1. Artistic Movements of the 1800s (approximately)

2. Romanticism

3. Romanticism 1750 - 1850 Reaction to the Age of Reason
Human emotion and imagination over reason
Rejected industrial society
Return to nature - wild, unbound, ever-changing
Celebrated the lives of simple peasants

4. “Romanticism is not in the choice of subject matter, nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling”

5. Caspar David Friedrich
Chalk Cliffs on Rügen,
Caspar David Friedrich

6. On Board a Sailing Ship
Caspar David Freidrich

7. The Cross on the Mountain

8. The Tree of Crows

9. Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley

10. The Death of General Wolfe Benjamin West

11. The Nightmare John Henry Fuseli

12. Fur Traders on the Missouri George Caleb Bingham

13. The Third of May, 1808 Francisco Goya

14. The Raft of the “Medusa” Théodore Géricault\

15. The Cross in the Mountains, 1808

16. Visual Arts: Examples
Romantic Art
Neoclassical Art

17. Realism

18. Realism Mid-1800s Expresses things matter-of-factly Minimal emotions
Reject the sentimentality of Romanticism
Wished to portray life as it was, not escape from it.
Portray real and concrete things

19. The Stone Breakers – 1849-1850 Gustave Courbet

20. Gustave Courbet Burial of Ornas

22. The Desperate Man (The Man Made by Fear), 1843-44
Gustave Courbert

23. Self-Portrait (Man with a Pipe) 1848-49

24. The Sleeping Spinner 1853

25. The Peasants of Flagey Returning from the Fair, Ornans 1850-55

26. The Meeting (Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet) 1854

27. The Fox in the Snow, 1860

28. Portrait of P.J. Proudhon in 1853, 1865

29. Ville d’Avary Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

30. Jean-Francois Millet, The Sower

31. Millet – Man with a Hoe

32. The Gleaners - Millet

33. Symbolism 1880s-1920s Impressions rather than direct statements
“…to name an object is to destroy three-quarters of the enjoyment of a poem, which is made up of the pleasure of guessing little by little.”
Stéphane Mallarmé

34. The Balloon Eye – Odilon Redon

37. Impressionism

38. Impressionism
Abandoned old rules about subject, traditional lines, perspective and studio light
Moved out of the studio
Sought to capture a momentary impression a subject had on the senses

39. Impression: Sunrise – 1872 Claude Monet

40. Ballerina – Renoir

41. Prima Ballerina – Edgar Degas

42. Water Lilies – Claude Monet

43. Claude Monet – The River

44. Monet - Haystacks

45. Alfred Sisley

46. Post-Impressionism
1880s

47. Paul Cézanne

48. Paul Cézanne

49. Georges Seurat Gray Weather, Grand Jatte

50. Entrée de Port de Honfleur Georges Seurat

51. Van Gogh Wheat Field with Cypresses

52. Van Gogh, Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear

53. Van Gogh – Starry Night