.

"Et in Arcadia ego"("The Arcadian
Shepherds")

Styles of Painting
Introduced

1. Historicism refers to artistic
styles that draw their inspiration
from copying historic styles or
artisans.

2. Genre works, also called genre scenes or
genre views, are pictorial
representations in any of various media
that represent scenes or events from
everyday life, such as markets, domestic
settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes,
and street scenes.

Intellectually Neoclassicism was
symptomatic of a desire to return to
the perceived "purity" of the arts of
Rome, to the more vague perception
("ideal") of Ancient Greek arts

Influential Architects of the
Period

• Étienne-Louis Boullée (February 12, 1728
– February 4, 1799) was a visionary
French neoclassical architect whose work
greatly influenced contemporary
architects and is still influential today.

Deuxieme projet pour la
Bibliothèque du Roi

• Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (March 21, 1736
– November 18, 1806) was one of the
earliest exponents of French Neoclassical
architecture. He used his knowledge of
architectural theory to design not only in
domestic architecture but town planning;
as a consequence of his visionary plan for
the Ideal City of Chaux, he became
known as a utopian

Project in the Royal City of Chaux

• Palladian architecture is a European style of
architecturederived from the designs of the Venetian
architect Andrea Palladio.

A villa with a superimposed portico, from
Book IV of Palladio's I Quattro Libri
dell'Architettura

• it tends to emphasize its planar qualities,
rather than sculptural volumes
• projections and recessions and their effects of
light and shade are flatter
• sculptural bas-reliefs are flatter and tend to be
enframed in friezes, tablets or panels

The Altes Museum ("Old Museum") in
Berlin

Neoclassism and Romanticisim

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