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Romantic Era Painting |
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Painting: Pastoral and Sublime
Pastoralists worked on landscapes and peasant life: Artists who painted works we call Sublime chose disasters caused by nature and by people for their subjects. In the mid 19th century metal paint tubes were invented and painters could now premix paint, put it in tubes and paint nature out of the studios. We will examine paintings by |
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Francisco Goya: The Executions of the Third of May, 1808. Painted 1814. |
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| Theodore Gericault: The Raft of Medusa, 1818 |
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J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1839 |
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John Constable: The Hay Wain, 1821 |
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Francois Millet: The Gleaners, 1857 |
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| Rosa Bonheur: The Horse Fair, 1855 |
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Nationalism
As boundaries of countries changed, empires ended, collective identity is recognised through images of common pride. Art that expresses Nationalism presents folk themes, myths, legends, and anthems. Two works of art representing Nationalism are: |
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| Eugene Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People. 1830. |
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Auguste Bartholdi: The Statue of Liberty, 1875-84 |
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The Delacroix painting celebrates July 28, 1830 when the people rose up and bumped the Bourbon King from the throne. Delacroix shows his personal support by painting himself into the picture as the man on the left wearing a top hat. The painting caused a commotion because the figure of Liberty is shown with bare breasts, wearing the traditional cap of liberty, with a gun in one hand and the French tricolor in the other. Liberty here expresses the ideal of universal freedoms.
The Statue of Liberty was given by the people of France to the United States in recognition of the two countries friendship during the American Revolution. |
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