THE NEOCLASSICISM OF JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (1748-1825) Jacques-Louis David, the most prominent Neoclassical painter in France, shifted his artistic allegiances from a king to a revolution against that king to an emperor. Was the artist a man without principles or was he...
THE RISE OF NEOCLASSICISM The origins of Neoclassicism in art, architecture and interior décor was the excavation of long buried Roman cities, Pompeii and Herculaneum in the mid-eighteenth century. A popular correction of the late Baroque style and the ornamental...
DEFINING MODERN “Modern” is a Western and European concept and is, in effect, Eurocentric, impacting a limited part of the world. But these changes were profound and shaped the rest of the globe. Driven by technological innovations, the economy evolved...
EXPLAINING SOUNDBYTES IN MODERN ART Welcome to the twenty-first century. Millennial Education for the millennial mind is offered to students of art and art history. This podcast explains how listeners can use and employ the series which presents discussions of modern...