Romanticism, Realism, and Photography

Question 1

Romanticism

Answer 1

Deep, scary, very different subject and style

Interest in fantasy, deep recesses of the mind, subconscious, interest in sleep and dreams, nightmares and turn away from reason, rationality. Interest in the subconscious mind, the world at sleep interest in subconscious mind because it the conscious mind is held at bay and what comes from the sleep reveals what goes on in the subconscious mind.

artists imagination and reponse from the viewer, exotic and erotic subject

Influence: Middle Ages because there was little to no documentation on that time period. Said to be the dark ages, mystery, barbarism, superstition, miracle, high rate of illiteracy and the black death.

Subject matter: from the middle ages, deep, scary. subconscious mind, dreams, and nightmares. Deep recessive of the mind
Style: not ren, Baroque, eye moves around the image
Composition: diagonal
Lighting: Tenebrism
McCobb feel
Brush stroke is soft and painterly

Question 2

Incubus

Answer 2

middle ages, demonic figure that prayed on sleeping women

Question 3

Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

Progressive movement of technollogy and urbanization.
Technology, reason, science and tech, factory and urban growth.

Some artists such as John: turns away from the industrial movement and the progress and shows the landscape that he knows as a child, beauitiful and calm. That man and nature should be more in line with each other

Question 4

Hudson River School

Answer 4

In the U.S. by Cole the leader

Question 5

Modernisism

Answer 5

reflection of the rapid change occurring in the middle of the 19th century.

1. Urbanization, industrial revolution lead to rural to urban expansion, growth, interest in science, imperialism (look at world and observe and learn–>photography.)
2. Secular: Darwin

Artists: capture world at their own time
Subject is now they created art and the emphasis on the artifice of art, that it is not a window to another world but a canvas with paint on it

Question 6

Realism

Answer 6

developed in France in mid of 19th cen what is real and what people can see and the object in their own time should be disputed the here and now, the poor day to day life of working class

Result: did not want to idealize the poor show in a straightforward matter

Style: show the edge of the canas and large blots of paint applied to the canvas
Subject: show the poor everyday life

Question 7

Lithography

Answer 7

1796

drawing done with greasy crayon on lime stone, block then inked, the ink adheres to greasy drawing (does not effect the lime stone so lime stone can be reused) but the greasy crayon on top of the paper printed quickly , sketchy like, quick and popular print method in the 19th and 20th cen

cost effective and can use limestone again, sketch like

Question 8

Photogenic Drawing

Answer 8

a sensitized paper, darkness in the sun, lay something on the paper to create a shadow and protect the paper set out in the sun and everything around it darkens

Takes a few minutes

Negative: doesn’t get the leaves but everything around it the outline and no deep landscape

Question 9

Daguerreotype

Answer 9

Positive image not fix on paper but polished metal plate has to be exposed to the light to table for 10 minutes then later 1 minute. People can’t get captured because it took so long unless stood there for a long time

Negative: long exposure time and cannot be reproduced

Question 10

Wet Plate Collodion

Answer 10

provides, invented in 1850 by Fredrick Archer a scientist and has short exposure time, quick, development of the print and photography and widely used to document events