HOA 106 1nd EditionExam # 2 Study Guide Lectures: 9 - 15Lectures 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 Childreno 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 celebratingtheir 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 fantastiqueo 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 composero 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 evilo 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 destructiono 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 Bato Famous actress who lived the role of femme fataleo 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, Haywaino Landscape painting of hay wagon in the water. Nature as it simply is. - Beethoven, Sixth Symphony (The Pastoral)- Frederick Olmstead, Central Park, NYCo Planned to look like a spontaneous,