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Art in the Romantic Era

Art in the Romantic Era. David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps , 1800. Aspects of Romanticism in music & art. The Engaged & Enraged Artist Nature Supernatural, demonic; dreams & madness exoticism “ancient” (Medieval –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance.

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Art in the Romantic Era

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  1. Art in the Romantic Era

  2. David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800

  3. Aspects of Romanticism in music & art • The Engaged & Enraged Artist • Nature • Supernatural, demonic; dreams & madness • exoticism • “ancient” (Medieval –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance

  4. Engaged and enraged • THEARTIST APART FROM SOCIETY • THE ARTIST AS SOCIAL CRITIC/REVOLUTIONARY • THE ARTIST AS GENIUS ARE WE NOT STILL IN THE ROMANTIC ERA?

  5. Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 textp. 334

  6. Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15 textp. 336

  7. Goya, Disasters of WarBrave Deeds Against the Dead Etching Political communication

  8. Nature • peaceful, restorative, an escape;The Picturesque • awesome, powerful, horrifying, overwhelming, indifferent to to the fate of humans; The Sublime • the language of God (edited)

  9. textp. 338 John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821

  10. Caspar David Friedrich,The Wanderer Above the Mists,c. 1817-18 textp. 337

  11. FRIEDRICH, Caspar DavidThe Sea of Ice, c. 1823-25, Oil on canvas, 96.7 x 126.9 cm

  12. textp. 340 J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1842

  13. detail,The Slave Ship

  14. textp. 340 Turner, Joseph Mallord William, Rain, Steam and Speed1844, Oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 48 in.

  15. detail

  16. Constable Turner

  17. The Raft of the Medusaby Gericault 1819

  18. Church, Frederic EdwinRainy Season in the Tropics1866, Oil on canvas, 56 1/4 x 84 3/16 in. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

  19. Church, Frederic Edwin, The Icebergs1861, Oil on canvas, 64 1/4 x 112 1/4 in

  20. Bierstadt, AlbertAmong the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California1868, Oil on canvas, 183 x 305 cm textp. 341

  21. The Supernatural • ghosts, fairies, witches, demons, etc. • the shadows of the mind – dreams & madness • reaction to Rationalism? (1st witch scare during the Renaissance) – the escape from Reason

  22. DelacroixMéphistophélès dans les airs, 1828No. 2 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's Faust

  23. textp. 345 Goya,The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters1796-8etching

  24. Goya Kronos devouring his children

  25. Goya, Witches’ Sabbath, c. 1819-23 textp. 345

  26. Theodore Gericault Mad Woman with a Mania of Envy 1822-23 Study of the insane

  27. Goya The Lunatics

  28. Exoticism • the sexy Other • psychological/moral justification of imperialism? • England is exotic to the Italians, Italy exotic to the English! • a sense of escape?

  29. p. 333 Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1826

  30. detail,Sardanapalus

  31. Ingres, Jean Auguste DominiqueLa Grand Odalisque1814Oil on canvas

  32. Jean Auguste Ingres, The Turkish Bath, c1852-63 textp. 344

  33. Portrait of a NegressMarie Guillemine Benoist, 1800 Political comment on the rights of women? p. 327

  34. textp. 343 John NashRoyal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823

  35. Revival of past styles • Gothic & Romanesque revival • free mixture of stylistic elements • Gothic verticality & asymmetry

  36. Fonthill Abbey 1823 The most influential collapsed building? aka “Beckford’s folly” mentioned in textp. 342

  37. Fonthill, painting of the interior by the architect, James Wyatt

  38. Cole, The Architect’s Dream, 1840

  39. textp. 343 Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65

  40. An English building in India

  41. Aspects of Romanticism in music & art • The Engaged & Enraged Artist • Nature • Supernatural, demonic • exoticism • “ancient” (Medieval or folk –– not Greek) - rejection of Classicism & Renaissance

  42. Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15 Engaged & enraged: political critique textp. 336

  43. textp. 338 John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821 NATURE: The Picturesque

  44. Caspar David Friedrich,The Wanderer Above the Mists,c. 1817-18 NATURE: The Sublime textp. 337

  45. textp. 345 The escape from REASON Goya,The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters1796-8etching

  46. EXOTICISM: another escape from Reason textp. 343 John NashRoyal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823

  47. textp. 342 Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65 The escape from Reason, Part 3: REVIVAL OF THE PRE-RENAISSANCE PAST

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