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Chiz Web > Art & Music > Romanticism, Rococo, and Neoclassicism
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Romanticism, Rococo, and Neoclassicism
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Know Your Rococo!
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Relaxed morals, lighter touch
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Excessive decoration and ornament
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Artificiality, even of landscapes |
Neoclassicism Notes
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Romanticism
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Surrender to emotion!
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Give up logic!
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Dynamic, complex!
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Imagination, exoticism, pursuit of excess, the divided self!
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Love of disorder, exaggeration! | |
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| Canova, Cupid and Psyche |  | 1793
Sculpture | Neoclassicism | |
| David, Death of Marat |  | 1793
| Neoclassicism | |
| David, Death of Socrates |  | 1787 | Neoclassicism | |
| Boucher, Shepherd's Idyll |  | 1768 | Rococo | |
| Francesco Guardi, The Doge of Venice... |  | 1766 | Rococo | |
| Watteau, The Game of Love |  | 1717 | Rococo | |
| Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People |  | 1830 | Romanticism | |
| Francisco Goya, The Third of May |  | 1808 | Romanticism | |
| Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi |  | 1862
The viewer is suspended over an abyss, confronted by smoke and mists, a burning sun and dramatic effects of light; the spectacular effects verge on the improbable, but Church believed God is made manifest in Nature.
At the DIA | Romanticism | |
| Friedrich, Traveller Above a Sea of Clouds |  | 1818 | Romanticism | |
| Gericault, Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy |  | 1822 | Romanticism | |
| Giovanni Paolo Panini, Ruins of a Triumphal Arch in the Roman Campagna |  | 1717-1719
At the Detroit Institute of Art | Romanticism | |
| Jean-Honore Fragonard, Bathers |  | 1765 | Romanticism | |
| Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Progress of Love: The Pursuit |  | 1771-1773 | Romanticism | |
| Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing |  | 1766 | Romanticism | |
| William Blake, Elohim Creating Adam |  | 1795
Wood carving from the famous poet | Romanticism | |
| William Turner, Steamer in a Snow Storm |  | 1842 | Romanticism | |
| Johann Fuselli, The Nightmare |  | 1781
An image of mystery and panic, in addition to vague disturbing humor. The monster sitting on a supine body suggests how the woman feels in the grip of a demonic nightmare, not necessarily what she might dream.
At the Detroit Institute of Arts! | Romanticism (Gothic) |
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