Art in the Romantic Era

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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, 1821
textp. 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, California1868, Oil on canvas, 183 x
305 cm
textp. 341
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The Supernatural

• 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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DelacroixMéphistophélès dans les airs, 1828No.
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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Goya Kronos devouring his children
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Goya, Witches Sabbath, c. 1819-23
textp. 345
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Theodore Gericault Mad Woman with a Mania of
Envy 1822-23
Study of the insane
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Goya The 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
textp. 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
Beckfords 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 Architects Dream, 1840
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Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65
textp. 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
Engaged enraged political critique
textp. 336
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John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821
textp. 338
NATURE The Picturesque
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Caspar David Friedrich,The Wanderer Above the
Mists,c. 1817-18
NATURE The Sublime
textp. 337
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Goya,The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth
Monsters1796-8etching
textp. 345
The escape from REASON
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John Nash Royal Pavilion at Brighton 1815-1823
EXOTICISM another escape from Reason
textp. 343
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Houses of Parliament, London, 1840-65
textp. 342
The escape from Reason, Part 3 REVIVAL OF THE
PRE-RENAISSANCE PAST