The Multiplication of Styles 1700-1900

This film gives a rudimentary `exposure' to a broad range of art for young audiences. Until the eighteenth century western art tended to have one dominant style at a time, but from 1700 onwards a multitude of innovations and revivals expressed the confusion and curiosity of the new scientific humanism. This film offers a survey of the painting, sculpture and architecture of the period. A filming technique was evolved whereby brief instalments of information are followed by long sections without narration, designed to capture the spirit of each style that has been discussed. Film sequences include: Baroque in Europe, Watteau, Chardin, Palladianism, Neo-classicism in European and American art, Romantic Classicism, Romantic Naturalism, Constable, Turner, Goya, Blake, French Romanticism, English Gothic Revival, the Pre-Raphaelites, Social Realists, Daumier, Rodin, suspension bridges, prefabrication, Eiffel Tower, Missouri skyscraper, Impressionism, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Whistler, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec.

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