Neo-Classicism And The Art Movement In The 18th Century

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There are many different movements that happened during the 18th century. The artistic movements that happened before the one I am going to talk about is the Rococo era which is the flection of salon life during that time period in France. Then the other period that is after mine is the Romanticism period which is showing nature and the victory of war with horror in it. The artistic movement that I picked was the Neo-Classicism which is the second movement after the Rococo like I stated above. Therefore, I will be telling you the cultural context, principal features and artistic intent of neo-classicism and showing three examples of the style. The cultural contact for Neo-Classicism is that it was mainly the study of work done in Rome. It was ancient Rome that they were very interested in. They were also interesting in ancient Greece art also. They wanted to take the classical art of the two and it was all to continue with enlightenment time of the European age (911-915). They took the two …show more content…

This painting is an example of how an artist took a scene from a classical mythology which is what the neo-classism is. This artist overcame the Baroque traditions which was part of the Rococo era (914). It shows in the painting that of them wearing Greek clothes. This is important because neo-classicism was described as using tradition Greek and roman traditions. The painting was roughly symmetrical which is characteristic of neo-classicism paintings (914). The painting was centered in Mount Parnassus which is where the paintings name from and it is the central area of Greece. The main god in this painting is Apollo who is a god that ancients believed in (914). He was a god of poetry, music and the arts. There was also the nine Muses in the painting. This all goes back to show how this painting was of a tradition thing from the Greek

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