Romanticism by wutt b

Romanticism (Half 18th Century Century)) Romanticism (or the Romantic era/Period) was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education and natural history.

Romanticism (Half 18th Century Century)) The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and terror and awe especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, made spontaneity a desirable characteristic (as in the musical impromptu), and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language and customary usage.

Romanticism (2nd Half 18th Century Century)) Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval, in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic than Rococo chinoiserie**, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape. ** Chinoiserie, a French term, signifying "Chinese-esque", and pronounced [ﾊナnwazﾊ（]) refers to a recurring theme in European artistic styles since the seventeenth century, which reflect Chinese artistic influences. It is characterized by the use of fanciful imagery of an imaginary China, by asymmetry in format and whimsical contrasts of scale, and by the attempts to imitate Chinese porcelain and the use of lacquerlike materials and decoration.

Romanticism Artists Romanticism Painters • Eugene Delacroix • Francisco Goya • Joseph Mallord William Turner • John Constable Romanticism Musicians and Composers • Ludwig van Beethoven • Frédéric Chopin • Richard Wagner • Niccolò Paganini • Franz Liszt

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) Self-portrait, 1837. "Eugène Delacroix was a curious mixture of skepticism, politeness, dandyism, willpower, cleverness, despotism, and finally, a kind of special goodness and tenderness that always accompanies genius".

Portrait of Delacroix early in his career.

Eugène Delacroix (portrait by Nadar)

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.

Eugène Delacroix (portrait by Nadar)

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

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Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Lithography

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Barque of Dante” 1822

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi” 1826

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Lithography

“Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard” 1843

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard” 1839

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Heliodoros Driven from the Temple” 1854-61

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Heliodoros Driven from the Temple” (detail) 1854-61

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Orphan Girl at the Cemetery” 1823

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Mlle Rose” 1817-20

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Self-Portrait as Ravenswood” 1821

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Execution of Doge Marino Faliero” 1825-26

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Louis-Auguste Schwiter” 1826-27

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Odalisque Reclining on a Divan” 1827-28

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Massacre of Chios (Sketch)” 1824

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Massacre of Chios” 1824

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Liberty Leading the people” 1830

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Liberty Leading the People (28th July 1830)” Eugène 1830

Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Medea about to Kill her Children” 1838

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Still Life with Lobsters” 1826-1827

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Death of Sardanapalus” 1827

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Death of Sardanapalus (detail)” 1827

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

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An Exotic Culture : Travel to North Africa 1832

EugĂ¨ne Delacroix

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“The Abduction of Rebecca” 1846

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Abduction of Rebecca” 1858

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Battle of Taillebourg (draft)” 1834-35

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Battle of Tailleburg (draft)” 1834-35

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Fanatics of Tangier” 1838

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Justice of Trajan” 1858

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Moroccan Saddles His Horse” 1855

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Bride of Abydos,” 1857

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Clorinda Rescues Olindo und Sophronia” 1856

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople” 1840

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (detail)” 1840

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha” 1827

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Sultan of Morocco” 1845

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Death of Desdemona” 1858

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Women of Algiers” 1834

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Natchez” 1823-35

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Ovid among the Scythians, oil on wood” 1862

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Medea about to Kill her Children” 1838

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris” 1833–37

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Justice (detail in Salon du Roi, Palais Bourbon, Paris)” 1833–37

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“The Death of Ophelia” 1843

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Shipwreck of Don Juan” 1840

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Michelangelo in his Studio” 1849-50

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Jacob Wrestling with the Angel” 1854-61

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“St Michael defeats the Devil” 1854-61

Eugène Delacroix

(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

“Sketch for Peace Descends to Earth” 1852

Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Francisco Goya

(30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic

painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era. The subversive and imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon. Portrait of Francisco Goya by Vicente López y Portaña (1826)

“Charles IV of Spain and His Family” 1800