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Throughout history, forms of art have gone through periodic abrupt changes called artistic revolutions. Movements have come to an end to be replaced by a new movement markedly different in striking ways. See also cultural movements.

The role of fine art has been to simultaneously express values of the current culture while also offering criticism, balance, or alternatives to any such values that are proving no longer useful. So as times change, art changes. If changes were abrupt they were deemed revolutions. The best artists have predated society's changes due not to any prescience, but because sensitive perceptivity is part of their talent of seeing.

Artists who succeeded enough to portray visions that future generations could live to see, often had to navigate an often treacherous path between their own capacity to see and execute what lesser artists could not, while still appealing to powerful patrons who could finance their visions. For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

No art owes quite as much to state power as French painting does. It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art. Versailles found its stately mirror in the powerful idea of classicism a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.

1. Who put France in the forefront of European art?
2. Who else?
3. What are artistic revolutions?
4. What did paintings glorify in the 17th century?
5. What was classicism?
6. If changes to art were abrupt, what were they called?
7. Why have the best artists predated changes in society?
8. What kind of art owes the most to state power?
9. Who launched the age of absolute monarchy?
10. As times change, what else does too?
11. Who found its mirror in the idea of classicism?
12. What do artists who've succeeded often have to do?

Numbered answers:
1. Le Brun
2. Versailles
3. forms of art having gone through periodic abrupt changes
4. aristocracy
5. a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.
6. artistic revolutions
7. sensitive perceptivity is part of their talent of seeing
8. French painting
9. Louix XIV
10. art
11. Versailles
12. navigate an often treacherous path between their own capacity to see and execute what lesser artists could not, while still appealing to powerful patrons who could finance their visions