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Watercolor Painting. Impressionists, Post Impressionists and Romantics. What is Romanticism?. Boxers, 1818Théodore Gericault (French, 1791–1824)Lithograph. Early decades of the nineteenth century Return to emotion/experience Emphasis on the imagination and emotion Disorder and tumult
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Watercolor Painting Impressionists, Post Impressionists and Romantics
What is Romanticism? Boxers, 1818Théodore Gericault (French, 1791–1824)Lithograph Early decades of the nineteenth century Return to emotion/experience Emphasis on the imagination and emotion Disorder and tumult Nature and its unpredictability- potential for extremes, nature as violent/terrifying, mans struggle with nature/oneself The “sublime” in art
Landscape • Nature- unpredictable, turbulent force • SUBLIME: philosophy • Something that cannot be described or have limits put on it, an extreme sense of beauty or wonder, a vast magnitude of greatness J.M.W Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834,
Théodore Gericault Interest in human nature, survival, hope also interested in psychological states through portraits- painting psychiatric patients darker sides of childhood through unconventional child portraits. “Géricault believed that a face revealed more, especially in madness and at the moment of death. He made many studies of the inmates in hospitals and institutions for the criminally insane, and he studied the heads of guillotine victims” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_Woman
http://www.louvre.fr Raft of the Medusa
Eugène Delacroix Expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists Illustrated works by wrtiers Shakespeare, Walter Scott and Goethe Wanted to paint passion, with violent action http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix Mephistopheles in Flight, 1828Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)From Goethe's Faust,
Horace Vernet Vernet quickly developed a disdain for the high-minded seriousness of academic French art influenced by Classicism, and decided to paint subjects taken mostly from contemporary culture Battle of valmy
Contemporary Connections Collier Schorr Photographs of wrestlers “At matches I’m not really looking for the pin. If I get it that’s a bonus, but it’s so fast and it may be across the room from you. You get it if it’s in front of you. I think I’m looking for introspection. I’m looking for the moment before the guy goes out there and he's warming up. The moment when he comes off, either exhilarated because he won or devastated because he lost. I’m looking for anyone that’s bleeding. Anyone that’s been beaten up a bit.”
Late 1800s, France • Vibrant color • Capturing the fleeting moment with quick brush strokes • Capturing nature as it was seen • Painting every day scenes from the world they knew • Cropping and framing became important • Paris, and city scenes were popular • Color theory was emerging so there was a lot of experimentation with color • And the use of the camera became popular, influencing their use of foreshortening, perspective, candid qualities, off center focus, spontaneity • Painted plein-air (outside) • Painting people in their environment, working outdoors Impressionism
AUGUST RENOIR http://www.pierre-auguste-renoir.org/
Because of the liberating experience of impressionism, other artists emerged with variations on the style such as Vincent Van Gogh- a post impressionist- • Post impressionists use impressionist styles, but were using color, marks and the subject matter in a more abstract, symbolic and emotional way, thus influencing early expressionism. Post Impressionism
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/vangoghnight/flashsite/http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/vangoghnight/flashsite/ Corridor in the asylum VINCENT VAN GOGH
