Art History: BVA312 - 09/04/2019 (Romanticism in Art)

18th century art movement: Romanticism 

Authors
Sir Walter Scott
Bronte family
Mary Shelly
Alexandre Dumas
Victor Hugo
Edgar Allan Poe

Landmark's of Western Art: Romanticism (YouTube)

France Revolution changed the way art looks.
Romanticism was define from artwork from masters.
Feeling, expression towards the power of science in discovering new things.
In the middle of 1700 in London, the great philosopher says that there are two types of artistic beauty and sublime. It had to be beautiful, symmetry but artist through it bigger. The subject is bigger that the man itself.
Art dominated by the wealthy. Art became more technical, having boundaries in imagination.

Neo-classicism painter, Jacques-Louis David. Philosophical aspect was imply into art work. The famous philosopher, Human emotion is important, individual own feelings. Passion takes over Neo-classicism. The rise of the Napoleon effected the change of movement.   Nature overpower the individual.


Antoine Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole oil painting reproduction

Key Painting in Romanticism 

Jean Louis Théodore Géricault
-The style was to bold to be a masterpiece in that era. 
-He went back to Paris and move his subject to portrait and focuses on people who were patient in a asylum.  

Eugune Delacroix


The Massacre at Chios

Inspired by a literature  

'The Death of Sardanapalus', 1846, by Eugène Delacroix. '

Most famous, people with different social class flight together for liberty. 

Liberty leading the people

Most famous painter 
Francisco Goya. court painter. 
There a gap between his early work and older work. His earlier work shows more positive energy, while later work was more gruesome. Becoming more and more horrific, due to the war happen against Spain and the napoleon.  Goya in Madrid - Exhibition - Museo Nacional del Prado
Audience that didn't have the education to understand. 


The third of May 1808

Creates a very sinister image, France were depicted no mercy towards the Spanish who were going to be executed. 

English Painter, Landscape

JWM Turner and John Constable, Changes the idea of landscape painting forever.  

constable wanted to paint what he saw, he chose the paint landscape in the suburb. Lose brush stroke. 
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

Personal approached in his landscape painting, recreate the green in the english countryside
 The Hay Wain. 
Constable focused colours, different type of green on painting, unlike other painter who didnt focuses on colour. He didnt love the old master's painting. 

JWM Turner, however loves the old master. The colour in painting defines emotional meaning to an individual. He wanted to show his personal response through colours. The effetc of light and rapid movement. Paint is a powerful tool in expressing landscape. 

  

Modern technology with landscape. He transfer his emotion of speed in painting by feeling the speed in putting his hand out while the train is moving. 
 
Rain, Steam and Speed. 

Germany 
Caspar David Friedrich 
Nature is too sublime for person to grasp. Most spiritual sublime ever seen.  He wanted to put symbolic meaning into his work. 
First artist who is able to transfer spiritual meaning through landscape. 
as a medication to stress, freedom to the soul. 

The Monk by the sea. 




Cross in the Mountain. 

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