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Art in the Romantic Era. David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps , 1800. Aspects of Romanticism in music & art. The Engaged & Enraged Artist Nature Supernatural, demonic; dreams & madness exoticism “ancient” (Medieval –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance.
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Aspects of Romanticism in music & art • The Engaged & Enraged Artist • Nature • Supernatural, demonic; dreams & madness • exoticism • “ancient” (Medieval –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance
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?
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 textp. 334
Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15 textp. 336
Goya, Disasters of WarBrave Deeds Against the Dead Etching Political communication
Nature • peaceful, restorative, an escape;The Picturesque • awesome, powerful, horrifying, overwhelming, indifferent to to the fate of humans; The Sublime • the language of God (edited)
textp. 338 John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821
Caspar David Friedrich,The Wanderer Above the Mists,c. 1817-18 textp. 337
FRIEDRICH, Caspar DavidThe Sea of Ice, c. 1823-25, Oil on canvas, 96.7 x 126.9 cm
textp. 340 J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1842
textp. 340 Turner, Joseph Mallord William, Rain, Steam and Speed1844, Oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 48 in.
Constable Turner
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
Church, Frederic Edwin, The Icebergs1861, Oil on canvas, 64 1/4 x 112 1/4 in
Bierstadt, AlbertAmong the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California1868, Oil on canvas, 183 x 305 cm textp. 341
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
DelacroixMéphistophélès dans les airs, 1828No. 2 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's Faust
textp. 345 Goya,The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters1796-8etching
Goya Kronos devouring his children
Goya, Witches’ Sabbath, c. 1819-23 textp. 345
Theodore Gericault Mad Woman with a Mania of Envy 1822-23 Study of the insane
Goya The Lunatics
Exoticism • the sexy Other • psychological/moral justification of imperialism? • England is exotic to the Italians, Italy exotic to the English! • a sense of escape?
p. 333 Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1826
Ingres, Jean Auguste DominiqueLa Grand Odalisque1814Oil on canvas
Portrait of a NegressMarie Guillemine Benoist, 1800 Political comment on the rights of women? p. 327
textp. 343 John NashRoyal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823
Revival of past styles • Gothic & Romanesque revival • free mixture of stylistic elements • Gothic verticality & asymmetry
Fonthill Abbey 1823 The most influential collapsed building? aka “Beckford’s folly” mentioned in textp. 342
Fonthill, painting of the interior by the architect, James Wyatt
textp. 343 Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65
Aspects of Romanticism in music & art • The Engaged & Enraged Artist • Nature • Supernatural, demonic • exoticism • “ancient” (Medieval or folk –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance
Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15 Engaged & enraged: political critique textp. 336
textp. 338 John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821 NATURE: The Picturesque
Caspar David Friedrich,The Wanderer Above the Mists,c. 1817-18 NATURE: The Sublime textp. 337
textp. 345 The escape from REASON Goya,The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters1796-8etching
EXOTICISM: another escape from Reason textp. 343 John NashRoyal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823
textp. 342 Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65 The escape from Reason, Part 3: REVIVAL OF THE PRE-RENAISSANCE PAST