Examples of French Revolution in the following topics:
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- During and after the French revolution, the academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, explored new and increasingly impressionist styles of painting with thick brushwork.
- Before the onset of the French Revolution, the middle of the eighteenth century saw a turn to Neoclassicism in France, that is to say a conscious use of Greek and Roman forms and iconography.
- The French neoclassical style would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French revolution.
- David's paintings are representative not only of the break between Rococo and Neoclassicalism, but also the glorification of republican virtues and revolutionary figures throughout the course of the French Revolution.
- The French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars brought great changes to the arts in France.
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- Romanticism, fueled by the French Revolution, was a reaction to the scientific rationalism and classicism of the Age of Enlightenment.
- Though influenced by other artistic and intellectual movements, the ideologies and events of the French Revolution created the primary context from which both Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenment emerged.
- Upholding the ideals of the Revolution, Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.
- The Industrial Revolution also had an influence on Romanticism, which was in part an escape from modern realities of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism.
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- Eighteenth-century French painting and sculpture was dominated by the Rococo and Neoclassical styles of art.
- Eighteenth-century French art was dominated by the Rococo and Neoclassical art.
- The French neoclassical style would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French Revolution, as typified in the structures La Madeleine Church, which is in the form of a Greek temple, and the mammoth Panthéon (1764-1812) modeled on the ancient Roman Pantheon.
- During the French Revolution, the Greek and Roman subject matters were also often chosen to promote the values of republicanism over the frivolous Rococo art of the nobility.
- Hence, there are many paintings that glorify the heroes and martyrs of the French Revolution, such as David's iconic painting of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, that are inspired by classical aesthetic forms.
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- The French Revolution of 1789-99 had a major impact on France as well as the rest of Europe.
- The French Academy in Rome, founded in 1666, was the ultimate place of study for select French artists.
- Napoleon moved the Academy to the Villa Medici in 1803 with intention of preserving it from being threatened by the French Revolution.
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- Ange-Jacques Gabriel was the Premier Architecte at Versailles, and his neoclassical designs for the royal palace dominated mid eighteenth-century French architecture .
- After the French Revolution, the second phase of neoclassicism was expressed in the late eighteenth-century Directoire style.
- In fact Neo-classicism became fashionable. " The Directoire style was a period in the decorative arts, fashion, and especially furniture design, concurrent with the post-Revolution French Directory (November 2, 1795 - November 10, 1799).
- French Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic art through the nineteenth century and beyond— a constant antithesis to Romanticism or Gothic revivals.
- The Arc de Triomphe, although finished in the early nineteenth century, is emblematic of French neoclassical architecture that dominated the Directory period.
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- David rapidly became the leader of French art, and after the French Revolution became a politician with control of much government patronage in art.
- The arrival of Romanticism in French art was delayed by the strong hold of Neoclassicism on the academies.
- From the Napoleonic period it became increasingly popular, initially in the form of history paintings propagandizing for the new regime, of which Girodet's Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes was one of the earliest.
- A new generation of the French school developed personal Romantic styles while still concentrating on history painting with a political message.
- Eugène Delacroix was also an extremely successful French romantic painter.
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- "Beaux Arts" describes the architectural style of over two centuries of instruction under academic authority: first, of the Académie royale d'architecture (1671–1793), then, following the French Revolution, the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
- Beaux-Arts academic training emphasized the mainstream examples of Imperial Roman architecture, Italian Renaissance, and French and Italian Baroque models.
- Beaux-Arts architecture depended on sculptural decoration along conservative modern lines, employing French and Italian Baroque and Rococo formulas, combined with an impressionistic finish and realism.
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- This painting reflects contemporary events, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X of France.
- A woman personifying liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a musket with the other.
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- While the arrival of Romanticism in French art was delayed by the hold of Neoclassicism on the academies, it became increasingly popular during the Napoleonic period.
- The key generation of French Romantics born between 1795–1805, in the words of Alfred de Vigny, had been "conceived between battles, attended school to the rolling of drums".
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) followed by the Napoleonic Wars until 1815, meant that war, and the attending political and social turmoil that went along with them, served as the background for Romanticism.
- This generation of the French school developed personal Romantic styles while still concentrating on history painting with a political message.
- Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People"(1830) remains, with the Medusa, one of the best known works of French Romantic painting.
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- French painters were slower to develop an interest in landscapes, but in 1824, the Salon de Paris exhibited the works of John Constable, an extremely talented English landscape painter.
- His rural scenes influenced some of the younger French artists of the time, moving them to abandon formalism and to draw inspiration directly from nature.
- During the revolutions of 1848, artists gathered in Barbizon to follow Constable's ideas, making nature the subject of their paintings.
- During the late 1860s, the Barbizon painters attracted the attention of a younger generation of French artists studying in Paris.