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Romantic Art
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Characteristics Great diversity Subjects Contemporary events
Literature Nature History Exotic places
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New Way of Seeing the World
Personal Feeling Imagination Nature and Natural Landscape Hero & Heroism National struggles for independence
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Neoclassical
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Romantic Techniques Irregularity Irrationality Model form by color
Deliberate brushstrokes Exaggeration Emphasis on individuality
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Precursors to the Romantic Movement
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David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass, 1800, Romantic
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David examples Other art by David
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Antoine Jean Gros 1771-1835 David’s student
Napoleon’s official battle painter “Glamorous Lies”
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Gros, Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa
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New Romantic Work
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Francisco Goya 1746-1828 “Father of Modern Art”
Worked for over 60 years Personal emotion in work Napoleon invades Spain – work changes
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Goya, Third of May 1808, Romantic, 1814
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Disasters of War
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Disasters of War I saw this - title
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Theodore Géricault 1791-1824 Fashionable dandy
Colorful, energetic pieces Wide range of subject matter Inspiration Horses Clinically insane
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Gericault , The Raft of the Medusa, Romantic, 1814
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19th Century Nationalism
Definition of nationalism again Curiosity Exotic Subjects Invasion of Egypt in Two ways of looking
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Classicism & Color Ingres’ followers – classical ideal & sense of reason Delacroix’s followers – progressive style & color in art & appeals to emotion
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Ingres
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Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863 Color & emotion Similar to Byron
Imagination Dramatic Narrative Exotic subjects
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Death of Sardanapalus
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Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, Romantic, 1830
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Nike of Samothrace & Liberty
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Comparison
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Liberty Leading the People
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Romantic Landscapes Man verses nature Industrial Revolution
Two ways of interacting with nature Violent and destroys Idealized and cherished
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Eccentric personality Fierce quality of man vs. nature Abstract & Impressionistic Based on actual events
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Turner, The Slave Ship, Romantic, 1840
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Caspar David Friedrich
Symbolic landscape Religious mysticism “gothic gloom”
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Friedrich , Two Men Gazing at the Moon, Romantic, 1819-1820
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Thomas Cole 1801-1848 Emigrated to America
Elevated moral tone in his landscape paintings Hudson River School
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Cole, The Oxbow, Hudson River School, 1836
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Sculpture
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Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty, 1884
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Rude, The Departure of the Volunteers, 1792
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Edmonia Lewis 1840s-1890s African American and Native American descent
Ex-patriot Does all the work herself
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Lewis, Forever Free, Romantic, 1847
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England
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Alfred Lord Tennyson 1802-1892 Poet Laureate Idylls of the King, 1859
Story of King Arthur
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Pre-Raphaelites 1848 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt Based on a real model
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Pre-Raphaelites Generally brighter paintings “Truth to nature”
Significant subjects Medieval tales Religion Poetry
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Rossetti
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Millais
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William Holman Hunt
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19th Century Architecture
Looks to the past Neoclassical no longer appeals to everyone Medieval World Nation’s historical & cultural past
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Charles Barry and AWN Pugin, The British Houses of Parliament, 1840-60, Neo-Medievalism/Gothic
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Nash, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815, Exotic
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