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Romantic Art. Characteristics. Great diversity Subjects Contemporary events Literature Nature History Exotic places. Personal Feeling Imagination Nature and Natural Landscape. Hero & Heroism National struggles for independence. New Way of Seeing the World. Neoclassical.
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Characteristics • Great diversity • Subjects • Contemporary events • Literature • Nature • History • Exotic places
Personal Feeling Imagination Nature and Natural Landscape Hero & Heroism National struggles for independence New Way of Seeing the World
Romantic Techniques • Irregularity • Irrationality • Model form by color • Deliberate brushstrokes • Exaggeration • Emphasis on individuality
David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass, 1800, Romantic
Antoine Jean Gros • 1771-1835 • David’s student • Napoleon’s official battle painter • “Glamorous Lies”
Francisco Goya • 1746-1828 • “Father of Modern Art” • Worked for over 60 years • Personal emotion in work • Napoleon invades Spain – work changes
Theodore Géricault • 1791-1824 • Fashionable dandy • Colorful, energetic pieces • Wide range of subject matter • Inspiration • Horses • Clinically insane
19th Century Nationalism • Definition of nationalism again • Curiosity • Exotic Subjects • Invasion of Egypt in 1798-1801 • Two ways of looking
Classicism & Color • Ingres’ followers – classical ideal & sense of reason • Delacroix’s followers – progressive style & color in art & appeals to emotion
Eugene Delacroix • 1798-1863 • Color & emotion • Similar to Byron • Imagination • Dramatic Narrative • Exotic subjects
Romantic Landscapes • Man verses nature • Industrial Revolution • Two ways of interacting with nature • Violent and destroys • Idealized and cherished
Joseph Mallord William Turner • 1775-1851 • Eccentric personality • Fierce quality of man vs. nature • Abstract & Impressionistic • Based on actual events
Caspar David Friedrich • 1774-1840 • Symbolic landscape • Religious mysticism • “gothic gloom”
Thomas Cole • 1801-1848 • Emigrated to America • Elevated moral tone in his landscape paintings • Hudson River School
Edmonia Lewis • 1840s-1890s • African American and Native American descent • Ex-patriot • Does all the work herself
Alfred Lord Tennyson • 1802-1892 • Poet Laureate • Idylls of the King, 1859 • Story of King Arthur
Pre-Raphaelites • 1848 • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt • Based on a real model
Pre-Raphaelites • Generally brighter paintings • “Truth to nature” • Significant subjects • Medieval tales • Religion • Poetry
19th Century Architecture • Looks to the past • Neoclassical no longer appeals to everyone • Medieval World • Nation’s historical & cultural past
Charles Barry and AWN Pugin, The British Houses of Parliament, 1840-60, Neo-Medievalism/Gothic