Romanticism Flashcards
Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Goya
1798, Owls=folly, bats=ignorance, Creative process is dark and hard but has good results, Emotional and irrational, Series did not sell well
Family of Charles IV by Goya
1800, Velasquez influence (self portrait of artist, highlight on children), Son in painting, Not flattering to queen and king
Third of May by Goya
1815, France and Napoleon invaded invaded Spain and executed Spanish peasants, Spanish propaganda, In favor of Spain (seen as innocent, massacre), Stance mirrors Christ on cross
Saturn Devouring One of His Children
1819-1823, Saturn was told his kids were going to overtaken him so he ate his kids to change fate (didn’t work), Painted on barn door, Intense emotion in eyes, Tenebrism, Symbol of time passing, Part of the series The Black Paintings
Raft of the Medusa by Gericault
1818, Ship wreck survivors off Africa, Only 15 of 150 survivors of wreck survived raft, Captain should not have been controlling boat, Took 8 months to create, Sketched raft, made model of raft in studio, studied corpses, Double Pyramid, Diagonals and crossing gestures, Corpses piled up, Intense movement and lighting, Cannibalism (one corpse has half a torso), Slaves on top (abolitionist), Renamed to be innocuous
Death of Sardanapalus by Delacroix
1827, Action and movement, Irrational, emotional, exotic, past, Inspired by Byron poem, King lost a battle so he killed his women and set items on fire before the enemies could get them
Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix
1830s Revolutions, Wears hat of slaves to symbolize liberty, Flag of Republic, Nude=purity, Young person with pistols shows how kids were affected by war, Bourgeois and lower class working together
Abbey in the Oakwood by Casper David Friedrich
1810, Soft light touches on graves and windows, Gothic influence, Remains of Edama Abbey in Greitswald, Focus on God’s creation
The Slave Ship by JMW Turner
1840, Combats industrialism, Slave ship where slaves were thrown off for money, Shows how humans impact the earth but overall nature dominates, Deep red makes the white pop, Color emphasis
