WEEK 8: Baroque Period

According to my research that Baroque art, was characterized by a focus on asymmetry, mass and space.  It also uses light and color in a new, dramatic way. Art theory develops during this time, promotes ideas of order and organization as well as instinctive immediate emotions. 

The work that distinguishes the Baroque period is stylistically complex, even contradictory. I think, the art expression that some artists used showed that on each figure’s face signified the emotional factor of the event, seems they wanted the audience to feel the same emotion.  Aside from that the intense of being realistic and natural with their art work would be the remarkable of all work of arts. The intensity of the emotion portrayed here is really what characterizes this Baroque form.

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance and music.  Maybe those are the most striking characteristics of Baroque Art.

Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1664

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1630

             According to John Rupert Martin, the Baroque artists had an “urge to expand range of sensual experience and to deepen and intensity the interpretation of feelings.”  He also said that those emotions would be sought in an artwork of some painters like Rembrandt’s self-portrait of 1630. It showed how lively and spontaneous emotions express in his portrait.” And the painting of Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1664 which the scale in the woman's hand is also perfectly balanced, and the entire painting reflects the expressiveness of her. Those artworks had a great sense of realistic treatment of the subject matter. The expression of each figure’s face signifies the emotional factor of the event and seems as wanted the audience to feel the same emotion. And that would be relevant to present expression of art. Most of arts made by an artist today would really emphasize also the great sense of realistic treatment of the subject matter.

     

             Probably the intense of being realistic and natural with their art work would be the attribute that I can use to create my artwork.