Romanticism and Realism, Art Nouveau and Impressionism

Romanticismand Realism, Art

Nouveau and Impressionism

Reaction against the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution

The Influence of Imperialism

Emotion!!!– Raft of the Medusa by Gericault

Delacroix– Liberty Leading the People of France

Goya– The Third of May

Turner– Master of Stormy Weather

The Supernatural– Nightmare by Fuselli

Social Satire by Hogarth– The Marriage Contract

Gin Lane and Beer Street

Realism

• Courbet showed the hard work of rural laborers

The Hay Wain by John Constable

Daumier’s The Third Class Carriage

Daumier’s Cartoons made fun of French Society

Daumier did not believe in rights for women

Imperialism and the Impact of New Cultures Affected Art

• Arabs in Egypt by Adoph Schreyer

Said Abdullah of the Mayac and African Venus by Cordier

19th Century Sculpture

• Rodin was a realist sculptor of the mid-to-late 19 th century• He was denied entrance into the Ecole des Beaux Arts as a

student and later could not get his works into the Paris Salons

• A trip to Italy and the works of Michelangelo inspired him to make The Age of Bronze which got into the Paris Salon of 1877. It caused a scandal because people could not believe it had not been cast from a live model.

• He was commissioned to do a set of bronze doors for the Museum of dcorative arts but dies before finishing them. His most famous sculpture, The Thinker, was to go above the doors.

The Burghers of Calais

The Thinker

The Pre-Raphaelites

• The Lady of Shallot by Waterhouse

Ophelia by Millais

Art Nouveau

• Alphonse Mucha

Aubrey Beardsley

Crafts in the 19th Century

• Art Nouveau affected wood and glass arts

Rene Lalique’s Jewelry & Glass

Faberge made gifts for the Tsar

Impressionists

• Use daubs of different color paint side by side rather than mixing colors. Your eyes do the mixing!

• Do not try to hide their brush strokes

• Try to convey movement and the glint of light in landscapes and even in portraits

• Post-impressionists used odd colors, larger or smaller brush strokes

Monet

Edgar Degas

Renoir

The Boating Party

Mary Cassatt

Cezanne

Vincent Van Gogh

• Post impressionism

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted bar scenes

Seurat– Pointilism– from far away, it looks like this

But close up, it looks like this!

Late 19th Century Artists began to show the disillusionment that characterized 20th Century Art of the Interwar Period

• Edvard Munch

• The Scream

19th Century Architecture

• The Crystal Palace showed the might of British Industrialism

Department Stores

• Bon Marche and La Samaritaine

The Paris Opera

Antonin Gaudi

• Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell

Organic forms and mosaic work

Skyscrapers