Neoclassical vs Romantic art test

Liberty leading the people, Delacroix, Romantic piece

The sublime

A romantic submovement that calues awe, terror, pain, any large human emotion. Focuses on nature and makig people feel small. Includes music and literature as well as paintings

Polarity: Color

Neoclassical: Austere

Romantic: Exuberent

Polarity: Source

Neoclassical: Classical (greek/roman)

Romantic: Eastern/exotic

Polarity: Composition

Neoclassical: Regular

Romantic: Irregular

Polarity: Emotion

Neoclassical: Rational

Romantic: Irrational

Polarity: Reference

Neoclassical: Observation

Romantic: Imagination

Polarity: Power

Neoclassical: Social order

Romantic: Self/nature

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump,

Joseph Wright of Derby, neoclassical (regular composition, derby attended the meetings of this scientific group called the lunar society, about knowledge and science)

The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781, Romantic (Irregular composition in the proportion, imaginative, irregular composition)

Sublime landscape

Evokes feelings of awe and terror

Pastoral landscape

Harmonius scenes of inhabited nature, meadows, farms, cows

Picturesque landscape

Uninhabited and unspoiled landscape (mountains, rivers, waterfalls, etc.)

Caspar David Friedrich, Uttewalder Grund, sublime landscape

John Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Essex, pastoral landscape

John Constable, Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordan Hill, picturesque

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie, oil on canvas by Albert Bierstadt (sublime and picturesque)

Friedrich, Wanderer above a Sea of Fog, Sublime

The Sea of Ice,, sublime

J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, Sublime

Jaqcues Louis David

Artist who did both romantic and neoclassical art, studied under Boucher and then Vien

David, Oath of the Horatii, Neoclassical (Regular composition, value on social order and bravery)

Nicolas Poussin

Baroque painter who was kinda neoclassical, poussiniste

Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women, more neoclassical (source being roman), Romulus giving signal or abduction with his robe

David, Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1796-1799, neoclassical

David, The Death of Marat, Neoclassical

David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Neoclassical

The lonely tree, Friedrich

Abbey in the Oakwood, Friedrich

2 men contemplating the moon, friedrich