Art in the Romantic Era
The Death of Marat by David 1793
David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800
David, Coronation of Napoleon,
detail, Coronation
Arc de Triomphe, Paris
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 THE ARTIST 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 text p. 334
Goya, Executions of the Third of May, text p. 336
Goya, Disasters of War Brave Deeds Against the Dead Etching Political communication
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
John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821 text p. 338
Constable Salisbury Cathedral 1826 God as nature, nature as God.
Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above the Mists, c text p. 337
FRIEDRICH, Caspar David The Sea of Ice, c , Oil on canvas, 96.7 x cm
J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1842 text p. 340
detail, The Slave Ship
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, Rain, Steam and Speed 1844, Oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 48 in. text p. 340
detail
Constable Turner
The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault 1819
Church, Frederic Edwin Rainy Season in the Tropics 1866, Oil on canvas, 56 1/4 x 84 3/16 in. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Church, Frederic Edwin, The Icebergs 1861, Oil on canvas, 64 1/4 x 112 1/4 in
Bierstadt, Albert Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California 1868, Oil on canvas, 183 x 305 cm text p. 341
The Supernatural ghosts, fairies, witches, demons, etc. the shadows of the mind – dreams & madness reaction to Rationalism? (1 st witch scare during the Renaissance) – the escape from Reason
Delacroix Méphistophélès dans les airs, 1828 No. 2 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's Faust
Delacroix Faust dans la prison de Marguerite, 1828 No. 18 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's Faust
Goya, The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters etching text p. 345
Goya Kronos devouring his children
Goya, Witches’ Sabbath, c text p. 345
Theodore Gericault Mad Woman with a Mania of Envy 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?
Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1826 p. 333
detail, Sardanapalus
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique La Grand Odalisque 1814 Oil on canvas
detail
Jean Auguste Ingres, The Turkish Bath, c text p. 344
detail, Ingres
Portrait of a Negress Marie Guillemine Benoist, 1800 Political comment on the rights of women? p. 327
John Nash Royal Pavilion at Brighton text p. 343
John Nash Royal Pavilion at Brighton text p. 343
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 text p. 342
Fonthill, painting of the interior by the architect, James Wyatt
Cole, The Architect’s Dream, 1840
Thomas Cole, The Return, 1837
Houses of Parliament, London, text p. 343
Lyndhurst
Trinity Church, Boston 1877 Richardson
An English building in India
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, text p. 336 Engaged & enraged: political critique
John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821 text p. 338 NATURE: The Picturesque
Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above the Mists, c p. 337 NATURE: The Sublime
Goya, The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters etching p. 345 The escape from REASON
John Nash Royal Pavilion at Brighton text p. 343 EXOTICISM: another escape from Reason
Houses of Parliament, London, text p. 342 The escape from Reason, Part 3: REVIVAL OF THE PRE-RENAISSANCE PAST
La Marselliaise by Francois Rude