Romanticism

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Romanticism

• Artists who felt limited by Neoclassicism, began
  creating more emotional artwork giving rise to
  Romanticism.
• Reaction against Neoclassicism not interested
  in the importance of rules and perfection.
• Not a particular style but an attitude
  characterized by colour, emotion, passion,
  imagination, and a dream like quality.
• Named after the revival of interest in medieval
  stories like King Arthur heroic stories
  referred to as romances.
• Sometimes inspired by current events,
  particularly tragedies.
• Also inspired by Africa and the Orient.
• This movement is also in poetry (eg. Wordsworth
  and Keats) and Music (eg. Beethoven and Schubert).

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• Leader of Romanticism in France
• This image was based on a contemporary incident
  in which a government ship was wrecked en route
  from France to Senegal - only 15 survived after
  being cut adrift on a raft
• dead and dying versus hope and struggle

Remember this? Gericault. Raft of the Medusa.
(1818-1819)
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Francisco Goya. Saturn Devouring one of his Sons.
(1819-1823)
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• Francisco Goya was the official painter of King
  Charles IV of Spain.
• This piece shows slaughtering of Spanish rebels
  by French soldiers essential a social protest
  painting.
• Emotional and immediate portrayal of inhumanity
• emotional and energetic brushstrokes

Remember this? Goya. Third of May,1808. (1814)
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Henri Fuseli. The Nightmare. (1781)
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Eugene Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People.
(1830)
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Nash. Royal Pavilion. Brighton. (1815-1818)

• English lead Romanticism in architecture
• Borrowed ideas from other times and cultures
• This building meant to be summer home for King
  George IV

• Inspired by Islamic domes and minarets, also
  contains interior spaces in the styles of Greek,
  Egyptian, Chinese and Gothic art.

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Realism

• Artists who painted the present reality were
  called Realists believed that only that which
  they could see and experience was worth recording
  in art.
• Aim subjects are to be shown a naturally and
  realistically as possible
• Realists admired the 17th century Dutch Flemish
  painters
• Philosophy glorified the working class and
  valued the common, everyday world around them.
• This time period also brought about the rise of
  Photography as an art form.

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Millet. The Gleaners. (1857)

• Came from a peasant family and eventually turned
  to painting everyday life of peasants in France
  eg. Sowing, seed, harvesting, etc.
• Shows peasants as dignified people
• Simple dignity

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Daumier. The Third Class Carriage. (1862)

• Was a social caricaturist for Paris newspapers
• Shows people in the urban environment not
  posing in a studio