Arts 2 Flashcards
a movement in which the artists of Neoclassical period sought to break new ground in the expression of emotion, both subtle and stormy. It embraced a number of distinctive themes, such as a longing for history, super- natural elements, social injustices, and nature.
Romanticism
the first French master and the leader of the French realistic school. His masterpieces were energetic, powerful, brilliantly colored, and tightly composed.
Jean louis Théodore Géricault (1791-1824)
He was considered the greatest French Romantic painter of all. He achieved brilliant visual effects using small, adjacent strokes of contrasting color.
He was the most influential to most of Romantic painters and eventually, his
technique was adapted and extended by the Impressionist artists.
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) France
This painting commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman holding the flag of the French Revolution personifies Liberty and leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen.
LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE
He was a commissioned Romantic painter by the King of Spain. He was also a printmaker regarded both as the last of the “Old Masters” and the first of the “Moderns.”
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) Spain
They were members of the Barbizon School (a circle of artists who held meetings in the village of Barbizon) that led the Romantic landscape painting in France.
- Théodore Rousseau
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
He was best known for his social art which
aimed to inspire and capture the interest of a broad public. He rejected the classical repose of the late 18th- and early 19th-century French sculpture in favour of a dynamic, emotional style and created many monuments that stirred the public for generations.
François Rude (1784-1855) France
He was the most famous animal sculptor of all time. He studied the anatomy of his subjects by sketching residents of the Paris zoo.
Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) France
