ART OF THE

ROMANTIC
PERIOD
(1800-1810)
G O YA , D E L A C R O I X , G E R I C A U LT
ROMANTICISM

• A MOVEMENT IN WHICH THE ARTIST

OF NEO-CLASSICAL PERIOD
SOUGHT TO BREAK NEW GROUND
IN THE EXPRESSION OF
EMOTION,BOTH SUBLTLE AND
STORMY.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTIC
PERIOD PAINTINGS:
• Shows height of action
• Emotional extremes
• Celebrated nature as out of control
• Dramatic compositions
• Heighted sensations (life and death moments)
• Paintings focus on EMOTIONS
 FRANCISCO
G O YA
(1746-1826) SPAIN

G O Y A W A S A
COMMISSIONED ROMANTIC
PAINTER BY THE KING OF
SPAIN.
H E W A S R E G A R D E D B O T H A S :
-T H E L A S T O F T H E “ O L D
MASTERS” AND
-- T H E F I R S T O F T H E
“MODERNS.
THE THIRD
OF MAY
Sought to
commemorate
Spanish resistance
to Napoleon’s
armies during the
occupation of 1808
in the Peninsular
War.
THE BURIAL
OF SARDINE
A Spanish ceremony
celebrated on Ash
Wednesday.
A symbolical burial of
the past to allow
society to be reborn,
transformed with new
vigor.
SATURN
DEVOURING
HIS SON
Depicts the Greek
myth of the Titan,
Cronus (Saturn), who
fears that he would be
overthrown by one of
his own children, so he
ate each one upon their
birth.
EUGENE DELACROIX
(1798-1863)
FRANCE
Was considered the greatest
French Romantic painter of
all.
The most influential of
Romantic Painters.
His techniques were
eventually adapted and
extended by Impressionist
artists.
L I B E RT Y
LEADING THE
PEOPLE

Commemorates
the July
revolution of
1830, which
Toppled King
Charles X of
France.
 JEAN LOUIS
THEODORE
G E R I C A U LT
(1791-1824)
FRANCE
 Gericault was the first
French master and the
leader of the French
realistic school.
 His masterpieces were
energetic, powerful,
brilliantly colored, and
tightly composed.
 THE RAFT OF
THE MEDUSA

Portrays victims of a
contemporary
shipwreck.
The people on the raft
were French emigrants
in route to west Africa.
 CHARGING
CHASSEUR
His first major work
revealed the influence of
the style of Rubens and
an interest in the
depiction of
contemporary subject
matter.
INSANE
WOMAN
A mentally
disabled that
has a peculiar
hypnotic
power.
GUESSING TIME ;)

GUESS THE CORRECT WORDS TO COMPLETE EACH PHRASE

THE INSANE
____N
By Gericault
S _ _ _ _ _
DEVOURIN
G HIS SON

By Francisco
Goya
PAINTING
BY:
FRANCISCO
_ _ Y _

The Third of May.

THE RAFT
OF _ E _ _ _
A

By Gericault
 T H E W O M AN
IS H O L DI NG
THE FLAG
OF F _ _ _ _ _

Liberty Leading the People.

By Delacroix.
GUIDE QUESTIONS ;)
1. What have you observed about the Romantic Period?
2. What are some characteristics of Romantic Paintings?
3. How does Art from the romantic period differ from
modern art made today?
GROUP WORK :D
• Make a Venn diagram or a 3-column table. Compare
and Contrast the characteristics of Paintings made
within the Romantic Period and the Modern
Paintings in the 20th Century (today).
ART OF THE ROMANTIC SHARED ART OF THE 20th
PERIOD CHARACTERISICS CENTURY