Look. Enjoy. Love - Art From Renaissance To Realism

01/03/2023

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⏬The course ⏬
History of Western Art: The Renaissance to Realism

Whether you are....

🌿Without any knowledge on the history of Western art
🌿Or, you have some knowledge but would like to view art from a different perspective

👀This course will offer you a practical way of viewing art from Renaissance to Realism

🧚🏻12 lessons
Course Start Date : March 22, 2023 (Every Wed) at 7:30pm-9:30pm 🥰

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In this course, students will learn to appreciate the development of Western art and its underlying theories from the Renaissance to Realism. Major works of art from each...

20/06/2022

Outline of the course
Lessons 8 to 12 (cont.)

From lesson 9 to 12, we will take a thematic approach to study the same subject matter of paintings or sculptures, namely religion, portrait, landscape and still life, so as to have a better understanding of each subject’s artistic development and changes. These marvelous works of art are embedded with the great traditional heritage of drawing and painting, and evolve into to a new form of art whenever artists look at nature again, study her passionately and represent her beauty truthfully.

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Online Course taught by Helen Kwok (BA HK)

✨History of Western Art: The Renaissance to Realism✨

Course website: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/prog/history-of-western-art-the-renaissance-to-realism?fbclid=IwAR1lIS7ftlZ70B1Fbtl0HQmMxYme2JkQLKdOxVb1zjeDmVcWw9YYh9m_dqU

20/06/2022

Outline of the course
Lessons 8 to 12

When we come to this part of the course, from lessons 8 to 12, we will have a different approach. In lesson 8, we shall look at what drawing is, and its relationship with painting.

What is drawing?
Drawing is not just a one-or-two years’ foundation course as seen by many people. It is in fact a lifelong pursuit of excellence for all practitioners of Western realistic style. Despite its development and changes over time, its core of basic law and value remain unchanged. This kind of knowledge can be seen as the ‘chain of tradition’ that ran through Renaissance, until it came to a break and stopped ever since the Post-Impressionism. The subsequent art movements no longer employed such traditional heritage. Since then, prolific and modern art forms had been emerged and dominated the art scene.

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Online Course taught by Helen Kwok (BA HK)

✨History of Western Art: The Renaissance to Realism✨

Course website: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/prog/history-of-western-art-the-renaissance-to-realism?fbclid=IwAR1lIS7ftlZ70B1Fbtl0HQmMxYme2JkQLKdOxVb1zjeDmVcWw9YYh9m_dqU

19/06/2022

Outline of the course
Lesson 7
The Art of Realism

Part 3
Realism outside of France

Though Realism was first a French phenomenon, it obtained adherents across Europe.

In Italy, Verismo (realism) and more pronounced social themes surfaced confidently in the mid-nineteenth century. Many of them continued with the Romantic sentiments but adopted the ideas emanating from Paris, creating a new look in different genres of paintings.

Then we will look at the realistic styles of paintings in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain.

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Online Course taught by Helen Kwok (BA HK)

✨History of Western Art: The Renaissance to Realism✨

Course website: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/prog/history-of-western-art-the-renaissance-to-realism?fbclid=IwAR1lIS7ftlZ70B1Fbtl0HQmMxYme2JkQLKdOxVb1zjeDmVcWw9YYh9m_dqU

19/06/2022

Outline of the course
Lesson 7
The Art of Realism

Part 2
Realism in France

Realism was a representation of real and existing things, based on direct observation of the modern world. It was originated in France and flourished from about 1840. Working in a chaotic era marked by revolution and widespread social changes, realist painters replaced the idealistic images and literary conceits of traditional art with real-life events.

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Online Course taught by Helen Kwok (BA HK)

✨History of Western Art: The Renaissance to Realism✨

Course website: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/prog/history-of-western-art-the-renaissance-to-realism?fbclid=IwAR1lIS7ftlZ70B1Fbtl0HQmMxYme2JkQLKdOxVb1zjeDmVcWw9YYh9m_dqU

19/06/2022

Outline of the course

Lesson 7
The Art of Realism
1. Photography and Art
2. Realism in France
3. Realism outside of France

Part 1
Photography and Art

The discovery of photography was announced in 1839. Since then, there had been a great impact on the nineteenth century representational arts. Many arguments arose among artists and art critics on its relationship to, and application in, visual arts.

In fact, long before the invention of photography, a kind of device to record an image, called camera obscura, had been designed and used from the 16th to the 19th century, as an aid to artists to solve the problems of rendering perspective. It was most frequently of service in drawing and painting landscape, architectural monuments, exterior and interior. The images produced were useful in recording some kinds of facts, and for giving references to an artist’s drawing.

Despite the advantages of using the reproductions produced by these devices, artists and art critics saw the shortcomings of copying them. They discovered that the way of seeing natural objects by adopting these tools was very different from seeing them naturally. If such a device was not properly used, the ‘truth’ and beauty would be damaged, and the work would look mechanic and false. They also saw the problems of relying too much on images produced by these devices, which would reduce an artist’s ability of acute observation and drawing, and consequently failed to communicate the personal touch and selective eye of the artists.

🌿🌿Online Course taught by Helen Kwok (BA HK)

✨History of Western Art: The Renaissance to Realism✨

Course website: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/prog/history-of-western-art-the-renaissance-to-realism?fbclid=IwAR1lIS7ftlZ70B1Fbtl0HQmMxYme2JkQLKdOxVb1zjeDmVcWw9YYh9m_dqU

18/06/2022

Outline of the course
Lesson 6

Part 2
The art of Romanticism (cont.)

Now we come to the Romanticism in Italy, which, as a matter of fact, has been neglected in the nineteenth century histories of the pan-European art movements.

Early in its evolution in the first decade of the century, Italian Romanticism differed from that of its French counterpart, whose artists quickly developed a great technical freedom. Italian romantic artists remained more technically conventional and academically oriented. These paintings embodied latent patriotic sentiments that helped to nurture a national awareness. Other ideological trends linked to the growing general interest in naturalism and in the folkloric traditions.

🌿🌿Online Course taught by Helen Kwok (BA HK)

✨History of Western Art: The Renaissance to Realism✨

Course website: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/prog/history-of-western-art-the-renaissance-to-realism?fbclid=IwAR1lIS7ftlZ70B1Fbtl0HQmMxYme2JkQLKdOxVb1zjeDmVcWw9YYh9m_dqU

18/06/2022

Outline of the course
Lesson 6

Part 2
The art of Romanticism

Around the turn of the 19th century, the Romantic movement began to emerge throughout Europe. It coincided with Neoclassicism and was almost the complete opposite in style and values. Where Neoclassicism was about rationality and Classical ideals of virtue and order, Romanticism expressed emotion and the exploration of the senses. In this era, philosophers, novelists, and visual artists alike saw something of a great awakening to the philosophy of the mind. They believed that emotions and senses were equally as important as order and reason for experiencing and understanding the world.

The Romantic movement encompasses a variety of styles because it valued imagination, inspiration, and originality. Despite the variety of individual expression, there are several key Romanticism characteristics, which underlie Romantic art. These include growing nationalism, orientalism, subjectivity, plein air painting, notion of sublime and picturesque in landscape painting, concerns with justice and equality, and psychological portraiture in expressing emotional states of the individual.

We shall see French and other European Romantic artists strived to explore the relationship between experience and the intricacies of the human mind by finding new ways of representation in diverse subject matters. These masterpieces have been widely recognized as typical examples of Romanticism.

🌿🌿Online Course taught by Helen Kwok (BA HK)

✨History of Western Art: The Renaissance to Realism✨

Course website: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/prog/history-of-western-art-the-renaissance-to-realism?fbclid=IwAR1lIS7ftlZ70B1Fbtl0HQmMxYme2JkQLKdOxVb1zjeDmVcWw9YYh9m_dqU

17/06/2022

Outline of the course
Lesson 6
1. The art of Neoclassicism
2. The art of Romanticism

Part 1
The art of Neoclassicism

In France, the decorative Rococo style had begun to decline when it came under the attack from critics for being immoral and indecent. By the 1760s the new and more austere movement of Neoclassicism commenced, and lasted until the 1840s and '50s.

Artists began to feature contemporary subjects and scenes, which coincided and reflected the developments in philosophy and other areas of the Age of Enlightenment. Together with the popularity of the Grand Tour, and the influential writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, all these factors had contributed to the spread of Neoclassicism.

Neoclassical artists strongly believed that art was meant to give a message based on moral and ethical values to viewers. They drew heavily from both the notions of Renaissance and the Classical Greek and Roman art, architecture and culture, so as to portray the concept of ideal beauty through harmony, simplicity, and proportion of shapes, materials, and colors in their works.

16/06/2022

England's employment of French Rococo manner could be seen in architecture and decorative art. But the most outstanding achievement was portraiture. There were two leading painters of this genre and they were often seen as rivals.

16/06/2022

Rococo sculpture was notable for its intimate scale, its naturalism, and its varied surface effects.

16/06/2022

During the French Rococo period, when painters were consumed with the allegorical and figurative aspects typical of Rococo, there was a painter who persisted in painting still life throughout his life. His reputation was recognized as one of the most celebrated of all still life painters.

Chardin, Jean Simeon
The ray, 1728