{"id":2454,"date":"2024-04-18T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:28:43","slug":"4-8-class-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/18\/4-8-class-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/8 Class Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was the recorded lecture, which wrapped up the previous class on Neoclassicism and then transitioned to Romanticism. In the Romantic period, we saw a new dominance of &#8220;exotic&#8221; subject matter. The exotic nature of these new subjects was not intended to make the viewer think, as had been the goal in the previous periods, but instead to make you dream. There was a push to appeal to the senses, instead of intellect, and provoke the viewer to feel the emotions of the scene. Every element of romantic works helped contribute to the conveying of emotions from the work to the viewer, from composition to color. The first example of Romanticism which was given was Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres&#8217;s<em>, Grande Odalisque<\/em>. An odalisque is a woman from a Turkish harem, which taps into the exotic interests of the time. The goal of the artist is not to depict a female body that is true to life, as the body proportions and features of the odalisque figure appear to be slightly distorted. She is said to have too many vertebrae, her feet are small, and her body is unnaturally curved. Overall these features do not convey accuracy to the human body, but instead a feeling of dreaminess. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the recorded lecture, which wrapped up the previous class on Neoclassicism and then transitioned to Romanticism. In the Romantic period, we saw a new dominance of &#8220;exotic&#8221; subject matter. The exotic nature of these new subjects was not intended to make the viewer think, as had been the goal in the previous periods, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11261,"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\/2454"}],"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\/11261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}