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Open Window/Storm Tossed Boat
Turner, Constable, Gericault
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/21/2008

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ROMANTICISM
Definition
  • not a style, denotes content
  • "sehnsuent" or longing, the basis of Romanticism
  • 2 views: open window (man adoring nature) and the storm-tossed boat (nature vs. man)
  • desire to control nature; picturesque to impose artifice on landscape
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TURNER
Definition
  • picturesque
  • often have elements that break away; fragmented, disjointed
  • landscape is a flat expanse but clouds have psychology
Term
[image]
Definition
  •  Turner Burning of the Houses of Parliament
  •  1835
  • tremendous excitement
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Turner The Salve Ship
  • 1840
  • raw, transparent laters of pigment create light
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Turner Rain, Steam, and Speed
  • 1843
  • comment on advance of technology
  • tiny boat juxtaposed to surging train
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Constable Wivenhoe Park
  • 1816
  • nature seems ungraspable, transitory, always changing
  • highly structured
  • realism > imagination
  • rhapsodically involved and enchanted by nature
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[image]
Definition
  • Constable The White Horse
  • 1819
  • structure arises from light interactions
  • entaglement of surface texture
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Constable Salisbury Cathedral
  • 1826
  • figures aren't fascinating
  • complicated surfaces that catch light and have own movement
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Gericault Raft of Medusa
  • 1818
  • antique idea of a noble body
  • sky reflects drama of scene
  • Gericault: saw himself as 18th century Michelangelo
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[image]
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  • Gericault Epsom Derby
  • 1823
  • most extreme possible movement
  • horses more sensitive than humans
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