3. THE USE OF CURVILINEAR
AND SWIRLING LINES TO
CONVEY THE EMOTIONS
OF LIFE- SUBJECTS
PROJECTING THEM TO BE
LIFE LIKE AND REAL,
MAKES BAROQUE ART
PIECES FASCINATING
7. MICHAELANGELO MERISI DA CARAVAGGIO
(1573-1610): ITALIAN CATHOLIC
He was an orphaned and
work as an apprentice and
assistant to various artist.
Passionate and hot tempered
His style was departed from
the Renaissances style of
idealizing the human and
religious experiences
Known for his Realistic
naturalism
8. CHARACTERISTICS OF
CARAVAGGIO’S ARTWORKS
SWIRLING FIGURES that appears like
moving figures.
The play of Dark and light (Chiaruscuro)
Theatrical spectacle
Almost all of Michaelangelo’s artpieces are
symmetrical
The depiction of light seems to come from
nowhere (tenebrism)
The texture of paint is creamy and broad
often resulting in impasto
11. CHARACTERISTICS OF RUBEN’S ARTWORKS
• Treated art as the highest level of orderliness.
He tried to expose beauty tempered with
religious disposition
• The lines are swirling, curving and diagonal
conveying motion and energies
• The motifs are Greek myths and history that
represent he social and political events of his
time
• Most often, voluptuous women are his favorite
subjects.
12. • The source of line is indefinite, suggesting his
mastery of tenebrism
• Fair skin of the main subject in the canvass
are always emphasized; and whose motion
drew the other background subjects to
coordinate.
• Sometimes, the composition is asymmetrical,
though purity of colors and atmosphere of
nobility is disclosed; exuding an air of
theatrical element-calm, noble, and dignified
13. Bernini was trained under his
sculptor father
He was able to convey the character
and emotions of his sculptures
through to his studies of Ancient
Greek’s works.
He was authorized by papacy to do
religious art and design.
GIAN LORENZO BERNINI (1598-1680):
ITALIAN CATHOLIC
15. The passionate emotions expressed in
Baroque art reached its highest level in
Bernini’s sculpture because viewers can
look at his art pieces in all around
perspective.
Real like movement
CHARACTERISTICS OF BERNINI’S
ARTWORK
16. Symmetry and rhythm fixed his
subjects to pose in theatrical
speactacle as if a noble activity is
done
He is subtle in connecting lines,
forms and shapes of his subjects.
He brilliantly intertwined the drapery
with the movement to attain
Classical pose.
17.
18. Trained in the refinement of arts.
Acquainted with Italian masters of
Renaissance.
He used brushes with long bristles that
made his rendition of “sitting” very
quick.
Until this time his mastery of human
expressions is unequaled.
DIEGO RODRIGUEZ DE SILVA VELASQUEZ
(1599-1660): SPANISH CATHOLIC
19. His brushstrokes almost
penetrates the character of his
subjects like the Grim
expression of Pope Innocent X.
Regal bearings of the maid
of honors or “Las Meninas”
DIEGO RODRIGUEZ DE SILVA VELASQUEZ
(1599-1660): SPANISH CATHOLIC
20. He fuses form and content.
He mastered the formation of the sitters
(models). In “Las Meninas”, the midget jester
was in the foreground while he, the artist,
posed in the vanishing background and
juxtaposed with the central figure, the princess
Margarita, attended by her maids of honor.
His portraiture of Pope Innocent X is imposing.
He uses lines which pointed well the overall
movement of the nobility of his subjects.
CHARACTERISTICS OF VELASQUEZ’S
ARTWORKS
21. Rembrandt’s individualism and
compassion to the masses and poor
people was shown in his artworks all
through his life time.
His brilliant execution of chiaruscuro is
quite unorthodox since the light comes
from no definite sourse, but this
approach got him to convey the emotions
and character of his subjects.
REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN
(1606-1669): DUTCH PROTESTANT
23. Rembrandt meticulously washed the
countenance of his subjects to reveal
the character accordingly. Light, which
enveloped the scenario of his, comes
from nowhere.
Juxtaposition of spaces and light and
dark are always kept in balance. Unity is
achieved through rational positioning of
shapes according to perpective.
CHARACTERISTICS OF REMBRANDT’S WORKS
24. He uses thick paints in rough
texture.
The lay of light and dark is cleverly
manipulated.
Pure colors are put on the
foreground.
25. Rejected idealizing figures of saints and
holy men from the bible.
He painted happy people
The enjoyment of life reaped from the
economic prosperity contributed by the
Global Dutch maritime trade, was the
motif of his paintings.
He did hundreds of portraiture, by
individual or by group of various classes of
people in Dutch society.
FRANS HALS OF ANTWERP (1666): DUTCH
PROTESTANT.
27. He used pastel colors.
The face paints of the
portraiture of a boy, a
drunkard, and gypsies have
appropriate makeup of
pinkish sprout on cheeks to
appear as natural cosmetic
He mastered the gesture of
a very happy person by
tipping off the balnce of his
subject’s countenance and
body language.
CHARACTERISTICS OF FRANS HALS
ARTWORKS
Portrait of a Boy
28. Like all his
contemporaries, he
attempted to absorb the
characters of his subjects
insofar as they are
contented and happy
Balance of lines, spaces,
and amount of colors are
observed on all his art
pieces
29. The main objective of Dutch
baroque art movement was to
capture the fleeting moment of
men’s feeling over a situation
He is down to earth realist.
His love of his country was shown in
his painting of his hometown Delft.
JOHANNES VERMEER (1632-?”): DUTCH
PROTESTANT
30. The Milk Maid.
The light which shone
in the window seems
to divide diagonally the
lighted space and the
dark portioned. This is
a clever handling of
light and dark: forms,
color values and
perspective
31. HIS
LANDSCAPES
LIKE THE
“DELFT”,
COMPLIES THE
ONE THIRD
PARTITION OF
LANDMASS AND
SKY. WHETHER
IN REFERENCE
BY SET ART
RULE OR BY HIS
INTUITION, HE
IS SUCCESSFUL
IN PICTURING
THE BEAUTY OF
HIS HOMETOWN
32. He paints with his light coming from a
definite source.
The obsession for natural light which
shone on objects is the motif of all his
paintings. He seem to be pioneer of
impreession. He always wanted to
capture the fleeting sunny scenes.
His control to put side by side horizontal,
vertical and diagonal lines make his art
simple and orderly yet imposing.
CHARACTERISTICS OF VERMEER’S
ARTWORKS
