ROMANTICISM Flashcards
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ROMANTICISM
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- EMPHASIS ON INDIVIDUAL
- EMOTION OVER INTELLECT
- FANTASTIC/EXOTIC
- NATURE
- IDEALISTIC/REBELLIOUS
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LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE
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DELACROIX
- dramatic
- allegorical
- liberty stepping over dead (made way for liberty)
- exposed=no shame/nurture
- musket in hand=fight for liberty
- pyramid structure
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DEATH OF SARDANAPALUS
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DELCROIX
- open composition
- colorful
- destroy possessions so enemy won’t get them
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RAFT OF MEDUSA
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GERICAULT
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THE BURIAL OF ATALA
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GIRODET
- native Americans
- emotions
- private
- based in book of Christianity called The Genius of Christianity
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LA MARSEILLAISE
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RUDE
- arc de triomphe
- volunteers departing
- bellona is there
- classically armored or nude
- dramatic romanticism is close packed bodies
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FAMILY OF CHARLES IV
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GOYA
- realistic portrayal of monarchs
- painted in back to make 14 and as tribute to Velazquez
- rococoish
- wealthy grocers
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THIRD OF MAY 1808
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GOYA
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SATURN DEVOURING HIS CHILDREN
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GOYA
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CLOISTER GRAVEYARD UN THE SNOW
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FRIEDRICH
- monastery, rundown
- sacredness of nature
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THE HAYWAIN
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CONSTABLE
- idealistic
- no message
- nature in the industrial period
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THE SLAVE SHIP
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TURNER
- loose brush strokes
- emotional
- conveys message about human dignity and value of life
- inhumanity of man to Mann
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THE OXBOW
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COLE
- Hudson River school
- river looks like “?”
- leave land wild?
- future of America
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AMONG THE SIERRA NEVADA
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BIERSTADT
-manifest destiny
-idealized, but detailed realism
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PARLIAMENT HOUSE
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BARRY AND PUGIN
- Gothic
- towers
- exotic
- holy place of democracy (like a church)
