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Romanticism

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Romanticism

Part of a general cultural reaction againstthe Enlightenment

Devaluation of reason in favor of: Religious revival, including medievalism Horror, awe and the sublime Cult of nature

Folklore and nationalism Passion!

Petered out around 1848

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French painting

Neoclassicism Late-Enlightenment reaction against Rococo fluff

Standards of beauty and perfection taken from ancient

art Greatest exponent: Jacques-Louis David (17481825)

Romanticism Heroic individual artist striving against authority

Emphasis on color, brushwork, drama

Thodore Gricault (17911824), Eugne Delacroix(17981863)

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Jean-Honor FragonardThe Swing, 1767

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Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

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Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787

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Jacques-Louis DavidNapoleon at the St BernardPass, 1801

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Thodore Gricault

An Officer of the ChasseursCommanding a Charge,1812

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Thodore Gricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 181819

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Eugne Delacroix,The Barque of Dante, 1822

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Eugne Delacroix,The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827

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John Henry Fuseli, Lady Macbeth with the Daggers, 1812

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Eugne Delacroix,Liberty Leading the People (28 July 1830), 1830

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Zeki Faik zer,nklap Yolunda, 1933

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,17491832

Major figure ofGerman literature Sturm und Drang

1760s1780s Sorrows of Young

Werther1774

FaustPart One 1808

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Goethe_%28Stieler_1828%29.jpg

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Rembrandt van RijnFaust, 165052

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Eugne Delacroix,illustration for Goethe's Faust, 182527

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William Wordsworth, 17701850

Major EnglishRomantic poet

Lyrical Ballads 1798 Launched the

English Romantic era

Poetry as a

spontaneousoverflow of emotion

Nature

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Benjamin_Robert_Haydon_002.jpg

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The Romantic landscape

A new subject matter for painting

Embrace of nature as opposed to cities(reaction against Industrial Revolution)

England John Constable

J.M.W. Turner

Germany Caspar David Friedrich

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John Constable, The Hay-Wain,1821

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James Ward, Gordale Scar, 181113

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J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm, Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, 1812

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J.M.W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up,1838-39

J M W T R i St d S d Th G t W t R il b f 1844

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J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway, before 1844

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Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea, 1809

Caspar David Friedrich The Sea of Ice (The Wreck of the Hope) 1824

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Caspar David Friedrich, The Sea of Ice (The Wreck of the Hope), 1824

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Caspar David Friedrich, The Abbey in the Oakwood,180910

Caspar David Friedrich The Grosse Gehege near Dresden c 1832

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Caspar David Friedrich, The Grosse Gehege near Dresden,c. 1832