Monday April 12, 1999

Announcements:

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    "Paganini", Delacroix, c. 1832

• captures Paganini's passion for music
• portrait of the inner man
• Romantic perspective: Paganini's elevated sense of passion
• Compare to Ingres' "Paganini", 1819
• linear
• serene
• posed

• diagonals--almost Baroque in style
• filled with movement
• lines lead up to King Sardanapalus
• based on an epic poem by Lord Byron
• fantastic scene of destruction of his property--so it does not fall into the hands of the conquerors
• a very romantic notion
• warm, fiery colors
• lines are uninterrupted
• Compare to Ingres' "The Apotheosis of Homer," 1827
• arranged in classical composition
• linear; measured
• Homer at apex

• symbolism
• Revolution of 1830
• establishment of the Citizen King
• artist's show of support for revolution
• depicts all social classes

• complex brushwork
• living contours
• not seeking anatomical accuracy
• Compare: Ingres' "Odalisque," 1814
• line is important
• applies neo-classical knowledge about detail
• distortion of the human body

    Honore Daumier

• social/political satirist

• Realism vs. Neo-classical
• Classical figure (on right) from David's "Sabine Women"
• each holds tool of an artist of that style
• Realist's coarse brush
• working man's clothes on the Realist
• class commentary
• used as illustration for Baudelare's "Who Will Deliver Us from the Greeks and the Romans?"

• reflects the abundance of photographic studios in Paris in mid-19th Century

• resulted in a six month jail sentence for Daumier
• attack on King Louis-Philipe
• depicts him "eating" the lower class
• defecating paperwork

• depicts parliament as lazy

• story: military officer killed by sniper; troops then massacred all resident of the building where the sniper was located
• focuses on the aftermath of one family
• everyone (children, elderly, parents) dead
• this one scene gives a sense of severity/emotions of entire event
• chiaorscuro
• texture/line