HUMANITIES 101 (ART APPRECIATION)

Assignment 9

Bachelor of Science in Nursing 1E

NAME: PAGAY, Samantha Janah B.

The following are Art Movements: Renaissance Art, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neo Classicism,
Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism. Paste 1 image (with a short description) for each art
movement and cite at least 3 distinct and key features/characteristics of that image that truly represent
that particular art movement. You can use other reference materials but don’t forget to indicate your
source/s. (20 POINTS)

DEADLINE: 23 May, 11:59PM

RENAISSANCE ART

The Mona Lisa is an oil painting by Italian artist, inventor, and writer

Leonardo da Vinci. Likely completed in 1506, the piece features a portrait
of a seated woman set against an imaginary landscape. In addition to
being one of the most famous works of art, it is also the most valuable.

Key Features:
1. The painting shows only one person or it shows individualism
2. There is a sense of emotional expression
3. There’s a render of light and shadow to create a illusion which is
the smile of Mona Lisa

MANNERISM ART

The Madonna with the Long Neck, also known as Madonna and
Child with Angels and St. Jerome, is an Italian Mannerist oil painting by
Parmigianino, dating from c. 1535-1540 and depicting Madonna and Child
with angels.
Key features:
1. Elongated limbs of the characters
2. Turning bodies of the characters
3. Small heads of the characters

BAROQUE ART

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is the central sculptural group in white marble
set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria,
Rome. It is made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Key features:
1. The sculpture has tension in it
2. It is a like a passionate stage performance
3. I can also see an emotional vivacity in it.

ROCOCO ART

In the history of painting, Jean-Honoré Fragonard's

The Swing (1767) is unmatched in its frivolity and over-the-top romance. At
the center of the work, a young woman clothed in a billowing, ruffled, ballet-
pink dress floats in a dramatically lit clearing, rocking above the ground on a
crimson-cushioned swing.

Key features:
1. The art is very decorative
2. The painting has a complicated pattern
3. The human figure in the painting spirals around in the central axis

NEOCLASSICISM ART
Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau
that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate
success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting
depicts Oedipus meeting the Sphinx at the crossroads on his journey between
Thebes and Delphi. Oedipus must answer the Sphinx's riddle correctly in
order to pass. Failure means his own death and that of the besieged Thebans.

Key features:
1. The painting has a minimal use of color
2. A human armored with a spear
 3. The smooth paint in the surface of the painting

ROMANTICISM ART
The Raft of the Medusa – originally titled Scène de Naufrage – is
an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and
lithographer Théodore Géricault. Completed when the artist was
27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism.
Individual suffering rather than collective drama is vividly portrayed
in The Raft of the Medusa.

Key features:
1. There’s a mythological or heroic element in the painting
2. The color of the painting is vivid
3. The painting has a clashing design

REALISM ART
The painting, The Meeting or "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet" is traditionally
interpreted as Courbet greeted by his patron Alfred Bruyas, his servant
Calas, and his dog while traveling to Montpellier. The composition is based
on the Wandering Jew. The Meeting was exhibited in Paris at the 1855
Exhibition Universelle, where critics ridiculed it as "Bonjour, Monsieur
Courbet". Bruyas did not exhibit The Meeting until he donated it to the
Musée Fabre in Montpellier in 1868.

Key features:
1. The painting has a realistic character.
2. The painting has a scene of street life.
3. The everyday life of ordinary people can be seen.

IMPRESSIONISM ART

Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881; French: Le déjeuner des canotiers) is a

painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Included in the
Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882, it was identified as the best
painting in the show by three critics.

Key features:
1. The subject matter in this painting are ordinary.
2. The painting is in an outdoor.
3. There’s no mixing of paint.