Neoclassicism & Romanticism art and literary movements

1. Neoclassicism&Romanticism art and literary movements Thursday, November 12, 2009

2. Review: Rococo • Popular from ~1715-1760 • Lush colours and dreamlike images • Soft edges Antoine Watteau, The Embarkation of Cythera, 1717 

3. Neoclassicism • Dominant from 1760-1800 • Resurgence of classic (Ancient Greek or Roman) traditions in art, music, and architecture • Organized and symmetrical • Depicted Greek or Roman imagery

4. ^ Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

5. ^ Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787

6.  Medici Vase, St. Petersburg, ca. 1830 *Pompeian style

7. ^ Royal Scottish Academy, built in 1830

8. Romanticism • Emerged in the early 19th century • This was a philosophical, literary, and artistic movement • Completely encompassed society (art, writing, politics, and revolutions) • *A rejection ofEnlightenment rationalism – not all things can be understood through reason • Nature and imagination is beautiful – encompasses movement and change

9. Enlightenment vs Romanticism • The countryside • Religion • The Middle Ages • Mysticism • Imagination

10. Problem of Defining Romanticism • Romanticism rejects the idea that things can be fully understood. • Sometimes the ideas may seem contradictory: respected old institutions while it was seen as liberal and encouraged change

11. Romantic Art • Criticized the past • Emphasized women and children as pure • Isolationism of the hero or narrator • Pure reality of nature

12. ^ Francis de Goya, Third of May, 1808

13. ^ Eugène Delacroix , Liberty Leading the People, 1830

14. ^ J.M.W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838

15. ^ Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19

16. Romantic Literature