ARTH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, Paneuropean Union
25 Aug 2016
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Romanticism: emphasis on emotion, intuition, imagination (rejects neoclassicism"s emphasis on the rational, subject matter: landscape (especially in england and germany), human form, the. Europe: tried to stretch the boundaries of reason as they came to understand it through enlightenment thinking. Is considered romantic because of the depiction of imagination (despite the fact that it is not entirely shown as something good) Eugene delacroix, liberty leading the people: july 28, 1830, 1830: In this work is an emphasis placed on colour and loose brushwork to create a passionate, dynamic scene. Joseph mallord william turner, snowstorm: hannibal and his army crossing the alps, 1812, oil on canvas: shows hannibal riding an elephant across the alps to defeat the romans in 218. Is shown as a reference to napoleon; this piece instead shows the figures as almost invisible, overpowered by nature. John constable, the white horse, 1819, oil on canvas: was a very different interpretation of how landscapes could be rendered using.
