Early 19 th Century Art Romanticism and Realism and Neoclassicism.
Neoclassicism & Romanticism art and literary movements
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Neoclassicism & Romanticism art and literary movements
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Review: RococoReview: Rococo
Popular from ~1715-1760Lush colours and dreamlike imagesSoft edges
Antoine Watteau, The Embarkation of Cythera,
1717
Neoclassicism
Dominant from 1760-1800Resurgence of classic (Ancient Greek or Roman) traditions in art, music, and architectureOrganized and symmetricalDepicted Greek or Roman imagery
^ Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
^ Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
Medici Vase, St. Petersburg, ca. 1830
*Pompeian style
^ Royal Scottish Academy, built in 1830
RomanticismEmerged in the early 19th centuryThis was a philosophical, literary, and artistic movementCompletely encompassed society (art, writing, politics, and revolutions)*A rejection of Enlightenment rationalism – not all things can be understood through reasonNature and imagination is beautiful – encompasses movement and change
Enlightenment vs RomanticismEnlightenment vs Romanticism
The countrysideReligionThe Middle AgesMysticismImagination
Problem of Defining RomanticismProblem 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
Romantic ArtCriticized the pastEmphasized women and children as pureIsolationism of the hero or narratorPure reality of nature
^ Francis de Goya, Third of May, 1808
^ Eugène Delacroix , Liberty Leading the People, 1830
^ J.M.W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up , 1838
^ Théodore Géricault , The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19
Romantic Literature