JeanLouisAndre TheodoreGericault

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Jean-Louis-Andre-Theodore-Gericault

• By Ariunaa Bayraa

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Gericault Basic facts

• Born in 1791 in Rouen, France
• Painter and lithographer
• One of the pioneers of French Romanticism
• Person of passionate and flamboyant character
• A dandy who loved horses
• Died in 1824 at the age of only 33 in Paris due
  to spinal injuries, falling from a horse

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Gericault Stages in His Life as an Artist

• Paris
• Carle Vernet
• Pierre Guerin
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Influenced Eugene Delacroix
• Italy
• Michelangelo
• Italian Baroque
• England
• Fame brought by Raft of Medusa
• Shared expertise with English artists

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Gericault Works

• Most distinctive virtues of Gericaults works
• Macabre realism (macabre Suggesting the horror
  of death and decay gruesome constituting or
  including a representation of death )
• Drama
• Sense of movement

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Gericault Works

• Three major themes of Gericaults works and his
  most famous works
• Horse racing, horsemanship
• Example The Charging Chasseur
• Macabre realism
• Example Raft of Medusa
• Insanity
• Example The Madwoman, The Kleptomaniac

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Charging Chasseur 1812 Paris, Louvre
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Raft of Medusa 1819 Paris, Louvre
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The Madwoman 1822, Lyons, Musee des Beaux-Arts
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The Kleptomaniac 1824 Kunsten, Museum Van Schoone
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Sources Consulted

• Wikipedia
• Oxford Reference Online
• Encyclopedia Britannica

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