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Romantic Orientalism

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Romantic Orientalism

Romantic Orientalism

Romanticism and Orientalism

• Romantic hero, liberty• Rise and fall of white male

masculinity• Decline of emperor Napoleon—

decline of heroism• Rise of the Orient

– Depicted as lazy, idle– Repress fantasies onto the Orient—forbidden

passions are indulged– Violent, barbaric, male domination over

female

Goya, Yard with Lunatics, 1793-

1794

Pre-Romanticism!

•Insanity•Irrationality•Imprisonment

Goya, Witches Sabbath,

1797-1798

Pre-Romanticism!

•Superstitions•Overwhelming Terror

Goya, The Family of Charles VI, 1800

Goya, The Third of May, 1808

Christ-Like

French Troops a.k.a ruthless killers

Goya, Saturn Devouring One of

His Children, 1819-1823

Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819

Gericault, Portrait of a

Young Man in an Artist’s

Studio, 1818-1819

Ingres, Louis Bertin,

1832

Ingres, Odalisque with a Slave, 1839-1840

Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1859-1863

Gerome, Moorish Bath,

1880-1885

Delacroix, Massacre at Chios,

1824

Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827

Delacroix, Turk Smoking on a Divan, 1832

Delacroix, Women of Algiers, 1834

Compare

The Use of “The Orient” In Today’s Society

How is “The Orient” depicted in this ad?

What characteristicsof Orientalism are present?

The Use of the White Male Hero

How is the white male hero presented in this ad?

Romanticism Landscape

• Elevate status of landscape genre – Irrational– Imaginative– Emotional– New world view

Constable, Golding Constable’s Flower Garden, 1815

Constable, The Haywain, 1821

Turner, Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 1834-1835

Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840

Friedrich, The Polar Sea, 1824