Romantic Art

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Romantic Art
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Characteristics

• Great diversity
• Subjects
• Contemporary events
• Literature
• Nature
• History
• Exotic places

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New Way of Seeing the World

• Personal Feeling
• Imagination
• Nature and Natural Landscape

• Hero Heroism
• National struggles for independence

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Neoclassical
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Romantic Techniques

• Irregularity
• Irrationality
• Model form by color
• Deliberate brushstrokes
• Exaggeration
• Emphasis on individuality

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Precursors to the Romantic Movement
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David, Napoleon Crossing the Great Saint Bernard
Pass, 1800, Romantic
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David examples
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Antoine Jean Gros

• 1771-1835
• Davids student
• Napoleons official battle painter
• Glamorous Lies

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Gros, Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at
Jaffa
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New Romantic Work
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Francisco Goya

• 1746-1828
• Father of Modern Art
• Worked for over 60 years
• Personal emotion in work
• Napoleon invades Spain work changes

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Goya, Third of May 1808, Romantic, 1814
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Disasters of War
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Disasters of War
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Theodore Géricault

• 1791-1824
• Fashionable dandy
• Colorful, energetic pieces
• Wide range of subject matter
• Inspiration
• Horses
• Clinically insane

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Gericault , The Raft of the Medusa, Romantic, 1814
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19th Century Nationalism

• Definition of nationalism again
• Curiosity
• Exotic Subjects
• Invasion of Egypt in 1798-1801
• Two ways of looking

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Classicism Color

• Ingres followers classical ideal sense of
  reason
• Delacroixs followers progressive style color
  in art appeals to emotion

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Ingres
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Eugene Delacroix

• 1798-1863
• Color emotion
• Similar to Byron
• Imagination
• Dramatic Narrative
• Exotic subjects

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Death of Sardanapalus
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Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, Romantic,
1830
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Nike of Samothrace Liberty
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Comparison
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Liberty Leading the People
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Romantic Landscapes

• Man verses nature
• Industrial Revolution
• Two ways of interacting with nature
• Violent and destroys
• Idealized and cherished

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

• 1775-1851
• Eccentric personality
• Fierce quality of man vs. nature
• Abstract Impressionistic
• Based on actual events

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Turner, The Slave Ship, Romantic, 1840
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Caspar David Friedrich

• 1774-1840
• Symbolic landscape
• Religious mysticism
• gothic gloom

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Friedrich , Two Men Gazing at the Moon, Romantic,
1819-1820
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Thomas Cole

• 1801-1848
• Emigrated to America
• Elevated moral tone in his landscape paintings
• Hudson River School

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Cole, The Oxbow, Hudson River School, 1836
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Sculpture
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Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty, 1884
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Rude, The Departure of the Volunteers, 1792
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Edmonia Lewis

• 1840s-1890s
• African American and Native American descent
• Ex-patriot
• Does all the work herself

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Lewis, Forever Free, Romantic, 1847
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England
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

• 1802-1892
• Poet Laureate
• Idylls of the King, 1859
• Story of King Arthur

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Pre-Raphaelites

• 1848
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais,
  William Holman Hunt
• Based on a real model

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Pre-Raphaelites

• Generally brighter paintings
• Truth to nature
• Significant subjects
• Medieval tales
• Religion
• Poetry

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Rossetti
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Millais
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William Holman Hunt
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19th Century Architecture

• Looks to the past
• Neoclassical no longer appeals to everyone
• Medieval World
• Nations historical cultural past

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Charles Barry and AWN Pugin, The British Houses
of Parliament, 1840-60, Neo-Medievalism/Gothic
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Nash, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815, Exotic