Using three works of art from the 18th and 19th centuries explain how the french revolution is dialectically reflected in art. Be sure and include the following people, genres of art and terms in your paper: Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Napoleon Bonaparte, Baroque, Rococo, and absolutism. Each term missing will be minus 5 points. Your essay should demonstrate an understanding of the history of the period and how art reflects history.
Help! art history essay!?
Whoa...that's one hell of an essay question. I hope you're in college.
I don't know much about art history, but I can try to help you understand the question. The key word is "dialectically." Dialectics is a form of argumentation like that used by debate teams. Propositions (theses) are proposed and discussed and then rebutted with counter-propositions (antitheses). During the debate either the thesis or the antithesis comes to be recognized as the superior argument - or, alternatively, a combination of the two (a synthesis) may be accepted.
So what the question sounds like is the idea that the course of French history can be seen in the changing tastes of European artists, from the Baroque - so great and grand and impressive, just like the reign of absolutists like Louis XIV - to the Rococo, with its excessive ornamentation to the point of frivolity (just like the court of the eighteenth-century French kings). One could consider the Baroque and Rococo styles to be the two counterpoints in an artistic dialectic.
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