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Eugene Delacroix (FRENCH) Theodore Gericault (FRENCH) Francisco Goya (SPANISH) John Constable (ENGLISH) Joseph Turner (ENGLISH). Hudson River School. Thomas Cole Frederick Edwin Church Asher B. Durand Albert Bierstadt Robert Duncanson. Eugene Delacroix Self-Portrait, 1837 ROMANTIC.
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Eugene Delacroix (FRENCH) Theodore Gericault (FRENCH) Francisco Goya (SPANISH) John Constable (ENGLISH) Joseph Turner (ENGLISH) Hudson River School Thomas Cole Frederick Edwin Church Asher B. Durand Albert Bierstadt Robert Duncanson
Eugene DelacroixSelf-Portrait, 1837 ROMANTIC Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres Master of Drawing NEOCLASSICAL
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781. The woman lies asleep, draped across the bed. An incubus, a demon believed in medieval times to prey, often sexually, on sleeping women, sits on the woman. In the background, a ghostly horse with flaming eyes bursts into the scene from beyond the curtain. Romantic artists liked to depict the dark terrain of the human subconscious. In their images of the sublime and terrible, artists often used something of Baroque dynamism with natural details in their quest for moving visions. This contrasted the more intellectual, rational Neoclassical themes and presentations. These were not exclusive traits however. The word nightmare is actually derived from the words night and mara. Mara was a spirit in northern mythology that was thought to torment and suffocate sleepers.
Goya reflected on the Enlightenment and Neoclassical eras’ penchant for rationality and order in order to come to the ultimate decision to dismiss Neoclassicism. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is an etching and aquatint from Los Caprichos, a series. This image shows Goya asleep, resting on a table or writing stand, surrounded by menacing creatures who seem ready to attack. The owls symbolize folly, and the bats symbolize ignorance. Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1798
Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV,1800. Goya was recognized for his skill fairly early in life and appointed as the Pintor del Rey (Painter to the King) in 1786. He was later appointed to First Court Painter in 1799, and produced works such as this. The Family of Charles IV shows King Charles IV and Queen Marie Luisa surrounded by their children. Goya used his predecessor Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninasas inspiration for the work. The royal family appears facing viewers in an interior space. Goya includes himself in the rear left of the painting in the act of painting on a large canvas.
Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814. The Spanish people, finally recognizing the French as invaders, sought a way to expel the foreign troops. On May 2, 1808, in frustration, the Spanish attacked the Napoleonic soldiers in a chaotic and violent clash. In retaliation and as a show of force, the French responded the next day by executing numerous Spanish citizens. This tragic event is the subject of Goya’s most famous painting, The Third of May 1808.
Goya’s later works were called the “Black Paintings.” His declining heath only contributed to his state of mind. His works became increasingly disillusioned and pessimistic. This painting depicts the raw carnage and violence of Saturn, wild eyed and monstrous, as he consumes one of his children. Because of the similarity of Kronos and Khronos (the Greek word for time), Saturn has come to be associated with time. This has led to an interpretation of Goya’s painting about the artist’s despair over the passage of time. Despite the image’s simplicity, it conveys a wildness, boldness, and brutality that cannot help but evoke and elemental response from any viewer. The demons that haunted Goya emerged in his art. Historian Gwyn Williams nicely sums up Goya’s Black Paintings with this quote: “As for the grotesque, the maniacal, the occult, the witchery, they are precisely the product of the sleep of human reason; they are human nightmares. That these monsters are human is, indeed, the point.” Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Children, 1819.
Gericault examined the influence of mental states on the human face and believed, as others did, that a face accurately revealed character, especially in madness and at the instance of death. He made many studies of the inmates at hospitals and institutions for the criminally insane, and he studied the severed heads of guillotine victims. These portraits present the psychic facts with astonishing authenticity, especially in contrast to earlier idealized commissioned portraiture. The more the Romantics became involved with nature, sane or mad, the more they hoped to reach the truth. Théodore Géricault, Insane Woman, 1822-1823.
Thomas Cole,The Oxbow, 1836. The Hudson River Schoolwas a mid-19th century American art movement by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. Their paintings depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, as well as the Catskill Mountains, Adirondack Mountains, and White Mountains of New Hampshire. Note that "school" in this sense refers to a group of people whose outlook, inspiration, output, or style demonstrates a common thread, rather than a learning institution.
Thomas Cole,The Oxbow, 1836. Some of the artists included in this ‘school’ or group are: Thomas Cole Frederick Edwin Church Asher B. Durand Albert Bierstadt Robert Duncanson
Asher B. Durand,Kindred Spirits, 1849. Kindred Spiritsis perhaps the best known painting of Hudson River School painter Asher Durand. It depicts the recently deceased painter Thomas Cole and his friend the poet William Cullen Bryant in the Catskill Mountains. The landscape is not a literal record of a particular site but an idealized memory of Thomas Cole's discovery of the region. Bryant's daughter Julia donated the painting to the New York Public Library in 1904. In 2005, it was sold at auction to Walmart heiress Alice Walton for $35 million, a record for a painting by an American artist.
Albert Bierstadt,Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868.
Albert Bierstadt,Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868.
The Barbizon School The Barbizon school(circa 1830 – 1870) of painters is named after the village of Barbizon (France) where the artists gathered. The Barbizon painters were part of a movement towards realism in art which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. Millet,The Gleaners, 1857. REALISM
The Barbizon School In 1824 the Salon de Paris exhibited works of John Constable. His rural scenes influenced some of the younger artists of the time, moving them to abandon formalism and to draw inspiration directly from nature. Natural scenes became the subjects of their paintings rather than mere backdrops to dramatic events. During the Revolutions of 1848 artists gathered at Barbizon to follow Constable's ideas, making nature the subject of their paintings. One of them, Jean-François Millet, extended the idea from landscape to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In The Gleaners (1857), Millet portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. There is no drama and no story told, merely three peasant women in a field. Millet,The Gleaners, 1857. REALISM
Great names in Photography Joseph-Nicéphore Niepcé Created 1st known image in 1826 Worked with Niepcé. After Niepcé’s death, added a lens and a positive metal image (Daguerrotype) Discovered light-sensitive paper, Negative image on metal for countless reproductions Discovered using silver nitrate on glass made for clearer pictures in just a few seconds Louis-Jacques Daguerre Henry Fox Talbot Frederick Scott Archer
Portable Camera Obscura, Late 18th Century(Popular accessory to sketching)
The collaborative efforts of Delacroix and Eugene Durieu as seen in this photograph demonstrate the symbiotic relationship between painters and photographers. This photograph provided Delacroix with a permanent image of the posed nude female model, photographers sometimes also attempted to create the mood through careful lighting and the draping of the cloth. Eugene Durieu and Eugéne Delacroix, Draped Model, 1854.
Capturing an Artist’s Likeness This portrait shows the painter at the height of his career. In the photograph, the artist appears with remarkable presence. His gesture and expression create a revealing mood that seems to tell viewers much about him. The new photographic materials made possible the rich range of tones in Nadar’s images. Glass negatives and albumen printing paper could record finer detail and wider range of light and shadow. Nadar, Eugene Delacroix, 1855.
Louis-Jacques Daguerre, Still Life in Studio, Daguerreotype, 1837.
Henry Fox Talbot Discovered light-sensitive paper, Negative image on metal for countless reproductions
Henry Fox Talbot, Photogenic drawing of a fern leaf, c.1835-40.