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Romantic Era -  The Romantic era began approximately in 1770 but its peak period was from 1800 to 1850. This era was all about using their imagination in different forms of art in order to show what’s going on in their life or in the world at the time. So many different art forms are used to express what was going on in the Romantic era, the two styles that I chose is realism and impressionism.  What is Realism? Realism is an artistic movement that began around the 1840s. This art style focuses on accurately creating art that is realistic and truthful. Artists that use realism in their work, their subject is typically about the lower/working class and the struggles that they encounter in order to show a truthful life.  What is Impressionism? Impressionism began in the 1860s, but took off in the 19th century. This type of art is distinguished by small thin brushstrokes and it’s purpose is to highlight light in the painting in order to depict emotion. A great example of a paint

Overview  Classical art has been around for many many centuries but it really took off in Western civilization as an artistic style expression to different historical landmarks happening like the Reformation, the French Revolution, scientific discoveries happening, and even economic power with different classes being shown through art. I decided I wanted to focus more on art that was created in the 1700’s due to the French Revolution because many beautiful pieces were created from this tragic period.                                                                                                                        The Death of Marat The Death of Marat was created by Jacques Louis David in 1793 and it currently resides in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. David created this painting as a tribute to his passed friend Jean-Paul Marat who was assassinated by Charlotte Corday who was given entrance of his home in order to tell him dirt on enemies of the revolution. But instead w

Baroque Art Baroque art is a style of European architecture, art, and music that began in the 1600’s but flourished in the early 17th century. It is inspired by mannerism and characterized by its movement, emotion, illusion, and etc. specific characteristics that you might notice in a Baroque piece of art would be the use of shadowing and color, the type of setting and the emotion/dramatics. The architectural piece of Baroque art that I chose is called, “Apollo and Daphne” by Gian Lorenzo Bernini created from 1622-1625 and it was placed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome, Italy. This piece is inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the story of Apollo and Daphne.  The Story of “Apollo and Daphne”  This is quite a disturbing tale that is about Apollo being struck with Cupid‘s love arrow and seeks out the daughter of the river god, Daphne. His love for her became insufferable and obsessive, it became too much for Daphne so she decided to run away from Apollo’s ruthless love. But yet Apollo wou