ROMANTIC Flashcards

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What years were the romantic era in

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1800-1810

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The first french master and leader of the french realistic school. His masterpieces were energetic, powerful, brilliantly colored, and tightly composed

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Jean Louis Theodore Gericault

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Gericault’s piece: Portrays the victims of a contemporary shipwreck. The people were French emigrants enroute to west africa

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The raft of medusa

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Gericault’s painting of a napoleonic cavalry officer ready to attack.

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Charging Chasseur

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Gericault’s portrait of a mentally disabled and peculiar woman with hypnotic powers

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Insane woman

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The greatest French Romantic painter wuth brilliant visual effects using small adjacent strokes of contrasting color.

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Eugene Delacroix

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Delcommemorates the July revolution of 1830 that knocked down 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

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Liberty Leading the people

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A commissioned romantic painter by the King of Spain. A printmaker regarded as last of the Old masters and first of the Moderns

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Francisco Goya

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Goya’s masterpiece that commemorates spanish resustance to the Napoleon armies

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The third of May

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Goya’s artwork depicts the greek myth kd Titan Cronus (Saturn) who fears to be overthrown by his children, so he ate one of them upon theur birth

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Saturn devouring his son

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Goya’s painting of a spanish ceremony celebrated on ash wednesday and was a symbolical burial of the past to allow dociety to be reborn, transformed with new vigor

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The burial of Sardine

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This depicts the physical world that surrounds us and includes features like mountains, valleys, vegetation, and bodies of water

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Landscape painting

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He was best known for his social art which aimed to inspire and captyre the interest of the broad public. He fsvored a dynamic and emotional style and created msny minuments that stirred the public for generations.

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Francois Rude

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Known as the La Marseillaise, portraying the goddess of liberty urging the forces kf the french revolution onward

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Departure of the Volunteers

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In this sculpture by Francois Rude, Joan is depicted at the age of 13 listening to the voices of St Catherine and St Marguerite who ordered her tk deluver France from the English occupation

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Jeanne D’arc

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The most famous animal sculptor of all time, whom studies the anstomy of his subjects by sketching residenrs of the Paris Zoo

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Antoine Louis Barye

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Bsrye sculpted hercules with the Erymantheyan Boar, depicting Hercules’ fourth labor, where he had to capture a wild boar from Mount Erymanthos

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Hercules sitting on a bull

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A sculpture showijg king Aigeus and the Poseidon’s son, Theseus, where he holds a knife over minotaur: a monster that’s a human with a bull’s head that eats human

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Theseus slaying the minotaur

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Characteristics of Romantic Art (5)

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  1. shows the height of action
    2.emotional extremes
  2. Dramatic compositions
  3. Celebrated nature as out of control
  4. Heightened sensation (life and death moments)
20
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Works of Gericault (3)

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  1. The raft of Medusa
  2. Charging Chasseur
  3. Insane Woman
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Works of Delacroix (1)

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  1. Liberty Leading the people
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Works of Fransisco Goya (3)

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  1. The third of May
  2. Saturn devouring his son
  3. The burial of Sardine
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Works of Francois Rude (2)

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  1. Departure of the volunteers
  2. Jeanne D’arc
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Works of Barye (2)

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  1. Hercules sitting on a bull
  2. Theseus slaying the Minotaur