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Art in the Romantic Era

Art in the Romantic Era. The Death of Marat by David 1793. David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps , 1800. David, Coronation of Napoleon , 1805-7. detail, Coronation. Arc de Triomphe, Paris 1806-37. Aspects of Romanticism in music & art. The Engaged & Enraged Artist Nature

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Art in the Romantic Era

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  1. Art in the Romantic Era

  2. The Death of Marat by David 1793

  3. David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800

  4. David, Coronation of Napoleon, 1805-7

  5. detail, Coronation

  6. Arc de Triomphe, Paris 1806-37

  7. Aspects of Romanticism in music & art • The Engaged & Enraged Artist • Nature • Supernatural, demonic; dreams & madness • exoticism • “ancient” (Medieval –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance

  8. Engaged and enraged • THEARTIST APART FROM SOCIETY • THE ARTIST AS SOCIAL CRITIC/REVOLUTIONARY • THE ARTIST AS GENIUS ARE WE NOT STILL IN THE ROMANTIC ERA?

  9. Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 textp. 334

  10. Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15 textp. 336

  11. Goya, Disasters of WarBrave Deeds Against the Dead Etching Political communication

  12. Nature • peaceful, restorative, an escape;The Picturesque • awesome, powerful, horrifying, overwhelming, indifferent to the fate of humans; The Sublime • the language of God (edited) • an inner emotional (subjective) state

  13. textp. 338 John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821

  14. Constable Salisbury Cathedral1826 God as nature, nature as God.

  15. Caspar David Friedrich,The Wanderer Above the Mists,c. 1817-18 textp. 337

  16. FRIEDRICH, Caspar DavidThe Sea of Ice, c. 1823-25, Oil on canvas, 96.7 x 126.9 cm

  17. textp. 340 J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1842

  18. detail,The Slave Ship

  19. textp. 340 Turner, Joseph Mallord William, Rain, Steam and Speed1844, Oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 48 in.

  20. detail

  21. Constable Turner

  22. The Raft of the Medusaby Gericault 1819

  23. Church, Frederic EdwinRainy Season in the Tropics1866, Oil on canvas, 56 1/4 x 84 3/16 in. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

  24. Church, Frederic Edwin, The Icebergs1861, Oil on canvas, 64 1/4 x 112 1/4 in

  25. Bierstadt, AlbertAmong the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California1868, Oil on canvas, 183 x 305 cm textp. 341

  26. The Supernatural • ghosts, fairies, witches, demons, etc. • the shadows of the mind – dreams & madness • reaction to Rationalism? (1st witch scare during the Renaissance) – the escape from Reason

  27. DelacroixMéphistophélès dans les airs, 1828No. 2 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's Faust

  28. DelacroixFaust dans la prison de Marguerite, 1828No. 18 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's Faust

  29. textp. 345 Goya,The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters1796-8etching

  30. Goya Kronos devouring his children

  31. Goya, Witches’ Sabbath, c. 1819-23 textp. 345

  32. Theodore Gericault Mad Woman with a Mania of Envy 1822-23 Study of the insane

  33. Goya The Lunatics

  34. Exoticism • the sexy Other • psychological/moral justification of imperialism? • England is exotic to the Italians, Italy exotic to the English! • a sense of escape?

  35. p. 333 Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1826

  36. detail,Sardanapalus

  37. Ingres, Jean Auguste DominiqueLa Grand Odalisque1814Oil on canvas

  38. detail

  39. Jean Auguste Ingres, The Turkish Bath, c1852-63 textp. 344

  40. detail,Ingres

  41. Portrait of a NegressMarie Guillemine Benoist, 1800 Political comment on the rights of women? p. 327

  42. textp. 343 John NashRoyal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823

  43. textp. 343 John NashRoyal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823

  44. Revival of past styles • Gothic & Romanesque revival • free mixture of stylistic elements • Gothic verticality & asymmetry

  45. Fonthill Abbey 1823 The most influential collapsed building? aka “Beckford’s folly” mentioned in textp. 342

  46. Fonthill, painting of the interior by the architect, James Wyatt

  47. Cole, The Architect’s Dream, 1840

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