baroque Flashcards
(15 cards)
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- Velasquez is a court artist
- he is in both paintings
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his workshop: we don’t know the genre, Velasquez plays with expectation; for viewer spends more time looking and analyzing the painting
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princess marguerite: young, white, elegant, poised
other: old, black dress, ugly
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“appel de couleur,” gold everywhere to do a path from front to back (right to left)
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diagonal typical of baroque; light coming in from left = normal light, not divine
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no lines in the hair, not linear, mind needs to work more, not very “beau” so when you look in, no more answers (look from far)
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paintings in back are by Rubens
the title is wrong
mirror in back? nope because we don’t see the back of other characters. it is a window (presumably)
wink to Van Ike’s portrait.
he is painting what we see: the finished product of what he is painting is what we see. (big canvas so logical)
not commissioned: do whatever he wants (it is just a painting RELAX)
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likes peace, like love,
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- Christ being lifted on cross
- diagonal goes in the painting
- main narration: it takes grown men to lift Christ on the cross
- red dude: older so red
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she is peace (celle qui se tiend les seins) there is a diagonal front: bright, pure back: bad is pushed away cornucopia: abundance
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represent different world views, that’s it, one is not better than the other
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same thing but not in the same passion: we see the differences
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not better but expressing different worlds
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pope julius 2nd
green = hope
red = more aggressive
left: not aware we are there; he is thinking (in an ideal world)
right: our presence disturbs him, he looks in trouble, concerned pope, focuses on the man behind the pope
conclusion
baroque wants to stir emotions
