New materials to revise Romanticism art. Images are included.

1. Romanticism
Revision

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

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

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

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.

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

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

20. Rosetti
Millais

21. Influence
 Barbizon School is linked to
Impressionism
 Symbolist movement:
 Subjectivity
 Imagination
 Dream-like imagery
 Freedom in Arts continues
nowadays.