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Art History in 18th-Century France
Title: Art History in 18th-Century France
Category: History
Details: Words: 1938 | Pages: 8.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Art History in 18th-Century France
18th-Century France
During the eighteenth century, Enlightenment thinkers transformed western Europe into a modern society. Critical of orthodoxy, these philosophes radically changed the way men thought about religion, economics, political philosophy, and education. Their method was rational and secular, founded on a belief that the exercise of reason alone could reveal ultimate truths and move man to improve his condition.
Montesquieu analyzed the forms of government to discover the "spirit" behind them. In despotism he …showed first 75 words of 1938 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1938 total…swerves of the brush. Using the wooden tip of a brush, Fragonard scratched her ruffed collar into the surface of the paint. This is the "swordplay of the brush" that Fragonard's contemporaries described, not always with universal approval. His spontaneous brushwork, rather than the subject, becomes the focus of the painting. Fragonard explored the point at which a simple trace of paint becomes a recognizable form, dissolving academic distinctions between a sketch and finished painting.
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