Neo Classical Art

These are probably my most favorite of all genres because of the way it displays the lighting in the paintings, the supernatural aura that the painting brings to the audience and the choice of color, which can say a lot about the person in the painting. Although some paintings can be overly dramatic it brings the feel of what it would have been like at that very moment. For those of you who do not know what Neo-Classical Art is, today is your lucky day. Neo-Classical style started around the 1700 when the Rococo style period was at end. Since Rococo was very much lavish and comforting, the Neo-Classical art was much more logical, mellow and somewhat was influenced on what was happening at the time and, in some cases, vice versa. With a lot of the Neo-Classical Art you will see that it goes back to the Roman age or even older, but each painting had something political in it. A very famous painting that is Neo-Classical is The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques Louis David which you can see below.



When this painting was first seen by the audience, it had immediate approval of the audience. They called David a genius artist and said that it showed courage, valour and to stand up for what's right for the people. The French coined this as an influence to the French revolution and still keep it up today. I very much like this painting because of the art "magic tricks" the painting has. As you can see the focus point is swords and the man blocking the swords with nothing but branches. This to me showed that even if you have nothing you can still defend against a superior enemy. You can tell with the the lighter colors that the light is coming from the left side. Also the dark shading in the back to trick you into think it is far away.There is still some tricks i have not mentioned but i can't remember them from the top of my head. Maybe next time i will have my notes from the 9th grade. But anyways to summarize the 3 tricks i have just mentioned are: the focus point, the light shading, and the blue haze. Until next time.

-Alec