Spring 2024 Art History UN3463 section 001

Pastel in 18th-Century Europe

Pastel in 18th-C Europe

Call Number 16158
Day & Time
Location
T 2:10pm-4:00pm
806 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Frederique Baumgartner
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This seminar focuses on the practice of pastel in eighteenth-century Europe. Known for its luminosity and fragility—two characteristics linked to its powdery essence—as well as for its practicality, pastel as an artistic medium reached an unprecedented popularity in the eighteenth century. While some painters used it on occasion (Jean-Siméon Chardin, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, John Singleton Copley, to name a few notable examples), others made it their medium of choice, including Rosalba Carriera, Jean-Étienne Liotard, and Maurice-Quentin de la Tour, three of the most sought-after artists of the period. This seminar will examine these dazzling works, many of them portraits but not exclusively, from different perspectives: technique, artists’ manuals, and trade in materials; makeup and the aesthetic discourse; vision and touch; color and the rendition of skin tones; the construction of artistic identity; art criticism; and the commission, collecting, and display of pastels. The seminar will include at least two museum trips, including one to the Frick Madison where the exhibition Nicolas Party and Rosalba Carriera is currently on view.

Web Site Vergil
Department Art History and Archaeology
Enrollment 8 students (12 max) as of 4:07PM Friday, December 13, 2024
Subject Art History
Number UN3463
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note "Application required; please see department website ""Sprin
Section key 20241AHIS3463W001