Romanticism

Melodrama at its Best

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• Against conventions and rules
  • Anti-classical
• Left wing statements against established government
• Deep intense colors
• Intensity of vision
• Individuality of artist, iborn talent
• Less naturalistic, idealize nature
• Brooding
• Fluid brushwork
• Not idealized forms
• Historic paintings of modern events, tragic victim
• Historiated landscape

ARTISTS and IMAGES

William Blake The Ancient of Days frontpiece for Europe: A Prophecy 1794
Francisco Goya 3rd of May, 1808 1814
Francisco Goya Saturn Devouring One of his Children 1819-1823
Gros Napoleon at the Pest House of Jaffa 1804
Gericault The Raft of the Medusa 1819
Delacroix Libert on the Barricades 1830
Runge Morning
Caspar David Friedrich Abbey in an Oak Forest 1808-1810
Turner Slave Ship 1840
Constable The Haywain 1821
Caspar David Friedrich Cloister Graveyard in the Snow 1808-1810

VOCAB

Historiated Landscape
William Wordsworth, Preface to the 'Lyrical Ballads'

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