neo-classicism and romanticism

Neoclassicism or neoclassicism or Neo-Classicism or neo-classicism - A French art style and movement that originated as a reaction to the Baroque in the mid-eighteenth century, and continued into the middle of the nineteenth century. It sought to revive the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman art. Neoclassic artists used classical forms to express their ideas about courage, sacrifice, and love of country. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/n/neoclassicism.html

Neo-Classicism and Romanticism

Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741-1828), Diana the Huntress, probably between 1776 and 1795, terra cotta, height overall 75 1/2 inches

Diana is usually represented as a huntress, dressed in a short tunic, with her bow and quiver, surrounded by nymphs or hunting dogs, sometimes accompanied by a stag. Houdon chose to show her completely naked, which caused a scandal at the time. The plaster model was made in 1776 for the Prince of Saxe-Gotha (Gotha castle).

Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825), The Death of Socrates, 1787, oil on canvas, 51 x 77 1/4 inches (129.5 x 196.2 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

Jacques Louis DavidNapoleon in His Study

Oil on Canvas, 80 1/4" x 49 1/4" 1812

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, Oil on Canvas, 1793

Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822), Apollo Crowning Himself, 1781, marble, height 33 3/8 inches (84.7 cm), J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA

Antonio Canova, Cupid and Psyche, 1796, marble, height 137 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867),1827, The Apotheosis of Homer

The Apotheosis of Homer Probably inspired by “The School of Athens” by Raphael

•01) Homer •02) The Iliad personified •03) The Odyssey personified •04) Nike •05) Aesop •06) Pindar •07) Hesiod •08) Plato •09) Socrates •10) Pericles •11) Phidias •12) Michelangelo •13) Aristotle •14) Aristarchus •15) Alexander the Great

•16) Gluck •17) Camoëns •18) Fénelon •19) Longinus •20) Boileau-Despréaux •21) Molière •22) Racine •23) Corneille •24) Poussin •25) Shakespeare •26) Tasso •27) Mozart •28) Dante •29) Virgil •30) Pisistratus

•31) Horace •32) Lycurgus •33) Raphael •34) Sappho •35) Alcibiades •36) Apelles •37) Euripides •38) Menander •39) Demosthenes •40) Sophocles •41) Aeschylus •42) Herodotus •43) Orpheus •44) Linus •45) Unknown

Grande Odalisque

Grande Odalisque, 1814

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867), Oedipus Solves the Riddle of the Sphinx, oil on canvas, 1808.

Romanticism, and the Romantic school - An art movement and style that flourished in the early nineteenth century. It emphasized the emotions

painted in a bold, dramatic manner. Romantic artists rejected the cool reasoning of classicism — the established art of the times — to paint

pictures of nature in its untamed state, or other exotic settings filled with dramatic action, often with an emphasis on the past. Classicism was

nostalgic too, but Romantics were more emotional, usually melancholic, even melodramatically tragic.

Paintings by members of the French Romantic school include those by Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824) and Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798-1863), filled with rich color, energetic brushwork, and dramatic and

emotive subject matter. In England the Romantic tradition began with Henry Fuseli (Swiss-English, 1741-1825) and William Blake (1757-1827),

and culminated with Joseph M. W. Turner (1775-1851) and John Constable (1776-1837). The German landscape painter Caspar David

Friedrich (1774-1840) produced images of solitary figures placed in lonely settings amidst ruins, cemetaries, frozen, watery, or rocky wastes. And in Spain, Francisco Goya (1746-1828) depicted the horrors of war along with

aristocratic portraits.

Goya: Self-portrait, 1815, oil on panel,

Francisco Goya: The Third of May, 1808

Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828),1821-23 Saturn Devouring one of his Sons

Gericault, TheodoreThe Raft of the Medusa, 1819, Oil on 491 x 716 cm

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830,

Eugene Delacroix, The Fanatics of Tangier, 1837-88,

Honore DaumierThe Third-Class Carriage, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Honore DaumierAdvice to a Young Artist,

after 1860,

Honoré Victorin DaumierFrench caricaturist, painter

and sculptor. He began work as a graphic artist, having

learnt lithography techniques in 1830, and been employed

on Charivari and La Caricature (1830-35) until the

latter's suppression by the government. He was

imprisoned in 1832 for his anti-monarchical satire of

Louis Philippe as Gargantua and during the course of his life he produced over 4,000 lithographs of political and social comment, including

large scale works

Mr Daumier, your series...is...charmingPlate 78 of the Caricaturana series1838

Jean Francois MilletThe Walk to Work(Le Depart pour le Travail)

1851

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and engraver who created a unique form of illustrated verse; his poetry, inspired by mystical vision, is among the most original lyric and prophetic in the language.

http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/blake/blake_bio.htm

God as an Architect, illustration from The Ancient of Days, 1794

The Haywain, 1821

John CONSTABLE,

The Fighting "Temeraire" tugged to her last berth to be broken up 1838;

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri" by George Caleb Bingham, oil on canvas, 1845