{"id":122,"date":"2020-10-06T19:05:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/?p=122"},"modified":"2020-10-06T19:05:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:05:42","slug":"blog-post-3-baroque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/2020\/10\/06\/blog-post-3-baroque\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog post #3 Baroque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Annibale Carracci Self Portrait<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Annibale Carracci, a member of the Carracci family that consists of three painters: Agostino Carracci, Lodovico Carracci, and Annibale Carracci. He was the most standout of the three painters in his family and the one who was creating a movement about \u201crecovering the old tradition of the High Renaissance from the affections of Mannerism\u201d (Britannica.com). Unlike what the Mannerist had done, Annibale Carracci was aiming for recapturing the simplicity and beauty instead of deliberately contradict those two factors. This unique way of approaching art could be seen from some of his works such as The Beaneater, The Laughing Youth, and Butcher\u2019s shop. In other words, Annibale Carracci wanted to bring back the simplicity of the Renaissance style combined with the way artists use light and colors in the Baroque era. In my opinion, I would prefer Annibale Carracci\u2019s style rather than the Renaissance because of the playfulness of his themes; He would paint ordinary subjects and still be able to convey such beauty as the Renaissance\u2019s artists would paint about religious stories. Hence, there is no doubt that Annibale Carracci could be seen as one of the founder of the Baroque art, in which had inspired many artists after his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Beaneater, 1583<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Beaneater is probably one of my most favorite pieces of Annibale Carracci because of its candid atmosphere. Although this painting would not be considered as innovative today, it had been seen as different in the 19th century when most artists would choose to paint biblical figures and portraits of prominent society members. I love how Annibale had given the people nowadays an insight of a glimpse of a working-class person in the Baroque era.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Laughing Youth, 1583<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There aren\u2019t many pieces back then that could capture the expression of a person’s face, especially when they are laughing. This piece might not show any influence in the history of art but it does give us a bit of information about the artist himself that Annibale Carracci was a huge fan of caricature. It also shockingly appears to me about this painting is the fact it looks very modern, which proves that Annibale\u2019s vision was ahead of his time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Butcher’s Shop, 1580s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I love the fact that although this painting has some disturbing elements such as flesh, blood, and death; however, it does not make me feel disturbed at all. I think Annibale Carracci had succeeded in creating harmony in a butcher\u2019s shop, which was not an easy task for any artist in that period because of its negativity and chaos.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boy Drinking, 1582 – 1583<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Boy Drinking is a perfect example of Annibale\u2019s vision of reforming the world of art at his time. It shows a close observation of the real world as a naturalist like him should do. I like the inelegant movement of the figure, the distorted lights, and images through the glass. Overall, this painting alone would not be able to tell us anything. However, if we placed it with the other painting of early Baroque, we would see a huge difference in terms of innovation and revolution.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Love of the Gods, 1597 – 1607<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This is his most gigantic work, and it was also his final work as an artist. The fact that it took about 11 years proves that this could be one of the most important works in the Baroque era. I love this combination of paintings because of its joyfulness and the harmony connections between the pieces. There were a few nude paintings in the Renaissance and Baroque, but to reach this level of massiveness was something that can be considered unbelievable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/artist\/carracci-annibale\/artworks\/#nav<\/a><\/li>
  2. https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/carr\/hd_carr.htm<\/a><\/li>
  3. https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Annibale-Carracci<\/a><\/li>
  4. https:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/artists\/annibale-carracci<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Annibale Carracci, a member of the Carracci family that consists of three painters: Agostino Carracci, Lodovico Carracci, and Annibale Carracci. He was the most standout of the three painters in his family and the one who was creating a movement about \u201crecovering the old tradition of the High Renaissance from the affections of Mannerism\u201d (Britannica.com).… Continue reading Blog post #3 Baroque<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/huynguyen3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}