Art: Comparison and Contrast of 19th Century Art

1176 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Essays on rousseau and art

Everyone has been created unique and there is no other that is the like anyone else. People think different, dress different and like and dislike certain things. This is similar to the artists of the nineteenth century including Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau and Joseph Mallord William Turner. They are both artists during the nineteenth century and were painted at the same time; however, there is a difference between their styles, their point of view, and the scenery. However there are similarities between the two paintings. The paintings that will be compared and contrasted are “Under the Birches, Evening” and “The Campo Santo, Venice.”

The first painting, “Under the Birches, Evening”, is done by Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau. He was born on April 15, 1812 in Paris, France. His family saw that he had great potential in being an artist and since their business was profiting, they were trying to make sure their son would achieve at what he is good at ("Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau”). He was good at what he liked which was drawing landscapes. “However, he did not base his style on classically inspired landscapes as it was in Italy; instead he drew from his inspiration of a 17th century Dutch landscape” (Art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance). This means that he went against norms and standards of drawing a landscape and did his own style. As the title suggest it was an evening when he painted it. The surrounding that he chose was rocky and because it was during the evening it created a more dark imagery or perhaps that is how he saw it. Later on he switched his style and started drawing his pictures lighter and not as dark and scary ("Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau”). However, this was the best of his work that is bein...

... middle of paper ...

....

Joseph Mallord William Turner. “The Campo Santo, Venice.” The Toledo Museum of Art Masterwork. The Andrew W. Mellow Foundation: Toledo OH. 2009.

National Gallery of Australia http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/national-gallery-australia/id322677240

Oard, Brian A. "DEATH AND THE PAINTING." BEAUTY AND TERROR: ESSAYS ON THE POWER OF PAINTING. Web. 19 Dec. 2011.

Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau. “Under the Birches, Evening.” Art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Library of congress: Toledo OH. 1995.

"Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau, (1812-l867)." Lawrence J. Cantor and Company: Fine Old Art. Fine Old Art. Web. 19 Dec. 2011.

“The Campo Santo, Venice.” Painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner.

“Under the Birches, Evening.” Painting by Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau.

"The Campo Santo, Venice." Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo Museum of Art. Web. 19 Dec. 2011.

Show More
Related

  • Biography of Paul Revere

    1077 Words  | 3 Pages

    Wees, P. (2003, October 1). Paul Revere Jr. (1734-1818). Retrieved from Metropolitain Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rvre/hd_rvre.htm

    Read More

  • The Coloristic Virtuosity of Venetian Painting as Exhibited by Andrea Schiavone's "The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche"

    1110 Words  | 3 Pages

    Goldner, George R., Lee Hendrix, Gloria Williams Sander, N. J. L. Turner, and Carol Plazzotta. "Andrea Schiavone." In European drawings: catalogue of the collections. Malibu, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988. 114.

    Read More

  • How Rococo and Neoclassicism Illustrate the Process of Deciding in their Paintings

    1418 Words  | 3 Pages

    Although both Fragonard’s and David’s work convey different ideals through their style of painting, they are still able to use light in a very similar form. The viewer’s attention is directed on a specific point in the painting through the use of light. Both artists cast a spotlight on the figure or action in the painting that they want the viewer to especially notice. It is what each artist decides to focus on that makes his work is different from the other. A young woman on a swing who enjoys the pleasures of life is clearly where Fragonard wants to direct the viewer’s attention. However, David focuses attention on a male figure, specifically Socrates. How does the use of light help the viewer understand the ideals of each form of art? While Fragonard chooses to focus on a female and David chooses to focus on a male, the viewer now understands how Rococo can be a feminine form of art and Neo-Classicism the opposite. In addition, other stylistic elements like color and form depict how each art form differs from the other. By using all this visual evidence, we will later see how the concept of deciding...

    Read More

  • The Devastation of the Indies and Movie The Mission

    2338 Words  | 5 Pages

    vii. Mueller, Rose Anna M. "Teaching beyond the Quincentennial," Hispania 76 (3), September 1993. found at http://www.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/ MUELLER1. ART, October 2, 1999.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Frederic Edwin Church's Twilight In The Wilderness

    754 Words  | 2 Pages

    An artwork will consist of different elements that artists bring together to create different forms of art from paintings, sculptures, movies and more. These elements make up what a viewer sees and to help them understand. In the painting Twilight in the Wilderness created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1860 on page 106, a landscape depicting a sun setting behind rows of mountains is seen. In this painting, Church used specific elements to draw the viewer’s attention directly to the middle of the painting that consisted of the sun. Church primarily uses contrast to attract attention, but it is the different aspects of contrast that he uses that makes the painting come together. In Twilight in the Wilderness, Church uses color, rhythm, and focal

    Read More

  • The Image of Christopher Columbus

    2959 Words  | 6 Pages

    McNeil, William H. “How Columbus Remade the World.” NEH Humanities. Vol. 1 no.6: Dec 1985. (CIRS McNeil1.ART)

    Read More

  • Giovanni di Paolo' Art: Transitioning from Medieval to Renaissance

    1358 Words  | 3 Pages

    Smith, Marilyn. "Giovanni di Paolo." The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Ed. Hugh Brigstocke. Oxford Art Online. 17 Nov. 2009. .

    Read More

  • Abstract Expressionism

    1102 Words  | 3 Pages

    1. Hunter, Sam and Jacobs, John. Modern Art, 3rd Edition. The Vendome Press, New York, 1992.

    Read More

  • Depiction of Etruscan and Roman Women in History

    1572 Words  | 4 Pages

    Gardner, Helen, and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective. N.p., 2014. Print.

    Read More

  • Impressionism In Vincent Van Gough's 'Starrry Night'

    889 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the mid 1800’s realism was developed as a style of painting to replicate the world as it was seen in a traditional artistic style. This allowed for a new style of art to be created that was based of a real moment or scene but to forget the traditional artistic laws such as distinct lines and forms. Approaching art from this impressionistic view Monet’s painted “Impression, Sunrise” bringing to life a natural scene of a hazy harbor using quick, short brush strokes and defining uses of color and natural light. Van Gough’s “Starry Night” uses similar impressionistic styles to paint a natural scene using vibrant contrasting colors, yet he embellishes the scene to create art that in not merely a landscape but a piece of self expression and shifted

    Read More

  • Conditions of Trade, by Michael Baxandall

    1048 Words  | 3 Pages

    Baxandall, Michael. “Conditions of Trade.” Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-century Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

    Read More

  • Critical Analysis of Michael Baxandall's Conditions of Trade

    1201 Words  | 3 Pages

    Baxandall, Michael. “Conditions of Trade.” Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-century Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

    Read More

  • The Romantic Movement In Art, Romanticism, And The Nineteenth Century

    831 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Romanticism the nineteenth century is often called “The Romantic era.” The “Romanticism” defines a movement in the history of culture, an artistic style, attitude of mind and it describes the aesthetic, antique artworks of history. The Romanticism era was before the modernism era, during this time, many artists show their talents to the world. Romanticism is easy to understand, and it provides a lot of information of that era. The Romantic movement is uprising against academic convention and freedom of personal.political, and artistic life. John Constable, The Haywain, 1821, Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid 1814, and The John Nash, the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, the Northeast, 1815-1821 are the passionate and incredible artworks in the masterpiece of Romanticism, Realism, and the Nineteenth- Century World. This era was an artistic and creative era of the art history.

    Read More

  • Analysis of Olive Trees by Vincent Van Gogh

    714 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...f the shadows is sprinkled with the orange of the ground, and the blue-violet of the mountains is both mixed with and adjacent to the yellow of the sky. The brushstrokes that carry this out are inspired by the Impressionists, but are more abundant and blunter than those an Impressionist would use.

    Read More

  • 19th Century Art

    1241 Words  | 3 Pages

    During the 19th century, a great number of revolutionary changes altered forever the face of art and those that produced it. Compared to earlier artistic periods, the art produced in the 19th century was a mixture of restlessness, obsession with progress and novelty, and a ceaseless questioning, testing and challenging of all authority. Old certainties about art gave way to new ones and all traditional values, systems and institutions were subjected to relentless critical analysis. At the same time, discovery and invention proceeded at an astonishing rate and made the once-impossible both possible and actual. But most importantly, old ideas rapidly became obsolete which created an entirely new artistic world highlighted by such extraordinary talents as Vincent Van Gogh, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Claude Monet. American painting and sculpture came around the age of 19th century. Art originated in Paris and other different European cities. However, it became more popular in United States around 19th century.

    Read More

More about Art: Comparison and Contrast of 19th Century Art

Open Document