Academy - Avant garde themes

Academy - Avant garde themes

1. Concept of art

   • Sacral
     • medieval boosted by Catholic reformation in mid C16th
     • declined by C17th
       • Caravaggio
   • Courtly
     • increasingly prevailed by 1600
     • social classes
       • Louis IVX Versailles
   • Bourgeois
     • Marxist concept
       • Social/economic change
     • Affordable art
       • Dutch easle
       • Hogarth engravings
     • Instruct and delight
     • Autonomous
       • Aesthetic experience
         • Baumgarten

2. Approaches to art history

   • Style
     • does not consider context
     • applied retrospectively
       • connotations
         • e.g. Rococco - frivolous
     • Wollflin
   • Iconographic
   • Social history of art

3. Structures

   • Patronage
   • Open market
     • Commercial structures

4. Dominance of classicism

   • C17th & C18th
   • Dominant in architecture
   • Academies
     • True taste/Great style
       • social classes