W7 - Romantisim & the Sublime Flashcards
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Washington Allston 1779-1843 Self Portrait 1805
- one generation after Stuart & Trumbull
- begins painting at Harvard, 1800 -Studies in England. Visits Paris & Rome
- Fist American artist painting the sublime (the worst of feelings) Movment, reflections, mysterious
- Mimicking Titan
- Sometimes very romantic, other times Neoclassical
Self portrait 1805
- Sublime=Alternative to enlightenment
- showing himself as an intellectual gentleman
- plaster/stucco scattering from wall=space torn with age, ruin? symbol of grand tour
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Washington Allston
Italian landscape 1805
- Very typical composition of Allston: Figures in foreground - water in middle - mountains in background.
- “Claudian” framing= trees/objects on sides
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Washinton Allston
Dead man revived by touching the bones of prophet Elisha 1811-14
- Neoclassical inte ht eway the bodies are sculptural.
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Washinton Allston Boat,
Rising of the thunderstorm at sea 1804-08
- Romantisism & Sublimliness = the insignificance of man, smallness of man, inabillity of overcoming nature
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Washinton Allston
Elijah in the Dessert 1818
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Washinton Allston
Moonlit landscape 1819
- made up landscape.
- typical composition
- no narrative (figures unidentifiable) = expressing a mood (internal, spiritual, meditative)
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Washinton Allston
Belshazaar’s feast 1817-43
- works on it for very long
- neoclassical
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Samuel F.B Morse 1791-1872
- Born Charlestown Massachusetts
- Goes to Yale 1808-10. Private student with Allston
- 1811, oes to England, studies with West
- Never really break through
- Spends his last 30 years of his careerdeveloping code & the telegraph
- Long life. Nobody remembers him as a painter
- realized he wasnt as good as Jarvis
Marquis de Lafayette 1826
- Comissioned by city of New York. A big comission for Morse.
- show him in a realistic way. Not too styalized. A littel fat. Not too heroic scene
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Samuel Morse
Gallery of the Louvre 1831-33
- To show how great he was and how great the artwork in the Louvre is.
- The idea was to educate the American. Was supposed to be a traveling exhibition
- Also tell about how art studies were done in. learning from the Masters
- Van Dyke, Titan, Poussin, Rubens…
- Morse and daughter in center James M Cooper in left corner
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Samuel F.B Morse
The Old House of Representatives, 1822
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Samuel F.B Morse
Susan Walker Morse (the Muse)1836-37
- High style romantisism
- softening & sentimental features
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Samuel F.B Morse
Niagra falls from table rock 1835
- Morse was not very talanted with depicting nature
