CAS AH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Francisco Goya, Thomas Gainsborough, Phocion

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 112
• Professor: Fred Kleiner

Document Summary

Lecture 4: the sleep of reason (romanticism): value imagination, igure, history. G. b. piranesi, prison caprices (no. 14), c. 1750 prison of the mind, designed to be terrifying no exit possible, darkness, chains/galleys distortion of linear perspective, inhuman body for scale. Enquiry into the origins of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful, 1756. Counter- historians classify blake as a romantic artist, he incorporated classical references in his works. classical anatomy merges with the inner dark. Artist/reason asleep while threatening creatures converge on him, revealing his embrace of the romantic spirit imagination, emotions, and the unleashing of nightmares. aquatint. Not idealized, not admirable group of people, but magniicent painting values, doubt the king. Goya, the third of may, 1808, 1814 / gros, pest house at jafa, 1804. Narrative, dark, victimize rebels, chaos vs organization, martyrdom, propoganda. G ricault, raft of the medusa, salon of 1819 (13 days adrift; 15 survivors out of 150 on raft)