Romantic Art
Characteristics Great diversity Subjects Contemporary events Literature Nature History Exotic places
New Way of Seeing the World Personal Feeling Imagination Nature and Natural Landscape Hero & Heroism National struggles for independence
Neoclassical
Romantic Techniques Irregularity Irrationality Model form by color Deliberate brushstrokes Exaggeration Emphasis on individuality
Precursors to the Romantic Movement
David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass, 1800, Romantic
David examples Other art by David
Antoine Jean Gros 1771-1835 David’s student Napoleon’s official battle painter “Glamorous Lies”
Gros, Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa
New Romantic Work
Francisco Goya 1746-1828 “Father of Modern Art” Worked for over 60 years Personal emotion in work Napoleon invades Spain – work changes
Goya, Third of May 1808, Romantic, 1814
Disasters of War
Disasters of War I saw this - title
Theodore Géricault 1791-1824 Fashionable dandy Colorful, energetic pieces Wide range of subject matter Inspiration Horses Clinically insane
Gericault , The Raft of the Medusa, Romantic, 1814
19th Century Nationalism Definition of nationalism again Curiosity Exotic Subjects Invasion of Egypt in 1798-1801 Two ways of looking
Classicism & Color Ingres’ followers – classical ideal & sense of reason Delacroix’s followers – progressive style & color in art & appeals to emotion
Ingres
Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863 Color & emotion Similar to Byron Imagination Dramatic Narrative Exotic subjects
Death of Sardanapalus
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, Romantic, 1830
Nike of Samothrace & Liberty
Comparison
Liberty Leading the People
Romantic Landscapes Man verses nature Industrial Revolution Two ways of interacting with nature Violent and destroys Idealized and cherished
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Eccentric personality Fierce quality of man vs. nature Abstract & Impressionistic Based on actual events
Turner, The Slave Ship, Romantic, 1840
Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840 Symbolic landscape Religious mysticism “gothic gloom”
Friedrich , Two Men Gazing at the Moon, Romantic, 1819-1820
Thomas Cole 1801-1848 Emigrated to America Elevated moral tone in his landscape paintings Hudson River School
Cole, The Oxbow, Hudson River School, 1836
Sculpture
Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty, 1884
Rude, The Departure of the Volunteers, 1792
Edmonia Lewis 1840s-1890s African American and Native American descent Ex-patriot Does all the work herself
Lewis, Forever Free, Romantic, 1847
England
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1802-1892 Poet Laureate Idylls of the King, 1859 Story of King Arthur
Pre-Raphaelites 1848 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt Based on a real model
Pre-Raphaelites Generally brighter paintings “Truth to nature” Significant subjects Medieval tales Religion Poetry
Rossetti
Millais
William Holman Hunt
19th Century Architecture Looks to the past Neoclassical no longer appeals to everyone Medieval World Nation’s historical & cultural past
Charles Barry and AWN Pugin, The British Houses of Parliament, 1840-60, Neo-Medievalism/Gothic
Nash, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815, Exotic