Humanities-Romantic Art
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- Romantic Art
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-has no single unifying ideal or idea
-more an attitude than a formal movement and so there's great variation in the work
-Characteristics:
+values: intuition, emotion, imagination
+emotional tone: subjective, spontaneous, non-conforming
+subjects: heoric struggle,landscaped, legend, nature, violence, exotic
+Technique: rich color, light/dark contrast, quick, visible brushstrokes
+Role of Art: expression of subjective emotion, present use of unconsicous mind -
Romantic Art -
-"Abbey under the Oak Trees"
-Casper David Friedrich
+Founder of romanticism
+mom and brother died when he was young
+Believed that u could have a direct conneciton with God through contemplation (Nature)
-human buildings disinegrate and nature changes, but spirituality (light) continues on -
Romantic Art -
-"Two Men gazing at the moon"
-Casper David Friedrich -
Romantic Art -
-"The Wanderer above the Mists"
-Casper David Friedrich
-standing on mountaintop -
Romantic Art -
-"Approach to Venice"
-Joseph Mallord William Turner
+influenced impressionalist painting
+greatest landscape painter
+light and color more important than lines
-boats heading to Venice -
Romantic Art -
-"Peace: Burial at Sea"
-Joseph Mallord William Turner
-Ship about to sink
-Glassy water makes a great reflection
-Violent scene, but not bloody -
Romantic Art -
-"The Shipwreck"
-Jospeh Mallord William Turner
-Different than "Raft of Medusa" by Theodore Gericault
+water in control
+no sense of hope
+people powerless and not focus of painting
-English vs. French Romanticism
+English-Nature ("The Shipwreck")
+French-People ("The Raft of Medusa") -
Romantic Art -
-"Wivenhoe Park"
-John Constable
+Sky guy -
Romantic Art -
-"The White Horse"
-John Constable
-Cicular Composition
-horse leads eye to circular composition
-Sky balances painting -
Romantic Art -
-"Stonehenge"
-John Constable
-White cloud balances painting
-Countryside of England, rocks from Wales -
Romantic Art -
-"Salisbury Cathedral"
-John Constable
-Sky and color sets mood
-paints all 3 paintings in three different angels, coloration, and has different skies -
Romantic Art -
-"Salisbury Cathedral"
-John Constable -
Romantic Art -
-"Salisbury Cathedral"
-John Constable -
Romantic Art -
-"Decapitated Head"
-Theodore Gericault
+French Romantic
+painted various types of people
-emotion: disturbed -
Romantic Art -
-"Insane"
-Theodore Gericault
-Schizophrenic look=blankness of face
-Emotion: intrigued -
Romantic Art -
-"An officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging"
-Theodore Gericault -
Romantic Art -
-"Raft of Medusa"
-Theodore Gericault
-focus on people
-split of hope and despair -
Romantic Art -
-"The Death of Sandanapalus"
-Eugene Delaxroix
+fan of Ruben:coloration, engery, movement
-Assarian genera's palace seiged for 2 years, so he puts all his favorite animals, people, things in one room and set it afire including himself -
Romantic Art -
-"Women of Algiers"
-Eugene Delacroix
-Concubines
-Romantic:
+rich colors
+glimpse of a moment
+doesn't have a message like neoclassical -
Romantic Art -
-"Liberty Leading the People"
-Eugene Delacroix
-Romantic:
+focus on passion of people
+chriarscuro -
Romantic Art -
-"Frederic Chopin"
-Eugene Delacroix
-Romantic:
+face expression shows interest
+Interesting angel
+thick brushstrucks
-Neoclassical
+face needs to have less expression
+Needs to be more picturesk -
Romantic Art -
-"The Third of May, 1808"
-Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (Goya)
-Napolean's French troops made Joesph King of Spain, which made Spainards upset and revolt, but slaughtered by troops
-man in the middle: +Christlike pose=died for something he believed in
+White=innocent
-can't see faces of soliders
+not people, just machines -
Romantic Art -
-"Nude Maja"
-Goya
-She is a Odalesk
-Maja: very beautiful women who is popular
-Romantic:
+She's out there
-Neoclassical:
+would've painted her more hidden -
Romantic Art -
-"Clothed Maja"
-Goya
-painting more rushed -
Romantic Art -
-"A Dog"
-Goya
-Uses wide brushstrokes
-Dog
+expression of searching for something
+buried in sand/swimming in water -
Romantic Art -
-"Saturn Devouring his Children"
-Goya
-Saturn found out his seven children would overrule him, so he ate his children, but wife tricked Saturn from eating last child, Zeus who destroy Saturn later in life
-Saturn
+digging into flesh of child
+expresses fear and insanity
-Romantic:
+Mythological