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18 and 19 centuries art

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Poussin’s “Holy Family on the Steps (1648)” and Rubens’ “Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (c.1620)”, these two contrasting styles picture influenced to art of the late 18th – early 19th each way.
Poussin’s “Holy Family on the Steps”, this is a classical style picture. The beautiful architecture is placed in the background. The architectures and sculptures are from Roman style. The human figures wear classic clothes with natural color. Sculpture relief is inclined to be a same plane. Horizontal and vertical lines tend to construct a mathematical formation. All human figures make a big triangle and each small group makes some small triangles in the big triangle. So the triangles create a balance compositionally. And two women look at each other diagonally. Two babies also look at each other diagonally, and they are a kind of precision in the composition. Synthetically, the picture is a stable, symmetrical and concise composition. And there is a stiff co...

Posted by: Andres Cisneros

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