Post on 26-Dec-2015
Characteristics
• Great diversity
• Subjects– Contemporary
events– Literature– Nature– History– Exotic places
New Way of Seeing the World
• Personal Feeling
• Imagination
• Nature and Natural Landscape
• Hero & Heroism
• National struggles for independence
Romantic Techniques
• Irregularity• Irrationality• Model form by
color• Deliberate
brushstrokes• Exaggeration• Emphasis on
individuality
Antoine Jean Gros
• 1771-1835
• David’s student
• Napoleon’s official battle painter
• “Glamorous Lies”
Francisco Goya
• 1746-1828
• “Father of Modern Art”
• Worked for over 60 years
• Personal emotion in work
• Napoleon invades Spain – work changes
Theodore Géricault • 1791-1824
• Fashionable dandy
• Colorful, energetic pieces
• Wide range of subject matter
• Inspiration– Horses– Clinically insane
19th Century Nationalism
• Definition of nationalism again
• Curiosity
• Exotic Subjects
• Invasion of Egypt in 1798-1801
• Two ways of looking
Classicism & Color
• Ingres’ followers – classical ideal & sense of reason
• Delacroix’s followers – progressive style & color in art & appeals to emotion
Eugene Delacroix
• 1798-1863
• Color & emotion
• Similar to Byron
• Imagination
• Dramatic Narrative
• Exotic subjects
Romantic Landscapes
• Man verses nature
• Industrial Revolution
• Two ways of interacting with nature– Violent and destroys– Idealized and cherished
Joseph Mallord William Turner
• 1775-1851
• Eccentric personality
• Fierce quality of man vs. nature
• Abstract & Impressionistic
• Based on actual events
Thomas Cole
• 1801-1848
• Emigrated to America
• Elevated moral tone in his landscape paintings
• Hudson River School
Edmonia Lewis
• 1840s-1890s
• African American and Native American descent
• Ex-patriot
• Does all the work herself
Pre-Raphaelites
• 1848
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt
• Based on a real model
Pre-Raphaelites
• Generally brighter paintings
• “Truth to nature”
• Significant subjects– Medieval tales– Religion– Poetry
19th Century Architecture
• Looks to the past
• Neoclassical no longer appeals to everyone
• Medieval World
• Nation’s historical & cultural past