MAPEH 9

PPT of Arts in the

Romantic Period
1800s - 1810s
(Q3WK4)
Objectives:
1. Identity distinct characteristics of arts during the
Romantic period,
2. Describe the influences icons belonging to Neo-
classic and Romantic arts on the evolution of
artforms,and
3. Appreciate the beauty of making picture-collage
that represents Romantic painting.

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Recap: Identify the title and artist of the artwork.

NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS

JACQUES - LOUIS DAVID

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 PSYCHE AWAKENED
BY CUPID’S KISS

ANTONIO CANOVA

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“ CHRIST

BERTEL
THORVALDSEN

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title

THE OATH OF
HORATII

JACQUES - LOUIS
DAVID

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 Title of
an
Artwork

THE WHITE HOUSE

Name
of the
Artist

ROBERT ADAM

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Romanticism ● Romanticism is a movement in which the artist of
1800 -1810 Neoclassical period sought.
● To break new ground in the expressions of emotions,
both subtle and stormy. It embraced a number of
distinctive themes, such as longing for history,
supernatural elements, social injustice and nature.
● Landscape painting became more popular due to
people’s adoration of nature.
● Romanticism is a reaction to the classical,
contemplative nature of Neoclassicism pieces.

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Characteristics
● Shows the height of an action
of Romanticism
● Emotional extreme

● Celebrated nature as out of control

● Dramatic compositions

● Heightened sensation (life and death)

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 Romantic Paintings
(Portraits/ Figures)

❖ The paintings of the Romantic period focus on emotion.

❖ Artists expressed as much feeling and passion as it could onto

canvas.

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 Jean Louis Theodore Gericault, 1791 -1824
Gericault is the first French master and the leader of the French realistic
school. His masterpieces are energetic, powerful, brilliantly
colored and tightly composed
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 The Raft
of the
Medusa
( T. Gericault

The Raft of the Medusa portrays the victims of a contemporary shipwreck.

The people on this raft were french emigrants en route to West Africa

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Charging
Chasseur
( T. Gericault)

His first major work revealed the influence of the style of Rubens and an
interest in the depiction of contemporary subject matter
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 Insane
Woman
( T. Gericault)

One of several portraits Gericault made of the mentally disables that

has peculiar hypnotic.
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 Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), France
He was considered the greatest French Romantic painter of all. He achieved
brilliant visual effects using small, adjacent strokes of contrasting color.
He was the most influential to most of Romantic painters and eventually, his
technique was adopted and extended by the Impressionist artists.
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Liberty
leading
the People
(E.
Delacroix)

This painting commemorates the July revolution of 1830, which toppled King
Charles of France. A woman holding the flag of the French Revolution personifies
liberty and leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen.

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Francisco
Goya
(1746-1828)

He was a commissioned
Romantic painter by the King
of Spain. He was also a
printmaker regarded both as
the last of the “Old Masters”
and the first of the “Moderns”
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 The
Third of
May
(F. Goya)

The Third of May is Goya’s

masterpiece that sought to
commemorate Spanish
resistance to Napoleon’s
armies during the occupation
of 1808 in the Peninsula War.
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Saturn
Devouring
His Son
( F. Goya)

This artwork depicts the Greek myth of Titan Cronus(Saturn), who fears
that he would be overthrown by one of his children, so he ate each one
upon their birth.

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The
Burial of
Sardine
(F. Goya)

“The Burial of Sardine” was a Spanish ceremony celebrated on

Ash Wednesday and was a symbolical burial of the past to allow
society to be reborn, transformed with new vigor
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 Landscape painting depicts the physical world that
Romantic surrounds us and includes features such as mountains,
Painting valleys, vegetation and bodies of water. The sky is another
(Landscape important element shaping the mood of landscape
Painting) paintings. Landscape art ranges from highly detailed and
realistic to impressionistic, romantic and idealized.

Famous Landscape Artists during the Romantic Period

1. Theodore Rousseau
2. Jean- Baptiste-Camille Corot - they members of the
Barbizon School that lead the Romantic landscape
painting in France.

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The Church of Marissel, near Beauvais Le repos sous les saules
(J. Corot) 22 (j. Corot)
Der kleine Fischer Landscape with a Plowman
(T. Rousseau) (T. Rousseau) 23
 Romantic Sculpture
Romantic sculpture can be divided into works that concern
about the human world and those that concern the natural
world.

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Francois
Rude He was best known for his social art
(1784-1855), which aimed to inspire and capture
France
the interest of a broad public. He
rejected the classical repose of the
late 18th and early 19th-century
French sculpture in a favour of a
dynamic, emotional style created
many monuments that stirred the
public generations

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Departure
of the
Volunteers Known as La
(F. Rude) Marseillaise, this
work portrays the
goddess liberty
urging the forces
of the French
Revolution onward

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Jeanne d’
Arc
(F. Rude)

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Antoine - Louis
Barye
(1796 - 1875)

He was the most famous

animal sculptor of all time. He
studied the anatomy of his
subjects by sketching residents
of the Paris Zoo.

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Hercules Sitting on a Bull Theseus Slaying the Minotaur
(A. Barye) ( A. Barye)
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 Gothic Revival Architecture(Neogothic)
● An architectural movement that began in the late 1740’s is Gothic Revival
also referred to as Victorian Gothic or Neo-Gothic.
● Neogothic buildings feature castellation in which the walls and towers
are crenellated in imitation of medieval castles.
● Gothic Revival became widely used for churches and civi buildings
throughout the West, especially in Britain and the United States.
● Bricks and stones were both commonly used.
Architects who used Neogothic Style:
1. Charles Barry - the name behind Britain’s foremost Gothic Revival
Monument, The Westminster Palace(the house of Parliament)
2. James Renwick- Renwick’s American work: the St. Patrick’s Cathedral
(New York)
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Manhattan)
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Westminster Palace(London)
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NEOCLASSICISM and ROMANTICISM in the PHILIPPINES
 FELIX RESURRECCION
HIDALGO y PADILLA(1855-
1913)
-was one of the great Filipino
painters of the late 19th century
who was significant in the
Philippine history for inspiring
members of the Philippine reform
movement.
The painting portrays two scantily
clothed Christian female slaves
being mocked by a group of boorish
Roman male onlookers
The Christian Virgins being Exposed to the Populace
Juan Luna was a painter and sculptor,
who became one of the first
recognized Philippine artists. He was
also a political activist of the
Philippine Revolution during the late
19th century.
Spoliarium is a Latin word referring
to the basement of the Roman
Colosseum wherein the fallen and
dying gladiators were dumped and
devoid of their worldly possessions.
The painting features a glimpse of
Roman history centered on the bloody
carnage brought by gladiatorial
matches SPOLIARIUM (Juan Luna)
Fernando Cueto
Amorsolo (1892-
1972)

He was a National Artist

in Painting. He was a
portraitist and painter of
rural Philippine landscapes,
and he was popularly
known for his
craftsmanship and
mastery of the light
Planting Rice with Mayon
Guillermo
Tolentino (1890-
1976)

He is a sculptor
who was named
National Artist for
the Visual Arts in
1973, and is
hailed as the
“Father of
Philippine Arts”.
Napoleon Isabelo
Veloso Abueva
Abueva is a National
Artist for Sculpture. He
was entitled as the
“Father of Modern
Philippine sculpture. He
has bee the only
Boholano to be given
distinction of National
Artist of the Philippines
in the field of visual
Arts
Siyam na Diwata ng Sining
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Element Neoclassicism Romanticism

Value Order, solemnity Intuition,emotion, imagination

Inspiration Classical Rome, patriotism, courage, Medieval and Baroque eras, Middle
honor and Far East

Tone Calm, Rational Subjective, spontaneous, non-

conformist

Subjects Greek and Roman history Legends, exotica, nature, violence

Technique Stressed drawing with lines,not color, no unrestrained , rich color, visible
trace of brushstroke brushstroke

Role of Art Morally uplifting Dramatic, cary viewer away

Composition Most figures in forehand Use of diagoanal, crowded

compositions

Lines Linear line Painterly style

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Neoclassicism and Romanticism contrast with each other. They both show distinct
characteristic that can be seen through the artworks.

NEOCLASSICISM versus ROMANTICISM

Neoclassicism: REASON Romanticism: PASSION

Nature is defined as human nature Nature defined as natural environment

Society is more important than the The individual is more important than
individual society

limitation Originality

Tradition Experimentation

Rules and order Freedom

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 NEOCLASSICISM versus ROMANTICISM

Neoclassicism: REASON Romanticism: PASSION

Mechanical Form(imposed from outside) Organic form(growing from inside

Logic Intuition

Reason Imagination, emotion

Attempted objectivity Accepted subjectivity

Town or cultivated landscape Country, preferably untouched nature

Constraint spontaneity

conformity Independence, rebellion

Cultivated, formal, society The primitive becomes focus

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