MODULE 1

• The main objectives of this module are the following:
• Objectives

  • Identifies distinct characteristics of arts during the Neoclassic and Romantic periods
  • Analyzes art elements and principles in the production of work following a specific art style from the Neoclassic and Romantic periods
  • Explains the use or function of artworks by evaluating their utilization and combination of art elements and principles
  • Reflects on and derive the mood, idea, or message from selected artworks
  • Identify representative artists from the Neoclassical period
  • Compares the characteristics of artworks produced in the Neoclassic and Romantic periods
  • Creates artwork guided by techniques and styles of the Neoclassic and Romantic periods
  • Evaluates works of art in terms of artistic concepts and ideas using criteria from the Neoclassic and Romantic periods
• Expected learning outcomes

  • Recognizes representative artists and their artworks during the Neoclassic and Romantic period
  • Differentiates the characteristics of Neoclassic and Romantic Period
  • Critique an artwork of the Romantic Period
  • Draws and paints your dream abode inspired by Neoclassical and Romantic arts
• Jean-Louis David

  Painter
• Jean-Louis David

  Napoleon Crossing the Alps
• Jean-Louis David

  French
• Robert Adam


  Architect
• Robert Adam


  White House, United States Capitol
• Robert Adam


  British
• Antoine-Louis Barye


  Sculptor
• Antoine-Louis Barye


  Sculptures of animals
• Antoine-Louis Barye


  French
• Neoclassicism


  Renewed interest in classical ideals and forms that influenced European and American society through idea, politics and fine arts during the 18th and 19th century
• Neoclassical arts


  • Portrayal of Roman history
  • Formal composition
  • Use of diagonals to show the peak of an emotion or moment
  • Local color
  • Overall lighting
  • Classic geo-structure
• Classicism


  Period in which Greek and Roman principles and styles were reflected in society
• Neoclassicism


  Renewed interest in classical ideals and forms that influenced European and American society
• Jacques-Louis David


  Influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered the preeminent painter of the era
• Napoleon Crossing the Alps


  Strongly idealized view of Napoleon and his army crossing the Alps
• Antonio Canova


  Prolific Italian artist and sculptor famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh
• Robert Adam


  Palladian architect of the Neoclassical era who designed the White House and United States Capitol
• Romanticism


  Movement in which the artists of the Neoclassical period sought to break new grounds in the expression of emotion, both subtle and stormy
• Romantic arts


  • Shows the height of action
  • Emotional extremes
  • Celebrated nature as out of control
  • Heightened sensation (life and death moments)
  • Dramatic compositions
• Jean Louis Théodore Géricault


  First French master and leader of the French realistic school, known for his energetic, powerful, brilliantly colored, and tightly composed masterpieces
• The Raft of Medusa


  Painting portraying the victims of a contemporary shipwreck
• Théodore Rousseau and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

  Famous landscape artists of the Romantic period
• Neoclassicism

  Reason
• Romanticism

  Passion
• Neoclassicism vs Romanticism


  • Nature is defined as human nature
  • Nature is defined as a natural environment (woods, mountains, etc.)
  • Society is more important than the individual
  • The individual is more important than society
  • Imitation
  • Originality
  • Tradition
  • Experimentation
  • Rules and order
  • Freedom
  • Mechanical
  • Organic Form (growing from inside)
  • Logic
  • Intuition
  • Reason
  • Imagination, Emotion
  • Attempted Objectivity
  • Accepted subjectivity
  • Town or cultivated landscape
  • Country, preferably untouched nature
  • Constraint
  • Spontaneity
  • Conformity
  • Independence, Rebellion
  • Cultivated, formal, social
  • The primitive becomes focus
• Landscape Painting

  • Théodore Rousseau
  • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
• Landscape Painting


  • Depicts the physical world that surrounds us and includes features such as mountains, valleys, vegetation and bodies of water
  • The sky is another important element in shaping the mood of landscape paintings
• Romantic Sculptor

  Antoine-Louis Barye
• Antoine-Louis Barye was the most famous animal sculptor of all time. He studied the anatomy of his subjects by sketching residents of the Paris zoo
• Famous artworks

  • Hercules Sitting on a Bull (A. Barye)
  • Theseus Slaying the Minotaur (A. Barye)
• Neoclassicism is a Western movement in decorative and visual arts that was known for its emphasis on reason, order, and classical forms
• Romanticism was a movement in which the artists sought to break new grounds in the expression of emotion, both subtle and stormy
• Neoclassical Paintings


  • Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Jacques-Louis David)
• Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, and considered to be the preeminent painter of the era