Connor Lindsey - Blog

      As many art styles come and go, two styles made up a great portion of the 1800s, those two styles are Impressionism and Romanticism.      Impressionism is a form of art that doesn't focus on how real the painting is, but on how the painting makes you feel, and how the painting is perceived by just a quick glance. Impressionist paintings consist of many individual brushstrokes that can be distinguished from one another. These small, individual brushstrokes are used not only to give a fantastic texture to an already wonderful masterpiece of art but also to give the painting emotion. The many flowing lines that make up an Impressionist painting provide a sense of direction, a sense of knowing where to go next with one fluid motion.      Romanticism on the other hand is a completely different story. Romanticism is a style of painting that focuses more on emotion and freedom than facts and reality. Emotion and individualism were the lea...

    The Classical era was a very interesting time. The introduction of Rococo art was widely received, but so was the decline. Not long after Rococo's downfall, Neoclassical art began to take its place. Neoclassical paintings and sculptures all portrayed clarity and idealism, meaning you could instantly tell what was happening in the painting with just a quick glance.      A great example of the intended idealism shown is in Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii  painting, which depicts a   scene from a Roman legend about a seventh-century BC dispute between two warring cities, Rome and Alba Longa. Jacques-Louis David,  Oath of the Horatii ,  1784, painted in Rome. It is not known where specifically it was created.      Many pieces of art from this time were driven by stoic, political reasons. The Neoclassical style is shown here by depicting a serious, emotional scene relating to war. A dispute between two enemy citie...

 The Baroque era was a crazy time. We found out that the Earth isn't the center of the universe, that we have little blobs inside of us called cells, and most importantly, art. The Baroque era was a strange time, to say the least, but it bore much fruit for the labor that was put in. We discovered many ways to make paintings and other forms of art much more interesting, we learned how to make flat surfaces appear as if they had special lighting, depth, and minute details that no other art had before. Many of the most famous paintings in the world were made in the Baroque period, "Girl with a Pearl Earring," "The Night Watch," and "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" are all famous Baroque paintings. The Girl with the Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer. We made music unlike anything ever before such as Fuge by none other than Sebastian Bach himself, Hallejuiah by Frideric Handel, and The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. But the Baroque era not only brought new m...