2006-11-21 09:16:17 · 7 answers · asked by karen 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Although the eighteenth century encompasses various conflicting styles, neoclassical ideas can be best seen in the genres of historical painting, portraiture, and landscape.
It has been calculated that there are more artists practising today than were alive in the whole Renaissance, all three centuries of it. But we are no longer following one storyline: we are in a new situation, where there is now no mainstream. The stream has flowed into the sea and all we can do now is to trace some of the main currents.
20th-century art is almost indefinable, and ironically we can consider that as its definition. This makes sense, as we live in a world that is in a constant state of flux. Not only is science changing the outward forms of life, but we are beginning to discover the strange centrality of our subconscious desires and fears. All this is completely new and unsettling, and art naturally reflects it.
The story of painting now loses its way temporarily: it enters upon an encounter with the unknown and the uncertain. Only the passage of time can reveal which artists in our contemporary world will last, and which will not.
We have dates in the 20th century, and pictures to attach to them, but there is no longer a coherent time sequence. This can be irritating to the tidy-minded, but it is in fact exciting in its adventurous freedom. With so many interesting artists, some of whom time may vindicate as of great importance, there is only space to touch briefly on those who seem to many observers to be part of the story, and not just footnotes
"I hope this helps you out"!!
2006-11-21 09:30:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The picture you show seems to illustrate Paris fashions from 1794-1811... Those women do not seem at ALL large !! They certainly aren't as thin as today's fashion models, but they don't seem far off the average healthy human female !! As others have mentioned, a healthy diet back THEN was being lucky enough to get enough to EAT !! A larger body... a bit of a belly was a sign of health and wealth !! It is ONLY in the last 50-60 years that the Western ideal of the female image has become SO skinny.
2016-03-29 04:39:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only have styles and subject matter changed, but the materials, too: A large majority of modern paintings are done with acrylic paints.
2006-11-22 01:28:11 · answer #3 · answered by popartgrrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1880's painting was dominated by Impressionism. Today modernism and postmodern art movements are dominante
2006-11-21 09:25:04 · answer #4 · answered by Grace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well seem to remember different styles such as moderism, postmodernism, baroque, impressionism... you could probably find examples of artists such as Dali on Internet
2006-11-21 09:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by Kathleen B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have got at least 206 years older
2006-11-21 09:20:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they havent. they're still the same paintings.
2006-11-21 09:20:04 · answer #7 · answered by Polly 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋