Romanticism (1810-1882 CE) Flashcards
Y no hai remedio
Monochrome (captures intensity)
Conveys atrocities from both sides of the war
Awakens, shocks, and woos the viewer
Calls attention to inhumanity
Makes you feel guilty
Captions reflect artist’s feelings
White clothing (light in the darkness, purity)
Similar to crucifixion
Other victims (firing squad lined up)
Commissioned to show Spanish heroism and French atrocities (turns out, everyone is atrocious!)
We can’t do anything about it
Y no hai remedio IDs
Francisco de Goya
1810-1823 CE
Romantic
Drypoint etching
Liberty Leading the People
Dramatic visual impact
Fuzzy focus
Not photographic likeness (visual brush strokes)
Warm color palette
Low perspective so we can enter the scene
Urban landscape
Parisian “urchins”/peasants
Gavroche with double pistols
Marianne (not vulnerable, but confident and focused, walking over dead bodies without thought, followed by smoke)
Maybe artist staring at Marianne’s exposed titty (bourgeosie man)
Pantless man (reference to classical myth of Hector’s dead body being dragged around by Achilles, humiliation ensues)
Response to Charles X’s introduction of censorship (restricted voting)
Liberty Leading the People IDs
Eugène Delacroix
1830 CE
Romantic
Oil on canvas
Slave ship
Horizon line is blended (creates sea sickness feeling)
Hidden meaning to avoid obvious social commentary (otherwise wouldn’t have been exhibited)
Cry against the treatment of slaves
Sunrise after prolonged storm, but a typhoon is coming
Slave ship (Zong) that used to throw sick and dying slaves overboard for insurance money (because they couldn’t sell sick and dying people)
Accompanying poem
Slave ship IDs
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1840 CE
Romantic
Oil on canvas
The Oxbow
Similar to Mao landscape
We are fragments in the grand scheme of nature (but we can tame it)
Rallying cry for Manifest Destiny/westward expansion
Shows artist painting the scene
Orderly crops and fields (sunny) contrasted with untamed nature (stormy)
The Oxbow IDs
Thomas Cole
1863 CE
Romantic
Oil on canvas
Romanticism style
Overly emotional and dramatic
Revolutionary (social justice, imaginative, spiritual)
Interest in the exotic
Parallels Hellenistic and Baroque art
Nature
The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel
Combines pre-Hispanic and contemporary national sentiments
Captures national identity (indigenous garments, etc.)
“Pure” landscape
Patriotic
Hill where the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe appeared
The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel IDs
Jose María Velasco
1882 CE
Romantic
Oil on canvas
