Another Incredible

Slide Show

about Art!! (Ch 29)

19th cent. Romantic Landscape Painting

• Became its own category of painting in 1800’s• Artists often used nature as allegory (for death,

prosperity, etc)• With regard to landscape: Artists don’t just paint

what they see during this period. They edit/imagine landscapes that show moods and emotions

• Nature’s Power over Humans• English Landscape Painter School• Hudson River School

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Caspar David Friedrich

Abbey in the Oak Forest

1810Oil on Canvas

Romanticism/19th century landscape

-Death: bare winter trees, funerary procession, coffin, graveyard, ruins of a church, crooked crosses

-Romantics saw landscapes/nature as a living being, with a spirit that we could relate to in terms of our existence on earth and our experiences as part of the universe

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John Constable

The Haywain

1821

Oil on Canvas

Romanticism/19th century landscape

-Famous English Landscape Artist

-Presents a picturesque countryside scene, contrasting with the cities, where the industrial revolution was happening

-Figures are “one” with nature. They blend in with the landscape

-muted greens and golds, delicate brushstrokes characterize his work

-white stippling over local color creates movement/shimmer

-Figures are not doing tedious work. The scene is nostalgic/pleasant

-A wain is a type of horse-drawn, load-carrying vehicle

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Slave Ship (Slaves throwing Overboard the

dead and dying: Typhoon Coming On)

1840

Oil on Canvas

Romanticism/19th Century Seascape

-Also of the English Landscape Painter School

-Contrast with Constable, in that Turner’s style is more expressive/less delicate

-Romantic passion and energy, awe mixed with terror

-1783: Slave ship owner realized that his insurance co. would only reimburse him for slaves who died at sea (not those who died of illness en route). So, he had the sick thrown overboard.

-style matches the barbaric event

-scarlet clouds : blood of the dying

- tiny figures against big sun & sky = nature’s power over humans

28-55Thomas Cole

The Oxbow (View from Mt. Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts,

after a Thunderstorm)

1836

Oil on Canvas

Romanticism/19th Century Seascape

-Hudson River School

-Shows us the country’s and the

individual’s relationship with the land

-Divided composition shows 2 sides of contemporary America (stormy wilderness and tame civilization)

-Miniscule Artist, dwarfed by powerful landscape (nature’s power over humans)

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Albert Bierstadt

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains,

California

1868

Oil on Canvas

Romanticism/19th Century Landscape

-Hudson River School

-10feet wide

-Reinforces Manifest Destiny

-Heavenly sun rays coming through clouds

-depicts uniqueness and splendor of land beyond the Rockies

-People were questioning America’s “Destiny” in the West due to concerns over Native American displacement, exploitation of the environment, and the difficulty of the task

-Entrepreneurs and Investors for westward expansion (ie: Railroad companies) bought his work

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Frederic Edwin Church

Twilight in the Wilderness

1860’s

Oil on Canvas

Romanticism/19th Century Landscape

-Hudson River School

-Traveled to South America,

Mexico, Middle East, and more

-Without humanity (and our wars,

like the civil war which was going on), nature is still peaceful/majestic

-A reminder that this is the picture of America that many envisioned

Joseph Mazton

Crystal Palace

London, England

1850-1851

-Iron…new innovation

-”Naked” iron constructions were first

seen in English greenhouses

-This glass and iron building won a

competition to house the Great

Exhibition of 1851 (a presentation of “works of industry of all nations”)

-prefabricated parts

-dismantled after exhibition

-Christian church influence (barrel vaulted nave and transept)

-Destroyed in a fire in 1936