"The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe, especially Western Europe, in the 17th and 18th centuries, with global influences and effects."
Artistic representations during the Age of Enlightenment focused on the principles of reason and rationalism, shaping new movements like Neoclassicism.
Neoclassicism: A movement in the Age of Enlightenment that sought inspiration from classical art and culture.
Rococo: A decorative style in the Age of Enlightenment characterized by intricate and whimsical designs.
Baroque: A grand and dramatic style in the Age of Enlightenment marked by ornate decoration, intense emotion, and awe-inspiring scale.
Romanticism: An artistic movement in the Age of Enlightenment emphasizing emotion, individualism, and the sublime.
Realism: A movement in the Age of Enlightenment that aimed to depict ordinary life accurately and truthfully.
Impressionism: An artistic movement in the Age of Enlightenment focused on capturing the momentary impressions of light and color in everyday life.
Post-Impressionism: An artistic movement in the Age of Enlightenment characterized by the use of vivid colors and expressive brush strokes to convey emotion and subjective experience.
Fauvism: An artistic movement in the Age of Enlightenment characterized by the use of bold and bright colors, as well as simplified forms.
Cubism: An artistic movement in the Age of Enlightenment emphasizing the breakdown of traditional forms and the use of geometric shapes.
Surrealism: An artistic movement in the Age of Enlightenment focused on exploring the subconscious mind and dreams.
Abstract Expressionism: An artistic movement in the Age of Enlightenment characterized by the use of large scale canvases and gestural brushstrokes to convey emotion and energy.
Pop Art: An artistic movement in the Age of Enlightenment focused on the images and icons of popular culture.
Neoclassicism: A revival of classical art and architecture that emphasized simplicity, order, and rationality.
Rococo: A decorative art style that emphasized frivolity, asymmetry, and ornamentation.
Romanticism: An art movement characterized by an emphasis on emotion, imagination, and individualism.
Realism: An art movement that sought to depict the world as it truly was, without idealization or exaggeration.
Impressionism: An art movement that explored the effects of light and color in nature, characterized by loose brushstrokes and an emphasis on capturing fleeting moments.
Post-Impressionism: An art movement that built on the foundations of Impressionism, but also incorporated more abstract and expressive elements.
Symbolism: An art movement that sought to express the ineffable and mystical aspects of human experience through symbolism, allegory, and suggestion.
Art Nouveau: A decorative art style that emphasized organic forms, flowing lines, and floral motifs.
Fauvism: An art movement characterized by bold colors and a rejection of realistic representation.
Expressionism: An art movement that emphasized the subjective emotional experience of the artist, often exploring themes of anxiety, alienation, and madness.
"The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the senses, and ideals such as natural law, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state."
"A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism, socialism, and neoclassicism, trace their intellectual heritage to the Enlightenment."
"The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the Catholic Church and paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries."
"Philosophers and scientists of the period widely circulated their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, Masonic lodges, literary salons, coffeehouses, and in printed books, journals, and pamphlets."
"The Enlightenment was preceded by the Scientific Revolution and the work of Francis Bacon and John Locke, among others."
"European historians traditionally date its beginning with the death of Louis XIV of France in 1715 and its end with the 1789 outbreak of the French Revolution."
"Many historians now date the end of the Enlightenment as the start of the 19th century, with the latest proposed year being the death of Immanuel Kant in 1804."
"The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Church."
"The concepts of utility and sociability were also crucial in the dissemination of information that would better society as a whole."
"The Enlightenment was marked by an increasing awareness of the relationship between the mind and the everyday media of the world."
"The Enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism, along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy."
"Some date the beginning of the Enlightenment to the publication of René Descartes' Discourse on the Method in 1637, featuring his famous dictum, Cogito, ergo sum ('I think, therefore I am')."
"Others cite the publication of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687) as the culmination of the Scientific Revolution and the beginning of the Enlightenment."
"An attitude captured by Kant's essay Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment, where the phrase Sapere aude (Dare to know) can be found."
"The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the Catholic Church and paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries."
"Ideals such as natural law, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state."
"The concepts of utility and sociability were also crucial in the dissemination of information that would better society as a whole."
"Philosophers and scientists of the period widely circulated their ideas through meetings at scientific academies, Masonic lodges, literary salons, coffeehouses, and in printed books, journals, and pamphlets."
"A variety of 19th-century movements, including liberalism, socialism, and neoclassicism, trace their intellectual heritage to the Enlightenment."