ART OF THE ROMANTIC

PERIOD(1800-1810)

G OYA , D E L A C R O I X , G E R I C AU LT

ROMANTICISM

•A MOVEMENT IN WHICH THE ARTIST OF NEO-CLASSICAL PERIOD SOUGHT TO BREAK NEW GROUND IN THE EXPRESSION OF EMOTION,BOTH SUBLTLE AND STORMY.

CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTIC PERIOD PAINTINGS:•Shows height of action•Emotional extremes•Celebrated nature as out of control•Dramatic compositions•Heighted sensations (life and death moments)•Paintings focus on EMOTIONS

F R A N C I S C O G OYA

( 1 7 4 6 - 1 8 2 6 ) S P A I NGOYA WAS A

COMMISSIONED ROMANTIC PAINTER BY THE KING OF SPAIN.

HE WAS REGARDED BOTH AS:

- THE LAST OF THE “OLD MASTERS” AND

- - THE FIRST OF THE “MODERNS.

THE THIRD OF MAYSought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies during the occupation of 1808 in the Peninsular War.

THE BURIAL OF SARDINEA Spanish ceremony celebrated on Ash Wednesday.A symbolical burial of the past to allow society to be reborn, transformed with new vigor.

SATURN DEVOURING HIS SONDepicts the Greek myth of the Titan, Cronus (Saturn), who fears that he would be overthrown by one of his own children, so he ate each one upon their birth.

EUGENE DELACROIX

(1798-1863) FRANCEWas considered the

greatest French Romantic painter of all.

The most influential of Romantic Painters.

His techniques were eventually adapted and extended by Impressionist artists.

LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE

Commemorates the July revolution of 1830, which Toppled King Charles X of France.

JEAN LOUIS THEODORE GERICAULT (1791-1824) FRANCE

Gericault was the first French master and the leader of the French realistic school.

His masterpieces were energetic, powerful, brilliantly colored, and tightly composed.

THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA

Portrays victims of a contemporary shipwreck. The people on the raft were French emigrants in route to west Africa.

CHARGING CHASSEUR

His first major work revealed the influence of the style of Rubens and an interest in the depiction of contemporary subject matter.

INSANE WOMANA mentally disabled that has a peculiar hypnotic power.

GUESSING TIME ;)

G U E SS T H E C O R R E C T W O R D S T O C O M P L E T E E A C H P H R A S E

THE INSANE _ _ _ _ N

By Gericault

S _ _ _ _ _DEVOURING HIS SON

By Francisco Goya

PAINTING BY:FRANCISCO_ _ Y _

The Third of May.

THE RAFT OF _ E _ _ _ A

By Gericault

THE WOMAN IS HOLDING THE FLAG OF F _ _ _ _ _

Liberty Leading the People.By Delacroix.

GUIDE QUESTIONS ;)1. What have you observed about the Romantic

Period?2. What are some characteristics of Romantic

Paintings?3. How does Art from the romantic period differ

from modern art made today?

GROUP WORK :D•Make a Venn diagram or a 3-column table. Compare and Contrast the characteristics of Paintings made within the Romantic Period and the Modern Paintings in the 20th Century (today).

ART OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

SHARED CHARACTERISICS

ART OF THE 20th CENTURY