ART H 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Succubus, Los Caprichos, Gremlin
Document Summary
Looking towards greece and rome for ideals: romanticism. Jacobins: pro-revolution party, salon, san-culottes, artisans and poor revolutionaries. Intaglio: relief, etching, aquatint, antinomianism, william blake, cult of the majo and maja, traditional spanish peasants, artists. John henry fuseli: william blake, francisco goya, historical trends, enlightenment. Statuesque, roman-looking figures with an attention to anatomy: composition. Spotlight on spanish people, french are in the dark. Lantern is the light source: church in the background. Leader of the sans-culottes: his paper was very pro-revolutionary, he was assassinated by a woman who pretended to need help and then stabbed him, he looks like a dead christ. Seen as a martyr, dying for the cause. Large muscles: no skin disease sees on his skin, the knife is in the scene, blood in the bath, but small wound - probably would have been more violent. Serene look on his face: new civic religion. Same year as the battle of yorktown: where the british surrender.
