Pp Chap27
- 1. The Romantic View of Nature Chapter 27 Humanities 103 Spring 2005 Beth Camp
- 2. Getting Started This slide show compares European romantic painters to American romantic painters. Review the slides to see the differences between these painters. Which slides supplement the chapter best? What are your reactions to any of these painters? Where did you need more information?
- 3. Looking Back: Absolute Monarchy Height of French absolute monarchy Paintings of the “academic style” Nicholas Poussin, Arcadian Shepherds, 1640
- 5. Looking Back: Enlightenment Enlightenment or Age of Reason 18 th Century Western thought: Bacon, Descartes, Rousseau, Locke Natural law and universal order Scientific approach Sense of human progress Belief in state as rational instrument Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
- 7. Looking Back: Enlightenment Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784 French Revolution, 1789 Intellectual movement? Rebellion of underprivileged? Rising middle class? Republic Reign of Terror Directory Napoleon
- 8. Romanticism 1800-1850 Not a single style, technique or attitude Subjective and imaginative Emotionally intense, mystical Rebels against “classic”and “neoclassic” Emphasizes nature’s wild, mysterious, exotic, melancholic, melodramatic aspects
- 9. European Romantic painters Constable (1776-1837) Turner (1775-1851) Friedrich (1774-1840) Corot (1796-1875)
- 10. John Constable (1776-1837) Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds (1820) Wivenhoe Park, Essex (1816)
- 11. Constable
- 12. Constable
- 13. Joseph Turner (1775-1851) Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16 th October, 1834 Norham Castle, Sunrise (1835-1840) Norham Castle (detail)
- 14. Turner
- 15. Turner
- 16. Turner
- 17. Corot (1796-1875) Morning, dance of Nymphs (1850) Orpheus leading Eurydice from Underworld (1861) Boatman of Mortefontaine (1865-1870)
- 18. Corot
- 19. Corot
- 20. Corot
- 21. American Romantic painters Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) Frederick Church (1826-1900) George Catlin (1796-1872)
- 22. Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) Looking Up the Yosemite Valley (1865-1867) Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie (1866) Seal Rock (1872)
- 23. Bierstadt
- 24. Bierstadt
- 25. Bierstadt
- 26. Frederick Church (1826-1900) Niagara (1857) The Icebergs (1861)
- 27. Church
- 28. Church
- 29. Key elements of Romanticism? Religious attachment to nature Emphasize individual experience Subjective rather than objective Human moods = Nature’s moods Power of nature = inspiration + moral truth + redemption
- 30. What’s Next? What differences do you see between European and American romantic paintings? How would you describe Romanticism?
- 31. Sources: Mark Hardin’s ARTCHIVE at http:// www.artchive.com