Romantic Art fro Grade 9

2. Activity

3. Answer the Following:
Describe the images according to
their color, texture, balance.
Which one do you think is beautiful?
Why?
Which one do you think is considered
Romantic? Why?

4. Romanticism
It was a complex artistic,
literary, and intellectual
movement that originated in
the second half of the 18th
century and ended in mid 19th
century in Europe.

5. The Romantic movement can
be described as a reaction
against Neoclassicism in
which the style is full of
emotion and beauty with
many individualistic and exotic
elements.

6. Romantic artists often use
melancholic themes and
dramatic tragedy.

7. The German landscape
painter Caspar David
Friedrich created images of
solitary loneliness.

8. Francisco Goya (Spain)
conveyed the horrors of war in
his works.
It is one of the richest periods
for art.

9. Characteristics
Great diversity
Subjects
Contemporary events
Literature
Nature
History
Exotic places

10. Romantic Techniques
Irregularity
Irrationality
Model form by color
Deliberate brushstrokes
Exaggeration
Emphasis on individuality

11. Famous Romantic Artists
Theodore Géricault (French) -
painted scenes from
mythology, the Bible, and
even current events

12. Eugene Delacroix (French) –
painted scenes from
mythology, the Bible, and
even current events

13. John Constable – English
landscape painter
John Mallord William Turner –
English landscape painter

14. Theodore
Géricault
The Raft of Medusa

15. Eugene
Delacroix
Liberty Leading the
People

16. John Constable
The Hay Wain

17. JMW Turner
The Slave Ship

18. Other Romantic Artists
William Blake
Antoine Jean Gros
Caspar David Friedrich
Hans Gude

19. Hudson River School (1835 -
1870)
Hudson River School was the first
American school of landscape
painting active from 1835-1870. The
subjects of their art were romantic
spectacles from the Hudson River
Valley and upstate New York. The
artist Thomas Cole is synonymous
with this region and first leader of the
group.

20. Pre-Raphaelites
Brotherhood
1848
A group of English painters
The founders were Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William
Holman Hunt
Soon joined by William Michael
Rossetti, John Everett Millais, James
Collinson, Frederick George

21. Romantic Painting
Based on a real model
Generally brighter paintings
“Truth to nature”
Significant subjects
Medieval tales
Religion
Poetry

22. Romantic Landscapes
Man versus nature
Industrial Revolution
Two ways of interacting with
nature
Violent and destroys
Idealized and cherished

23. Romantic Sculpture

24. Frederic Auguste
Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty

25. Francois Rude
The Departure of the
Volunteers

26. Romantic Architecture

27. Looks to the past
Medieval World
Nation’s historical & cultural
past

28. John Nash
The Royal Pavilion

29. Performance Activity
Landscape painting
Create a Romantic Landscape
painting complete with
Foreground Middle ground
and Background.