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Romanticism

Historical Context: Post-Revolutionary France. NapoleonUsed art to portray him as a caring, sympathetic leader.Turned failure into success (propaganda campaign)Appealed to the emotions /the psychology of warfareJean-Jacques David led the Royal Academy of Art (Neo-Classical)The RestorationAfter

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Romanticism

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    1. Romanticism Section III

    2. Historical Context: Post-Revolutionary France Napoleon Used art to portray him as a caring, sympathetic leader. Turned failure into success (propaganda campaign) Appealed to the emotions /the psychology of warfare Jean-Jacques David led the Royal Academy of Art (Neo-Classical) The Restoration After the exile of Napoleon to St. Helena, Louis XVIII and Charles X ruled France. Romanticism flourished A new revolution against the government put a new king on the throne Louis-Philippe (July Revolution).

    3. Artistic Education During the Restoration Out with David, in with Romanticism Gericault, Horace Vernet, Delacroix, Chasseriau Academie des Beaux-Arts Historical scenes from the medieval period. Religious paintings Landscape Naked women

    4. Artistic Criticism Germaine de Stael She was an enemy of Napoleon, spent a great deal of time in Germany, and brought back German Romantic ideas to France. Daughter of Necker Wrote De lallemagne Fredrich von Schlegel used the term Romantic as an art form that challenged the Classical ideal Edmund Burke wrote about the Sublime in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful.

    5. Themes and Paintings Medieval Europe (religious fervor) Religious Paintings Irrational v. irrational The Orient (Middle East and Northern Africa History Paintings Exotic Stupid horses

    8. Theodore Gericault Born in Rouen Trained secretly under Carle Vernet Vernet differed from David with his emphasis on stupid horses. Focus on the natural world Worked in the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guerin. Most representative of the Romantic artists Died young at 32 Charging Chasseur and Wounded Cuirassier leaving the Field of Battle (Salon 1814)

    10. Selected Art Work: Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, 1818

    11. Selected Work: the Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses 1820 Emile-Jean Horace Vernet

    13. Barb horses from Northern Africa Romes Via del Corsco Piazza del popolo Piazza di Venezia. Spectators in balconies Wild spirit of the horse represents freedom, while man is enslaved by civilization Coloristic Captured frozen moment in time

    14. Annoying Art Historian We have to remember Lorenz Eitner In regards to Horace Vernets Stupid horse painting he said Vernets painting looked like Garicaults sketch both chose to create a piece based on the START of the race. In regards to The Stormy Coast Scene he said The vulnerability of humans in contrast to the vastness and unpredictability of the sea is one of the key themes of Romantic Art.

    15. Selected Work: Emile-Jean Horace Vernets Stormy Coast Scene After a Shipwreck Vulnerability of humans to the powerful forces of nature. Permanence of the sea serves as a contrast to humans. Transitions in tone to create a sense of mass in the rocks Sublime (Burke) May have been inspired by Gericaults Raft of the Medusa Ambiguous! Is everyone else dead? Imagination/emotional appeal.

    16. Eugene Delacroix Born in Paris, wealthy, daddy was a government official (1798). Worked under Pierre-Narcisse Guerin (also Gericaults teacher) Delacroix liked medieval stuff, horses, and Lord Byron ? Modeled for the Raft of the Medusa Liked literature and themes that appealed to the imagination Dante and Virgil in Hell Scenes from the Massacres at Chios The Death of Sardanapalus

    17. Delacroix and Contemporary History

    18. Selected Work: Delacroixs Royal Tiger 1829 Lithograph (Greek for stone and mark) Spontaneous work method. Dramatic contrasts and evocative moods Tigers at Jardin des Plants in Paris Hippolyte Taine said he liked tigers whatever. Tiger was dead Eyes create a sense of drama so that the scene is not static Psychological drama of confrontation with a tiger Painting lions as well. People liked the exotic animals and their taste for flesh Liked the idea of seeing the world through the eyes of a tiger.

    19. Theodore Chasseriau Born in Saint Dominique Worked in the studio of jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (former student of David) Gifted draughtsman Worked for Delacroix (who didnt like Ingres) Liked to travel in the Orient. Died young at 38 He emerged towards the end of Romanticism and the beginning of Realism most of his work was unknown.

    20. Selected Work: Young Jewish Woman of Algeria Seated 1846 Small (notebook paper), watercolor and graphite Notations written by the side. Face treated with great detail. Exotic clothing Creepy! (looks like the viewer is looking at her through a peephole! Voyeuristic Primitive (shes on the floor rather than in a chair) Animalistic Delacroix did one too called the Women of Algiers

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