Neoclassicism & Romanticism art and literary movements

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Review: RococoReview: Rococo

Popular from ~1715-1760Lush colours and dreamlike imagesSoft edges

Antoine Watteau, The Embarkation of Cythera,

1717

Neoclassicism

Dominant from 1760-1800Resurgence of classic (Ancient Greek or Roman) traditions in art, music, and architectureOrganized and symmetricalDepicted Greek or Roman imagery

^ Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

^ Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787

Medici Vase, St. Petersburg, ca. 1830

*Pompeian style

^ Royal Scottish Academy, built in 1830

RomanticismEmerged in the early 19th centuryThis was a philosophical, literary, and artistic movementCompletely encompassed society (art, writing, politics, and revolutions)*A rejection of Enlightenment rationalism – not all things can be understood through reasonNature and imagination is beautiful – encompasses movement and change

Enlightenment vs RomanticismEnlightenment vs Romanticism

The countrysideReligionThe Middle AgesMysticismImagination

Problem of Defining RomanticismProblem of Defining Romanticism

Romanticism rejects the idea that things can be fully understood.Sometimes the ideas may seem contradictory: respected old institutions while it was seen as liberal and encouraged change

Romantic ArtCriticized the pastEmphasized women and children as pureIsolationism of the hero or narratorPure reality of nature

^ Francis de Goya, Third of May, 1808

^ Eugène Delacroix , Liberty Leading the People, 1830

^ J.M.W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up , 1838

^ Théodore Géricault , The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19

Romantic Literature