Romanticism

Question 1

How is this period a reaction to neoclassicism and the Industrial revolution?

Answer 1

Idea of escapism, poetry exotic and faraway places; portrayal of nature; higher experience

Question 2

What is the Sublime and how is it manifested in the arts?

Answer 2

Idea of beauty and awe in nature; portrayed by mysticism and spirituality depicted in art

Question 3

How was romanticism used as political propaganda?

Answer 3

Anti-establishment way

Question 4

Gericault, Raft of the Medusa

Answer 4

pyramidal, idealistic, dramatic and emotional, nature is greater than man

Question 5

Francisco Goya, Third of May, 1808

Answer 5

figure in white as a martyr, christlike; emotional and chaotic; evokes an emotional response in the viewer

Question 6

Turner, The Slave Ship

Answer 6

emotional and dramatic; majesty and power of nature is more than the ship and the people (the sublime)