19Th Century Art

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Gingham, "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri", 1845, American Romantiscism
exotic, fantasy
emphasizes the stillness, calm, ONE with nature, not disturbing it
horizontal lines=intense stability

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Blake, "Ancient of Days", 1800, Romanticism
spiritual, dark
creating life with a compass, symbolic creator figure
making his own religion +style
didn't like structure
was a poet (fusion of the arts)
supernatural/revolt themes
GOTHIK

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Blake, "Great Red Dragon", 1800, Romanticism
angel/devil imagery
orant position, both have TONS of power
Gothik
supernatural
making his own religion +style
didn't like structure
was a poet (fusion of the arts)

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Goya, "Portrait of IV", 1800, Early Romanticism
true state, gently poking fun
royal family liked it because they looked rich and powerful
Dumb king, Maria Louisa=real powerhouse

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Cole, "Shroon Mountain", 1830, American Romanticism
new eden, frontier, advertisement for colonization
change of seasons=super american
uniquely american landscape/universally comprehensible
has little tiny indians, shows power of nature

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Constable, "Boat-Building near Flatford Mill", 1830, Romanticism
building of traditional transportation, pre-industrial revolution
nature/power
people are small

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Constable, "The Hay Wain", 1830, Romanticism
Use of traditional transportation, pre-industrial revolution
nature/power
people are small
agains the filth of cities

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Courbet, "Artist's Studio", 1850, Realism
"a real allegory summarizing my seven years of life as an artist"
playing off of traditional studio painting, Courbet is in center surrounded by every day people
"real allegory" because he doesn't paint ANYTHING unless he sees it

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Courbet, "Burial at Ornans", 1850, Realism
shut out of exhibition, set his own tent up outside
people hated this one because it makes the funeral look not somber or spiritual, but mundane: city people mad because it showed realistic country folk, not idealized, class differences and all...and the folk from Ornans were mad because they looked silly and callous at a meaningful event
harshness of country

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Courbet, "the Stone-Breakers", 1850, Realism
just painting, no message, no revolution
lower classes, hard work, just painted what he saw, not searching for pity
very voyeuristic

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Daumier, "3rd Class Carriage", 1850, Realism
objective, just a train ride home, not a political event
not a call for revolution, just an acknowledgment of reality

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Daumier, "Rue de Transonain April 15th, 1850, Realism
sniper shot happened, police went into the building and killed everyone in the middle of the night
PRINT, political pamphlet/critique
matter of fact, (printmaking enhances this facet)
repetition of form, shock value

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Delacroix, "Women of Algiers", 1850, Romanticism
exotic, women of harems, shown as more docile

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Friedrich, "Abbey in the Oak Forest", 1810, Romanticism
funeral procession through Gothik ruin, intense spirituality, mystery
nature, men are small
mean nurse

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Friedrich, "Arctic Shipwreck", 1810, Romanticiscm

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Friedrich, "Friar by the Sea", 1810, Romanticism
amorphous fog/blends with the sea
fog gets lighter further up, hints at godliness
friar is this enlightened religious guy, and even he is getting lost in the power of nature
mean nurse

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Fuseli, "The Nightmare", 1780, Early Romanticism
example of early shifting from reason, to emotion

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Gericault, "Insane woman", 1820, Romanticism
people went to insane asylums for the entertainment
commissioned by a doctor, wanted to study them
exotic, the OTHER
looking for physical and mental correlations
focus on the face, the individual

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Gericault, "Raft of the Medusa", 1810, Romanticism
emotional, macabre, politically charged, power of nature
triangular
dead at bottom

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Goya, "2nd of May", 1800, Romanticism
uprising, retaliation, chaotic, emotional

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Goya, "3rd of May", 1800, Romanticism
uprising, retaliation, emotional
civilian uprising

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Goya, "Saturn Devouring his Children", 1800, Romanticism
saturn looks terrified, painted in the dining room of his scary old house
Black Paintings series

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Barry and Pugin, "Houses of Parliament", 1830
revival architecture, gothic style to show moral/purity of government
very horizontal, strong, stable, like English Gothic
nationalism, patriotism

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Hunt, "The Awakening Conscience", 1850, Pre-Raphaelite
disguised symbolism, mistress and her lover
she has epiphany of her wasted life: song, open window, cat and bird etc. falling red robe w/ white under

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Hunt, "The Hireling Shephard", 1850, Pre-Raphaelite
disguised symbolism, he has stopped watching the sheep, become distracted, like man kind, by lust

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Hunt, "The Shadow of Death", 1850, Pre-Raphaelite
jesus as young carpenter, allegories, future-seeing

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Ingres, "Apotheosis of Homer", 1830, Neoclassical/Romantic
brings up school of athens, victory crowning homer, historical thinkers/writers all around

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Ingres, "The Grande Odalisque", 1820, Romantic subject (exotic), neoclassical style

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Nash, "Royal Pavilion" , 1850, Romanticism
exotic, escapist, india, inside is made up of 'all different cultures'

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Millais, "Ophelia", 1850, Pre-Raphaelite
not a 'realist' subject, fictional old character
but set in our reality

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Millet, "The Gleaners" 1850, Realism
intense, extreme work for very little pay

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Rosetti, "The Annunciation", 1850, Pre-Raphaelite
Biblical themes, females with contrasting features

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"Gothik Ruin", 1850, Romanticism
fake ruin, in a park built to give atmosphere

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Runge, "Morning", 1810, Romanticism
connects nature and spirituality, part of a VERY fusion of the arts esque exhibition
like stainedglass
putti, composite religions, imagery= mary and roman goddess

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Turner, "Rain, Steam and Speed", 1850, Romanticism
wanted to recreated experience of sticking head out window
blur=speed, his GOAL
light/feathery brushstrokes
little boat grounds piece, gives contrast to movement
boat vs train is old vs new

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Turner, "Slave Ship", 1850, Romanticism
captain throws slaves overboard to get money
mean nurse,
political critique
fury of nature

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Wapole, "Strawberry Hill", 1850, Romanticism
gothik revival, wanted a get away, fantasy country home
world of knights/princesses
reference to westminster abbey