romanticism revision (new)
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Romanticism
Revision
Characteristics Romanticism is characterised by:
Imaginative and subjective approach
Emotional intensity Dream-like or visionary quality Suggestion states or intense
feelings, mystical
Subjects The subjects chosen tend to be:
Nature, especially wild and mysterious
Exotic Melancholy Melodramatic facts that evoke
passion
Other Characteristics It stressed emotion, imagination
and freedom Denied previous social
conventions such as the position of the aristocracy
Influenced by the Illustration
Values Cult of the artist as a genius Emphasis on common language Depiction of apparently daily
experience Experimentation with non-classical
forms
Interests The past Old forms Ruins in contact with nature Mythic and legendary material Low culture was higher valuate
that high culture
France It is the time of Napoleonic wars
so it was inspired in contemporary events
Style is colourful and emotional Main artists are:
Gericault Delacroix
France Gericault:
He emphasized the heroism and sufferance
Powerful brushstrokes Conflicting light and dark tones Sense of isolation and vulnerability Work: The Raft of the Medusa
France Delacroix:
Subjects frequently taken from literature Use of colour to create an effect of pure
energy and emotion Half-tones derived from juxtaposing to a
colour its complement Energetic vibration and nervous
brushstrokes Works: Death of Sardanapalus, Freedom
Conducting the Country, Massacre at Chios
Germany Painting was inspired by the conception
of nature as a manifestation of the divine.
Symbolic landscape paining Authors:
Friedrich The Nazarenes:
Attempted to discover the style and spirit of medieval art
Overbeck and von Schwind (Germanic mythology and fairy tales).
Germany Friedrich:
Meditative landscaped Paintings of lucid and meticulous
style Subtle mystical feeling and sense of
melancholy, solitude Romantic pessimism
England Landscapes were essential Innovative styles with simplicity of style Influences of William Blake Constable
Landscapes influenced by feelings He worked in open air Luminous colours Thick brushwork.
England Turner:
Radical pictorial vision Concerned with atmospheric effects
of light and colour It is frequent to find in his works
clouds, mist, snow Objects look to dissolve in his works
Late Romanticism French Barbizon School:
Quiet and atmospheric landscapes Authors: Corot and Rousseau
Pre-Raphaelites: They revived the medieval mission of the
Nazarenes Arthur’s legend and feminine images Authors: Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Millais
Rosetti
Millais
Influence Barbizon School is linked to
Impressionism Symbolist movement:
Subjectivity Imagination Dream-like imagery
Freedom in Arts continues nowadays.