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Chapter Seventeen Romanticism, Realism, and Photography. Culture and Values, 8 th Ed. Cunningham and Reich and Fichner-Rathus. 17.2 A panoramic view of London , ca. 1858. The Intellectual Background. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Transcendental idealism Critique of Judgment (1790)
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Chapter SeventeenRomanticism, Realism, and Photography Culture and Values, 8th Ed. Cunningham and Reich and Fichner-Rathus
The Intellectual Background • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) • Transcendental idealism • Critique of Judgment(1790) • Art reconciles opposites • Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) • Synthesis of thesis, antithesis • Optimistic “World Spirit”
The Intellectual Background • Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) • Dominating world power is evil • The World as Will and Idea (1819) • Despondency, pessimism, gloom • Karl Marx (1818-1883) • Communist Manifesto (1848) • Universal proletariat, revolution • Artistic realism: social and political • Anti-capitalism
Other Industrial Developments • Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) • Theory of evolution, natural selection • “Social Darwinism” • Physics, chemistry • Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) • Railroads, factories • “a wilderness of human beings”
Art Under Napoleon • Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) • Neo-Classical style • Conceptual vs. personal emotion • Ingres’ defense of Classicism • Inspired by Greek art • Waged a war against Romantic painting • Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson • Combines Neo-Classical and Romantic motifs
17.6 Jacques-Louis David, The Consecration of Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, 2 December 1804, 1806-1807
17.7 Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, The Entombment of Atala, 1808
17.8 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814
The Concerns of Romanticism • Expression of personal feelings • Emotionality, subjectivity • Individual creative imagination • Mystical attachment to nature • Love of the fantastic and the exotic
17.12 Francisco de Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1797-1798
Romantic Art in Spain and France • Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) • Execution of the Madrileños (1814) • No idealization • Persuasive emotionality • Personal commitment, vision
17.12 Francisco de Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1797-1798
Francisco de Goya, The Family of Charles IV, 1800. Oil on canvas, 110″ × 132″ (280 × 336 cm). Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Romantic Art in Spain and France • Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa(1818) • Intended as a direct indictment of the government • Romantic art of Delacroix (1798-1863) • Use of color to create form • Violent, emotional scenes • The Death of Sardanapalus (1826)
17.16 Jean Louis André-Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818
Jean Louis André-Théodore Géricault, Portraits of the Insane
Théodore Géricault, Portait of a Child Snatcher, 1822, oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusets)
Ferdinand-Eugène-Victor Delacroix, Liberty Leading Her People
Ferdinand-Eugène-Victor Delacroix, The Massacre at Chios, 1824. Oil on canvas, 13′7″ × 11′10″ (419 × 354 cm). Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.
Romantic Art in the United Kingdom and Germany • William Blake (1757-1827) • Landscape as Romantic device • Constable’s Hay Wain (1821) • Turner’s Slave Ship (1840) • Friedrich’s Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist (1817-1818)
William Blake, The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan, in whose wreathings are infolded the Nations of the Earth, c. 1805-9, tempera on canvas 30" x 24" (76.2 x 62.5cm), Tate Britain, London
William Blake, Black Slave on Gallows, 1796. Copper engraving, original coloring, 7 ⅝″ × 10″ (19.5 × 25.4 cm). British Library, London, United Kingdom.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Transept of Tintern Abbey, 1794. Watercolor, 12 ⅝″ × 9 ⅞″ (32.2 × 25.1 cm). Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1851-53, oil on canvas, 197 x 303 cm (Tate Britain)
17.22 Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist, 1817-1818
Romantic Poetry • William Blake (1757-1827) • Accomplished in both literature and the visual arts; “The Tyger” (1794) • William Wordsworth (1770-1850) • Founded Romantic movement • “Emotion recollected in tranquility” • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Illustrates humankind’s powerlessness in the face of the majesty of nature
William Blake 1757-1827 • Engraver by trade • A Swedenborg—mysticism • Married but no children • Printshop • “I must create a system or be enslaved by another Man’s” • Poetic Sketches, Songs of Innocence, The Book of Thel, Songs of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Experience, America: A Prophecy, • Wrote and engraved/illustrated own works
Blake • Aimed to be prophet and visionary—meant work to be taken literally • Creates own mythic world but mixes real historic figures • Vivid description, mood imagination • Making everyday events mythic inspires people and raises awareness of social and political issues. • Imagery and symbolism • Crazy?
Romantic Period 1798-1870 • Rejects the imitation of classical work from Neoclassical, rejects rationality • Freedom of individual self-expression: spontaneity, originality, sincerity, emotional, personal experience • Emotional intensity: rapture, nostalgia, horror, melancholy, sentimentality, exotic, dreams • Values of revolution, democracy, and nationalism • Nature primary inspiration and subject • Crosses all disciplines involves philosophy, political revolutions, and lifestyle • Poetry: Romantic lyric: 3 stanzas with 8 lines each • Repetition, Sensory imagery
William Wordsworth 1770-1850 • Parents died by 13 • St. John’s College, Cambridge • Walking tour of France, Alps, Italy • Inspired by French revolution • Began publishing poetry • Settled down with his sister Dorothy • Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, • 1802 married, 5 children • Deaths of brother and 2 children & Coleridge’s illness • 1813 Stamp distributor, • 1843 Poet Laureate
Wordsworth • “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling as recollected in moments of tranquility” • Imagination fuses with memory and real life situations—requires quiet reflection • Nature more real, pure, simple, noble, more essentially human • Stresses importance of the feelings of the poet over the subject matter • Preface to Lyrical Ballads—language of the common man, rejects fancy language of pre- • Nature is the muse –shepherd, peasant, beggar • Return to true nature not picturesque
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 • Jesus College, Cambridge • French revolutionary politics, drinking • Southey—Pantisocracy • 1797 met Wordsworths lived and worked together-- blank verse conversation poems • Left for Germany to study • 1800 Lake District—unhappy marriage and love affair with Wordsworth’s sister-in-law • Crippling opium addiction-notebooks dreams meditations • Travelled, separated from wife, Wordsworths, lectures—”organic form” • Addiction and ending of friendships lead to suicide—rebirth/recovery • After poetry collections and a series of essays on criticism: imagination, reason, symbolism, organic form…
Romantic Poetry • Lord Byron (1788-1824) • Tormented Romantic hero, Byronic • Commitment to struggles for liberty • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) • Atheism, anarchy • Perfectability of humanity • Unification of extreme emotions • John Keats (1795-1821) • Tragedy of existence, peace of death
2nd Generation Romantics • Thought Wordsworth was simple and dull and egotistical sublime • Importance of nature, feelings, imagination and self-consciousness but twisted • Take Wordsworth and then branch out
Lord George Gordon Byron 1788-1824 • Aristocrats w/ money issues, father died young • 10 years old title and estates of 5th Baron Byron • Trinity College, Cambridge—debt & affair w/ young man • Travelled & published • Seat in House of Lords—Grand Tour-publishing • Weight issues/clubfoot • 1816 Run out of English due to affairs, legal separation from his wife and alleged incest w/sister other sexual exploits--Italy • 1824 Died defending the Greeks from Ottoman empire
Byron • —”Byronic hero” Villainous heroes, satiric barbs, melancholy, reclusive, seductive, rakish behavor • Favored classical forms-Spenserian stanzas, ottava rima (8 lines stanzas), satire • Radical politics, orientalism, critical of earlier Romanantics • Celebrity poet • Fugitive Pieces Hours of Idleness English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Beppo, The Vision of Judgment, Don Juan