Carracci And Caravaggio

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Carracci and Caravaggio had the intelligence and artistic talent to help sculpt the Baroque art movement they did this by forming their own unique art style, political ideology, and overall techniques that helped inspire painting for the next generation. Both of these men crafted their own techniques and styles that helped push genre painting into the Baroque normality in artwork. Genre painting is a form of painting that focuses on the everyday mundane life, and captures these moments, similar to a camera shot. Carracci focused more on the traditional idea of genre painting by capture what was going on in Rome in his works such as The Bean eater, and Two Children Teasing a Cat. While he did do altar paintings, Carracci also sketched outside, …show more content…

While on the other end, Caravaggio’s artwork was a building up of genre painting to represent real people in religious settings. His technique, while not the traditional idea of genre panting, used elements of the definition to help create realistic portraits of religious models, which made them look like the average person you would see around Rome. He did not sketch, but would paint from life and transform these people into figures of Jesus, John, and others as in his Supper at Emmaus, were even Jesus looks like a person you could find on the streets along with the men surrounding him. Not only that, but Caravaggio was a man of details, and made even the food on the Supper at Emmaus table look as if you could take it off the painting and eat it. Carracci and Caravaggio developed techniques and twists in their artistic career to push realism, and the human experience into their artwork to evolve the Baroque period into an inspirational pool of learning from the Renaissance artists before them, and pushing different ideas …show more content…

Harris proves Caravaggio’s difference in art style to Carracci’s by calling them artistic opposites and that, Caravaggio prepares every figure with obsession and detail. This detail is true and can be seen in his Bacchus painting, as he painted the figure, you can see all the little details in his hands, face, and even the surrounding vegetation. In fact, almost everything in Bacchus is extremely detailed, from the rotten fruit on the table, to the cloth that drapes the figure, and once again to the amount of detail on the model that is playing Bacchus. The amount of time he takes to detail everything in his art piece was revolutionary. Another unique feature of Caravaggio’s artwork was his idea of no preliminary artwork and to just go and sketch, and to just go into the painting with paint itself. “Caravaggio’s willingness to completely rework on top of previously established compositions is a characteristic that occurs here notably in Caravaggio’s working process” which explains how Caravaggio would work on top of his existing artwork and basically build off a more life like setting. Caravaggio was not a man who followed rules, and did not take traditional art school classes seriously, but abandoned the traditional idea of thinking up compositions, and sketching out

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