FA 30b Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Classical Antiquity, Chiaroscuro, Romanticism
15 Apr 2017
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Works of the romanticist style focus on current events. For example, the raft of the medusa by. Gericault focuses on the scandal of the captain hugues duroys de chaumareys, who chose not to send aid to the shipwrecked survivors (who are right near the coast of senegal). Two of the survivors, alexandre correard and henri savigny, wrote an account of their survival (the. Shipwreck of the frigate medusa when taking part in the expedition to senegal 1816) which attacks the aristocracy and notes their means of survival. The artist worked on this massive painting for a year. An accidental pyramid is created by the desperate figures. The mourning on the left are depicted as both melancholy and unaware of the arriving ship. The figure held above the others and signaling to the rescue ship is an unknown african man, who is associated with the heroic act of being rescued.
