art history

Rococo: 1700-1750 Neoclassicism: 1750-1815 Period of European conquest Armies became too expensive European settlers built Baroque and Rococo inspired homes and imported Rococo fashions and garments in the new world Death of Louis XIV in France: less power in the hands of the king and more in the nobility  Rococo departs from the Baroque interest in royalty; aristocratic; Paris became the "hub" instead of Versailles  Industrial Revolution brought machinery work and inhumane working conditions; mass production and technological innovation  Population boomed  The Enlightenment; ideas based on logic rather than spirituality  Transformational movements in European politics  Rome became a location of inspiration and tradition, but not of progress Historical paintings and portraits were most important  Rococo: Shift of power to the aristocrats paralleled in Baroque and Rococo. French Royal Academy set the taste for art in Paris Strong...

Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park . Diego Rivera. 1947–1948 C.E. Fresco. In Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, hundreds of characters from 400 years of Mexican history gather for a stroll through Mexico City’s largest park.  A confrontation between an indigenous family and a police officer; a man shooting into the face of someone being trampled by a horse in the midst of a skirmish; a sinister skeleton smiling at the viewer.  A scene composed of disparate historical personages, including Hernán Cortés (the Spanish conqueror who initiated the fall of the Aztec Empire), Sor Juana (a seventeenth-century nun and one of Mexico’s most notable writers), and Porfirio Díaz (whose dictatorship at the turn of the twentieth century inspired the Mexican Revolution).  Perhaps the most striking grouping is a central quartet featuring Rivera, the artist Frida Kahlo, the printmaker and draughtsman José Guadalupe Posada, and La Catrina.  Chin...