Beltran, Francis S.

The Romantic Era

Romanticism
The term romanticism reffered to
certain artist, poets, writters,
musicians as well as pollitical and
social thinkers on the late 18th to the
middle of the 19th centuries.
The Father of French Romanticism
Francois - Rene de Chateaubriand
Born in September 4, 1768 and died
in July 4, 1848. He was a French
writer, politician, diplomat and
historian who had a notable
influence on French literature of the
19th century.
The Modern Period
Modern art includes artistic work
produced during the period extending
roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s,
and denotes the styles and
philosophies of the art produced
during that era. The term is usually
associated with art in which the
traditions of the past have been thrown
aside in a spirit of experimentation.
 Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively
small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on
accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the
effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of
movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and
unusual visual angles. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based
artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during
the 1870s and 1880s.
 Impressionism Techniques
- Short, Thick strokes of paint are used to quickly capture the essence of the
subject, rather than the details. The paint applied was impasto.

- Colours are applied side by side with as little mixing as possible, creating a vibrant
surface. The optical mixing of colors occurs in the eyes of viewer.

-Wet paint is placed into wet paint without writing for successive applications to dry,
providing softer edges and an intermigly of colours.
 - Painting in the evening to get EFFETS DE SOIR. The shadowy effects
of the light in the evening or twilight.
- Impressionist painting do not exploit the transparancy of thin paint films
which earlier artist built up carefully to produce effects . The surface an
impressionist painting typically opaque.
- The play of natural light is emphasized. The reflection of colors from
object in closely focused on.
- In painting made EN PLEIN AIR(outdoors),shadow are boldly played
with the blue of the sky as it is reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of
freshness and openness that was not cpatured in painting previously.
 Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting,
originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its
typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective,
distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional
experience rather than physical reality.
 Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist
painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and
influential figures in the history of Western art. In a decade, he
created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil
paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
Born: 30 March 1853, Zundert, Netherlands
Died: 29 July 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Periods: Realism, Post-Impressionism, Modern art,
Impressionism, Japonisme, Cloisonnism, Pointillism, Neo-
Impressionism
Full name: Vincent Willem van Gogh
Starry Night
The Starry Night is an oil on canvas
painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist
painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in
June 1889, it depicts the view from
the east-facing window of his asylum
room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence,
just before sunrise, with the addition
of an imaginary village.
 Abstract Art
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a
composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references
in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the
19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce
an illusion of visible reality. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need
to create a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking
place in technology, science and philosophy. The sources from which individual
artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and reflected the social and
intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time.
 Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that
revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related
movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects
are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of
depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from
a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.
Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th
century.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who
spent most of his adult life in France.
Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain
Died: 8 April 1973, Mougins, France
Periods: Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism,
Post-Impressionism, MORE
Full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula
Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano
de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
 Blue Period
Blue period (1901 - 1904)
consisted of somber paintings
rendered in shades of blue and
blue green, often warmed by
other colors. His subject
matters were prostitutes and
beggars.
Harlequin or Rose Period
The Harlequin, a comedic character
usually decipted in checkered pattern
clothing which became a personal
symbol of a man. Using brighter colors,
Picasso painted circus people and
families of nomadic acrobats .While the
figures of the first period were
emaciated, the figure of the Rose period
have more classic roundness and sality.
 Iberian-African Negro Period
The distortions of the mask-
like faces as shown in “Les
Demoiselles d’ Avignon” are a
result of his study of archaic
sculture in the louvre.
Classic Period
The Lovers and Woman in
White are Example of Picassos
work that resulted from his
study of the old masters while
he was in Rome.
 Double-Image Period
Picasso painted “The Girl
Before a Mirror” in which the
girl is shown “simultanously
clothe, nude and x-rayed.”
Guernica
A mural black, white and gray
to convey the spirit of grief, is
considered magnum opus of
Picasso.
 Primitivism
Primitivism in visual art refers to art by either prehistoric or in
general non-Western people. Paul Gaugini ’s inclusion of
TAHITIAN motifs in paintings. Another artist who cited
examples of primitivism in art was IGOR STRAVINSKY in the
field of music.