7. THEME: Features of Romanticism
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains!” - Rousseau
P.I.N.E.
Past – Longing for the medieval past, pre-industrial Europe (Gothic architecture will be
revived)
Irrational/ Inner mind / Insanity – Romantic artists depict the human psyche and topics
that transcend the use of reason. One Romantic artist, Gericault, chose to do portraits of
people in insane asylums
Nature – longing for the purity of nature, which defies human rationality
Emotion/ Exotic – Romantics favored emotion and passion over reason. Exotic themes
and locales were also popular because they did not adhere to European emphasis on
rationality
Imagination, not reason, FEELING, not thinking = FREEDOM
10. The Roots of
Romanticism
Henry Fuseli
The Nightmare
1781 Interest in “all the imagery that emerges from the chamber of
oil on canvas horrors when reason sleeps”
3 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 2 in.
11. The Roots of
Romanticism
William Blake
Ancient of Days
frontispiece of Europe: A Prophecy
1794
metal relief etching, hand colored
9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
12. Francisco Goya
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
from Los Caprichos
ca. 1798
etching and aquatint
8 1/2 x 6 in.
30. Caspar David Friedrich
“The artist should not only paint what he sees before him,
Abbey in the Oak Forest but also what he sees within him. If he does not see anything
1810 within him, he should give up painting what he sees before
oil on canvas him.” - Friedrich
3 ft. 7 1/2 in. x 5 ft. 7 1/4 in.
42. Romantic Architecture
•IRON
• Iron framework with Gothic or Romanesque skin
• Progressive artists exposed iron + glass
•REVIVAL of the past
•Middle ages – a time when religion was more devout and sincere
•Modern living corrupted Industrial Revolution
•Not just Medieval revival but also Egyptian, Islamic, Baroque… anything old!
43. Charles Barry & A.W.N. Pugin “All Grecian, Sir. Tudor details on
Houses of Parlaiment a classical body” - Pugin
London, England
“Neo-Gothic”
designed 1835
44. John Nash
“Indian Gothic”
Royal Pavilion
Brighton, England
1815-1818
50. Louis Daguerre (1787-1851)
Father of Photography
•First Daguerreotype in 1837, shown in an Academy in 1839
•French gov’t bought the rights in 1839
•One single image on a polished silver-plated copper sheet (no
negative no copies)
•Took 10-20 minutes for each photo (SIT STILL!!)
•Chemicals and wider apertures helped lessen the
time
•Science vs. Art
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