1. Romanticism
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2. Rebelling against the Neoclassic period’s
Romanticism
Rebelling against the Neoclassic period’s
Age of Reason,
the Romantic era was an
Age of Sensibility

3. over rational objectivity
Romanticism
an Age of Sensibility meaning Artists (and writers) chose emotion and intuition
over rational objectivity

4. Trust your heart, not your head!
Romanticism
Trust your heart,
not your head!

5. Romanticism
They were about the freedom of individual thought and the ability to express oneself openly.

6. These artists also tended to be temperamental- the troubled genius.
Romanticism
These artists also tended to be temperamental-
the troubled genius.

7. Gothic horror stories were also in vogue- Frankenstein…
Romanticism
Got its name from a revived interest in medieval tales called romances- knights in armor, King Arthur…
Gothic horror stories were also in vogue- Frankenstein…
There was a revival of
Gothic architecture

8. Big contrast from the more intellectual, rational Neoclassical themes.
An incubus, a demon believed in medieval times to prey on sleeping women, sits on the her.
Romantic artists liked to depict the dark terrain of the human subconscious.
Big contrast from the more intellectual, rational Neoclassical themes.
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare,1781

9. Goya and Gericault visited insane asylums to use as subject matter.
Romanticism
Goya and Gericault visited insane asylums to use as subject matter.

10. Romanticism New subjects: Grand political canvases
The world of the unconscious
The awesome grandeur of nature

11. Romanticism Even landscapes were used as political statements
Constable=nature against the Industrial revolution
Cole=criticism on how Americans were polluting there land

12. John Constable 1776-1837 English Romantic landscape painter
Sold more paintings in France than in his home land, England
He was never financially successful

13. John Constable
Paints the English countryside as a reaction against the Industrial Revolution which was moving in on it.
Painting of the village of Dedham in Essex, 1802

14. John Constable
Vibrant, shimmering paint atmospheric effects Oneness with nature; man is an active participant but does not disturb it.
The Hay Wain, 1821

15. John Constable
Oneness with nature; man is an active participant but does not disturb it.

16. Joseph Turner, 1775-1851 English Romantic landscape painter,
and printmaker
Also one of the greatest watercolor landscape painters
known as the “painter of light”
Turner liked extremes in nature: avalanches, sea storms, whirlwinds, etc.

17. John Turner
Color is the dominant motif “Warm and cool colors; tall, white, glowing, pale glorious ship of the past contrasted with small, black, modern tugboat of the future”
The Fighting Temeaire, oil on canvas.1838

18. John Turner
Color is the dominant motif “Warm and cool colors; tall, white, glowing, pale glorious ship of the past contrasted with small, black, modern tugboat of the future”
The Fighting Temeaire, oil on canvas.1838

19. Romanticism The sublime-
Any cathartic experience from catastrophic to intellectual that causes the viewer to marvel in awe, wonder and passion

20. Joseph Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840

21. Turner, The Slave Ship,1840
The Zong is traveling to the New World and all the slaves die of disease. They were thrown overboard because the insurance co. wouldn’t pay unless they died from a natural calamity.
Deeper meaning- humanity/ $= more than human life…
Bloody red sunset symbolizing guilt

22. Joseph Turner, The Snowstorm, 1842

23. The Hudson River School
An American art movement by a group of landscape painters who were influenced by romanticism. They painted the Hudson River Valley, the Catskills, Adirondacks, and White Mountains. .
Thomas Cole, Lake Winnipisogee.

24. The Hudson River School
Wilderness became a symbol of America’s unspoiled national character- something to be proud of.
"school" in this sense refers to a group whose style demonstrates a common thread, not a learning institution.
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow,1836.

25. The Hudson River School
Thomas Cole was the leader.
Others included:
Frederick Church
Asher Durand
Albert Bierstadt
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836.

27. Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains: Lander's Peak, 1863

28. Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860
Frederic Edwin Church,
Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860

29. Frederic Edwin Church,
Niagara Falls, 1860

30. Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849.
It depicts the recently deceased painter Thomas Cole and his friend the poet William Cullen Bryant in the Catskill Mountains. The place is idealized.
Sold at auction in 2005 to for $35 million, a record for a painting by an American artist.

31. Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868
Albert Bierstadt,
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868
Spectacular panoramic views

32. Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868
Albert Bierstadt,
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868
Luminism is the emphasis on light- how it changes with time of day

33. Luminism is the emphasis on light- how it changes with time of day

35. Theodore Gericault- French painter
At 21, a painting prodigy.
He is interested in human psychology

36. Madwoman with a Mania of Envy
Théodore Géricault,
He examined the influence of mental state on the face.
He made many studies of the inmates at hospitals and institutions for the criminally insane, and he studied the severed heads of guillotine victims.
Madwoman with a Mania of Envy

37. Gericault, Raft of the “Medusa”
15 survivors. 2 week ordeal. Cannibalism.
His masterpiece.

38. Gericault, Raft of the “Medusa”
Shows his commitment to social justice.
Commemorates a contemporary disaster at sea rather than a heroic example of Neoclassical patriotism.
The raft become a floating hell of disease and death.

39. Gericault, Mounted Officer of the Imperial Guard
Compares with David’s Napoleon at Saint Bernard's Pass which like this glorifies equestrian courage.

40. Delacroix
His work primarily was concerned with emotions, causes and politics- a reflection of his time.
He as other Romantic painters, was not just trying to paint a pretty picture.

41. Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
Revolution of 1830, aiming to overthrow gov’t soldiers.
Pyramid. Students, middle and lower classes…

42. Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
Populace united for a common goal
His paintings are characterized by broad sweeps of color, lively patterns, and energetic figural groups
Thick brushstrokes; surface textures on the canvas

43. Delacroix, Massacre at Chios, 1824
Distant places (Greece’s independence from Turkey), political freedom…

44. Goya is an etching. He studied Rembrandt’s techniques
He dismisses Neoclassicism. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
is an etching.
He studied Rembrandt’s techniques .
Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1798

45. Goya
This image shows Goya asleep, resting on a table, surrounded by menacing creatures who seem ready to attack. The owls symbolize folly, and the bats symbolize ignorance.
Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1798

46. Goya Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV, 1800
Painter to the King in 1786.
King Charles IV and Queen surrounded by their children.
Goya used his predecessor Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninas as inspiration for the work. Goya includes himself in the rear left of the painting in the act of painting on a large canvas.

47. Goya
Velasquez

48. Christ-like sacrificial pose. Stigmata on hands. Church, silent and
Execution of Spanish rebels after a failed uprising against the occupying French on May 2,1808. Faceless French.
Christ-like sacrificial
pose.
Stigmata on hands.
Church, silent and
powerless in the
distance.
Blood soaked
figures in foreground
Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814

49. Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814.

50. Goya
His later works called the “Black Paintings.” Declining heath contributed to his state of mind, works became increasingly disillusioned and pessimistic.
Saturn Devouring One of His Children, 1819

51. Goya
Myth: he is eating his child because of a prophecy that one of them will grow up to be better than he.
Symbolism:
Human self-destruction
Time destroys all its creations
A country’s “eating its young in pointless wars.