Romanticism

Barry and Pugin

Houses of Parliament

1835

England

BEST EXAMPLE OF PICTURESQUE ARCHITECTURE

Henry Fuseli

The nightmare

1781

BEST EXAMPLE OF THE SUBLIME (PAINTING)

Francisco Goya

The sleep of reason produces monsters

From Los Caprichos

1798

Sublime

The dark side of man’s imagination

Gros

Pest House at Jaffa

1804

France

Political propaganda

Gericault

Raft of Medusa

1818-1819

Mans inhumanity to man

Ingres

Grande Odelesque

1814

Interest in exotic near east

LINEAR

PUSSIENIESTS

Delacroix

The death of sardanapalus

1827

Interest in exotic near east and sublime

PAINTERLY

RUBENIESTS

Goya

The third of may 1808

1814-15

Horror of war, Goya transition figure to modernism

Event that happens, before war ends

Goya

Saturn devouring his children

1819-23

Turner

The slave ship

1840

Man’s inhumanity to man, man vs nature

Friedrich

Cloister graveyard in the snow

1810

THE MINDS EYE, INNER EYE

Bierstadt

Among the Sierra Nevada mountains

California

1868

PANTHIESM TRANSCENDENTAL LANDSCAPE

MAN GOD NATURE

ROMANTICISM TAGLINE

INDIVIDUALITY AND IMAGINATION

Romanticism dates

1750-1850

100 YEARS

Romanticism is all about the

Individual

What is the revival style of romanticism

Neo classism

How do we have the gothic aesthetic?

Rasseou

How do we have the 3 aesthetics?

Rasseou

What are the 3 aesthetics

The sublime

The beautiful

The picturesque

best example of the picturesque

Barry and Pugin Houses of Parliament

Best example of Sublime

Fuseli the nightmare

What is considered holy?

Neo?

Gothic?

Neo no

Gothic yes

Gothic is a revival style of

Romanticism

best example of the beautiful

Stuart Hagley park

Is there still tradition in romantisim?

No, imagination

Who was Ruskin

Leading English art/ architectural critic of the Victorian era

Explain sublime

The sublime relates to our instinct for self-preservation, the strongest human emotion.

Qualities that arouse the feelings of the sublime: terror, vastness, obscurity, infinity, power, suddenness, pain, magnificence.

What did Edmund Burke state/write

A phisiophical enquiry into the origins our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful

Neoclassism is…

Greek and Roman antique past

When does the French rev end

1814

PANTHIESM…

God and nature are the same, there is no division

Who has social consciousness?

Geticault

Goya

Turner

Who made the black paintings?

Goya

What did Walt Whitman write

Leaves of grass

Greek and Roman

Middle age

Eqgytian

Antiquity

(John Pushkin)

MEDIEVAL ART

PUSSIENIESTS

INGRES

RUBENIESTS

DELACROIX

PAINTERLY

DELACROIX

LINEAR

INGRES

Romanticism has a. Origin

VERBAL

Who is the only transcendistic

USA

In romanticism people recognize

Difference between thoughts and feelings

Egalitarian means

Equal

No romanticism without

Enlightenment

All gothic has a

Verbal Origin

What was the first idea of verbal origin

Johann Goethe's (1749-1832) novel, "Faust," and the German "Storm and Stres literary movement.

Romanticism: A term describing qualities that colored most elements of European and American intellectual and cultural life from 1750-1850; literature, art, music, architecture, landscape gardening, philosophy, and politics.

Romanticism represents an attitude of mind rather than a set of particular stylistic traits.

Romanticism involves the expression of an idea that tends to have

father than a visual origin. For example, Johann

Goethe's (1749-1832) novel, "Faust," and the German "Storm and Stres literary movement.

Romanticism represents a revolt against restrictive conservatism, limitation, mindless imitation, and insincerity.

Romanticism represents a revolt against

restrictive conservatism, limitation, mindless imitation, and insincerity.

Why the desire for sublime and gothic revival

Neo classism enlightenment

True or false…

The concept of Mother Nature

1750-1800 Neo-Classicism; Thanks to the Enlightenment, man is now seen as being naturally good. On the other hand, Mother Nature is seen as being messy, slimy, and untamed. Remember, 'Classical beauty is ordered, balanced, and stable and clam. Thus, the best of nature is that which is tamed and geometric like a snowflake.

1800-1850 Romanticism: The idea of Mother Nature is now on the order of the Sierra Club. The attitude is to let her be what she is, informal, wild, with little or no structure. This gives way to the notion of the Sublime & Picturesque.

True

5 broad romanticism tendencies

1. Celebrates the individual

2. Strong faith in fundental goodness and eventual perfectibility of mankind

3. Saw nature as a model for harmony In society and art

4. View was egalitarian

5. Stressed the value of expressive abilities common to all, inborn rather than developed through training. Insisted on the primacy of the imagination in artistic expression . Heart vs head became one of the greatest conflicts of the 19th century

PANTHIESM =

USA and TRANSCENDENCY

Everyone in the enlightenment thinks

The same way

Goya las caprichos vs goya black paintings

Main idea:

Las - 1797-1789 published 1799, personally published, meant as criticism against the ruling class

Black- 1819-1823, not commissioned and not meant to leave his home, illnesss

Ruskin is a fan of Neo class

False m, he is not

Caprice meaning

An impulsive change of mind an inclination to change one’s mind impusively

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was a major figure in the transition from the Neoclassical period to the Romantic era, particularly through his writings on aesthetics and political philosophy. While not a poet himself, his work, particularly "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful," explored the distinction between the beautiful and the sublime, a distinction that would become a hallmark of the Romantic movemenT. Journalist, writer, literary critic, philosopher, parliamentary orator. Criticized French rev

Does the writing of Ruskin contradict romantic thought

Intuition and Imaginayion is all because of

Rasseou

Tradition in US

Eccentric and visionary

3 aesthetics all correspond to

Nature

Does philosophical inquiry inspire the sublime

Yes

Civil disobedience

Henry David Thoreau, key figure in American trans.In "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals have a moral obligation to resist unjust laws and government actions, even if it means facing imprisonment. He believes that conscience should be prioritized over legal compliance, particularly when the government's actions are immoral or violate one's personal values. Thoreau famously states that "That government is best which governs least," advocating for minimal government interference in people's lives

What book did Thoreau write

WALDEN

Henry David Thoreau was an American philosopher, poet, essayist, and environmental scientist. A leader of the New England Transcendentalist movement, he's best known for Walden, a book that reflects on simple living in nature, and his essay "Civil Disobedience",

19th century and the mindseye is

The beginning of modernism

Mindseye is

The Declaration of Independence for artists

“The heart is the only true source of art”

Friedrich

What is the mindseye

The "mind's eye" during Romanticism, a period that prioritized imagination and emotion, refers to the mental faculty of creating visual images and experiencing them internally

Orientalism

Romantic Orientalism refers to the incorporation of Eastern (primarily Asian and African) elements into the literary works of the British Romantic period (roughly 1785-1830). It signifies a fascination with the exotic, the unfamiliar, and the "Other," often used to explore themes of escape, emotion, and the sublime

Exotic near east

Exotic Near East romanticism refers to the artistic and literary fascination with the Near East (Middle East) and its culture during the Romantic era, which saw a heightened interest in the exotic, the foreign, and the sublime. This fascination manifested in various forms, including travelogues, literary works, and visual art, often portraying the Near East as a mysterious, alluring, and sometimes dangerous place