The development of the Classicist school
author: sun flower
2024-04-12
Classicism is the expression of the classicism popular in Europe in the 18th century, and they were dissatisfied with the extravagant Rococo art that served the aristocracy, and sought new themes from classical Greek and Roman art.
The typical representative is the French painter Jacques-Louis David, David created a new style of painting, his style of painting adapted to the trend of thought of the Revolution at that time, the style of painting is rigorous and solemn, and his painting "Bruce who executed his own son" created public opinion for the French Revolution. After the Revolution, he was elected as the artistic commissar of the Public Security Committee and created the famous "Death of Marat". After Napoleon became emperor, he became the chief court painter and created the "coronation ceremony" for Napoleon, it is said that when Napoleon was crowned, he unconventionally took the crown from the hands of the pope and put it on himself, in the painting David shows Napoleon in the center coronating the empress, and the pope is cramped. After the restoration of the Bourbons, David fled to Brussels, where he died in a foreign land. But his students inherited his style, and the Classicist school mastered the Académie Française for decades until the rise of the Romantic school.
The typical representative is the French painter Jacques-Louis David, David created a new style of painting, his style of painting adapted to the trend of thought of the Revolution at that time, the style of painting is rigorous and solemn, and his painting "Bruce who executed his own son" created public opinion for the French Revolution. After the Revolution, he was elected as the artistic commissar of the Public Security Committee and created the famous "Death of Marat". After Napoleon became emperor, he became the chief court painter and created the "coronation ceremony" for Napoleon, it is said that when Napoleon was crowned, he unconventionally took the crown from the hands of the pope and put it on himself, in the painting David shows Napoleon in the center coronating the empress, and the pope is cramped. After the restoration of the Bourbons, David fled to Brussels, where he died in a foreign land. But his students inherited his style, and the Classicist school mastered the Académie Française for decades until the rise of the Romantic school.
Representative painter: Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Representative work: 《 The Death of Marat 》
《The Death of Marat》_Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a famous French painter and the founder of the neoclassical school. The style of painting is rigorous, and the technique is exquisite.
David was born in Paris in a family of hardware merchants, his father died when he was 10 years old, raised by his uncle who served as a royal bricklayer, David who loved painting was sent to Boucher to learn painting with the help of relatives and friends, Boucher found that David's temperament was inconsistent with his Rococo style, so he transferred him to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Professor Wayne, his life can be said to be brilliant and tortuous, and it is precisely because of this upheaval of life that his artworks have a strong personal color.
1793 The French bourgeois revolution overthrows the Louis XVI dynasty, and David joins the left-wing Jacobin party of the bourgeoisie and is elected president of the National Assembly. David was imprisoned twice for the Jacobins. In the same year, the Jacobin party leader Marat was assassinated, and David wrote "The Death of Marat" with grief and indignation. In The Death of Marat, David realistically recreates the scene: Marat is lying in the bathtub, blood pouring from his wounds, a bloody dagger sliding to the ground, and the killer has fled the scene. David designed the main character in the painting in a plot and scene, which enriched the expressive content of the portrait and enhanced its appeal. It is said that David arrived at the scene two hours after Marat was stabbed to death, and was so shocked by the horror that he decided to use his brush to record this tragic historical scene.
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