Friday, February 26, 2016

Baroque Art




 Baroque Art

Baroque Art came from the Portuguese word “Barrocco” which means irregular art works, it continued classism and naturalism. The Baroque Art has its characteristics, dramatic lighting, theatrically, motion, space and concept of time.  The artist those days were able to shows different versions of artwork but in new perspective. Like the artwork of Caravaggio and Gentileschi, the Judith and Holofernes, this showed the brutal way of killing Holofernes. Other artist outside of Italy created an evolution to remake such style to another presentable way. For example is Peter Paul Ruben, that he made his style the chiaroscuro in a darker way. The Late Baroque, which was known for playful and witty themes, examples of artworks from Watteau and Fragonard, the La Sorpriece and La Coquette Fixee,
Sculptures were a part of the Baroque art, as their medium they used marble as their main piece for every sculpture. The Style is more commonly naturalism, realism, classism and illusionism. Their subject matter was the important people, events gods and goddesses. The content for every masterpiece came from biblical and mythological.

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