Romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

1818

Classicism

- Emphasis on reason and rationality as the source for truth and happiness.

- Nature is the ultimate source of rationality and reason.

- People achieve potential through education and engagement in a healthy society.

Romanticism

- Emphasis on emotion, passion, and direct contact with experience for the source of truth and happiness.

- Nature is wild, ever-changing and sublime.

- People achieve potential through personal inspiration outside of the corrupting influence of society.

Benjamin West – The Death of General Wolfe - 1770

Eugene Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People - 1830

Eugene Delacroix – The Death of Sardanapolis - 1827

Theodore Gericault - Raft of the Medusa - 1819

Joseph Mallard William Turner – The Slave Ship – 1840

Joseph Mallard William Turner

Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps – 1812

Joseph Mallard William Turner - Eruption of Vesuvius – 1817

Caspar David Friedrich – Polar Sea – 1824

Neo-Classicism

Social

Classical subject matter

Derived from the ancient history

Focus on the human events

Unemotional

Restrained

SUBJECT

Romanticism

Individual and/or nature

Exotic subject matter

Derived from personal inspiration

Human part is only secondary to the larger power of nature

Passionate

Wild and Chaotic

Neo-Classicism

Use of clean lines

Organized/structured

Muted color

Symmetrical

STYLE

Romanticism

Lines are often rough and unfinished

Wild/Chaotic

Vivid color

Asymmetrical