Romantic art portrays emotion painted in a bold manner. Paintings like Liberty Leading the people painted by Eugene Delacroix are a prime example of paintings that display emotion. Delacroix was known for his radical themes. His painting “Liberty leading the People” expressed so much emotion and vivid colors that it makes you feel as if you are right there in the scene. (MindEdge, 2012) “The Romantic period emphasized the boldly heroic, the individuals, the imaginative, and the irrational, believing that aesthetic authenticity could be found in strong emotional response.
Select a visual art object from the historical Avant Garde (CIRA 1910-1940) and a contemporary visual art (CIRCA 1980-) of the same kind. Compare and contrast the two objects and discuss the influence of the historical Avant Garde on your selected contemporary object. This essay presents a discussion of the influence of historical avant-garde on contemporary visual arts. ‘Avant-garde’ comes from the French meaning front guard - an advance of the mainstream. Artworks that are powerful, experimental, radical and new that push the boundaries of art, culture and politics are the stem of Avant-garde.
The Comparison of the Romanticism And Harlem Renaissance Art Period By September 18, 201 Throughout History, Art has often been the illustration to the current events of the time. I have found that Art movements have either gone against a certain political climate or accompanied a certain political or cultural ideal; it was almost like the news channel of the past. Certain Artist would show the region they were painting in a good light, and be in agreement to their culture, other Artist however would create in a protest to their current cultural situation. I chose The Romantic Art Period and the Harlem Renaissance period because although they were separated by almost two hundred years, the artist of both periods created art for the same purpose of showing an honest, or often unpopular political view of both generations. There is a vast difference in the cultural and political climate of the 1700’s and the 1920’s as many may know, but my interest is in the remarkable similarities that artist share, even over such a large time-span.
It involved politics of time, people’s fears, hopes, and aspirations. Romantics often mixed elements of nationalism. Romanticism, though the name of the period has romantic in the word. They were not just about love, but more about the intensity of feeling, how their mood was, and how the world was created and why it is the way that it is. Many art historians consider the Impressionist movement to be the successor to romanticism.
While at an initial glance it may seem so, there may be ulterior meanings to this piece of art. Critics have commented that this painting was influenced by the fin-de-siècle spirit of the times, with its ironic juxtaposition of wealth and decadence, either moral or cultural. It has also been said that “The Kiss” shows Klimt’s fascination with eroticism, which had earned him a bad reputation with his previous works. “Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt” was written in 1976. As is commonly known, this particular stretch of time is characterised as the era of radical change, with the emergence of many liberation movements, including feminism.
Like many artists of the 1880’s, the Post-Impressionist wanted to portray “emotion and intellect as well as the visual imagery” ("Post impressionist,"). Some of these paintings were very expressive and sometimes emotional, such as the paintings by Van Gogh. The abstractness of these paintings were often underappreciated and ridiculed by society, like the works Van Gogh. It wasn’t until years later that some of these works were appreciated and valued. Many Post-Impressionism works of art were inspired by the historical events occurring at that time.
It was thinking according to these very ideas that Thomas Cole’s talents as a painter came forth, with paintings that in Europe would be called “picturesque”. With the Romantic ideals such as strong emotion stressed a source of aesthetic experience, and an emphasis on emotions such as awe in confronting sublimity in untamed nature, Thomas Cole brings the qualities of Europe’s Romantic Movement into America’s artistic culture (“Romanticism”). Thomas Cole had not only become an icon of American artistic culture, but had become a conveyer of European artistic culture as well. With his beautiful pieces of art acting as a medium between cultures, and establishing himself as the icon for American landscape painting, Thomas Cole was and is considered the founder of the “Hudson River School”. The term is referring to the foremost representatives of nineteenth century American landscape painting (Avery and Roque).
Romanticism Romanticism was begun in England and Germany in the 1770’s, and later on it had spread throughout Europe by the 1820’s. Romanticism emphasized emotional and spontaneous approaches. It was formed to go against Neoclassicism. Romanticism was focused on imagination, emotion and freedom by the way of individualism. Artists emphasized their personal, emotions and dramatic aspects of literary and historical subject matter.
Furthermore I will attempt to outline how his use of subversion of tradition has helped to develop and heighten the participatory role of the spectator and the relationship with the artist. I am lead to question why Duchamp was such a strong influential figure in the art world. Perhaps it is Duchamp’s playful and questioning approach to art that helped to pave the way for artistic freedom of expression and ideas. For instance after the Second World War art began to move rapidly and we saw the emergence of movements such as pop art, minimalism, conceptualism and Fluxes. Marcel Duchamp was associated with the Dada surrealism movement due to his “anti-art” approach.
Essay Topic #1 Identify define or describe, and finally compare and contrast two of the Expressionists groups of the early 20th century. Refer to specific artists and works to illustrate your points. “Expressionism is a tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; its subjective art form.” (1) Expressionism was seen in many different kinds of forms which included literature, theater art, paintings, music and architecture. Expressionism developed in the late 19th centuries and in the early 20th centuries and they were academic standards which were overcome in Europe since the Renaissance which were between 1300 and 1600. (2) An artist tries to see the most compelling form in the piece of art.