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Modern Art Week 2 (Test 1)
Romanticism & Realism
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/17/2012

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*Ingres, Grand Odalisque, 1814, o/c, 35 x 64”, Louvre

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*Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Third of May, 1808, 1814, o/c, 8’9” x 13’, Prado

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*Constable, The Hay Wain, 1819-1821, o/c, 4 x 6’, National Gallery, London

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*Turner, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and the Dying (The Slave Ship), 1840, o/c

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*Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19, o/c, 16 x 23’, Louvre (Salon of 1819)

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*Eugène Delacroix, Scenes from the Massacres at Chios, 1824, o/c, 13’10” x 11’7”, Louvre (Salon of 1824)

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*Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People: July 28, 1830, 1830, o/c, 8’6” x 10’8”, Louvre (Salon of 1831)

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*Courbet, A Burial at Ornans, 1849, o/c, 10’ x 21’8”, Musée d’Orsay (Salon of 1850-51)

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*Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849-50, o/c, 6’ x 9’9”, Musée d’Orsay (Salon of 1850-51)

 

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Concepts of Romanticism
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• Restlessness, dissatisfaction with the status quo

• Yearning for the unattainable

• Constant change, nothing is static

• Identification with “Nature”

• Interest in non-Western cultures

• Preoccupation with the infinite

• Emphasis on the tragedy of existence

• Sensibility over reason; heart over mind

• Solitude, loneliness, melancholy

• Preoccupation with death

• Cult of the individual genius

• Nationalism, liberty

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Characteristics of Realism
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• Contemporary subject matter

• Rejects heroic, historical, visionary, imaginary subjects

• Non-moralizing, yet socially-conscious subject matter

• Observation v. idealization, but not mere imitation of nature

• Reflects ambiguities and conflicts in modern society

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