ROMANTICISM

Not just one visual style, not just a style of art

and not just about romantic love

What does Romanticism refer to?

What are the influences?

What influence does the philosopher Rousseau have on Romanticism?

What other arts are influenced by Romanticism?

What social movements are mirrored or actually inspired by Romanticism?

Exhibiting intense emotion to provoke emotional responses

The period was not just in art but also in poetry, fiction, music, and theater

Teaching to be empathetic and caring to others- (influenced by Abolition of Salvery)

Somewhat of a reaction to the coldness and lack of emotion of Neoclassicism

THE SUBLIME-  

 -quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.

-a sense of awe, with a bit of shock, and sometimes a bit of fear- mostly of the unknown.   Dreams, imagination, daydreams, nightmares, beyond everyday.....

William BlakeAncient of Days

John Henry Fuseli The Nightmare

Caspar David FriedrichThe Wanderer Above the Mists

Caspar David Friedrich Monk By The Sea

Caspar David Friedrich Abbey in the Oak Forest

Theodore Gericault The Raft of Medusa

Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People

Eugene Delacroix Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha

Eugene Delacroix

Abduction of Rebecca

Goya

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (from The Caprices)

Goya Third of May 1808

Goya    

Saturn Devouring His Children

John Constable       Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden

J.M.W. Turner Slave Ship

Albert Bierstadt    Sunrise, Yosemite Valley 

Realism

What sparks the Realism movement in the 19th century?

What are some of the concepts in Realism?

What does the new technology of photography offer to the period in regard to art?

How is art and architecture influenced in this period?

23.3 Gustave Courbet ,  The Stone Breakers , 1849.

23.4 Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans , 1849

23.1 Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners , 1857

MilletThe Sower

23.2 Rosa Bonheur , The Horse Fair , 1853.

23.5 Honoré Daumier, Third-Class Carriage , c. 1862

23.6 Honoré Daumier, The Freedom of the Press: Don't Meddle with It (Ne Vous y Frottez Pas) , 1834

23.8 Honoré Daumier, Louis Philippe as Gargantua , 1831

Camera Obscura

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOKqSlAOdhI

23.10 Nadar Sarah Bernhardt , c. 1864

23.11 Honoré Daumier, 

Nadar Elevating Photography to the Height of Art , 1862

23.12 Julia Margaret Cameron,

Mrs. Herbert Duckworth , 1867.

23.13 Mathew B. Brady

Lincoln “Cooper Union” Portrait , 1860.

23.14 Mathew B. Brady,

Robert E. Lee , 1865.

23.15 Thomas Eakins

The Gross Clinic , 1875

Eakins-  Biglin Brothers Racing

23.16 Henry Ossawa Tanner,  Annunciation , 1898

23:17 Manet, The Picnic, Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe , 1863

23;18 Manet Olympia

Crystal Palace- London 1850- 51

23.20 John A. Roebling and Washington A. Roebling, Brooklyn Bridge , New York , 1869–83.

23.21 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower , Paris , 1887–89

23.22 Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building , St. Louis , Missouri , 1890–91

Jean Everett Millais    Ophelia