HOA 106 1nd Edition Exam 2 Study Guide Lectures 9 15 Lectures 9 13 February 19 March 5 Romanticism History o France 1814 Bonaparte abdicated and the Bourbon King Louis XVIII restored followed by King Charles X Francois Rude Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 o Stone statue of warriors and an angel like figure o America Suffering from the aftermath of Civil War and busy reconstructing the nation o England Lost all their American colonies Artistic Style o Emotion Theodore Gericault Raft of the Medusa Depicts a real life reported accident Relates to Neoclassicism but it is considered Romantic because it depicts a contemporary event Dead bodies sprawled across a broken raft Sad tones o Color Michael Eugene Cherveul created the color wheel Delacroix Dante and Virgil in Hell Divided colors Demons seem to be attacking a small boat of people Similar to Raft of the Medusa except they are on a boat and colors are very different Shown at a salon o Conscious influences and relationships among the arts Delacroix Death of Sardanapalus From the poem by Lord Byron Subject Matter escapist exotic sublime Series of naked women being attacked by men Eye does not focus on one spot Richard Wagner Siegfried s Funeral March Total artwork combines music art and lit Subject Matter o The Sublime Coined by Edmund Burke It is a mixture of fear dread and excitement Art work is scary and dark John Martin The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum o Depicts people inside a volcano like area red pink background Francisco Goya Saturn Eating His Children o Depicts zombie like creature eating another creature Henry Fuseli the Nightmare o Depicts woman in white sleeping with a demon sitting on her chest Anton Wiertz Buried Alive o Depicts image of a man crawling out of a coffin Beginning of science fiction specifically Edgar Allan Poe Jules Verne HG Wells Franaz Schuburt Elf King A lied work for solo voice with piano Poem written by Wolfgang Von Goethe Song is about a man who is seeking help for dying son and pleading for his son to not pass Elf king is telling son to pass o Rebellion Against reason and morals of Neoclassicism Goya Execution of the Third of May o Depicts scene of people being killed executed style Delacroix Liberty Leading the People o Depicts woman with her breasts out leading a group of individuals while holding English flag o Freedom Bartholdi Statue of Liberty A gift from France to America Symbolizes national character Slavery Was abolished in England and America JMW Turner the Slave Ship o Actual incident of slaves being thrown overboard during typhoon storm Promoted anti slavery feelings Edmonia Lewis Forever Free o Marble statue of former slave man and woman celebrating their freedom o Lewis was the first female to attend Oberlin College o The Romantic Anti Hero Characterisitics arrogant antisocial and misunderstood anti heros Usually in poor health because their paid the price of being a genius Walt Whitman Song of Myself James Whistler Nocturne in Black and Gold the Falling Rocket o Blue piece with slashes of yellow paint Doesn t really depict anything Live hard die young philosophy Casper Friedrich Wanderer Above the Mists o Depicts a romantic creator looking on to more mountains to conquer Misty mountain tops man in black suit with a cane Delacroix Faust Lithographs o Illustrates a poem by Johann Wolfgang o Depicts a scholar who sells is soul to the devil for a chance to re live his life The scholar thinks he wasted his life Wants to live hard and die young Delacroix Self Portrait as Hamlet o Depicts Delacroix in a black suit He connected with Hamlet Art for Art s Sake self sacrifice Hippolyte Ferrat Fall of Icarus o Myth of Icarus who flew to close to the sun and melted his wings Bronze sculpture Jules Bastien LePage Joan of Arc o Illustrates Joan of Arc who was an illiterate 17 year old poor girl who led French army to victory Was killed for being a witch o In painting Joan hearing voices and there is angel in background Beethoven Fifth Symphony o This piece was composed at the time Beethoven learned he was going to be deaf It is a dramatic statement of human courage Mary Shelley Frankenstein o First gothic novel of horror and imagination Questions existence of god Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique o Autobiographical inspiration The fantastic symphony He is the subject of the music This symphony is organized according to Berlioz s life The Musical Virtuoso Group of men Paganini Chopin Berlioz who excelled in the arts and personality They were looked at as celebrities o Delacroix Paganini Playing the Violin Brown tones of a man in black suit playing a violin Piano Forte allows performer to have sound of an orchestra Means soft loud Delacroix Portrait of Frederic Chopin o Side view of Chopin very pale face brown background o Chopin Revolutionary Etude Written when Chopin heard of Russia s invasion to his homeland o Polish composer o Madness Romantic interest individuals who had mental problems Believed they had heightened sensibilities Gericault Kleptomaniac o Portrait of man with disheveled hair Use of hallucinate drugs Delacroix Self Portrait as Hamlet Bram Stoker Dracula o Seductive fatal evil o Vampire figure was inspired by blood transfusions o Women Women fought for voting and legal rights Femme Fatale fatal woman Gustav Mossa Elle She o Women were seen as instigators of destruction o Cartoon like has ravens on her head sitting on a pile of dead men o Response to societal fear of women s empowerment Sarah Bernhardt Self Portrait as a Vampire Bat o Famous actress who lived the role of femme fatale o Bronze sculpture ink well Romantic Feminine Ideal Romantic Ballet idea of a delicate and fragile woman dancing on her toes en pointe Mood melancholic escapist o Les Sylphides Chopin Edgar Allen Poe Annabele Lee o Love and fascination w link between love and death o Escape Nature as bucolic escape John Constable Haywain o Landscape painting of hay wagon in the water Nature as it simply is Beethoven Sixth Symphony The Pastoral Frederick Olmstead Central Park NYC o Planned to look like a spontaneous natural escape from urban life Nature as Sublime Friedrich Monk by the Sea o Depicts nature s power and small humans o Less detail Frederic Church Niagara o Painting of Niagara water falls Very detailed clear Albert Bierstadt Landers Peak o Romantic picture of forest landscape with mountainous background and waterfall Horses and tents in the foreground Nature vs Civilization Turner Rain