Art in the Romantic Period

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  • was an artistic movement and system of belief originally developed in Germany
    romanticism
  • when did romanticism spread across other European countries
    late eighteenth century to the late ninetieth century
  • stressed the core of subjective human experience
    romanticism
  • occupied their artistic endeavors with the embodiment of human emotions and explored the extensive rage
    the romantics
  • characteristics of artwork from the romantic period
    preference for scenery
  • an effective material bringing about the artistic sentiments of all kinds especially the feelings of estrangement, melancholy and woe
    nature
  • first of the romantic artist to take up this style; an ardent believer and a student of nature
    john constable (1776-1837)
  • artworks by john constable
    The Hay Wain, Dedham Vaile, The cornfield and full sized sketches such as The View on Star
  • regarded as one one of the greatest and well known English painting
    The Hay Wain by John Constable
  • an oil painting that depicts a rural scene on the river Stour between the English countries of Suffolk and Essex
    The Hay Wain by John Constable
  • another english landscript who later influenced the artists of the impressionist movement; one of the great masters of British watercolor landscape painting; commonly known as the painter of light 

    Joseph Mallord Turner (1775-1851)
  • famous works by joseph mallord turner
    The Burning Houses of Parliament,Rain, Steam and Speed, The Sun of Venice going to the sea and Snowstorm; Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
  • the oil painting that depicts the struggle of Hannibal's soldiers to cross the Maritime Alps in 1812

    The Alps
  • was a french artist; a french landscape and portrait painter; the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century
    Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (July 16 1796- February 22 1875)
  • most well-known artworksof jean baptiste camille corot
    Souvenir of Mortefontaine and Farnese Gardens
  • one of corot's poetic; represents a scene of a woman and children quietly enjoying themselves by a glass-flat tree-flanked lake

    Souvenir of Mortefontaine
  • corots work can be seen as a bridge of two rt movements, what are those
    realism and impressionism
  • simply known as theodore gericault was a french painter and lithographer; despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the romantic movement 

    Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (september 26 1791-january 26 1824)
  • best known painting of thedore gericault
    The Raft of Medusa
  • shows a scene of people drifting at sea and struggling to survive amidst the roaring force of the water; an example of the naturalistic aspect of art in the period of romanticism

    The Raft of Medusa
  • french romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic School; was considered the champion of the romantic movement for the artistic achievement and the lasting impact he had attained; most influencial in achieving brilliant visual effects using small adjacent strokes of contrasting colors

    Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (april 26 1798- august 13 1863)
  • eugene was best known for this painting; patrionic painting of the french revolution

    Liberty guiding the People by Delacroix
  • the most iconic painting feature of the liberty guiding the people painting

    it lies in the woman symbolizing the liberation of France
  • this painting represents an exaggerated expression of voice and death 

    death of sardanapalus by delacroix
  • was a great spanish painter and engraver of the romantic period; considered one of the most important spanish artits of the late 18th and early 19th centuries 

    Francisco Jose de Goya Y Lucientes (march 30 1746- april 16 1828)
  • two of the famous paintings of francisco jose de goya y lucientes
    los caprichos and disasters of war
  • a series of 80 engraving and aquatints showing a variety of darker theme involving death, demonic intervention, occultism and witchcraft; these etchings in marvelous tunes of black and white explored the deepest recesses to uncover the horrors of man's darkest fear

    los caprichos by goya