Art and emotion Flashcards
“Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling.” who said this?
Charles Baudelaire (1846)
It introduced a new market economy that was based on machine power and tools instead of animal power and human tools.
Industrial Revolution
Romantics avoided Neoclassical rationality and went for _______ and ____________.
emotion and imagination
Romanticism began in ______ and __________ in the early _________ and thrived until the middle of the century.
Britain, France, 1800s
The difference is that instead of inspiring faith, most Romantic artists depicted these kinds of subject matter in their creations: ____________, __________, ___________, and _____________.
landscape, pastoral life, nationalism, and revolution
__________ and __________ themes prevailed in Romantic paintings.
Tragic and catastrophic
It was to commemorate the 1830 July Revolution – an importanT event in French history when people fought for their liberty and overthrew King Charles X.
Liberty Leading the People of Eugene Delacroix
It depicted the horrific aftermath of the sinking of the warship Meduse in 1816.
Theodore Gericault’s ‘the raft of Medusa.”
Romantic sculptors used __________ and __________ as the main materials for their works.
marble and bronze
He championed the first type of Romantic sculpture.
Antoine-Louis Barye
Romantic architects combined different architectural styles from previous periods. True or False?
True
It was built to honor the heroes of the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary wars.
Arc de Triomphe
First important neo-Gothic church in France.
The Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde
