Romanticism

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ROMANTICISM
The Artistic Expression of Liberalism
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Background of the Romantic Art Movement

• By the 1830s, there were two schools of painting
  (especially in France)
• The Neoclassical School (Jean-Louis David)
• The Romantics (Delacroix)
• Painters often swapped elements of each school (a
  neoclassical idea painted in a romantic way or
  vice versa).

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The French Neoclassicists
Jacques-Louis David Antoine-Jean Gros
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Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825)

• Virtual dictator of European painting from
  1800-1820.
• No matter how revolutionary the subject, used
  traditional, neoclassical techniques.
• Stressed line, form, perspective.

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David Napoleon Crossing Saint Bernard
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David - Coronation of Napoleon
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David - The Tennis Court Oath
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David Death of Marat
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David Death of Socrates
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Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1791-1824)

• Moved away from the ideas of his teacher,
  Jacques-Louis David.
• Followed the more emotional style of Flemish
  Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens.
• Still Neoclassical at heart.
• Series of battle paintings glorifying Napoleon.

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Gros Napoleon at Arcole Bridge, Nov. 17, 1796
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The Spirit of the Age (1790-1850)

• A sense of a shared vision among the Romantics.
• Early support of the French Revolution.
• Rise of the individual ? alienation.
• Dehumanization of industrialization.
• Radical poetics / politics an obsessionwith
  violent change.

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Characteristics of Romanticism

• The Engaged Enraged Artist
• The artist apart from society.
• The artist as social critic/revolutionary.
• The artist as genius.

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Characteristics of Romanticism

• Glorification of Nature
• Peaceful, restorative qualities an escape from
  industrialization and the dehumanization it
  creates.
• Awesome, powerful, horrifying aspects of nature.
• Indifferent to the fate of humans.
• Overwhelming power of nature.

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Characteristics of Romanticism

• The Supernatural
• Ghosts, fairies, witches, demons.
• The shadows of the minddreams madness.
• A reaction to rationalism an escape from reason!

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Characteristics of Romanticism

• Exoticism
• The sexy other.
• A sense of escape from reality.
• A psychological/moral justification of
  imperialism?
• Revival of Past Styles
• Gothic Romanesque revival.

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Early19c
TheEnlightenment
Romanticism
Civilization corruptsinstitutions have rippling
effects!
Society is good, curbing violent impulses!
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1. Emotions! Passion! Irrationality!
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Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794
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2. The "Rugged" Individual
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Wandering Above the Sea of FogCaspar David
Friedrich,1818
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The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835
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Solitary Tree Caspar David Friedrich, 1823
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3. The Power Fury of Nature
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An Avalanche in the AlpsPhilip James de
Loutherbourg, 1803
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Sunset After a Storm On the Coast of Sicily
Andreas Achenbach, 1853
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The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840
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Tree of CrowsCaspar David Friedrich, 1822
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The Wreck of the Hope (aka The Sea of Ice)Caspar
David Friedrich, 1821
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Shipwreck Joseph Turner, 1805
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The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1819
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The Eruption of Vesuvius - John Martin
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4. Science Can Be Dangerous!
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Isaac Newton William Blake, 1795
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5. The "New" Technology Is Dehumanizing
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Rain, Steam, and SpeedJoseph Mallord William
Turner, 1844
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Rain, Steam, Speed(details)
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The Slave ShipJoseph Mallord William Turner, 1842
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The Slave Ship(details)
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Man and Woman Contemplating the MoonGaspar David
Friedrich, 1825
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Moonrise by the SeaGaspar David Friedrich, 1821
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6. Romanticizing Country Life
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Flatford Mill John Constable, 1817
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The Corn FieldJohn Constable,1826
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The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821
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7. The Gothic "Romanticizing" the Middle Ages
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Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishops GroundJohn
Constable, 1825
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Salisbury Cathedral from the MeadowsJohn
Constable, 1831
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Hadleigh Castle - John Constable, 1829
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Eldena RuinCaspar David Friedrich, 1825
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Winter Landscape with ChurchGaspar David
Friedrich, 1811
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British Houses of Parliament1840-1865
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8. The Exotic, the Occult, and the Macabre!
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Cloister Cemetery in the SnowCaspar David
Friedrich, 1817-1819
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Abbey in an Oak ForestCaspar David Friedrich,
1809-1810
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Mad Woman With a Mania of Envy TheodoreGericaul
t, 1822-1823
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Pity - William Blake, 1795
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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with
the SunWilliam Blake, 1808-1810
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Stonehenge - John Constable, 1836
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Nightmare (The Incubus)Henry Fuseli, 1781
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Manfred and the Witch of the AlpsJohn Martin -
1837
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Witches SabbathFrancisco Goya,1798
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Procession of Flagellants on Good
FridayFrancisco Goya, 1793
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Saturn DevoursHis SonFrancisco Goya,1819-1823
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9. Nationalism
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Greece on the Ruins of MissolonghiEugène
Delacroix, 1827
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Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830
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Detail of theMusket BearerDelacroix, himself
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The Burning of Parliament (1)Joseph Turner,
1834-1835
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The Rise of the Cartheginian EmpireJoseph
Turner, 1815
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His Majestys Ship, Victory(Trafalgar) - John
Constable, 1806
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An Officer of the Imperial Horse GuardThéodore
Géricault, 1814
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Napoleonat theSt. BernardPass David,1803
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The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815
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Pandemonium - John Martin, 1841
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10. Interest in Exotic Foreign Lands
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Grand Canal, VeniceJoseph Mallord William
Turner, 1835
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Massacre of Chios - Eugène Delacroix, 1824
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The Fanatics of TangiersEugène Delacroix,
1837-1838
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The Sultan of Morocco and His EntourageEugène
Delacroix, 1845
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Women of Algiers in Their ApartmentEugène
Delacroix, 1834
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The Turkish BathJean Auguste Ingres, 1852-1863
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The Bullfight - Francisco Goya
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Charge of the Mamelukes, May 2nd, 1808Francisco
Goya, 1814
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The Royal Pavillion at BrightonJohn Nash,
1815-1823
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11. Return to Christian Mysteries
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God as the Architect - William Blake, 1794
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Elohim Creating AbrahamWilliam Blake, 1805
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Body of Abel Found by Adam and EveWilliam Blake,
1825
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Faust and MephistophelesEugène Delacroix,
1826-1827
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The Seventh Plague of EgyptJohn Martin, 1823
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The CathedralGaspar DavidFriedrich,1818
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The Cathedral(details)Gaspar
DavidFriedrich,1818
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The Great Age of the Novel

• Gothic Novel Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Historical Novel Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
  Les Miserables - Victor Hugo The Three
  Musketeers Alexander Dumas

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The Great Age of the Novel

• Science Fiction Novel Frankenstein - Mary
  Shelley Dracula Bramm Stoker
• Novel of Purpose The Road to Ruin - Thomas
  Holcroft

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Other Romantic Writers
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms Fairy
Tales
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
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The Romantic Poets

• Percy Byssche Shelley
• Lord Byron (George Gordon)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• William Wordsworth
• John Keats
• William Blake

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George Gordons(Lord Byron)Poem ThePrisonerof
Chillon
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MaryShelley Frankenstein
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SirWalterScott Ivanhoe
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WilliamWordsworthsPoem, TinternAbbey
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SamuelTaylorColeridgesPoem, The Rimeof
theAncientMariner
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Bibliographic Sources

• CGFA A Virtual Art Museum.
  http//cgfa.sunsite.dk/fineart.htm
• Romanticism on Artchive.
  http//artchive.com/artchive/romanticism.html