Romanticism Art

 

 

Artists

Joseph Mallard William Turner

     - most famous british painter of the time

     - known as a shipwreck painter

     - works often exhibit a lofty dreamlike quality

     - first diversion of chiaroscuro, known as "art of the sublime”

     - would move the safe place from the horizon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Blake

     - heralding a move to scientific thought - integration of God into science and pursuit of 

          knowledge

     - known for beautifying the grotesque

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eugene Delacroix 

     - known for painting the idyllic - even if the subject matter doesn’t dictate

     - also known for painting the exotic, objects/locales

     - sometimes the grotesque were the peoples/cultures that were different 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Constable

     - Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s 1823 Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Theodore Gericault

     - Evening: Landscape with Aqueduct, Met,

     - Raft of the Meusa

Karl Blechen

     - Inundated Ruins of a Monastery 1824, german, met

Casper David Friedrich

     - The Wander

Thomas Jones

     - The Bard

Hans Gude

     - Winter Afternoon

Joseph Wright

     - Cave at Evening

Egide Charles Gustave Wappers

     - Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1839

Anne-Loius Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

     - Ossian

Thomas Cole

     - Childhood

John Martin 

     - The Destruction o Sodom and Gomorrah

John Henry Fuseli 

     - The Nightmare