19th Century Art

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This paper describes the Neoclassical art movement, a severe, unemotional form of art that was traced back to the style of ancient Greece and Rome. It was a combination of aesthetic attitudes and principles based on the culture, art, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome and was characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restrained emotion. The paper discusses and compares two artists from this period, Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Dominique Ingres. Several of their works are examined in the paper.

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"In Europe, the nineteenth century was an age of radical change during which the modern world took shape. In a world that was experiencing a population explosion of unparalleled magnitude, revolution followed revolution, a pattern punctuated by counter-revolution and conservative reaction. In thought as well as in science, the nineteenth century was an era of grand new theories through which visionary thinkers attempted to unify whole bodies of knowledge into precise, well-ordered systems. Artist in the nineteenth century were also confronted with new innovations and their individual artistic styles and works changed with the times. These artists found themselves using the elements of line, shape and color to represent their private world, the realm of imagination and feeling. The functions of the artist and of the artist's medium were decisively transformed by the modern world. "

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