Rise of Neoclassicism
As a reaction to the excessive decoration of the Baroque era, artists again looked back to the Greeks and Romans for a more serious and clear-headed vision of realism. Society also began to examine the role of the king in the late 1700’s as moral and political leader. The French king and his court had distanced themselves from the population who were living in poverty and dispair. The royal court did nothing to assist. “Let them eat cake” is a phrase that illustrates the separation of the king from the population. Consequently, the masses rose-up against the aristocracy beginning in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille.
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