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Title: Romanticism


1
Romanticism
  • Introduction

2
Comparison of Issues
  • Control, Rules, Structure vs. Freedom,
    Experimentation, Meaning
  • Surface Meaning vs Depth
  • Conscious vs Unconscious (subconscious)
  • Right Brain vs Left Brain
  • Aesthetics of Delight and Instruct vs Insights
    to the Mind and Heart
  • Passion and Emotion vs Objectivity

3
Core Concepts
  • Setting Mid 19th century peak, particularly
    strong in France but spreads quickly throughout
    Europe and to a lesser degree, the US
  • Attitude On one hand it is a similar idea to
    Neoclassicism in that it sought to create a
    certain atmosphere (idealism) as a remedy to
    modern life, yet it is opposed to Neoclassicism
    in all of its indications
  • Focus exuberant life, individualized experience,
    spirit of revolution (France,1848) drama,
    exotica, complexity/dualisms (Napoleon), nature

4
Gericault, Raft of the Medusa
5
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
6
Gros, Napoleon Visiting the Plague-stricken at
Jaffra
7
West, Death of General West
8
Fuseli, The Nightmare
9
Turner, The Slave Ship
10
Nash, Royal Pavilion at Brighton
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Garnier, Opera House, Paris
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