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Romantic Orientalism

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Romantic Orientalism

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RomanticOrientalism

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Romantic Orientalism

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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

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Goya, Yard with Lunatics, 1793-

1794

Pre-Romanticism!

•Insanity•Irrationality•Imprisonment

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Goya, Witches Sabbath,

1797-1798

Pre-Romanticism!

•Superstitions•Overwhelming Terror

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Goya, The Family of Charles VI, 1800

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Goya, The Third of May, 1808

Christ-Like

French Troops a.k.a ruthless killers

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Goya, Saturn Devouring One of

His Children, 1819-1823

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Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819

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Gericault, Portrait of a

Young Man in an Artist’s

Studio, 1818-1819

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Ingres, Louis Bertin,

1832

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Ingres, Odalisque with a Slave, 1839-1840

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Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1859-1863

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Gerome, Moorish Bath,

1880-1885

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Delacroix, Massacre at Chios,

1824

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Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827

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Delacroix, Turk Smoking on a Divan, 1832

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Delacroix, Women of Algiers, 1834

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Compare

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

How is “The Orient” depicted in this ad?

What characteristicsof Orientalism are present?

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The Use of the White Male Hero

How is the white male hero presented in this ad?

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Romanticism Landscape

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

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Constable, Golding Constable’s Flower Garden, 1815

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Constable, The Haywain, 1821

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

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Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840

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Friedrich, The Polar Sea, 1824