Romanticism was praised for imagination over reason, emotion
over logic and intuition over science making way for a vast body of literature
of great sensibility and passion. Jacques Louis David and J.A.D. Ingres
inspired this exotic, beautiful and emotionally shaped movement. Romanticism
was a reaction against Neoclassicism.
The French philosopher
Denis Diderot says, “ All that stuns the soul, all that imprints a feeling of
terror, leads to sublime ”(metmuseum.org). I agree with that quote because most
of the paintings in the 18th century and 19th century
were recreations of shipwrecks or showing a man’s struggle against nature of
some sort.
The Raft of Medusa (figure 1) 1819 Theodore G. Wikimedia commons-Steven Zucker |
I believe this
painting shows the struggling men trying to survive a shipwreck. The Raft of Medusa,
which is a very emotional image and it shows examples of terror, hope, death, surrender, and a heroic figure. I say that it shows surrender by the man next to the man on top waving his white shirt, which we all know white represents surrender and we used that symbolic color in many wars and battles. I say it shows a heroic figure by the african american man being the one on top showing that he is the significant figure.
Liberty Leading The People 1830 (figure 2) by Eugene Delacroix Wikimedia commons-Stephane Nay |
Baudelaire says, “ Delacroix was passionately in
love with passion…”(Wellington, Hubert, the journal of Eugene Delacroix,
introduction, page xiv). Eugene had loose, flowing brushstrokes and he studied
visual effects of color. This painting represents a sparking Revolution and that the people and Liberty will stop at nothing to have their freedom.—
Seta Ates
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