Hierarchy of Genre Painting - PowerPoint Presentation

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Hierarchy of Genre PaintingSlide2

1) Still Life

1) A

still life

is

a work of art 

showing

mostly 

inanimate subject matter.

2) Still life Objects are categorized into 2 groups:

*

natural

(food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks

, shells, etc.)

*

man-made

(drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins,

statues, etc.).

3) It Started in Rome in the Middle Ages (16

TH

CENTURY) and has

remained significant since then.

4) Still

life gives the artist

the most freedom! The artist can choose the

arrangement of

elements/objects, unlike other genres.Slide3

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Fruit basket

16

th

centurySlide4

Lubin Baugin 

Le

Dessert de gaufrettes

17

th

centurySlide5

Luis Meléndez

Still Life with Apples, Grapes, Melons, Bread, and Jug.

18

th centurySlide6

Vincent van Gogh

Vase

with Fifteen Sunflowers

19

th centurySlide7

2) Animal Painting

1) An

animal painter

specializes

in

the

portrayal of

animals.

During

the last century "wildlife artist" became the preferred

term.

2)

Frans

Snyders

was the founder of Animal Painting as a genre.

He

did not want artwork of animals (alive or dead)

to be

lumped in with still life paintings

and thought animal painters needed their own category.

3) Animal

painters

Were

low

in

the hierarchy of

genres because most of them only provided the animal, which left buyers needing a different specialist for the background/landscape.

4) This genre did not start to earn respect until the 18

th

century in England. This was due to the need for

portraits

of racehorses

(and other prized livestock) as advertisement/promotion. Slide8

Jan Weenix,

1692

composition of dead gameSlide9

George Stubbs, 1762

WhistlejacketSlide10

Eugène Delacroix,  1830

A

Young Tiger Playing with its MotherSlide11

Frans Snyders

, 17

th Century

BoarhuntSlide12

3) landscape

1)

Landscape

art

 is the

depiction of

natural

scenery. (mountains,

trees,

and rivers)

2) Landscape art has

3 distinct characteristics/elements

:

A) main

subject is

set in a

wide

view

B) Sky

is almost always included in the

view

C) weather

 is often an element of the

composition.

3) The 2

main

divisions of landscape artworks are

Western

which uses bright colors and usually more details, and

Eastern

which uses dull muted colors (usually with a brown/tan tint to the whole painting)

4) Landscapes

may be entirely

imaginary

or copied from reality with varying degrees of accuracy.

5)

a 

topographical view

is a landscape where the purpose

is to depict an actual, specific place, especially including

buildings (like a map).Slide13

Römischer Meister

, 60-40

BCE.Landscape

with scene from the 

Odyssey Slide14

Joseph Mallord William Turner

, 1830

The Park at 

Petworth

HouseSlide15

Isaac Levitan, 1894

Above

Eternal PeaceSlide16

Vincent van Gogh,  1889

The

Starry NightSlide17

Li Kan,

1300 AD.

Bamboos

and Rock (China)Slide18

4) genre painting

1)

Genre

art

 is the

representation of

scenes

from

everyday

life. (such

as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street

scenes)

2) Paintings

are divided into a hierarchy of genres, which are the 6 different categorizes of subject matters. But these paintings are a genre in painting, not genre works

.

3) genre works were the first to show the average person doing average, everyday activities and therefore, rapidly grew in popularity.

genre motifs became so popular, they

were one of the first to

show up in

other forms

of

decorative arts such

as porcelain, furniture, wallpaper and textiles

.

4) Genre works may

be

realistic

,

imagined

, or

romanticized

(combination of realistic with imagined)

by the artist. Slide19

Pieter Brueghel, 1568

Peasant DanceSlide20

Dirck Hals,

1635

Merry company Slide21

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1765 

Filial

PietySlide22

Hendrick Avercamp

, 1608

Winter landscape with skatersSlide23

5) Portrait

painting

1) A

Portrait painting

is a depiction of

the visual appearance of the

subject. (usually

applied to the depiction of human subjects

.)

2) Portraitists Mostly created

their work by

commission only, which meant only 2 groups could afford to be Memorialized.

a) the rich and powerful (kings, noblemen, knights, etc.)

B) Biblical figures when commissioned by churches as a group.

3) However, some artists became personally inspired

by

admiration/affection

for

some subjects and would do less prestigious portraits.

Over time, this opened the genre and it

became more common for middle-class patrons to commission portraits of their families and

colleagues. Slide24

Anthony van Dyck, 1635-1636

Triple

portrait of King CharlesSlide25

Gilbert Stuart, 1796 

Portrait of George WashingtonSlide26

Albrecht Dürer,

1500 

Self-PortraitSlide27

Leonardo da Vinci, 1503–1505

Mona LisaSlide28

Gustav Klimt, 1907 

Portrait

of Adele Bloch-Bauer

ISlide29

6) History painting

1)

History

painting

,

is

defined by its subject matter rather than artistic style

and depicts

a moment in a narrative

story.

2) history

painting 

is at

the

top of the hierarchy list,

as the most difficult and therefore

prestigious of the 6 categories.

3) History

paintings almost always contain a

large number

of

figures.

4) History paintings include

depictions of moments

in:

*

religious

narratives,

*

narrative

scenes from

mythology

*

allegorical

scenes (meaning to represent

or symbolize

ideas from moments no one alive can confirm or deny).

5) This

term

covers

paintings

made

between the Renaissance and

the

19th century, after which the term

is

not

used for

works that still meet the basic definition

.Slide30

Charles Le Brun, 1664, 

Entry

of Alexander into BabylonSlide31

Karl Bryullov,

1827-1833

The Last Day of

PompeiiSlide32

Botticelli, 1482

 Primavera.

Love and the Gods.Slide33

Paul Delaroche,  1833

The

Execution of Lady Jane GreySlide34

John Everett Millais, 1854-1860

Christ

In The House Of His Parents