romanticism
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TRANSCRIPT
Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
1818
Classicism
- Emphasis on reason and rationality as the source for truth and happiness.
- Nature is the ultimate source of rationality and reason.
- People achieve potential through education and engagement in a healthy society.
Romanticism
- Emphasis on emotion, passion, and direct contact with experience for the source of truth and happiness.
- Nature is wild, ever-changing and sublime.
- People achieve potential through personal inspiration outside of the corrupting influence of society.
Benjamin West – The Death of General Wolfe - 1770
Eugene Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People - 1830
Eugene Delacroix – The Death of Sardanapolis - 1827
Theodore Gericault - Raft of the Medusa - 1819
Joseph Mallard William Turner – The Slave Ship – 1840
Joseph Mallard William Turner
Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps – 1812
Joseph Mallard William Turner - Eruption of Vesuvius – 1817
Caspar David Friedrich – Polar Sea – 1824
Neo-Classicism
Social
Classical subject matter
Derived from the ancient history
Focus on the human events
Unemotional
Restrained
SUBJECT
Romanticism
Individual and/or nature
Exotic subject matter
Derived from personal inspiration
Human part is only secondary to the larger power of nature
Passionate
Wild and Chaotic
Neo-Classicism
Use of clean lines
Organized/structured
Muted color
Symmetrical
STYLE
Romanticism
Lines are often rough and unfinished
Wild/Chaotic
Vivid color
Asymmetrical