ROMANTICISM

Aesthetics

Classicism

• Eternal standards
• Human Reason
• Architecture:
• Athens
• Iowa City

Romanticism

• Emotions
• Creativity
• Variable Standards

Theme of Escape

• Nature
• Middle East
• The Exotic Orient
  • Orientalism

Definition of the Artist

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Poetry

• Lord Byron
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Lyrical Ballads 1798
  • read The Tables Turned and The Idiot Boy

The Novel

• Sir Walter Scott
  • Middle Ages in Scotland
• Mary Shelley
  • Frankenstein 1818
  • The Grotesque

Music

• Beethoven

Architecture

• Gothic Revival (middle ages)
  • St. Pancras Station (Gilbert Scott)
  • 1 2 3 4 5
• Iowa City

FRENCH PAINTING

Jacques-Louis David 1744-1825

• The Death of Socrates 1787
• The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons 1789
• The Death of Marat 1793
• Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I 1806-07
• Napoleon in his Study 1812

Theodore Gericault 1791-1824

• An Officer of the Imperial Guards Charging 1814
• The Raft of the Medusa 1819
• The Woman with Gambling Mania 1822

Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863

Orientalism

• Algerian Women in their Apartments (detail)
• The Massacre at Chios (detail)
• The Fanatics of Tangier
• The Death of Sardanapalus (detail)

Politics

• Liberty Leading the People
• Marianne

What is an Artist?

Questions for Review

What were the aesthetic principles of classicism?

How would one recognize a romantic poem or novel in the early nineteenth century?

What were the most important features of romantic painting?

Why did some people find romanticism to be either threatening or disgusting?

How did the definition of an artist change?How do you define an artist?