Romanticism Art

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Romanticism Art

• By Bridgette Kelley, Katie Butler, and Caitlin
  Phillips

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William Turner

• Joseph Mallord William Turner was an artist
  during the Romanticism era. He specialized in
  watercolor landscapes. This painting by William
  Turner is called, Rain, Steam, and Speed. This
  oil painting that offers a peak at the beauty of
  the mid 1800s rough landscape. There are
  particular brushstrokes for the rain. The rain
  creates a veil over the speeding train as is
  travels to its destination. The grays/white of
  the clouds emphasizes how intense the rain is.
• Its crossing over the Maidenhead Railway Bridge

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Temeraire
This picture is about a ship that was fighting in
the Battle of Trafalgar (England vs. Spain). Many
people refer to this painting being called, The
Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be
broken up. Sir Henry Newbolt spoke about this
painting and said "And she's fading down the
river, But in England's song for ever, She's the
Fighting Téméraire."
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Eugene Delacroix

• Delacroix was a French Romantic artist and later
  became the leader of the French Romantic School.
  He got a few ideas for his paintings Renaissance
  era. His most famous painting is, Liberty
  Leading the People. Delacroix was inspired by
  contemporary events to invoke the romantic image
  of the spirit of liberty. The soldiers lying dead
  on the ground offer mental appeal counterpoint to
  the symbolic female figure, who is illuminated
  triumphantly.

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Francis Goya

• Francis Goya was a Spanish painter who did a
  mixture of old and modern art. His most famous
  works of art are, The Third of May, The Family
  of Charles IV, and Saturn Devouring his
  Children.

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The Third of May
French forces invaded Spain in 1808, leading to
the Peninsular War, (1808-1814).This painting
shows that some of the Spanish who benefited from
being Spaniards but refused to help their own
land. The ones covering their faces are ashamed
by refusing to help their own land any by
surrendering.
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The Family of Charles IV

• In this painting to royal family is paying a
  visit to Goyas studio, in the back round you can
  see Goya painting the royal family portrait, so
  clearly the royal family is standing in front of
  a mirror.

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Saturn Devouring his Children

• Goya painted this picture because he wanted to
  show people how horrible and strange the Greek
  gods were and how he couldnt believe that they
  would do such a thing.

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Casper David Friedrich

• Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape artist.
  Most of his works were of nature, mostly night
  skies, misty mornings and gothic ruins. His most
  famous paintings are, Cross on the Mountain and
  Wander in the Mist.

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Cross on the Mountains

• This painting was the first Christian altar piece
  to have landscape in it. It was also
  controversial because he placed Jesus in with
  wild nature alone.

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Wander in the Mist

• Many people loved this painting because it
  brought them peace. It also shows that Friedrich
  was not only a gothic romanticist but was
  natural romanticist as well. (1817)

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Henry Fuseli

• Fuseli was a Romanticism artist. His father was
  an artist as well and lead all of his children to
  be artist except Fuseli. His father wanted him to
  go into priest hood. He was later ordained but
  had gotten into trouble and was set free. Later
  he found himself painting again and became one of
  the best painters for Romanticism art.

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The Nightmare
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• The Nightmare was painted in 1781.
  Interpretation of The
• Nightmare have varied widely. The canvas seems
  to portray
• simultaneously a dreaming woman and the content
  of
• her nightmare. The Demon and the horses head
  refer to existing
• belief and folklore about nightmares. The sleeper
  seems lifeless
• and lying on her back, she takes a position
  believed to encourage
• nightmares. There is also a The Nightmare II
  that has the same
• moral to it but it shows that you can have the
  same nightmare
• more than once. The Nightmare II was painted in
  1790.

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The Nightmare II