Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Chapter 24 post #8
Please discuss one of the following Artists: Goya, Ingres, Blake, Turner, David, Delacroix, Schinkel, Soane, Nash, Gericault. Or talk about the idea of the sublime. Or still talk about Rousseau and his ideas. If you repeat the artist, talk about another work of art or another facet of the artist. Due on the Tues we return from break.
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel
[German Painter and Architect, 1781-1841]
Here should be a picture....grrrr sorry for that.
I honestly chose him because he is German and I have seen statues and works of him in Berlin and Munich; it was just nice to hear and read about him. My favourite work of him is the city on a river “Mittelalterliche Stadt an einem Fluß” from 1815. It shows a castle on a high mountain with people standing in front almost worshiping the castle. There is a rainbow above the castle, a sign for hope, like the people are hoping for a better life. The whole scenario of colours and people reaches down to a river. It looks so promising and peaceful. I like it.
Fransico Goya an artist whose work in many ways encapsulagtes the new psycholosy and issues pervading Europe. Goya made pictues for himself, working out in paint his own emothions in a way that few had done before. His images are dark, bleak, frightening, or horrifying, which probably reflected his depression after recovering from an illness as well as his disappointment at the ailures of the Enlightenment and the basic irrationality of civilization. The painting of Saturn Devouring One of HIs Children we can see the horror, irrationality and madness.
Across the English Channel in London, the artist William Blake was retreating into a personal visual world as he responded to issues very similar to those affecting Goya. Blake was and ardent admirer of Rousseaus and his theories about the inherent goodness of humans, who are born primitive savages, and then become corrupted by the restrictive artificialities of society. He detested European civilization for its rules and convetions, which he felt hindered personal freedom and also equality for women. Despite his intese dislike of the academh, Blake was a proponent of history painting, which he saw as a vehicle for reforming society. "The Lazar House" and other works were never bound and presented in book form, so we do not know for sure the orde in which they were mean to be seen or how plake intende to use them. However, all of the prints relate to his vision of the early history of the world, in which humans, when born, are still attache to the infinite form whic they have just come, and are morally good, free, and filled with imagination
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's style makes a strong emphasis on contour and line became one of the most important techniques of his neoclassical style. His romantic style made him interest on medieval, Byzantine, and Early Renaissance art. As we could see in one of his most important paintings, the "Grand Odalisque” is the best example of Orientalism. This painting shows a Turkish concubine of the Near East, and this painting allows him to paint for first time a female nude who was not a Greek goddess. This exotic painting projects beauty, refinement, and a sensual aura through its graceful composition.
Caspar David Friedrich had a very interesting painting technique. He would use his fingernails to create texture within his paintings. I really enjoyed Monk by the Sea. In this painting, the beach, ocean, and sky almost blend together making it difficult to see the break of the horizon. I love the single monk standing there. I wonder what he is thinking?
The idea of the sublime was the idea that art should inspire awe in a viewes and engender feelings of high religious, moral, ethical, and intellectual purpose. In england, sublime architecture peaked in 1790's with the gothic style. The medieval detail and endless dark, norrow corridors, which along with its immense soaring tower provided a sensation of "infinite sublime".
Eugene Delacroix has to be my favorite of the group you've listed! I enjoy his 1827 painting called "Death of Sardanapalus." Just the name alone turns me on to the painting and all of its beauty. The story behind the painting, about the king who was overthrown by rebels and is now dead is very fascinating. The colors of the painting are somewhat dull, but it goes good with the scene and the darkness of the problems at hand. The red bed in the center of the painting seems to draw everything together and make the scene lively. there also seems to be different scenes within the main scene. The people to the left of the painting with the horse and the people at the bottom are also in their own small world. It is very much a great work of art.
Unlike many artists Antoine-Jean Gros, experienced the reality of his art first hand. Many of his works delt with the battles and campaigns of the great Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon had been so impressed with the work of Gros, that he charged him with joining the campaign and, describing in his paintings, what Napoleon felt was the true reality and power of his army.Gros is most remembered for his coverage and in depth paintings of the Napoleanic wars.
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