Art188 – History of Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary



Romanticism II: LandscapeWhy did many artists turn to nature in the beginning of the 19th century? How was their understanding of the natural world inflected by Romanticism? How does landscape painting intersect with politics and social concerns?Precedents in Landscape: Dutch Baroque and Classical Landscape FormulaJohn Constable and the English CountrysideThe Hay Wain, 1821Six-footers, the Royal Academy, and Nostalgia English Landscaape print series, 1833 and Constable’s written introduction J.M.W. Turner and the SublimeSnow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, 1812Slave Ship (Slavers Turning Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840Context and abolitionist movementRain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway, 1844Caspar David Friedrich and German RomanticismMonk by the Sea, 1808 or 1810Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog, c.1818Thomas Cole and American Landscape PaintingView from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Mass., after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow), 1836“Essay on American Scenery”Manifest Destiny and American Landscape Painting ................
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