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Visual Art continued {Art Cycles}[11th May 1991]

[Redbook10:(1-)3][19910511:2115] Visual Art continued {Art Cycles}[11th May 1991]


19910511(continued).2115c[irca]

(& amended subsequently)


{[Hunter]}

{Volume X}

{Notebook-Journal}

{19910511 - 19910716}


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[p3:]

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Looking back a few periods, and forward one or two, we might get something like this:



1400s~|R~ Italian Renaissance from c[irca]1400 (& Northern[Renaissance] also in some views c[irca]1420-c[irca]1600)

& NB: Romanesque**** Gothic****

1408C

1424g~|M~

1440A~

1456m~|G~

1472C





2048umm~|JGG~

\

\

>

/

/

Italian Early Ren[aissance]

1400-95

(ref IX:187#)

↕c[irca]128 years

\

\

\

\

\


1488g~|M~

1496j~|U~

1504A~

1520m~|G~

1536C





& 2048m~|G~

/

\

>

/\

\

(↓?)

Italian High Renaissance

1495-1520

(ref IX:195)#

\

\

>

/

/

Renaissance (ref IX: 187)# (after Gothic)

1495-98 Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper; 1502 Mona Lisa

1508-1512 Michelangelo’s Sistine [Chapel] ceiling

c[irca]1514 Raphael: The [Triumph of] Nymph Galatea

Titian

1552g~|M~

1568A~

1584m~|G~

1600C




(2048mms~|GGR~)

\

>

/

/

Italian (Late Ren[aissance]

Mannerism 1520-1600

(ref IX:204)# c64yrs+

/

/

/

/

‘Mannerism was all the more readily appreciated in the north for having certain characteristics in common with the still largely prevalent late Gothic…. [continued #*]

1616g~|M~

1632A~

1648m~|G~

1664C ---




(2048ms~|GR~)


↓↓

Baroque Period c[irca]1600-1715

c]irca]128y[ear]s-

(ref 1X:340)#

\

\

\

>

/

/

#**→‘The art of this period, unlike Gothic art or even Romanesque art, is so varied that no single set of stylistic criteria can be applied to all the works created during it.’ (ref IX:304)# #***

‘Throughout the period a classical movement resisted the

Baroque appeal to the senses and emotions.’ (ref IX:318)#

1680g~|M~

1696A~

1712m~|G~

1728C




(2048mss~|GRR~




\




↓↓↓

/

/

/

|



,In the first half of the eighteenth century there were at least three major parallel currents of architectural#****

1744g~|M~

1760A~

1776m~|G~

1792C




& 2048s~|R~

\

>

/

Rococo: Early 18th century (ref IX:340)# → [c1770's (ref IX: 346)#] c[irca]64y[ear]s+

|

|

thought…: late Baroque..., Rococo..., & neo-Palladian classical. (ref IX: 307)#

##

↓↓↓↓

1808g~|M~

1824A~

1840m~|G~

1848R~

1856C





(But by mid-17th →

c[entury]

in architecture

(ref IX:315)#


Neoclassicism c[irca]1780-c[irca]1850

c[irca]64 y[ear]s


c[irca]1760-c[irca]1870 ‘Romanticism’

‘Last decades of the 18th c[entury] to middle of 19thc c[entury]’(ref 11)#



‘Romanticism is a term loosely used to designate numerous changes in the arts….in reaction against Neoclassicism….’ [ref ??]#

‘Romantic art… reflects a climate of feeling… so abundant and diverse in its forms of expression as to defy any concise elucidation.’ (–EB25:360)

Note that the ‘classical’ stream continues as one (s~?) whereas the ‘romantic’ stream multiplies (R~?)

1864r~-S~

1872g~M~

1888A~

1904m~|G~

1920C






(To p.63)#


‘The term Modern art has come to describe the innovative developments in western art since the second half of the 19th century.’(ref ??2)#<910515>

(ie until Postmodernism c[irca]1980, ie c[irca]128 years?

‘Suddenly... I am twice the man l used to be....’##*



[p1:]

*{Age: 40!

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8

16

32

64

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**{Last previous entry is Vol IX: [[Redbook9:364][19910511:1817cc]{Bubbles}[11th May 1991],] 364 on 19910511}


***{cf [] p63}

[All dates are ce]


****& NB:

Romanesque (ref VIII: [] 306)

c[irca] mid 11th c[entury]–: 2048A~1024

to (c[irca] 256 years)

c[irca] mid 13th c[entury]: 2048J~1280 –

Gothic (ref VIII: [] 314)

(but developing in 12th C[entury]

(c[irca] 128 years)

(to c[irca] 1400) ---


#[References:]

ref IX: [[Redbook9:187][19910424:0902d]{The Renaissance}[24th April 1991]&f(f?),] 187

ref IX: [[Redbook9:195-197][19910428:0955c]{Italian High Renaissance – Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo}[28th April 1991]&f,] 195

ref IX: [[Redbook9:204-206][19910429:0914]{Italian Mannerism}[29th April 1991],] 204

ref IX: [[Redbook9:304][19910510:0904]{Baroque Architecture}[10th May 1991],] 304

ref IX: [[Redbook9:306&7][19910510:0904h]{Baroque Architecture [continued (8)]}[10th May 1991],] 307

ref IX: [[Redbook9:315][19910510:0904bb]{Baroque Architecture [continued (28)]}[10th May 1991],] 315

ref IX: [[Redbook9:318][19910511:1000d]{‘The Baroque’ [Extracts from source text with ms notes][continued (4)]}[11th May 1991],] 318

ref IX: [[Redbook9:340*][19910511:1000ii]{‘The Rococo’ [Extracts from source text with ms notes][continued (35)]}[11th May 1991],] 340

ref IX: [[Redbook9:344-346][19910511:1000bbb]{‘The Rococo’ [Extracts from source text with ms notes][continued (54)]}[11th May 1991],] 346##**


ref [] 11

ref [] ??

ref [] ??2


EB25:360


To [] p[age]63


#* [continued from above] ‘… Its formal complexity, for instance, or its tendency towards elongation could be much more easily assimilated into local traditions than the clear and harmonious classicism of the High Renaissance.’

E[ncyclopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 4:681 ([quoted in ms but not in ts] at IX: [[Redbook9:270][19910506:0000c]{‘Mannerism’ [Footnotes][continued (3)]}[6th May 1991]f,] 271)


#**‘Strictly, Baroque is a stylistic term, with little or no chronological significance, but for convenience the above time limits are generally accepted.<910614> → [Source text continues at #** in text above] (ref IX:304)#


#***’Realism dominated Dutch art of the 17th century.’ (ref IX: 318)#<910616>


#****[ms emphasis]

(& see IX: [[Redbook9:293][19910507:0915q]{The Baroque Period [continued (18)] (Late Baroque and Rococo}[7th May 1991]?&/2?f?] 293 re similar comparisions in painting)


##‘Fundamentally a style of decoration, Rococo is much more a facet of late Baroque than an autonomous style, & the relationship between the two presents interesting parallels to that between High Renaissance & Mannerist art’ (ref IX: 304)#<910616>


##*[Presumably adapted from the lyrics of the Beatles’ song ‘Yesterday’: ‘Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be….’, & presumably referring to the doubling & subsequent multiplication of art styles referred to above.]


##**[The page reference appears to refer to the general summary of late Rococo church architecture in Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:730 (photocopied in the ms at IX:346 but only the beginning of which is in the ts) which provides examples finishing in the late 1770s, to the early 1790s at the latest]



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