1. Romanticist Art (late 18th-early 19th centuries)
Romanticism is more of a literary & philosophical movement, with some representation in art.

2. Characteristics of Romantic Art (according to Art for Dummies)
1. Elevates emotional and intuition to an equal status with reason
2. Some crucial human experiences are beyond the rational mind (that makes it irrational)
3. The individual and subjectivity are vital
4. It emphasized the exotic, imagination & nature

3. Francisco Goya ( )
His works spanned both the rococo and romantic periods. In his early works, he was lighthearted and carefree (like the rococo artists.) After a long illness, which left him deaf, his works became somewhat dark and realistic, showing the damage Napoleon caused the Spanish.

4. One of Goya’s portraits from the
early period, The Duchess of Alba
(1797) She’s Goya’s squeeze and
is pointing to his name scribbled
in the sand at her feet.

5. During the Spanish fight against Napoleon, Goya did a series
of etchings called the Disasters of War. We saw some of these in the
Napoleon video. This one is “This is worse!” (c )

6. The Third of May, 1808. Like Disasters of War, this shows
the people of Madrid opposing the French takeover. Goya is
condemning the organized brutality, depicting the callous, gleeful
way the men destroy their fellow men.

7. Eugene Delacroix ( )
The antithesis of Ingres (remember him?) His works use strewn and twisted colors. He learned to paint by copying the works of old masters like Rubens (the beefy women painter).

8. A self-portrait of
Delacroix, done around
1837.

9. The Massacre at Chios
(1824) shows an image
from the Greeks fight for
independence, when the
Ottomans massacred the
entire Greek population of
the island of Chios. This
is also representative of
Delacroix’s use of exotic,
“oriental” subjects.

10. A detail from the
Massacre at Chois

11. Liberty Leading the People (1830) - note the top-hatted
bourgeoise & the armed child, neither of whom actually fought.

12. Theodore Gericault (1791 - 1824)
Studied with Delacroix, then became famous, as a result of one painting, the Raft of the Medusa.

13. Gericault’s Portrait of an
Officer of the Chasseurs
Commanding a Charge (1812).
“A worshipful painting of a
Napoleonic officer in the heat
of battle.”

14. The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819). Based on an actual
shipwreck off the coast of Africa.

15. Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 -1851)
English painter of landscapes who liked dramatic scenes . His work is a precursor to the impressionists later in the 19th century.

16. The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be
Broken Up (1838)

17. The Grand Canal, Venice (1835)

18. Rain, Steam and Speed - the Great Western Railway (1844)

19. Detail of the locomotive from
Rain, Steam and Speed. This
was Turner’s commentary on
the Industrial Revolution.
The entire work suggests the
power of the locomotive and
the power of the Industrial
Revolution as well.

20. Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840)
A German, perhaps the “most romantic” of the the romantic artists. Like Turner, he painted landscapes that were very moody. As Instant Art History puts it: “A dude who got a real spiritual kick out of nature, he painted brooding figures looking out over infinite landscapes lit by sunrise or sunset.”

21. Cloister Cemetery in the Snow (1817-1819). This is a
reproduction because the original was destroyed during
World War II.

22. Wanderer in the Mists
(1818). Also called
Wanderer in a Sea of Fog.
The man symbolizes “all
humanity struck by the
doubts and anxieties we
all have about the future.”
(Art for Dummies)