Arts

• Romanticism was a movement in which the artists of the Neoclassical period sought to break new ground in the expression of emotion, both subtle and stormy
• Distinctive themes of Romanticism include a longing for history, supernatural elements, social injustices, and nature
• Characteristics of Romantic art:

  • Shows the height of action
  • Emotional extremes
  • Celebrated nature as out of control
  • Dramatic compositions
  • Heightened sensation (life and death moments)
• Romantic paintings emphasized emotion and artists expressed as much feeling and passion as possible on a canvas
• Jean Louis Theodore Gericault:

  • First French Master
  • Leader of the French Realistic School
  • His masterpieces were energetic, powerful, brilliantly colored, and tightly composed
• The Raft of the Medusa:

  • Depicts the victims of a contemporary shipwreck
  • French emigrants en route to West Africa
• Charging Chasseur:

  • Portrays a mounted Napoleonic Cavalry Officer
  • Gericault's first exhibited work
  • Includes dramatic diagonal arrangements and vigorous paint handling
• Insane Woman:

  • Depicts the mentally disabled
  • Has a peculiar hypnotic power
  • Addresses subjects with different mental health issues
• Eugene Delacroix:

  • Greatest French Romantic Painter
  • Achieved brilliant visual effects using small, adjacent strokes of contrasting color
  • Most influential to most Romantic painters
  • His technique was adopted and extended by the Impressionist artists
• Liberty Leading The People:

  • Commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 in France
  • Depicts a woman holding the flag of the French Revolution personifying Liberty
  • Leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen
• Romanticism was a movement in which the artists of the Neoclassical period sought to break new ground in the expression of emotion, both subtle and stormy
• Distinctive themes of Romanticism include a longing for history, supernatural elements, social injustices, and nature
• Characteristics of Romantic art:

  • Shows the height of action
  • Emotional extremes
  • Celebrated nature as out of control
  • Dramatic compositions
  • Heightened sensation (life and death moments)
• Romantic paintings emphasized emotion, with artists expressing as much feeling and passion as possible on a canvas
• Jean Louis Theodore Gericault:

  • First French Master
  • Leader of the French Realistic School
  • His masterpieces were energetic, powerful, brilliantly colored, and tightly composed
• The Raft of the Medusa:

  • Depicts the victims of a contemporary shipwreck
  • French emigrants en route to West Africa
• Charging Chasseur:

  • Portrays a mounted Napoleonic Cavalry Officer
  • Gericault's first exhibited work
  • Includes dramatic diagonal arrangements and vigorous paint handling
• Insane Woman:

  • Depicts the mentally disabled
  • Has a peculiar hypnotic power
  • Addresses subjects with different mental health issues
• Eugene Delacroix:

  • Greatest French Romantic Painter
  • Achieved brilliant visual effects using small, adjacent strokes of contrasting color
  • Most influential to most Romantic painters
  • His technique was adopted and extended by the Impressionist artists
• Liberty Leading The People:

  • Commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which overthrew King Charles X of France
  • A woman holding the flag of the French Revolution personifies Liberty
  • Leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen