{"id":2182,"date":"2024-03-21T22:32:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T22:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2024-03-21T22:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T22:32:49","slug":"3-20-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/21\/3-20-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/20 Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We spent the first half of this class finishing up our discussion of Baroque art in the Netherlands. We discussed three different genres of painting: landscape, still life, and genre. One example of a landscape that we looked at was Jacob van Ruisdael&#8217;s <em>Bleaching Grounds near Haarlem<\/em>. Ruisdael creates an expansive landscape, highlighting the flatness of the low country. Additionally, the influence of Baroque art is evident by the clouds in motion, and the contrast of light caused by them. When talking about still life&#8217;s emphasis was placed on a message being portrayed by them. Our discussion about Baroque art in the Netherlands ended with Jan Vermeer&#8217;s genre paintings. Vermeer used everyday people and objects to tell a story through his paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part of class was spent discussing Louis XIV and the Palace of Versailles.  Louis XIV transformed Versailles into a shrine to himself as the Sun God. It served as an overwhelming sense of wealth and power to keep the nobles of France in line. Hyacinthe Rigaud&#8217;s <em>Portrait of Louis XIV<\/em> created a grand portrait of Louis XIV looking down on the viewer. The diagonals created by the positioning of Louis&#8217;s body created a feeling of importance and called to the rays of the sun, tying back to Louis&#8217;s title as the Sun God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the first half of this class finishing up our discussion of Baroque art in the Netherlands. We discussed three different genres of painting: landscape, still life, and genre. One example of a landscape that we looked at was Jacob van Ruisdael&#8217;s Bleaching Grounds near Haarlem. Ruisdael creates an expansive landscape, highlighting the flatness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}