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Baroque Art
- What is it?
- European catholic art
- Gianlorenzo Bernini, St Teresa of Avila in Extasy
- St Teresa experience of religion was exstatic
- Very ferverent
- Angel pierces her with arrow of divine love from Jesus
- Where did Baroque art originate
- Italy then spreads
- Key Characteristics
- Term sometimes referred to as all art made in 1600-1700
- Not all baroque art is alike
- Theatrical
- Scultpture on stone cloud that floats miraculously
- Put onto a stage of columns and hidden window of light
- Idea of divine light
- Symbol of divine prescence
- Highly Complex
- Virtuosity
- Boggle your mind, seeing what stone is doing
- Often full of technical virtuosity
- Often expresses intense emotion
- Counterreformation of Catholic church to protestantism
- Want art to tell clear story and inspiring emotion to make people believe
- Uses Space, Light, Time
- Renaissance vs Baroque
- How does B compare to the Renaissance Art that came before it
- Compare the following:
- Exhibit A: Pearl
- Renaissance art had these classic elemental and geometric shapes
- Pure simplicity
- Aesthetics of Renaissance art : Perfect poise rendered dignity
- Exhibit B: Fresh Water Pearl
- Prized as well but not the same way, as much as perfect spherical
one
- They are very different from eachother
- Inspiring your imagination
- Baroque is supposed to inspire imagination with inspiring images
- Orgins of the word baroque
