2. Romanticism
• Romanticism was a complex artistic, literary,
and intellectual movement that originated in
the second half of the 18th century in Europe.
• The movement validated strong emotion as an
authentic source of aesthetic experience,
placing new emphasis on such emotions as
love, loneliness, trepidation, horror and terror.
5. A Reaction Against
• The Industrial Revolution.
• In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic
social and political norms of the Age of
Enlightenment and the aftermath of the
French Revolution.
• A reaction against the scientific rationalisation
of nature.
10. Celebrate the individual
• an attempt to escape the confines of population
growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism.
• It also attempted to embrace the exotic,
unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic,
harnessing the power of the imagination to
envision and to escape.
• It also legitimized the individual imagination as a
critical authority, which permitted freedom from
classical notions of form in art.
12. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault
1791-1824
• French painter and lithographer.
• Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the
Romantic movement.
• His teacher (RouenCarle VernetPierre-Narcisse Guérin) was a
rigorous classicist who disapproved of his student's impulsive
temperament yet recognized his talent.
• Géricault soon left the classroom, choosing to study at the Louvre,
where from 1810 to 1815 he copied paintings by Rubens, Titian and
Rembrandt.
• During this period at the Louvre he discovered a vitality he found
lacking in the prevailing school of Neoclassicism. Much of his time
was spent in Versailles, where he found the stables of the palace
open to him, and where he gained his knowledge of the anatomy
and action of horses.
24. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
1798 -1863
• A French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his
career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
• Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of
the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of
the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired
the artists of the Symbolist movement.
• Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central
themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical
models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North
Africa, in search of the exotic.
• Solitary, moody, inexhaustibly imaginative and profoundly
emotional.
