Humanities Study Guide

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1. a personal statement by a single artist (the auteur theory) "

2. breaking up a story into episodes (Godard the l out the idea of "story"

altogether)

3. jumping around in time and place

4. location shooting (a minimum of artificial sets)

5.a natural acting style

6. unusual or unexpected shot compositions and cannier movements " 7. an emphasis on character or ideas rather than on action

8. calling attention to a movie as a movie (i.e. making us aware that we're watching' movie} "

9. allusions to other specific movies or parodies of movie stereotypes

Baroque 1600-1680:

Move away from Renaissance art:

Influenced by Ancient Greek and Roman art

Conventions of human beauty expressed in naturalistic but still idealized proportions

Time of social, religious, economic, and intellectual upheavals

Even more naturalistic than Renaissance painters

Often appealed more to emotions rather than reason

Scientists:

Discovered Earth was not the center of the universe

Artists:

Often depicted expanded, infinite space

vs. ordered, limited space of Renaissance art

From Italian “barocco” - logical process that was contorted

Portugese “perola barroca” - rough or irregularly shaped pearl

Both meanings imply:

…breaking away from a largely established, accepted ideal

Divided over the role that art should play in religion & in depicting religion

Catholic Baroque:

Art for churches, art for conversion

EMOTION in art (vs. classical qualities in Renaissance art)

Appeal to senses (sensuality + spirituality)

Movement

-Caravaggio:Born Michelangelo Merisi “Death of the Virgin”, “the calling of St. Mathew”

Shocking, intense art

(Example: “Death of the Virgin” (1605))

the dominant art form of the 16th century – with his dramatic use of light and shadow and his realistic depictions of objects and people. Caravaggio defined the use of chiaroscuro (artistic play of light and shadows), and through this use he was able to create realistic figures and saturate his art with drama and tension. These elements found their way into the works of the most important Baroque artists.

Rembrandt van Rijin:

Born near Amsterdam

Protestant society of Holland (Dutch Calvinists and Lutherans)

restrained

Protestant churches didn’t often commission artists

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN EUROPEAN CULTURE, PEOPLE BEGAN TO BUY ART FOR THEIR LIVING ROOMS!

Depicted personal success, individualized faith

Landscape, still life, portraits

“the Three Trees”

“the Syndics of the Drapers Guild”

Protestant Baroque:

Criticized Catholic tradition of religious painting: problematic, pagan

Wanted art to convey individualistic piety

Moved away from art in churches

-Peter Paul Rubens:Son of wealthy Antwerp Protestant

Family fled to Germany in order to avoid persecution by Catholics

Returned to Antwerp

Visited Italy 1600-1608 & was influenced by:

-art of the High Renaissance and antiquity

-Caravagggio

Returned to Flanders & was made court painter to the Spanish regent

Many commissions

“The Raising of the Cross” (1609-1610) Human bodies? Setting? Light? Contrast? Composition? Compare and contrast to Renaissance art?Grew up Catholic

-Vermeer

Moliere: Tartuffe

Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of topical issues.

“The Breakfast Scene” by Hogarth (1745) (“Marriage a la mode”)

Produced in 1664

Performed for Louis XIV at Versailles

Banned for 5 years

hypocritical religious leaders and superficially zealous religious believers

How is Moliere giving his audience guidance on how to read his social satire? “All the ridiculous delineations which are drawn on the stage should be looked on by everyone without annoyance. They are public mirrors, in which we must never pretend to see ourselves.

--From The School for Wives by Molière

the form of humanities that had a longer baroque period: music

Literature:

Greatest

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