Neoclassicism
This new seriousness became more severe with the rise of Neoclassicism , a movement for which purity and simplicity were essential components of the systematic depiction of edifying stories from the classical authors. Roman history and legends were the most popular subjects, and though Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), a pupil of an earlier exponent of Neoclassicism, J.-M. Vien, conformed to that to a certain extent, he was different in that he was also keenly sensitive to the changing mood and philosophies of his time and to the reaction against frivolity and self-indulgence. Many of his paintings are reflections of republican ideals and of contemporary history, from the Death of Marat to events from the life of Napoleon, who was his patron. For the emperor and his family, David painted some of his most successful portraits - Madame Recamier is not only an exquisite example of David's controlled use of shapes and space and his debt to antique Rome, but can also be seen as a paradigm of Neoclassicism. Two painters, Jean-Antoine Gros (1771-1835) and Baron Gerard (1770-1837), followed David closely in style and in themes (portraits, Napoleonic history and legend), but often with a touch of softness and heroic poetry that pointed the way to Romanticism. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780- 1867) was a pupil of David; he also studied in Rome before coming back to Paris to develop the purity of line that was the essential and characteristic element of his art. His effective use of it to build up forms and bind compositions can be admired in conjunction with his recurrent theme of female nudes bathing, or in his magnificent and stately portraits that depict the nuances of social status.
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