Romanticism Revision
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Romanticism is characterized by an imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, and dream-like or visionary qualities that evoke intense feelings. The subjects of Romantic art and literature often featured nature, especially wild and mysterious landscapes, as well as the exotic, melancholy, and melodramatic. Romanticism stressed emotion, imagination, and freedom over previous social conventions and experimented with non-classical forms.
Romanticism Revision
- 2. Characteristics Romanticism is characterised by: Imaginative and subjective approach Emotional intensity Dream-like or visionary quality Suggestion states or intense feelings, mystical
- 3. Subjects The subjects chosen tend to be: Nature, especially wild and mysterious Exotic Melancholy Melodramatic facts that evoke passion
- 4. Other Characteristics It stressed emotion, imagination and freedom Denied previous social conventions such as the position of the aristocracy Influenced by the Illustration
- 5. Values Cult of the artist as a genius Emphasis on common language Depiction of apparently daily experience Experimentation with non-classical forms
- 6. Interests The past Old forms Ruins in contact with nature Mythic and legendary material Low culture was higher valuate that high culture
- 7. France It is the time of Napoleonic wars so it was inspired in contemporary events Style is colourful and emotional Main artists are: Gericault Delacroix
- 8. France Gericault: He emphasized the heroism and sufferance Powerful brushstrokes Conflicting light and dark tones Sense of isolation and vulnerability Work: The Raft of the Medusa
- 9. France Delacroix: Subjects frequently taken from literature Use of colour to create an effect of pure energy and emotion Half-tones derived from juxtaposing to a colour its complement Energetic vibration and nervous brushstrokes Works: Death of Sardanapalus, Freedom Conducting the Country, Massacre at Chios
- 10. Germany Painting was inspired by the conception of nature as a manifestation of the divine. Symbolic landscape paining Authors: Friedrich The Nazarenes: Attempted to discover the style and spirit of medieval art Overbeck and von Schwind (Germanic mythology and fairy tales).
- 11. Germany Friedrich: Meditative landscaped Paintings of lucid and meticulous style Subtle mystical feeling and sense of melancholy, solitude Romantic pessimism
- 12. England Landscapes were essential Innovative styles with simplicity of style Influences of William Blake Constable Landscapes influenced by feelings He worked in open air Luminous colours Thick brushwork.
- 13. England Turner: Radical pictorial vision Concerned with atmospheric effects of light and colour It is frequent to find in his works clouds, mist, snow Objects look to dissolve in his works
- 14. Late Romanticism French Barbizon School: Quiet and atmospheric landscapes Authors: Corot and Rousseau Pre-Raphaelites: They revived the medieval mission of the Nazarenes Arthur’s legend and feminine images Authors: Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Millais
- 15. Influence Barbizon School is linked to Impressionism Symbolist movement: Subjectivity Imagination Dream-like imagery Freedom in Arts continues nowadays.