The Romantic Hero

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The Romantic Hero
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Bierstadt, Landers Peak (1863)
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David,NapoleonCrossingthe GreatSaintBernard
Pass(1800)
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Romanticism 19th century

• Imagination/subjectivity (anti-rationalism)
• Nature (beautiful/sublime/picturesque)
• Nationalism (spirit of the Folk)
• Nostalgia (the Gothic, the Medieval)
• Exoticism
• Heroism and Hero worship

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Nationalism

• an ideology (or belief system) grounded in a
  peoples sense of cultural and political unity
  (Fiero 699)

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Romantic Hero

• Creative, subjective, and egotistical
• The Romantic artist himself/herself is a hero
• Rises above but inspires the common person
• Pushes limits of morality through his/her own
  subjective experience

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Heroism and Hero Worship

• Nationalist Hero Napoleon
• Promethean Hero (Byrons Prometheus/Frankenstein/A
  merican Abolitionists)
• Faustian Hero

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• Goethes Faust

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Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa (1818)
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Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)
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David, The Oath of the Horatii (1785)
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Bartholdi,Liberty Enlightening the
World(1871-84)