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Romantic Art

Romantic Art. Romantic Art…. Romanticism exalted individualism, subjectivism, irrationalism, imagination, emotions and nature - emotion over reason and senses over intellect. Joseph Turner. Turner's first job was as an assistant to an architect.

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Romantic Art

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  1. Romantic Art

  2. Romantic Art… Romanticism exalted individualism, subjectivism, irrationalism, imagination, emotions and nature - emotion over reason and senses over intellect

  3. Joseph Turner Turner's first job was as an assistant to an architect. At the age of fourteen he decided to become an artist, and began to study at the schools of the Royal Academy. His early work consisted of drawings and water colours on paper; it was some years before he felt ready to start painting in oils. His first painting, The Fishermen, reflects the fashion for sublime subjects, which gave viewers a sense of the overwhelming power of nature. (see next slide)

  4. Joseph Turner Fishermen at Sea 1796

  5. Joseph Turner The Grand Canal Venice

  6. The clear light and bright colors of Italy overwhelmed him, and though his water colors, especially those done in Venice, show him using pure color without the conventional indication of shadows by dark grey or brown tones Joseph Turner S. Giorgio Maggiore: Early Morning

  7. Norham Castle, Sunrise None of Turner's 'exhibited pictures could be said to be finished till he had worked on them when they were on the walls of the Royal Academy'. Others how Turner sent in a picture to the British Institution exhibition of 1835 in a state no more finished than 'a mere dab of several colours, and "without form and void"'; the account continues that 'Such a magician, performing his incantations in public, was an object of interest and attraction'. Joseph Turner

  8. Jacques-Louis David Began his work in using the Baroque style Switched to Neo-classical which was popular in Rome Later he is known for his Romantic paintings Supporter of the French Revolution and Napoleon In professional terms, he failed to survive the fall of his master (Napoleon), and in 1815 retired in exile to Brussels, In exile he continued to work in a highly finished Classical vein, but resorted to myth for his subject-matter

  9. Jacques-Louis David The Oath of the Horatii~shows change to Neo-Classicalism

  10. Jacques-Louis David Death of Marat Shows his support of the French Revolution and the leaders. As a true Romantic he attempted to catalogue the new heroes of the age

  11. Jacques-Louis David Napoleon at Mont St Bernard (1799) Napoleon gained power, and David gained a new hero. He recorded the general and later the Emperor in numerous propaganda pieces

  12. Jacques-Louis David Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the EmpressJosephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 Dec 1804

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