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Question 1

Theodore Gericault

Answer 1

French Romantics

Characteristics

1. obsessed with images of violence
2. subjects : contemporary topical events (things that were happening in the world), portraits of madness

Major Works

1. Raft of Medusa

Question 2

Eugene Delacroix

Answer 2

French Romantics

first painter in modern time to make a nice living on his art

worked rapidly

Characteristics

1. fascinated by the exotic
2. often depicted bloodless violence
3. very sensual; vivid colors

Major Works

1. An Orphan Girl in the Graveyard

Question 3

J. M. W. Turner

Answer 3

English Romantics

youngest artist (26) ever to enter the Royal Society

Characteristics

1. depicted nature on an epic level, especially the sea
2. recorded atmospheric effects - as a result, many of his pictures look like abstracts
3. used oils with lightness and fluency of watercolors
4. sometimes a haze of colored light

Major Works

1. Rain, Steam and Speed

Question 4

John Constable

Answer 4

English Romantics

good with clouds

Characteristics

1. painted the properties of shifting light on actual places
2. rural simplicity
3. idealized landscapes of real places - the places are real, but is called Romantics landscapes because it was idealized
4. worked directly from nature
5. inspired the Barbizon school, a group of French artists who lived in the village of Barbizon near the Forest of Fontainebleau

Major Works

1. The Haywain
2. The White Horse

Question 5

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Answer 5

French Realists

Info

1. greatest French landscape painter of mid-century
2. painted in open air
3. influenced nearly every painter of landscape in the later half of 19th century
4. kept pictuers of human figures in studio, discovered after his death

Major Works

1. Bridge at Nantes

Question 6

Honore Daumier

Answer 6

French Realists

Info

1. original and profound painter of figures in oil - no sentimentality
2. satirical caricatures
3. most important cartoonist of 19th century

Major Works

1. Third Class Carriage
2. • Print Collector*

Question 7

Jean Francois Millet

Answer 7

French Realists

Characteristics

1. inspired by social issues
2. heroic forms of peasants working
3. somewhat sentimentalized
4. often controversial - for subject and for treatment of subject

Major Works

1. The Sower
2. The Angelus
3. The Gleaners

Question 8

Gustave Courbet

Answer 8

French Realists

Characteristics

1. archetypical French realist
2. largely self-taught
3. efforts conscious designed to arouse controversy

Major Works

1. The Stonebreakers

Question 9

Jean Manet

Answer 9

French Realists

Info

1. bridge between realism and impressionism
2. generally more realist than impressionistic
3. very difficult to categorize
4. often shocked audiences and critics with non conformity of subjects and his unconventional portrayals of modern life

Modern Works

1. Olympia
2. • The Picnic*