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Art in the Romantic Era. David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800.
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Art in the Romantic
Era
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David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800
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Aspects of Romanticism in music & art
• The Engaged & Enraged Artist
• Nature
• Supernatural, demonic; dreams & madness
• exoticism
• “ancient” (Medieval –– not Greek)- rejection of Classicism &
Renaissance
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Engaged and enraged
• THE ARTIST APART FROM SOCIETY
• THE ARTIST AS SOCIAL CRITIC/REVOLUTIONARY
• THE ARTIST AS GENIUS
ARE WE NOT STILL IN THE ROMANTIC ERA?
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Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830
textp. 334
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Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15
textp. 336
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Goya, Disasters of WarBrave Deeds Against the Dead
Etching
Political communication
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Nature• peaceful, restorative, an escape;
The Picturesque
• awesome, powerful, horrifying,overwhelming, indifferent to to the fate of humans; The Sublime
• the language of God (edited)
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John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821text
p. 338
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Caspar David Friedrich,
The Wanderer Above the Mists,
c. 1817-18
textp. 337
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FRIEDRICH, Caspar DavidThe Sea of Ice, c. 1823-25, Oil on canvas, 96.7 x 126.9 cm
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J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1842 textp. 340
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detail,The Slave
Ship
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Turner, Joseph Mallord William, Rain, Steam and Speed1844, Oil on canvas, 35 3/4 x 48 in.
textp. 340
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detail
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Constable
Turner
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The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault 1819
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Church, Frederic EdwinRainy Season in the Tropics1866, Oil on canvas, 56 1/4 x 84 3/16 in. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Church, Frederic Edwin, The Icebergs1861, Oil on canvas, 64 1/4 x 112 1/4 in
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Bierstadt, AlbertAmong the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
1868, Oil on canvas, 183 x 305 cm text
p. 341
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The Supernatura
l • ghosts, fairies, witches, demons, etc.
• the shadows of the mind – dreams & madness
• reaction to Rationalism? (1st witch scare during the Renaissance) – the escape from Reason
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DelacroixMéphistophél
ès dans les airs, 1828
No. 2 from the set of 18 lithographs of Goethe's
Faust
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Goya,The Sleep of Reason
Brings Forth Monsters1796-8etching
textp. 345
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GoyaKronos devouring his
children
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Goya, Witches’ Sabbath, c. 1819-23
textp. 345
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Theodore GericaultMad Woman with a Mania of Envy1822-23
Study of the insane
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GoyaThe Lunatics
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Exoticism• the sexy Other
• psychological/moral justification of imperialism?
• England is exotic to the Italians, Italy exotic to the English!
• a sense of escape?
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Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1826 p. 333
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detail,Sardanapalus
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Ingres, Jean Auguste DominiqueLa Grand Odalisque1814Oil on canvas
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Jean Auguste Ingres, The Turkish Bath, c1852-63
textp. 344
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Portrait of a NegressMarie Guillemine Benoist, 1800
Political comment on the rights of women?
p. 327
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John Nash
Royal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823 text
p. 343
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Revival of past styles
• Gothic & Romanesque revival
• free mixture of stylistic elements
• Gothic verticality & asymmetry
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Fonthill Abbey 1823
The most influential collapsed building?aka “Beckford’s folly”
mentioned in textp. 342
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Fonthill, painting of the interior by the architect, James Wyatt
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Cole, The Architect’s Dream, 1840
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Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65text
p. 343
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An English building in India
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Aspects of Romanticism in music & art
• The Engaged & Enraged Artist
• Nature
• Supernatural, demonic
• exoticism
• “ancient” (Medieval or folk –– not Greek)
- rejection of Classicism & Renaissance
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Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 1814-15
textp. 336
Engaged & enraged: political critique
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John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821text
p. 338
NATURE: The Picturesque
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Caspar David Friedrich,
The Wanderer Above the Mists,
c. 1817-18
textp. 337
NATURE: The Sublime
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Goya,The Sleep of Reason
Brings Forth Monsters1796-8etching
textp. 345The escape from REASON
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John Nash
Royal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823
textp. 343
EXOTICISM: another escape from Reason
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Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65text
p. 342
The escape from Reason, Part 3:
REVIVAL OF THE PRE-RENAISSANCE PAST