HUM 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Caspar David Friedrich, Anne-Louis Girodet De Roussy-Trioson, Henry Fuseli
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Romantic art period (1780-1850): horror, thrill, emotional, chaotic emotion. Ppl in stages of dying, rotten corpses suffered the plague: anne-louis girodet trioson (1767-1824), the burial of atala: Inspired by the thousands of nights tale, fascinated w/ the turkish idea of bunches of women in the harem. Engaged the imagination w/ sensuality: henry fuseli (1741-1825): german painter, liked mystical journeys b/c more interesting than the mundane world, portrait of a young woman: Artist did a bunch of portraits of er, but her family rejected him. She was rich and depicted her w/ a mysterious background: the nightmare: A devil sits on the girl on the pelvis. The demon figure- muscles w/ winds, captured fear through details of muscles. The girl- angelic w/ winds: francisco de goya (1746-1828), don manuel osorio manque de zuniga: Son of charles iv: happy child doesn"t know about the world- holding the bird and about to pound it.
