Artwork From 1750 To 1850
- 1. Artwork from 1750 to 1850 Romanticism, Realism & Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
- 2. Romanticism Emphasis on the imagination and emotion. Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789. Romantic art looked to capture the beauty and power of nature. Bold brush strokes and colors.
- 3. Romanticism stressed irrationalism, imagination, emotions and nature - emotion over reason and senses over intellect. Romantic artists were fascinated by the nature, the genius, their passions and inner struggles, their moods, mental potentials, the heroes.
- 4. Qualities of Romanticism Romantic artists, writers and composers rebelled against the Enlightenment emphasis on reason. Romantics painted many subjects, from simple peasant life to medieval knights to current events. Bright colors conveyed violent energy and emotion.
- 5. Eugene Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People, 28th July, 1830
- 6. Death of Sardanapalus , ca. 1846 Eugène Delacroix
- 7. The White Horse , 1819 John Constable
- 8. Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet
- 9. Théodore Gericault's Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
- 10. Romanticism "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling."
- 11. Realism The Realist movement in French art flourished from about 1840 until the late nineteenth century, and sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life.
- 12. Realism sets as a goal not imitating past artistic achievements but the truthful and accurate depiction of the models that nature and contemporary life offer to the artist.
- 13. Realists attempted to portray the lives, appearances, problems, customs, and mores of the middle and lower classes, of the unexceptional, the ordinary, the humble, and the unadorned.
- 14. Qualities of Realism Realists recorded in often gritty detail the present-day existence of humble people.
- 15. Young Women from the Village , 1852 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet
- 16. Woman with a Rake , probably 1856–57 Jean-François Millet
- 17. The Third-Class Carriage , ca. 1863–65 Honoré-Victorin Daumier
- 18. The Stone Breakers by Gustave Courbet
- 19. The Sower, by: Jean François Millet
- 20. The Gleaners, Jean François Millet
- 21. Winslow Homer (1836–1910) The Gulf Stream , 1899
- 22. Impressionism By the 1870’s a group of painters took art in a new direction, seeking to capture the first fleeting impression made by a scene or object on the viewer’s eye.
- 23. Claude Monet Impression, Sunrise
- 24. Qualities of Impressionist Paintings Short, broken brushstrokes that barely convey forms, pure unblended colors, and an emphasis on the effects of light. Shadows and highlights in color. Effects of spontaneity and effortlessness
- 25. The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil , 1874 by Édouard Manet
- 26. Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883) Boating
- 27. Allée of Chestnut Trees Alfred Sisley
- 28. La Grenouillère , 1869 Claude Monet
- 29. The End of Impressionism… Its many facets and varied participants make the Impressionist movement difficult to define. Indeed, its life seems as fleeting as the light effects it sought to capture. Even so, Impressionism was a movement of enduring consequence, as its embrace of modernity made it the springboard for later avant-garde art in Europe.
- 30. Post Impressionism A group of young painters sought independent artistic styles for expressing emotions rather than simply optical impressions , concentrating on themes of deeper symbolism.
- 31. Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace , 1885 Vincent van Gogh
- 32. Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (verso: The Potato Peeler) , 1885 Vincent van Gogh
- 33. Cypresses , 1889 Vincent van Gogh
- 34. Wheat Field with Cypresses , 1889 Vincent van Gogh
- 35. The Starry Night