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Baroque Artists
Baroque Art
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| Kalf | the most successful Dutch still life painter- showed light play |
| Ruisdael | most formidable of Dutch Landscape painters in the 17th c. Etcher |
| Heem | synthesized Dutch tradition w/Flemish. Very influential. Formulated the high Baroque floral still life, best flower painter |
| Avercamp | Winter landscapes. Atmospheric style |
| Oosterwyck | Highest paint still life painter in all of Europe |
| Ruysch | Dutch tradition of flower painting peaks. Wanted to please the eye |
| La Tour | first important french painter of the 17th c. Frozen figures. Played with night lighting. |
| Le Nain | most sensitive painter- peasant theme. dramatically different approach to classic french painting |
| Callot | first "graphic artist" of his day, and one the greatest etchers ever |
| Poussain | most classical painter of the 17th c, Literature=painting, French Baroque artist, sought antiquity. |
| Lorraine | first artist to be a landscape painter in the modern sense. landscapes of the mind, classical landscape |
| Rigaud | shrewd observer, manipulated paint beautifully |
| Mansart | leading French architect at the end of the 17 c. signature roof. Best known of the classic architects. |
| Puget | the maverick among french sculptors- greatest baroque french sculptor after bernini |
| Giradon | outstanding sculptor of versailles. freestanding tomb. |
| Jones | first to apply Italian Renaissance principles of architectural form to the total design of a building. Palladian style. |
| Wren | work related to high Roman renaissance- founded Baroque in England |
| VanBrugh | did most baroque english countryhouse |
| Boyle | English palladian pilattzo. restrained architecture |
| Gibbs | Introduced the principles of Roman Baroque architecture into England |
| Adam | incorporates interior design using classical elements |
| Wood, Jr. | Royal cresent- Eng architectural design |
| Boffrand | mirrors/airyness, lightness, many windows |
| Watteau | French Rococo. one of the greatest French painters in the 18th century. Gifted portrait painter. |
| Lancret | Chief follower of the Watteral style, day to day reality |
| Nattier | dominates French painting in the mid part of the 18th century. mother of pearl luster |
| Boucher | Did erotic nudes. Most successful painter AFTER Watteau |
| Robert | landscapes were dramatic, disturbing, gloomy |
| Fragonard | Epitome of French 18th century rococo painting |
| Clodion | sculptural parallel of Fragonard |
| Fremin | vitality worthy of Bernini |
| Lorrain | first painter of feminine nudes |
| Gunther | bulgarian rococo sculptor |
| Juvara | lavish Baroque with classical approach to architecture |
| Neumann | southern Germany's greatest Baroque architect. French rococo overtones |
| Asam | Brings Rococo to Bulvaria and W. Germany |
| Tiepolo | supreme venetian master- one of the finest painters of the 18th c. acclaimed internationally |
| Canal (etto) | profound effect on traveling artists, CRISP |
| Guardi | master of view painting, last of great venetian painters |
| Magnasco | Ruins, devastation, foreboding |
| Carriere | pastel-oil-impressionistic popularity |
| Quentin La tour | Analytical |
| Reynolds | first to have an academic art opinion, mechanical |
| Gainsborough | the most influential painter, impressionistic technique, most famous of english painters |
| Lawerence | Fluidity |
| Copley | Death of Major marks the zenith of his career. Romantic horror paintings, realist. (did Black Man, Watson) |
| Vigee LeBrun | portraits on sensibility- very good portrait painter |
| Houdon | Voltair is the key to the development of thinking. Had a mastery of 3D portraits. Finest french sculptor of 18th c. meticulous, neo classicist |
| Derby | Fascinated with inventions |
| Chardin | unlike Vameer, loved texture. One of the most impressive french painters of the 18c |
| Hogarth | generated a native school of painting in England. Etcher/illustrator of continuing life and fashion. specialized in satires. |
| Grueze | moral and sentimentalized approach admired by critics |
| West | death of General Wolf leads to battle paintings, contemporary historical painter |
| Stubbs | Wild animals |
| Fuseli | terrify experience |
| Blake | only what's on the inside, the imaginary. Poet! |
| Wilson | first major British Landscape painter- topographical views. |