Learning Targets:

✓ Analyzes art elements and principles in the production of work following a

specific art style from the Neoclassic and Romantic periods. A9EL-IIIb-1;

✓ Identifies distinct characteristics of arts during the Neoclassic and Romantic

periods. A9EL-IIIa-2 ;

✓ Identifies representative artists from the Neoclassic and Romantic periods.

A9EL-IIIa-3;

✓ Compares the characteristics of artworks produced in the Neoclassic and

Romantic periods. A9PL-IIIh-4;

✓ Creates artworks guided by techniques and styles of the Neoclassic and

Romantic periods (e.g., linear style and painterly style). A9PR-IIIc-e-1
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Neoclassic Artists Romantic Artists
✓ Jacques-Louis David ✓ Francisco Jose de Goya y
✓ Jean Auguste Dominique Lucientes
Ingres ✓ Eugene Fernand Victor
✓ Francisco Jose de Goya y Delacroix
Lucientes ✓ Theodore Gericault
Neoclassical
Art
Neoclassical Arts
Was a Western Cultural movement in
the decorative and visual arts, literature,
theatre, music, and arhitecture, that drew
inspiration from the art and culture of
classical antiquity.
Neoclassical Arts
Neoclassism was born in Rome largely thanks to
the writings of Johann Joaquim Winkelmann, at the
time of the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum,
but its popularity spread all over Europe as a
generation of European art students finished their
Grand Tour and returned from Italy to their home
countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman
ideals.
Neoclassical Arts
Neoclassism is a revival of the many styles and
spirit of classical antiquity inspired direclty from the
classical period, which coincided abd reflected the
developmtents in philosophy and other areas of the
Age of Enlightenment, and was initially a reaction
against the excess of thr preceding Rococo Style.
Neoclassical Arts
Neoclassism was strongset in architecture,
sculpture and the decorative arts, where classical
models in the same medium were relatively
numerous and accessible; examples from ancient
painting that demonstrated the qualities that
winckelmann’s writing fround in sculpture were
and are lacking.
 Characteristics
of Neoclassical Art

Embraced the ideals of

order and moderation in
which artistic
interpretations of Classical
Greek and Roman history
were restored to realistic
portrayals.
Produced in the
late 18th Century
Gave importance to and Influenced
the costumes, settings, by Ancient
and details of classical Greece and
subject matter focusing Ancient Rome.
on historical accuracy.
Neoclassical
Architecture
 Temple Style
✓Based on Ancient temple,
apply classical elements of
churches and modern
buildings like palazzos and
villas.
✓Examples of this are famous
Pantheon (Paris), British
Museum London, and La
Madeleine de Paris.
 ✓ Based on Andrea Palladio’s
style of villa construction,
feature a balustrade (railing
with vertical supports along
the edge of the roof).
✓ Robert Adam was known as
the Palladian Architect of
the Neoclassical period who
Palladian designed two well known
American Civil Buildings

Style
White House, United States
Capitol).
Classical Block Style
Feature a rectangular or square
plan with a flat and exterior rich in
classical details that has a repeated
classical pattern or series of arches
or columns, huge, classically-
decorated rectangular block,
known as “Beaux-Arts Style
(Developed by French Ecole des
Beaux Ats).
Neoclassical
Artists
(Painters, Sculptors, & Architects)
Neoclassical
Painters
Jacques-Louis David
(Neocalssical Painter)

✓ Was a french painter in the

neoclassical style, considered to be
the preeminent painter of the era.
✓ In the 1780s his Cerebral Brand of
history painting marked a changed in
taste away from rococo frivolity
roward classical austerity and
severity and heitened feeling,
harmonizing with the moral climate of
the final years of the ancient regime.
Napoleon Crossing
the Alps
Is a strongly idealized
view of the real crossing
that napoleon and his army
made across the alps
through the great St.
Bernard pass in May 1800.
The Death of
Socrates
He portrayed the grandeur of
characters of the ancient Greek and
Romans in defining and protecting
the affairs of their particular state.
Human characters and virtuous
actions are powerfully conveyed. His
subjects seem to bulge out from his
canvas; thus, they appear realistic.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
(Neoclassical Painter)

✓ Was a French Neoclassical

painter.
✓ Ingres was profoundly
influenced by past artistic
traditions and aspired to
become the guardian of
academic orthodoxy against
the ascendants romantic
style.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
(Neoclassical Painter)

✓ Although he considered
himself a painter of history in
the tradition of Nicolas
poussin and Jacques-Louis
David, it is his portraits, both
painted and drawn, that are
recognized as his greatest
legacy.
Apotheosis of Homer
✓ Is a painting that was
commissioned by Charles X to
have him remembered in the
building works of the louvre.
✓ It depicts an image of homer
receiving all the brilliant men
of Rome, Greece and
Contemporary times.
Napoleon I on this
Imperial Throne
✓ Ingers’ admiration for the
imposing personality of Emperor
Napoleon I is shown on this
majestic pose of the leader.
✓ It was believed to be
commissioned by napoleon is
king of Italy.
 Oedipus and the
Sphinx
✓ One of Ingres’ favorite
subjects is the heroes of the
Greek myths. He loved to
paint the gestures that
show the ideas of
righteousness and courage
by the Greeks and Romans.
 Francisco de Goya
(Neoclassical Painter)

✓ Was a Spanish Romantic

Painter and Printmaker.
✓ He is considered the most
important Spanish artist of the
late 18th and early 19th
centuries and throughout his
long career was a
commentator and chronicler
of his lifetime.
 Francisco de Goya
(Neoclassical Painter)

✓ Goya is often referred to as

both the last of the old
masters and the first of the
moderns.

✓ He was also one of the great

portraits of his time.
The Third of May
✓ Goya effectively portrayed
emotions of disappointment
and disgust over the killings
of ordinary Spaniards by
French soldiers in his
painting “The third of may”.
✓ The colors he used suggest
strong aversion, cold
carnage, and nauseating
horror.
 Saturn Devouring his Son
✓ Is an artwork that depicts the
Greek myth of the titan Cronus
(Saturn of Romans).

✓ Who fears that he would be

overthrown by one of his
children, so he ate each one of
them upon their birth.
 Isabel
✓ As a court painter, Goya
successfully portrayed Queen
Isabel’s dignified elegance
and composure.
Neoclassical
Sculptor
Antonio Canova
(Neoclassical Sculpture)

✓ A prolific Italian artist and

sculptor, famous for his marble
sculpture.
✓ Often Regarded as the greatest
of the neoclassical artists, his
sculptor was inspired by the
baroque and the classical
revival.
Cupid and Psyche
✓ Is a sculptor by Italian
artist Antonio Canova
first commissioned in
1787 by Colonel John
Campbell.

✓ It is regarded as a
masterpiece of
neoclassical sculpture
Neoclassical
Architect
Andrea Palladio
(Neoclassical Architect)

✓ Was an Italian Renaissance

architect active in the venetian
republic.
✓ Palladio, influence by Roman
and Greek Architecture, Primarily
Vitruvius, widely considered to
be one of the most influential
individuals in the history of
architecture.
Basilica Palladiana
✓ The basilica Palladian
is a Renaissance
building in the central
piazza dei signori in
Vicenza, north-eastern
Italy.
Neoclassical Styles
1. Values – Order, Solemnity.
2. Inspiration – Classical Rome, Patiotism, Courage, Honor.
3. Tone – Calm & Rational.
4. Technique – Stressed drawing with lines, not colored, no
traced of brush strokes.
5. Role of Art – Morally, uplifting, inspirational.
6. Composition – Most figures are in foreground.
7. Lines – Linear style (outlines are sharply defined
theough controlled brush strokes.
8. Texture – Smooth, no brush stroke can be seen.
Romantic
Art
Romanticism (1800-1810)
✓Romanticism in art extends from about
1800 to 1850 in Europe and in America.

✓Romantisicim was a movement in which

the artists of neoclassical period sought
to break new ground in the expression of
emotion, both sublte and stomy.
Romanticism (1800-1810)
✓It embraced several distinctive themes,
such as a longing for history, supernatural
elements, social injustices, and nature.

✓Landscapes painting also became more

popular due to the peoples’ romantic
adoration of nature.
Characteristics of Romantic Art
✓Shows the height of Action.
✓Emotional Extremes.
✓Celebrated nature as out of control.
✓Dramatic compositions.
✓Heightened sensation (Life and
death moments).
Romantic
Artists
(Painters, Sculptors, & Architects)
Romantic
Painter
 Francisco de Goya
(Romantic Painter)

✓ 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”.
 Saturn Devouring his Son
✓ Is an artwork that depicts the
Greek myth of the titan Cronus
(Saturn of Romans).

✓ Who fears that he would be

overthrown by one of his
children, so he ate each one of
them upon their birth.
The Third of May
✓ Goya effectively portrayed
emotions of disappointment
and disgust over the killings
of ordinary Spaniards by
French soldiers in his
painting “The third of may”.
✓ The colors he used suggest
strong aversion, cold
carnage, and nauseating
horror.
The Burial of Sardine
✓ 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.
 Jean Louis Theodore
Gericault (Romantic Painter)
✓ He was the first French
master and the leader of the
French realistic school.

✓ His masterpiece was

energetic, powerful, brilliantly
colored and tightly composed.
Charging Chasseur
✓ His major works
revealed the influence
of the style of Rubens
and an interest in the
depiction of
contemporary subject
matter.
 It portrays the
victim of
contemporary
shipwreck. The
people on this
raft were French
emigrants en
route to West
The Raft of the Medusa Africa.
Insane Woman
One of the several
portaits Gericault made
of the Mentally
disabled that has a
peculiar hypnotic
power.
Eugene Delacroix
(Romantic Painter)

✓ He was considered
the Greatest and most
influential French
Romantic painter.
 A woman holding
a flag of French
revolution
personifies
Liberty and leads
the people
forward over the
bodies of fallen.
Liberty Leading the People
Romantic
Sculptor
Francios Rude
(Romantic Sculptor)

✓ He was best known

for his social art
which aimed to
inspire and capture
the interest of broad
public.
Departure of the
Volunteers
✓ Portrays the
goddess liberty
urging the forces
of the French
Revolution onward.
Minitask: FANCIFUL BOOKMARKS
Materials: Oslo Paper, Used folder, Crayon, ruler,
pencil, scissors, colored strings or yarn.
1. Obtain pictures of a Neoclassical or Romantic painting of
your choice.
2. Make sure that its size is just enough for your bookmark.
3. Cut your Oslo paper or your short folder measuring 2” x 6”
in size.
4. Paste the painting reproduction.
5. Include an art quotation.
6. Punch a small hole on top to insert and tie a string or yarn.
Minitask: FANCIFUL BOOKMARKS (50 points)

Excellent Above Average Below

Average Average

Creativity The artwork The artwork The artwork is limited in The artwork lacks
demonstrates an demonstrates a unique demonstrating personal personal expression
extremely unique personal expression expression (5 points)
personal expression (15 points) (10 points)
(20 points)

The bookmark The bookmark The bookmark is limited The bookmark lacks a
Originality demonstrates a unique demonstrates a in demonstrating a unique expression of
expression of the theme somewhat unique unique expression of the the theme
(20 points) expression of the theme theme (5 points)
(15 points) (10 points)

The bookmark is very The bookmark is The bookmark is The bookmark lacks
attractive in terms of attractive in terms of somewhat attractive in attractiveness in terms
Neatness design, layout and design, layout, and terms of design, layout, of design, layout, and
neatness neatness and neatness neatness (2points)
(10 points) (7points) (4 points)

/50 points