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Romantic Art

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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Romantic Art

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  1. Romantic Art

  2. Characteristics • Great diversity • Subjects • Contemporary events • Literature • Nature • History • Exotic places

  3. Personal Feeling Imagination Nature and Natural Landscape Hero & Heroism National struggles for independence New Way of Seeing the World

  4. Neoclassical

  5. Romantic Techniques • Irregularity • Irrationality • Model form by color • Deliberate brushstrokes • Exaggeration • Emphasis on individuality

  6. Precursors to the Romantic Movement

  7. David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass, 1800, Romantic

  8. David examples

  9. Antoine Jean Gros • 1771-1835 • David’s student • Napoleon’s official battle painter • “Glamorous Lies”

  10. Gros, Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa

  11. New Romantic Work

  12. Francisco Goya • 1746-1828 • “Father of Modern Art” • Worked for over 60 years • Personal emotion in work • Napoleon invades Spain – work changes

  13. Goya, Third of May 1808, Romantic, 1814

  14. Disasters of War

  15. Disasters of War

  16. Theodore Géricault • 1791-1824 • Fashionable dandy • Colorful, energetic pieces • Wide range of subject matter • Inspiration • Horses • Clinically insane

  17. Gericault , The Raft of the Medusa, Romantic, 1814

  18. 19th Century Nationalism • Definition of nationalism again • Curiosity • Exotic Subjects • Invasion of Egypt in 1798-1801 • Two ways of looking

  19. Classicism & Color • Ingres’ followers – classical ideal & sense of reason • Delacroix’s followers – progressive style & color in art & appeals to emotion

  20. Ingres

  21. Eugene Delacroix • 1798-1863 • Color & emotion • Similar to Byron • Imagination • Dramatic Narrative • Exotic subjects

  22. Death of Sardanapalus

  23. Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, Romantic, 1830

  24. Nike of Samothrace & Liberty

  25. Comparison

  26. Liberty Leading the People

  27. Romantic Landscapes • Man verses nature • Industrial Revolution • Two ways of interacting with nature • Violent and destroys • Idealized and cherished

  28. Joseph Mallord William Turner • 1775-1851 • Eccentric personality • Fierce quality of man vs. nature • Abstract & Impressionistic • Based on actual events

  29. Turner, The Slave Ship, Romantic, 1840

  30. Caspar David Friedrich • 1774-1840 • Symbolic landscape • Religious mysticism • “gothic gloom”

  31. Friedrich, Two Men Gazing at the Moon, Romantic, 1819-1820

  32. Thomas Cole • 1801-1848 • Emigrated to America • Elevated moral tone in his landscape paintings • Hudson River School

  33. Cole, The Oxbow, Hudson River School, 1836

  34. Sculpture

  35. Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty, 1884

  36. Rude, The Departure of the Volunteers, 1792

  37. Edmonia Lewis • 1840s-1890s • African American and Native American descent • Ex-patriot • Does all the work herself

  38. Lewis, Forever Free, Romantic, 1847

  39. England

  40. Alfred Lord Tennyson • 1802-1892 • Poet Laureate • Idylls of the King, 1859 • Story of King Arthur

  41. Pre-Raphaelites • 1848 • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt • Based on a real model

  42. Pre-Raphaelites • Generally brighter paintings • “Truth to nature” • Significant subjects • Medieval tales • Religion • Poetry

  43. Rossetti

  44. Millais

  45. William Holman Hunt

  46. 19th Century Architecture • Looks to the past • Neoclassical no longer appeals to everyone • Medieval World • Nation’s historical & cultural past

  47. Charles Barry and AWN Pugin, The British Houses of Parliament, 1840-60, Neo-Medievalism/Gothic

  48. Nash, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815, Exotic

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