BELL RINGER 2/17 None today

Pull out your “Swan Lake” notes. Take a minute to finish the back questions if you haven’t yet.

We are going to discuss these questions and then turn this in for a classwork grade! I will be calling on random people to share so be prepared!

FINISH SWAN LAKEPull out the your worksheets from Friday…

DISCUSSION 1. The dancers are dancing “en pointe.” In your

opinion, does it make the dancers appear weightless? How so?

DISCUSSION 2. Knowing the story, does this ballet portray Act IV?

How do you see the story happening? Give at least 3 examples.

DISCUSSION 3. Describe the various costumes you see (girls, Prince

Seigfried, Von Rothbart.) How do they help tell the story?

DISCUSSION 4. Did you enjoy what you saw? Would you buy tickets

to Swan Lake? Why or why not?

This one I won’t make you share – but answer HONESTLY on your paper.

Turn these papers into the box for credit. I will pass them back in a few days and they will go back into your binder.

ROMANTIC ARTPainting

ROMANTIC PAINTING Romantic style had an emotional appeal (similar to

music, opera, and ballet)

Romantic compositions moved toward fragmentation of imagesWith the intention of dramatizing, personalizing, and

escaping into imagination

Painting strove to get away from formal content and move towards the expressive

ROMANTIC PAINTING - CHARACTERISTICS Characteristics of Romantic Painting:

Fragmented – usually by lines (most often diagonals)Clear obvious brushstrokes (texture)Strong contrastVery expressive to the point that detail sometimes suffer

for emotionOften involves a sense of “doom”

ROMANTIC PAINTING We’ll look at the work of several artists to demonstrate

the emotional themes and individuality

You will NOT need to name these paintings on the quiz or testYou will want to remember these names…And (remember you WILL have music recognition)

FRANCISCO DE GOYA 1746-1828

Spanish

Used his paintings to attack the abuses perpetrated by governments, both the Spanish and the French

His highly imaginative and often nightmarish works capture the emotional character of humanity and nature

THE THIRD OF MAY - GOYA Tells a true story

On May 3rd, the citizens of Madrid rebelled against the invading army of Napoleon

People were arbitrarily arrested and executed by the masses

THE THIRD OF MAY - GOYAWhat/who is the focal point?

THE THIRD OF MAY - GOYA It is impossible to escape

the focal point of the story – the man in white about to die

His strong value contrasts force the eye back to the victim

The lantern behind the soldiers keeps the work in balance

THE THIRD OF MAY - GOYA Goya leads us beyond the death of individuals here

The figures are not naturalistically depicted people

Instead, Goya makes a powerful social and emotional statement

THE THIRD OF MAY - GOYA The soldiers’ faces are

hidden and their rigid, repeated forms create a frightening line of suffering

The murky quality of the background strengthens the value contrasts and charges the emotional drama

THE THIRD OF MAY - GOYA Color areas have hard

edges

A stark line of light running from the oversized lantern to the lower border separates the executioners and victims

THE THIRD OF MAY - GOYA

What Romantic characteristics are seen?

J.M.W. TURNER 1775-1851

English

Indulged in a subjectivity even beyond that of his Romantic contemporariesHis work foreshadows the dissolving image of 20th century

painting

“airy visions with tinted steam”

THE SLAVE SHIP - TURNER

THE SLAVE SHIP - TURNER

Visualizes a passage in James Thomson’s poem “The Seasons” which describes how sharks follow a slave ship in a storm “lured by the scent of steaming crowds of rank disease and death.”

THE SLAVE SHIP - TURNER Elements of Romantic

Painting:Fragmented by disjointed

diagonalsThe brushstrokes are

energetic and spontaneousThe sea and sky appear

transparentExpression dominates form

and content – a sense of doom prevails

EUGENE DELACROIX 1798-1863

Employed color, light, and shade to capture the climactic moments of high emotion

THE 28TH OF JULY: LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE - DELACROIX Shows the allegorical

figure of Liberty bearing the tricolor flag of France and leading the charge of a freedom loving people

THE 28TH OF JULY: LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE - DELACROIX

Which characteristics of Romantic art are evident here?

THE 28TH OF JULY: LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE - DELACROIX Lights and darks provide

strong and dramatic contrasts

The red, white, and blue, used around the work unify the scene

JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT 1796-1875

“Romantic naturalism”

First to execute finished paintings outdoors rather than in a studio

He wanted to create the full luminosity of nature and to capture the natural effect of visual perceptionVisual perception: how the eye focuses on detail and how

peripheral vision works

VOLTERRA - COROT

How is there visual perception?

VOLTERRA - COROT

Strives to achieve a true-to-life visual effect by reducing the graphic clarity of all details except those of the central objects (which are presented very clearly) Just as our eyes perceive clearly only those objects

on which we are focused

ROMANTIC VS... BAROQUE

Chiaroscuro is DIFFERENT from Fragmentation Chairoscuro is a strip of bright light (high values) Fragmentation is having one side of the painting high in contrast

from the other

CLASSICALBoth Romantic and Classical aren’t overly detailedClassical is POSITIVE (Utopia – graceful)Romantic is NEGATIVE (harsh – doom)

MUSIC REVIEW Test Friday – let’s make sure you remember these

musical examples…

8 Music Examples, Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank (with a word bank), and just 2-3 short answer questions

MYSTERY ART Groups of 2-3

You will be handed an artwork and a worksheet

As a group, determine if the artwork is from the Romantic PeriodFill out the worksheet as you go (will be turned in for a grade.)We will go over the worksheet before you begin

You will get started today and finish tomorrow.Get the worksheet done today – tomorrow you will briefly present

your findings to the class