Jacques-Louis David
The art of Jacques-Louis David embodies the style known as Neoclassicism, which flourished in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. David championed a style of rigorous contours, sculpted forms, and polished surfaces; history paintings, such as his Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (Musée du Louvre, Paris) of 1789, were intended as moral exemplars. He painted in the service of royalty, radical revolutionaries, and an emperor; although his political allegiances shifted, he remained faithful to the tenets of Neoclassicism, which he transmitted to a generation of students, including Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, François Gérard, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jldv/hd_jldv.htm
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jldv/hd_jldv.htm
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my opinion
Jacques-louis david self portrait.
My own opinion on Jacques- Louis David is that he is a very talented artist. Although the title of this project is french impressionism, this artist did something more similar to Neoclassicism but i still believe this artist should be I here. The time period he painted in was an era where they really celabrated the human body so they tended to paint all of it so it was a little hard to find pictures that didnt include that. He also must have enjoyed to paint Napoleon. All and all his art is awe-inspiring.
Theodore Gericault
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault, whose life and career epitomize Romanticism, was born in Rouen, France but went to school in Paris. He was a classmate of Delacroix both in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and at the Beaux-Arts where he studied with Vernet and Guerin. A realist throughout his career, Géricault's earliest works were sculptural drawings in the manner
of Michelangelo, whose work he studied when he fled to Italy after an unhappy love affair. He did not stay long in Italy (where he met Ingres, whose drawings he admired) but rushed back to Paris and in 1812 submitted a baroque painting, "Officer of the Imperial Guard", to the official salon. A striking work showing an officer on a plunging horse in a smoky atmosphere of fire and flame, the painting was a very original synthesis of Venetian color, Rubens-like movement, and lighting that recalls Caravaggio. Yet it was none of these, but rather an expression of the artist's own passionate temperament that made the most significant impression at he salon.
- http://www.vangoghgallery.com/artistbios/Theodore_Gericault.html
of Michelangelo, whose work he studied when he fled to Italy after an unhappy love affair. He did not stay long in Italy (where he met Ingres, whose drawings he admired) but rushed back to Paris and in 1812 submitted a baroque painting, "Officer of the Imperial Guard", to the official salon. A striking work showing an officer on a plunging horse in a smoky atmosphere of fire and flame, the painting was a very original synthesis of Venetian color, Rubens-like movement, and lighting that recalls Caravaggio. Yet it was none of these, but rather an expression of the artist's own passionate temperament that made the most significant impression at he salon.
- http://www.vangoghgallery.com/artistbios/Theodore_Gericault.html
My opinion
This is a self protrait by Theodore Gericault.
My opinion of Theodore Gericault is that he is a dark artist. What I mean when i say that is when I looked him up, a lot of his paintings consist of many dark dark values and few light. Over all he is terrific landscape and person painting. The picture to the left caught my attention because of his apperance. The look is almost gothic.