What is romanticism?

What is romanticism?

Romanticism is an artistic current, which in the literature, music and visual arts appears as a reaction against classicism at the end of the eighteenth century. and lasts until the middle of the 19th century. Romanticism as opposed to …

Romantic era sculpture

Romantic era sculpture.

The ideas of romanticism in a characteristic, in a romantic form was best expressed by the Frenchman François RUDE (1784—1855), and its relief La Marseillaise, adorning from. 1832 The Arc de Triomphe in Paris' Star Square, to this day, it is considered the flagship work of Romantic sculpture. Although the characters …

Polish painters – Romanticism

Polish painters – Romanticism.

In Poland, in recent years,. 18th century elements of Romanticism can be found in the works of ALEKSANDR ORŁOWSKI (1777—1832), in his countless drawings and sketches depicting scenes from the Kościuszko Uprising, in which the artist took part. They are clear …

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

To fully realize the essence of Delacroix's painting and its significance for European Romanticism, let's look at the picture of the Odalisque. It was painted by a contemporary of Eugene Delacroix, the great French painter JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES (1780—1867).

Instead of the element of color - cool, repressed …

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix.

As for Gericault chiaroscuro and contrasts, yes to another French painter of the Romantic era, EUGENE DELACROIX (1798—1863) Color was the main means of expression. In his famous Diary, he wrote about painters who attributed a fundamental meaning to color:

colorists, a …

Theodore Gericault

Theodore Gericault.

The period of Goya's revolutionary and patriotic work coincides with the work of another great in France, and an early deceased romantic. It is THEODORE GERICAULT (1791—1824), author of poignant compositions, in which the dramatic elements of events observed in contemporary history were extracted …

Francisco Goya Y Lucientes

Francisco Goya Y Lucientes.

Artist, in whose art the progressive ideas of Romanticism were perhaps the earliest expressed, was the Spaniard FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746—1828). For a year 1789, appointed court artist to King Charles IV, Goya creates portraits of the royal family, in which he presents his …