By: Brit Haskell, the kid that sits next to Corben Chapter 16 By: Brit Haskell, the kid that sits next to Corben

Enlightenment The Enlightenment was also known as the Age of reason. The Enlightenment was a scientific time for people in the field of mathematics and science. Many of these people dedicated their lives to finding the secrets of the universe through their own human intellect. Many believed this was a time of progress, a time to improve on people's own lives. This was the core beliefs of modernism.

The Start of Modernism There was a great fire in the land of london which burned down three quarters of the old city. Christopher Wren built saint pauls cathedral which reflected some of the best Classical, Renaissance, and Baroque traditions. He then help build 52 other city churches. Which gave birth to the first influential british art.

Saint Paul's Cathedral

Romanticism Thomas Gainsborough was the founder of romanticism. While being well liked as a painter he could never seemed to be liked by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Reynolds had many ideas of what art can do and what art cant do. While Gainsborough believed art was in everything, especially nature. Because he had this strong love and connection with nature, and put nature usually in the background of all his paintings people called this style of painting romanticism. Because he painted what he loved, and not others wanted him to paint. Romanticism: Emphasis on inspiration, subjectivity and primacy of the individuality.

Blue Boy By: Thomas Gainsborough

Neoclassicism Neoclassicism was a visual expression of the enlightenment. While the enlightenment liked order and rationally thinking, which reflected on the artists work. Neoclassicism liked clean lines and color, like the simplicity of the greek. Neoclassicism: realism that contains a message or moral lesson.

Cornelia Pointing to Her Treasures By: Angelica Kauffman

French Revolution While the enlightenment looked down on the rococo the french revolution did not. Some artist such as kaufman did not used the rococo as a light and happy message, while david took a more dramatic lighting to it that showed a more spot light shining on the characters of the painting. French Revolution: A design of both Neoclassicism and Rococo.

Oath of the Horatii By: Jacques-Louis David

Bonaparte passing the Great Saint Bernard Pass By: David

portrait of pauline borghese as venus victorious By: Antonio Canova

The Third of May, 1808 By: Francisco Goya

Slave Ship JM Turner

Wanderer Caspar David Friedrich

Raft of the Medusa Theodore gericault

The Abduction of Rebecca Eugene DeLacroix

The division of art in france Two painters could not agree on which style of painting was better, Romanticism or Neoclassicism. The best ways you could tell them apart was if they contained painterly or linear style. Painterly: thick blended brush strokes Linear style: drawing sharp outlines that clearly expose an obect.

Delecroix vs Ingres

Hudson River School The Hudson River School was founded by Thomas Cole. He named it after the hudson river because of how beautiful it was. As depicted in many of his paintings of the hudson river there was no buildings, while actually at that time the hudson was industrious. Hudson river school: a group of like minded artist in america.

View on Catskill Thomas Cole

Twilight in the Wilderness Frederic Edwin Church