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.
10. 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
11.
12. 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).
13. Germany
Friedrich:
Meditative landscaped
Paintings of lucid and
meticulous style
Subtle mystical feeling and
sense of melancholy, solitude
Romantic pessimism
14.
15. 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.
16.
17. 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
18.
19. 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
21. Influence
Barbizon School is linked to
Impressionism
Symbolist movement:
Subjectivity
Imagination
Dream-like imagery
Freedom in Arts continues
nowadays.