A Look at Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art and Movements

1. A Look at Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art and Movements

2. Appreciating the “impulse from a vernal wood” ROMANTICISM

3. O man, of whatever country you are, and whatever your opinions may be, behold your history, such as I have thought to read it, not in books, written by your fellow- creatures, who are liars, but in nature, which never lies.” --- Rousseau Rousseau and his Social Contract

4. Features of Romanticism • Emphasis on the Imagination • Emphasis on the Rights of the Individual, the Common Man • Emphasis on Nature • Emphasis on Exotic Locales

5. The Imagination

6. Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781. Oil on canvas

7. William Blake, Ancient of Days, 1794. Metal relief etching.

8. Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, ca. 1798. Etching and aquatint.

9. Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808. Oil on canvas.

10. Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Children, 1819-23. Detail of a detached fresco on canvas.

11. Eugene Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1826. Oil on canvas.

12. The Rights of the Individual, of the Common Man

13. Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830. Oil on canvas.

14. Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19. Oil on canvas.

15. Theodore Gericault, Insane Woman, 1822-23. Oil on canvas.

16. Nature and Exotic Locales

17. John Constable, The Haywain, 1821. Oil on canvas.

18. J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840. Oil on canvas.

19. The Hudson River School in America

20. Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836. Oil on canvas.

21. Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868. Oil on canvas.

22. Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860’s. Oil on canvas.

23. Thomas Cole, Kaaterskill Falls, 1826

24. Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849Painter Thomas Cole with his friend poet William Cullen Bryant

25. Components of the Realism Movement • Realism seeks topresent the world as it is in its present time • Dialect is important; regionalism grows out of the realism movement • Details about the everyday lives of the common man become important • First criticized as grotesque and uncouth • Becomes socially critical

26. European Realism

27. Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849-50. Oil on canvas.

28. Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners. Oil on canvas.

29. Honore Daumier, Rue Transnonain, 1834. Lithograph.

30. Honore Daumier, The Third-Class Carriage, ca. 1862. Oil on canvas.

31. Eduoard Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe(Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas.

32. American Realism

33. Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865. Oil on canvas.

34. Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free, 1867. Marble, 3’5 1/4 “ x 11” x 7”

35. Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875. Oil on canvas.

36. Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Getysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863. Negative by Timothy O’ Sullivan.

37. Frederic Remington, The Cavalry Charge, 1907. Oil on canvas.

38. Frederic Remington, Radisson and Groseilliers, 1905. Oil on canvas.

39. Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1905. Bronze.

40. Features of Impressionism, 1880’s • Seeks to present life in its present moment • As such, very concerned with effects of light • Impressionist absorption with light on color also deepened and encouraged by new color theories of late 19th century • Impressionist movement also seen at first in a negative light

41. Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise 1872. Oil on canvas.

42. Claude Monet, Terrace at Sainte-Adresse, 1866-67. Oil on canvas.

43. Claude Monet, Haystack, 1891. Oil on canvas.

44. Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral(Full Sunlight), 1893. Oil on canvas.

45. Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1906. Oil on canvas.

46. American Impressionists

47. Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning, 1885 Even inImpressionism, American artists still stress the rugged individual

48. One of America’s Most Famous Impressionist Paintings:Winslow Homer, Snap the Whip, 1872.

49. Mary Cassatt

50. “You are all a lost generation.” -- Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway Modernism: 1900-1950