1. Romantic Art

2. Characteristics Great diversity Subjects Contemporary events
Literature
Nature
History
Exotic places

3. New Way of Seeing the World
Personal Feeling
Imagination
Nature and Natural Landscape
Hero & Heroism
National struggles for independence

4. Neoclassical

5. Romantic Techniques Irregularity Irrationality Model form by color
Deliberate brushstrokes
Exaggeration
Emphasis on individuality

6. Precursors to the Romantic Movement

7. David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass, 1800, Romantic

8. David examples
Other art by David

9. Antoine Jean Gros 1771-1835 David’s student
Napoleon’s official battle painter
“Glamorous Lies”

10. Gros, Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa

11. New Romantic Work

12. Francisco Goya 1746-1828 “Father of Modern Art”
Worked for over 60 years
Personal emotion in work
Napoleon invades Spain – work changes

13. Goya, Third of May 1808, Romantic, 1814

14. Disasters of War

15. Disasters of War
I saw this - title

16. Theodore Géricault 1791-1824 Fashionable dandy
Colorful, energetic pieces
Wide range of subject matter
Inspiration
Horses
Clinically insane

17. Gericault , The Raft of the Medusa, Romantic, 1814

18. 19th Century Nationalism
Definition of nationalism again
Curiosity
Exotic Subjects
Invasion of Egypt in
Two ways of looking

19. Classicism & Color
Ingres’ followers – classical ideal & sense of reason
Delacroix’s followers – progressive style & color in art & appeals to emotion

20. Ingres

21. Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863 Color & emotion Similar to Byron
Imagination
Dramatic Narrative
Exotic subjects

22. Death of Sardanapalus

23. Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, Romantic, 1830

24. Nike of Samothrace & Liberty

25. Comparison

26. Liberty Leading the People

27. Romantic Landscapes Man verses nature Industrial Revolution
Two ways of interacting with nature
Violent and destroys
Idealized and cherished

28. Joseph Mallord William Turner
Eccentric personality
Fierce quality of man vs. nature
Abstract & Impressionistic
Based on actual events

29. Turner, The Slave Ship, Romantic, 1840

30. Caspar David Friedrich
Symbolic landscape
Religious mysticism
“gothic gloom”

31. Friedrich , Two Men Gazing at the Moon, Romantic, 1819-1820

32. Thomas Cole 1801-1848 Emigrated to America
Elevated moral tone in his landscape paintings
Hudson River School

33. Cole, The Oxbow, Hudson River School, 1836

34. Sculpture

35. Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty, 1884

36. Rude, The Departure of the Volunteers, 1792

37. Edmonia Lewis 1840s-1890s African American and Native American descent
Ex-patriot
Does all the work herself

38. Lewis, Forever Free, Romantic, 1847

39. England

40. Alfred Lord Tennyson 1802-1892 Poet Laureate Idylls of the King, 1859
Story of King Arthur

41. Pre-Raphaelites
1848
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt
Based on a real model

42. Pre-Raphaelites Generally brighter paintings “Truth to nature”
Significant subjects
Medieval tales
Religion
Poetry

43. Rossetti

44. Millais

45. William Holman Hunt

46. 19th Century Architecture
Looks to the past
Neoclassical no longer appeals to everyone
Medieval World
Nation’s historical & cultural past

47. Charles Barry and AWN Pugin, The British Houses of Parliament, 1840-60, Neo-Medievalism/Gothic

48. Nash, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815, Exotic