Romantic Art. Characteristics Great diversity Subjects –Contemporary events –Literature –Nature –History –Exotic places.

Romantic Art

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

Neoclassical

Romantic Techniques

• Irregularity• Irrationality• Model form by

color• Deliberate

brushstrokes• Exaggeration• Emphasis on

individuality

Precursors to the Romantic Movement

David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard Pass,

1800, Romantic

David examples

Antoine Jean Gros

• 1771-1835

• David’s student

• Napoleon’s official battle painter

• “Glamorous Lies”

Gros, Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa

New Romantic Work

Francisco Goya

• 1746-1828

• “Father of Modern Art”

• Worked for over 60 years

• Personal emotion in work

• Napoleon invades Spain – work changes

Goya, Third of May 1808, Romantic, 1814

Disasters of War

Disasters of War

Theodore Géricault • 1791-1824

• Fashionable dandy

• Colorful, energetic pieces

• Wide range of subject matter

• Inspiration– Horses– Clinically insane

Gericault , The Raft of the Medusa, Romantic, 1814

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

Ingres

Eugene Delacroix

• 1798-1863

• Color & emotion

• Similar to Byron

• Imagination

• Dramatic Narrative

• Exotic subjects

Death of Sardanapalus

Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, Romantic, 1830

Nike of Samothrace & Liberty

Comparison

Liberty Leading the People

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

Turner, The Slave Ship, Romantic, 1840

Caspar David Friedrich

• 1774-1840

• Symbolic landscape

• Religious mysticism

• “gothic gloom”

Friedrich , Two Men Gazing at the Moon, Romantic, 1819-

1820

Thomas Cole

• 1801-1848

• Emigrated to America

• Elevated moral tone in his landscape paintings

• Hudson River School

Cole, The Oxbow, Hudson River School, 1836

Sculpture

Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty, 1884

Rude, The Departure of the Volunteers, 1792

Edmonia Lewis

• 1840s-1890s

• African American and Native American descent

• Ex-patriot

• Does all the work herself

Lewis, Forever Free, Romantic, 1847

England

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• 1802-1892

• Poet Laureate

• Idylls of the King, 1859– Story of King

Arthur

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

Rossetti

Millais

William Holman Hunt

19th Century Architecture

• Looks to the past

• Neoclassical no longer appeals to everyone

• Medieval World

• Nation’s historical & cultural past

Charles Barry and AWN Pugin, The British Houses of Parliament,

1840-60, Neo-Medievalism/Gothic

Nash, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815, Exotic