Neoclassicism

See also: Neo-classic

The neoclassicism is an artistic movement which developed in the Peinture, the Sculpture, the Architecture and the Littérature between 1750 and approximately 1830. This name also applies to the musical field as from the years 1920, in reaction to excesses of the romanticism and modernity. (see neo-classic music)

Born with Rome at the time when one redécouvre Pompéi and Herculanum, the movement is propagated quickly in France via the pupils painters and sculptors of the Académie from France to Rome, and in England thanks to the practice of the Grand Turn of British noble youth, and in the rest of the world.

Under the influence of Winckelmann, he recommends a return to the virtue and the simplicity of the antique after the Baroque and excesses of frivolities of the Rococo of the previous years. This new expression of an old style wanted to rejoin all arts so that one called then “ the great taste ”. It was not sworn any more that by antiquity and one lived with the mode of Pompéi or Herculanum.

Painting

Large representatives

Main features

  • general Orthogonality of table
  • Topic moralizer, often propagandist (particularly under Napoleon)
  • Put in front of the civic values
  • Topics inspired by Greek and Roman antiquity
  • local Color intended to separate the groups from characters
  • No freedom of the color, the form often takes precedence over the color
  • dichotomic Compositions
  • Utilization of the Lumière in blow of headlight
  • Perte of superfluity
  • Représentation of the moment before the action

Representative tables

Sculpture

Large representatives

to also see French Sculpture of the XIXe century
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